On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 5:59:04 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 7 Jul 2020, at 20:05, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > I thought the big application of QC after encryption, was going to be > protein folding and similar biomolecular interactions. > > > > That is how Feynman discovered quantum computation, in a more informal way > than Deutsch quantum universal Turing machine. > > You thought? What did change your mind? Quantum simulation will be the > main application of quantum computations for the millennia to come … once > we get genuine big frame quantum computer. > > I agree with Clark that topological quantum computation is the most long > term promising path, but to squeeze an electron and braid its plane moves > requires immense apparatus/magnet. The first genuine quantum computing > machine might be very huge. That will not easily been miniaturised. But > then IBM was using giant trucks to transport for its first 5Mb hard drive > in 1955, and I expect huge progress in condoned matter physics, and some > serendipitous discovery along the way… > > Bruno > > Graphene reduces the dimension of QM to 2-space plus time. In effect it is two dimension if the wavelength of quantum states is longer than any atomic thickness to the sheets.
LC > > > > Brent > > On 7/7/2020 4:56 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > Dr. B may still be right though. > > 30 years from now quantum computers (as promoted in 2020) will still have > no impact on practical computing applications. Maybe in cryptography, or > maybe not. > > Though quantum aspects in materials science could turn out to be useful, > so its impact on computing will be of a peripheral nature (in sensors, > etc.). > > @philipthrift > > On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 5:59:54 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:44 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > *If we can factorise a number sensibly bigger than 15 in my lifetime, >>> I will be impressed* >> >> >> Back in 2017 the number 291,311 was factored by a quantum computer: >> >> The experimental factorization of 291311 >> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08061.pdf> >> >> John K Clark >> > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e9c1b6d8-5ba1-4a43-96ba-6daad2ccb575n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e9c1b6d8-5ba1-4a43-96ba-6daad2ccb575n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d32cfba8-347d-0cb6-df80-21c85d1edb49%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d32cfba8-347d-0cb6-df80-21c85d1edb49%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b998dc41-de35-4c23-b27a-6ca614986f22o%40googlegroups.com.
