{"id":4227,"date":"2009-11-06T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/06\/poll-the-computers-of-the-futu\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T08:50:20","slug":"poll-the-computers-of-the-futu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/06\/poll-the-computers-of-the-futu\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: The Computers of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Quantum Optics lecture is about quantum computing experiments, and how different types of systems stack up. Quantum computing, as you probably know if you&#8217;re reading this blog, is based on building a computer whose &#8220;bits&#8221; can not only take on &#8220;0&#8221; and &#8220;1&#8221; states, but arbitrary superpositions of &#8220;0&#8221; and &#8220;1&#8221;. Such a computer would be able to out-perform any classical computer on certain types of problems, and would open the exciting possibility of a windows installation that is both working and hung up at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>There are roughly as many types of proposed quantum computers as there are people working on quantum computation. It&#8217;s not clear which of them, if any, will eventually prove to be useful, meaning that this is the perfect subject for a blog poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2217973.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2217973\/\">The quantum computers of the future will be based on:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">survey<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>While this is a poll about quantum computing, the machines running the poll are strictly classical, so you can only choose one option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Quantum Optics lecture is about quantum computing experiments, and how different types of systems stack up. Quantum computing, as you probably know if you&#8217;re reading this blog, is based on building a computer whose &#8220;bits&#8221; can not only take on &#8220;0&#8221; and &#8220;1&#8221; states, but arbitrary superpositions of &#8220;0&#8221; and &#8220;1&#8221;. Such a computer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/06\/poll-the-computers-of-the-futu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: The Computers of the Future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,19,7,137,79,23,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course_reports","category-experiment","category-physics","category-polls","category-quantum_computing","category-quantum_optics","category-science","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}