By William Munro, Kae Nemoto, and Timothy Spiller URL: http://newsroom.spie.org/x5735.xml Abstract: Quantum computing has reached a very interesting stage. Numerous proposals have been made over the last decade for physically realizing qubits to store quantum information and for designing scalable quantum computers. Researchers have demonstrated the more mature proposals at the few-qubit level in the laboratory, including trapped ions, nuclear spins, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and photonic qubits. They have demonstrated two-qubit gates and small-scale quantum algorithms. However, two key issues urgently need to be addressed: How can we scale up these devices above the few-qubit level, and what tasks can we perform with them? Read More: http://newsroom.spie.org/x5735.xml
Author Bio: William Munro Quantum Information Processing group, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol, UK Bill Munro is a principal researcher within Hewlett-Packard Laboratories' Quantum Information Processing group located in Bristol. His current interests are focused on practical implementation of optical and solid-state quantum hardware, generation of optical nonlinearities, characterization of quantum states and processes, novel quantum communication protocols, and quantum metrology. Finally, he also has a keen interest in the foundational tests of quantum theory. Kae Nemoto, Timothy Spiller Quantum Information Sciences group, National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan Kae Nemoto is an associate professor in the Quantum Information Sciences group at NII. Her research interests and efforts are currently focused on the requirements for true quantum computation as opposed to quantum processes that can be efficiently classically simulated, the generation of optical nonlinearities, schemes for quantum computation and information processing, quantum/atom optics and quantum nonlinear dynamics, and finally the foundations of quantum mechanics. Tim Spiller carries the titles of distinguished scientist and director of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories' Quantum Information Processing group. His main QIPC research interest is quantum hardware theory, examples being superconducting circuits, magnetic and other solid-state systems and nonlinear devices such as Josephson and EIT (electromagnetically induced transparency) systems, and the transformation of quantum information science into actual technologies. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
