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From: Jan Panteltje on 23 Jan 2010 06:58
Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55537/title/Quantum_computer_simulates_hydrogen_molecule_just__right

eh, not sure I understand this, looks like a hard wired program to me.

From: Yousuf Khan on 23 Jan 2010 09:25
Sam Wormley wrote:
> Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right
> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55537/title/Quantum_computer_simulates_hydrogen_molecule_just__right
>
> Team builds device that uses two photons to calculate electron energies.

I read this a week back, and I'm not sure it makes any sense to me.
Aren't quantum computers still in development?

Yousuf Khan
From: Sam Wormley on 23 Jan 2010 10:27
On 1/23/10 8:25 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right
>> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55537/title/Quantum_computer_simulates_hydrogen_molecule_just__right
>>
>> Team builds device that uses two photons to calculate electron energies.
>
> I read this a week back, and I'm not sure it makes any sense to me.
> Aren't quantum computers still in development?
>
> Yousuf Khan


"In a striking bit of symmetry to go with using a quantum computer to
solve a quantum problem, the latest work resonates with Feynman�s
original idea in another way. At that talk at MIT � published in 1982 in
the International Journal of Physics � Feynman not only suggested the
basis for such a computer, he also drew a little picture of one. It
included two little blocks of the semi-transparent mineral calcite to
control and measure the photons� polarizations. Looking at the diagram
of the device built recently by the Queensland team reveals, sure
enough, two �calcite beam displacers.� Whatever shade of Richard Feynman
flickers still in the entanglements of the universe, and were it made to
collapse into something corporeal, perhaps it would be smiling".
From: J. Clarke on 23 Jan 2010 10:58
Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right
>> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55537/title/Quantum_computer_simulates_hydrogen_molecule_just__right
>>
>> Team builds device that uses two photons to calculate electron
>> energies.
>
> I read this a week back, and I'm not sure it makes any sense to me.
> Aren't quantum computers still in development?

They're announcing what appears to be a major milestone in that development.

From: Androcles on 23 Jan 2010 12:02

"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4b5b06dd$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com...
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right
>> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55537/title/Quantum_computer_simulates_hydrogen_molecule_just__right
>> Team builds device that uses two photons to calculate electron energies.
>
> I read this a week back, and I'm not sure it makes any sense to me. Aren't
> quantum computers still in development?
>
> Yousuf Khan

http://www.sciencenews.bullshit is still in development.




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