Minimum Energy Requirements for Quantum Computation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages

  Gea Banacloche, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; LASER PULSES; LOGIC GATES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY;

QUANTUM COMPUTATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037132180     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.217901     Document Type: Article

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