Build a toy quantum computer at home
dhruvonmath.com
Build a toy quantum computer at home
1–10 of 42 posts
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#2Hi! Author here - If you have any feedback on what can improve please let me know! Thanks for reading and feel free to shoot me a note at dhruv.parthasarathy@gmail.com if you'd like to see something edited.
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#3Hi! Author here - If you have any feedback on what can improve please let me know! Thanks for reading and feel free to shoot me a note at dhruv.parthasarathy@gmail.com if you'd like to see something edited.
Those diagrams are scraggly. Don’t change them! Great article and the diagrams are instrumental.
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#4Hi! Author here - If you have any feedback on what can improve please let me know! Thanks for reading and feel free to shoot me a note at dhruv.parthasarathy@gmail.com if you'd like to see something edited.
Those diagrams are scraggly. Don’t change them! Great article and the diagrams are instrumental.
Thanks for the kind words! I've been told to improve my handwriting but here I finally have proof I don't need to haha
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#5maybe i'm missing something here, but could we not have just used a stick on the ground and rotated it accordingly, and still end up with the same result - if the stick ends up perpendicular to the plane, i.e. you? Why do we need the light polarization setup?
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#6maybe i'm missing something here, but could we not have just used a stick on the ground and rotated it accordingly, and still end up with the same result - if the stick ends up perpendicular to the plane, i.e. you? Why do we need the light polarization setup?
Hey - you totally could to mock this exact setup like you're suggesting. However, in a real quantum computer setup you would take one qubit and apply either the positive or negative rotation gate to it again and again and rotate the state of that qubit. The "stick" in the quantum computer would be the qubit (or photon in this case). So the post is meant to show what would happen in a real setup. Hope that makes sense.
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#7It's more of a quantum demonstration than a computer, no?
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#8It's more of a quantum demonstration than a computer, no?
Yes - I used the term computer because it really does allow you to mock this quantum algorithm: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/qcoin13.pdf. It's described in Professor Aaronson's lecture notes here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/5.pdf
Re: Build a toy quantum computer at home
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those diagrams are scraggly. Don’t change them! Great article and the diagrams are instrumental.
Thanks for the kind words! I've been told to improve my handwriting but here I finally have proof I don't need to haha
The diagrams are the best part! Please leave them :-)