Dr. Dobb's | QM/QC: Frustrated bosons on a two-leg ladder : a chat with Simon Trebst

QM/QC: Frustrated bosons on a two-leg ladder : a chat with Simon Trebst

Simon Trebst is a computational physicist working at Microsoft Station Q , a Microsoft research group at the University of California in Santa Barbara working on topological quantum computing.

Topological quantum computing is a theoretical approach to the problem of error correction in quantum computing. If we can't always keep transistors honest, each of whose 1/0 value is formed of tens of millions of electrons, how are we going to guarantee accuracy when a qubit might be a small agglomeration on the atomic scale?

October 23, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/qmqc-frustrated-bosons-on-a-two-leg-ladd/228700618