On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:24 AM Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Thanks, Mike.
Yes, I ran across anyons in my Google searching, so I'll have do some reading up on them.
Tim Byrnes also looks like an interesting fellow, so I'll check out his papers.
BTW, I forgot to mention that among their other features, photons can exhibit quantum features at *room temperature* -- e.g., polarization, beam splitting & combining, interference, etc. (Well, at least room temperature defined by standard thermometers.)
Well, there's linear-optical "quantum computing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_optical_quantum_computing It certainly works, but because they only use linear components, the number of components needed grows exponentially in the number of qubits; some are hesitant to call it QC. Nonlinear optics like Kerr media can be used for quantum computation, but use single photons. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike https://reperiendi.wordpress.com