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Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing — mentioned by mathgenius

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:06:56 GMT

Terry Rudolph has an excellent paper arguing for continuous-variable quantum computers [1]. CV still uses entanglement. You can think of CV states as infinite dimensional qubits. So in a way it is still "digital". Something about quantum measurement is fundamentally digital. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08535

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Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing — mentioned by mathgenius

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:09:08 GMT

The phrase "quantum supremacy" sounds click-baity but it's actually bona-fide jargon. These guys are working with complexity theorists, such as Scott Aaronson and Michael Bremner, to nail down specific tasks that are going to be completely impossible for classical computing. Part of the motivation is to move beyond the whole D-wave saga, and build something that for-sure kicks the shit out of current classical computing technology. Calling it "quantum supremacy" is a nice bit of marketing, imho. Earlier this year I sat down with the guy that runs the google quantum computing lab (Hartmut…

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Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing — HN submission

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 05:10:57 GMT

Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing

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