NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Argonne National Laboratory, Quantum Computing, Los Alamos National Laboratory
15 Nov 2017
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Nats 1700 lecture 4 the history of quantum-mechanical computers. In the early 1980s paul benioff of argonne national laboratory built on landauer and bennett"s earlier results to show that a computer could in principle function in a purely quantum-mechanical fashion. soon after, david deutsch of the mathematical. By the middle of the decade, the field languished for several reasons. first, all these researchers had considered quantum computers in the abstract instead of studying actual physical systems an approach that landauer faulted on many counts. It also became evident that a quantum-mechanical computer might be prone to errors and have trouble correcting them. and apart from one suggestion, made by richard. In the past few years, the picture has changed. peter w. shor of at&t bell.
