Browsing Archive: April, 2016

Quantum Computing, Part II

Posted by on Monday, April 18, 2016,
In my previous article, I wrote about the exciting world of quantum computing and outlined some of the many benefits that it has the potential to bring to society. However as I alluded to previously, there are still a number of technical challenges that need to be overcome. Today I will try to give brief overviews of two of the most difficult challenges.

The first difficulty is known by many names and covers many related technical challenges, but is usually called decoherence. A quantum comput...
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Quantum Computing, Part I

Posted by on Saturday, April 16, 2016,
I awoke this morning to a flood of emails and direct messages from people forwarding a link to a news video. By now most of you (or at least those living in Canada) will have also seen this video, in which the new Prime Minister of Canada is shown excitedly explaining quantum computing to journalists during a visit to the Perimeter Institute this week. In a world in which politicians increasingly ignore science, or in some cases actively wage a war against science, it is a hopeful sign that w...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   


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