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Foil 16 Quantum Computing - I

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Quantum-Mechanical Computers by Seth Lloyd, Scientific American, Oct 95
Chapter 6 of The Feynman Lectures on Computation edited by Tony Hey and Robin Allen, Addison-Wesley, 1996
Quantum Computing: Dream or Nightmare? Haroche and Raimond, Physics Today, August 96 page 51
Basically any physical system can "compute" as one "just" needs a system that gives answers that depend on inputs and all physical systems have this property
Thus one can build "superconducting" "DNA" or "Quantum" computers exploiting respectively superconducting molecular or quantum mechanical rules



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