IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical qubit computers close

Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by DennisP on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @09:35AM (#3643264)

Probably the most important application: quantum simulation. Solving any but the simplest quantum mechanics problems takes more computation than we can muster, but a quantum computer could do it easily. (Iirc, Feynmann wrote about this idea.)

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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by zmanian on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @11:17AM (#3643653)

And probably the most important application of quantum simulation is the ability to solve the 3d structures of complex organic materials.

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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by palish on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @11:01AM (#3643582)

Here is Feynman's paper on that subject: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/pa...

It's unfortunately the best quality I can find for free. The rest are locked behind paywalls (which is a tragedy).

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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by spicyj on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#3644162)

This copy looks to be somewhat better:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman.pdf

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