Title :
Prospects for quantum computing
Author :
DiVincenzo, D.P.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Quantum effects have been essential in electrical engineering since the invention of the vacuum tube, but now we envision that quantum mechanics, acting at the system level, could enable a new quantum style of data processing. The author reviews the theoretical computer science results that make the desire to implement quantum computation so compelling. A new kind of single-electron device may be capable of achieving quantum-computing operation, and the author describes how it is supposed to work.
Keywords :
computation theory; quantum computing; data processing; quantum computing; single-electron device; system-level quantum mechanics; theoretical computer science; Data engineering; Electron devices; Electron tubes; Elementary particle vacuum; Lattices; Particle scattering; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Vacuum systems; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Electron Devices Meeting, 2000. IEDM '00. Technical Digest. International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6438-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEDM.2000.904248
