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Katilian on 23 February 2008

Jumping in a little late here, but a good detailed introduction to quantum computing is presented in this paper:

An introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/367701.367709

For those without access to ACM, http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9809016 has a link to a pdf of the paper on the right side.

I discovered this paper a few years ago when I had to give a presentation on quantum computing. Be aware that you still require a decent level of maths to actually get through it all.



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NJ5 on 23 February 2008
Katilian said:
Jumping in a little late here, but a good detailed introduction to quantum computing is presented in this paper:

An introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/367701.367709

For those without access to ACM, http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9809016 has a link to a pdf of the paper on the right side.

I discovered this paper a few years ago when I had to give a presentation on quantum computing. Be aware that you still require a decent level of maths to actually get through it all.

These video lectures are also pretty cool, although I haven't seen all of them yet:

http://cam.qubit.org/video_lectures/lectures.php

 



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sc94597 on 23 February 2008
Game_boy said:
sc94597 said:
ssj12 said:
actually the first quantum computer might actually be out before 2014. fyi

Wow that seems so soon for a quantum pc. Hopefully if they work hard enough on it we may get one by then.


Well, it will break the Microsoft and Intel/AMD domination of the industry, so it won't be a PC (as in IBM PC, the PC in PC vs. Mac). I'm voting Linux, BSD or OpenSolaris on a future IBM quantum architecture.

People thought that multi-core was too hard to program for, but programming tools have arisen which make it easier, and Intel claims to be developing a compiler for its upcoming Larabee GPGPU that makes it entirely transparent.

There will be some overhead cost to abstract the complexity of quantum computers to the programmer, but if you're dealing with a 1000x speed-up you're still going to have unimagainable improvement over any future x86 designs. I predict we'll see an free GNU Compiler Collection 'Quantum architercture' compiler for C and C++ in a few years after the first mainstream processor is released.

I meant pc as in personal computer rather than a computer with windows on it.