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When Noise Accumulates

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

I wrote a short paper entitled “when noise accumulates” that contains the main conceptual points (described rather formally) of my work regarding noisy quantum computers.  Here is the paper. (Update: Here is a new version, Dec 2010.) The new exciting innovation in computer … Continue reading →

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Detrimental Noise

Posted on November 9, 2008 by

 ”Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy(?) if you try,”    John Lennon    Disclaimer: It is a reasonable belief  (look here, and here), and an extremely reasonable working assumption (look  here) that computationally superior quantum computers can be built.    (This post and the … Continue reading →

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