Category Archives: Hype

Simple circuit "factors" arbitrarily large numbers

Posted on February 6, 2013 by chb

Last Thursday, at the QIP rump session in Beijing, John Smolin described recent work with Graeme Smith and Alex Vargo [SSV] showing that arbitrarily large numbers can be factored by using this constant-sized quantum circuit to implement a compiled version … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer Science, Hype, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computing Bastardizations | 3 Comments

Pop goes the discord bubble

Posted on December 31, 2012 by sflammia

Well, the rat is out of the bag; Schroedinger’s Rat, that is. That’s the new quantum blog by Miguel Navascues and boy is it snarky! I was keeping it under my hat for a while so I could enjoy it privately, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Hype, Quantum Basterdizations | 14 Comments