Quantum computers: What are they? What are they supposed to do? Will they work? The point of view of a skeptic, Xavier Waintal, CEA GRENOBLE
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"Quantum computers: What are they? What are they supposed to do? Will they work? The point of view of a skeptic"
Friday, June 10th, 14:00
Presented by Xavier Waintal, CEA Grenoble
Venue: ESRF Auditorium and Zoom
Abstract
In the last three decades, our ability to build and control quantum states has improved dramatically and could become the basis of a new form of numerical calculation. While these machines are still in their infancy (no existing quantum computer can multiply 5 by 3), the hope is that for a very specific class of problem, they could be exponentially faster than their classical counterpart. In this talk, I will give an introduction to quantum computing from the point of view of a physicist. In particular I will emphasize how the main quantum computing ressource, entanglement, is also its biggest problem, decoherence.
In the last three decades, our ability to build and control quantum states has improved dramatically and could become the basis of a new form of numerical calculation. While these machines are still in their infancy (no existing quantum computer can multiply 5 by 3), the hope is that for a very specific class of problem, they could be exponentially faster than their classical counterpart. In this talk, I will give an introduction to quantum computing from the point of view of a physicist. In particular I will emphasize how the main quantum computing ressource, entanglement, is also its biggest problem, decoherence.
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