Showing posts with label chaotic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chaotic. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

Quantum computer

Comment:

What makes a quantum computer impractical?

Follow-up:

For now, the greatest difficulty is in the implementation of a quantum circuit that is stable. In fact, the problems related to accurately and reliably measuring the quantum bits, namely de-coherence and error correction, are still very difficult to solve in practice, even if we assume we can deploy tremendous amount of resources at the construction of a quantum computer.

Still remember the chaotic theory? It is also anticipated that if we cannot tackle the accurate measurement problem effectively, it would be impossible to scale up the size of a quantum circuit without leading to enormous errors.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Chaotic systems

Comment:

Chaotic systems?

Follow-up:

In simple terms, a chaotic system is one which is highly sensitive to initial conditions, and whose seemingly random behaviors can be actually described by deterministic equations. For more details, please visit:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory (for a general introduction)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map (for more details about a chaotic system defined by a very simple recurrence equation); Reference [1] in http://www.eee.hku.hk/~ykwok/CCST9003/reading-others.html also has an excellent discussion