On Aug 31, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote: > ... It is both > interesting and peculiar that so little news of quantum computing has been > published since. I don't understand this claim. Shor's work opened up a really hot new area that both CS people and physicists (and others as well) have rapidly jumped into. There's been a huge amount of publication on quantum computing and, more generally, the field of quantum information. No one - at least publicly - claims to know how to build a non-toy quantum computer here (the D-wave machine, if it's really doing quantum computation, is a special kind of machine and couldn't run Shor's algorithm, for example). But there are many reported advances on the physics. Simultaneously, there's quite a bit of published work on the algorithmic/complexity side as well.
A look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer will readily confirm this. If you want to dig deeper, there's Scott Aaronson's blog at http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ -- Jerry _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
