• DocumentCode
    2884173
  • Title

    Prospects for quantum computing

  • Author

    DiVincenzo, D.P.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2000
  • Firstpage
    12
  • Lastpage
    15
  • Abstract
    Quantum effects have been essential in electrical engineering since the invention of the vacuum tube, but now we envision that quantum mechanics, acting at the system level, could enable a new quantum style of data processing. The author reviews the theoretical computer science results that make the desire to implement quantum computation so compelling. A new kind of single-electron device may be capable of achieving quantum-computing operation, and the author describes how it is supposed to work.
  • Keywords
    computation theory; quantum computing; data processing; quantum computing; single-electron device; system-level quantum mechanics; theoretical computer science; Data engineering; Electron devices; Electron tubes; Elementary particle vacuum; Lattices; Particle scattering; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Vacuum systems; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices Meeting, 2000. IEDM '00. Technical Digest. International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6438-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEDM.2000.904248
  • Filename
    904248