Dorit aharonov, wim van dam, julia kempe, zeph landau, seth lloyd, oded regev download pdf. Dorit aharonov, quantum computation, december 15, 1998. Dorit aharonov is a professor in computer science and engineering have made major contributions to the theoretical foundations of quantum computation. We now have strong theoretical evidence that quantum computers, if built, might be used as a dramatically powerful computational tool. Quantum information the subject is a new and exciting area of science, which brings together physics, information theory, computer science and mathematics. Dorit aharonov is an israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing.
We now have strong theoretical evidence that quantum computers, if built, might be used as a dramatically. Quantum computation spring 2001, hebrew university and tel aviv university instructor. For this i am grateful to scott aaronson, dorit aharonov, morteza alimi, noga alon, sanjeev arora, boaz barak. A polynomial quantum algorithm for approximating the.
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Departments of physics and computer science, the hebrew university, jerusalem, israel. Ross 72, hebrew university, jerusalem, 026584611 time and place, including changes, cancellations, etc. Aim to use quantum mechanical phenomena that have no classical counterpart for computational purposes. Quantum computation course given by dorit aharonov, huji and tau, 2001. Adiabatic quantum computation is equivalent to standard quantum computation authors. For background on quantum computing, see nielsen and chuangs book nc and also dorit aharonovs survey paper a1 and kitaevs survey article k1.
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