Sep 05 2007

Fields medalist on quantum computing

Published by Karlin at 4:42 pm under events

This sounds fantastic! (though I don't know if I'd be up to the background reading in Physics Today...). I'd love to go but will be on a plane to California at that very moment. The lecture is open to all and I believe it is also free. Freedman, a Fields medal winner (the Nobel of mathematics), is here as part of this four day workshop at TCD on topological quantum computing.
Public Lecture organized jointly by Hamilton Mathematics Institute Trinity College Dublin Department of Mathematical Physics National University of Ireland at Maynooth and School of Theoretical Physics Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Venue: Schroedinger Theatre, Department of Physics Trinity College Dublin Time: 7 pm, Wednesday, 12th September, 2007 Speaker: Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research Title: "How topology will save Moore's law: quantum computation via exotic states of matter" Abstract: Einstein wrote, "God integrates empirically, he is not concerned with our mathematical difficulties." A quantum computer will allow us (as well) to integrate the Schroedinger equation. Like the microscope before it, the quantum computer will peer into an unseen space. It is difficult to believe that this space, once illuminated, will be less interesting or less germane than the "space" of a living cell. "Building" a quantum computer appears to be a nearly impossible task, however we may expect to "find" natural quantum computers through the study of 2-dimensional systems of interacting electrons. These natural computers are topological states of matter exhibiting "nonableian statistics." For background one may read: ["Computing with Quantum Knots" - Scientific American, April 2006] and ["Topological quantum computation" - Physics Today, July 2006.]

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