On 2/3/07, Saqib Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So Mr. Steve Jurvetson ... has pictures of the core of the quantum computer > to be > unveiled on Feb. 13 2007
these were taken from Geordie's blog: http://dwave.wordpress.com/ some of my favorites: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/quantum-computing-demo-announcement/ http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/another-quantum-computer-pic/ (and the two linked from previous mail...) > Quantum computer can be used to efficiently crack ciphers that employ > factorization indeed! post-quantum reality is NOW. this computer is using adiabatic QC, which is different from gate model, but functionally equivalent (just need more qubits comparatively). see http://qist.lanl.gov/pdfs/theory.pdf """ Aharonov, et al. [3] showed that a slightly more general formulation of adiabatic algorithms, when used for quantum-state generation, is in fact universal for QC. Designing quantum algorithms via quantum-state generation is a novel and potentially important direction, because it ties into classical algorithm design techniques using Markov chains and techniques such as bounds on conductance and spectral gaps. As a first step, it would be interesting to even give such an algorithm for solved problems such as quadratic residuosity or discrete logarithms. """ hardware entropy++ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
