On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:00 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/21/2018 2:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> If I start a 200 qubit quantum computer at time = 0, and 100 microseconds >> later it has produced a result that required going through 2^200 = 1.6 x >> 10^60 = states (more states than is possible for 200 things to go through >> in 100 microseconds even if they changed their state every Plank time >> (5.39121 x 10^-44 seconds), then physically speaking it **must** have >> been simultaneous. I don't see any other way to explain this result. How >> can 200 things explore 10^60 states in 10^-4 seconds, when a Plank time is >> 5.39 x 10^-44 seconds? >> > > It's no more impressive numerically than an electron wave function picking > out one of 10^30 silver halide molecules on a photographic plate to > interact with (which is also non-local, aka simultaneous). > > Well consider the 1000 qubit quantum computer. This is a 1 followed by 301 zeros. This is not only over a googol^2 times the number of silver halide molecules in your plate, but more than a googol times the 10^80 atoms in the observable universe. What is it, in your mind, that is able to track and consistently compute over these 10^301 states, in this system composed of only 1000 atoms? > Also note that you can only read off 200bits of information (c.f. Holevo's > theorem). > > True, but that is irrelevant to the number of intermediate states necessary for the computation that is performed to arrive at the final and correct answer. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
