Can quantum computers have simple Hamiltonians?

Proceedings Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 63-68

  Biafore, M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; QUBITS; RARE EARTHS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ETHYL SULFATE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LOW-TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; QUANTUM CELLULAR AUTOMATA; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; SPIN SYSTEMS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 0040580869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PHYCMP.1994.363697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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