Monthly Archives: March 2012

Keep Walking – No Quantum Computing Jobs on Offer

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Henning Dekant

UPDATE: Ever so often I get a search engine click on this post, presumably from QIS job seekers. So despite the dreary title I now can give you a link to this job portal. When promoting my last blog post … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of Quantum Computing

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Henning Dekant

An attempted apotheosis. In the beginning there was Feynman.  And Feynman was with the scientific establishment.  Feynman was a god. Or at least as close to it as a mortal physicist can ever be. He tamed the light with his QED … Continue reading →

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Information is Physical

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Henning Dekant

Even when the headlines are not gut-wrenching One of the most astounding theoretical predictions of the late 20th century was Landauer’s discovery that erasing memory is linked to entropy i.e. heat is produced whenever a bit is fully and irrevocably erased.  As far … Continue reading →

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Quantum Computing for the Rest of Us? – UPDATED

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Henning Dekant

<Go to update> Everybody who is following the Quantum Computing story will have heard by now about IBM’s new chip. This certainly gives credence to the assumption that superconducting Josephon junction-based technology will win the race.  This may seem like … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the Quantum Hippies

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Henning Dekant

… and why I blame Niels Bohr. A satirical hyperbolic polemic Recently there was a bit of a tempest in a teapot in the LinkedIn quantum physics group because it is very much over-run by members who I dub “Quantum … Continue reading →

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