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Quantum Information in Quantum Many-Body Physics — Live Blogging Day 2

Posted on 10/19/2011 by sflammia

Day 2 of the conference. By the way, it is pretty difficult to get all this stuff written down correctly the first time through! So, if you see any mistakes please leave a comment so I can fix them. Quantum … Continue reading →

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My Favorite D-Wave Future

Posted on 6/1/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

As many of you know, D-Wave has a nice paper out about some experiments on one of their eight qubit systems. In addition they have sold one of their systems to the military industrial complex, a.k.a. Lockheed Martin. One of … Continue reading →

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Quantum Article Parse Failure of the Pontiffical Kind

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Two observations from yesterdays New York Times article about quantum computing (Moving Toward Quantum Computers.) First, the drawing accompanying the article (here) is interesting to me. I wonder where they got the idea for it and whether this idea involved … Continue reading →

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Optimizer PECASEd, NyTimes Quantum Computing

Posted on 11/9/2010 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Congrats to Scott Aaronson, aka the Optimizer for winning a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers. Scott, please remember to ask Obama for more dollars to build a big old quantum computer Cheaper than a spy satellite, we … Continue reading →

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