February 25, 2014

How do you build a large-scale quantum computer?



PHYSICISTS PROPOSE A MODULAR QUANTUM COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE THAT OFFERS SCALABILITY TO LARGE NUMBERS OF QUBITS

How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15 years ago. The answer was laid out in a research paper and has become known as the DiVincenzo criteria [See Gallery Sidebar for information on this criteria]. The prescription is pretty clear at a glance; yet in practice the physical implementation of a full-scale universal quantum computer remains an extraordinary challenge.