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Universal Quantum Computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Dec 1 09:53:43 1999
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From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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People may be interested in last week's Nature article, D. Gottesman and
I.L. Chuang, "Demonstrating the viability of universal quantum
computation using teleportation and single-qubit operations", Nature
402, 390-392.
One thing that should make software authors jump for joy is that the
method involves quantum software that is hard to make yet is consumed
during the computation. Enforcable software leasing, woo! [1]
Whether it is of any significance that the authors work for Microsoft
and IBM respectively I leave to the reader to decide.
Cheers,
Ben.
[1] No, I don't think this is a good thing.
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