Quantum computing for everyone

[michael_nielsen]

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=459

[Eliezer]

Overheard at Transhuman Atlanta:

"I can't wait to get my hands on a 64-qubit computer!"

"What are you going to do with 64 qubits?"

"I don't know, but I'll be doing it very fast."

[cracki]

written a bit too simplistic for my taste. then again, i like a decent book and look down on anyone who's writing or saying "tl;dr".

[ars → cracki]

The mods were a little harsh on you (-1), because I agree it was a little too simplistic.

[time_management]

Good article on a fascinating topic.

I find the most depressing aspect of QC, though, to be the no-cloning theorem. Computation is a bit trickier when you can't copy data.

[Herring → time_management]

That's only for unknown states. You can prepare any state you want, in theory.

Quantum error correction is brilliant. I highly recommend looking it up if you've done any college QM.