A Quantum Computer for Shor's Algorithm

Abstract

We employ learning algorithms, optical and terahertz pulse shaping and ultrafast laser techniques to control quantum coherence in Rydberg atom wave packet quantum data registers. Our goals are to discover efficient ways to limit decoherence in these systems, execute arbitrary unitary operations and projection operations, and produce and probe quantum entanglement. Rydberg atoms have many of the same quantum properties of other systems that have been proposed for processing and storing quantum information, and so they are models for techniques that could be employed in proposed quantum computers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2004
Accession Number
ADA422644

Entities

People

  • Philip H. Bucksbaum

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Angular Momentum
  • Atoms
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Quantum Algorithms
  • Quantum Computers
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Properties
  • Quantum States
  • Rydberg Atoms
  • Shor'S Algorithm

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Quantum Computing