The object of the final project is to find a research article related to the course
material, read it carefully, and write a brief (max 1-2 page, or as little
as a couple paragraphs) summary of its
results, including some indication of how accessible it was (notation,
concepts, etc.) based on material covered during the semester.
The object is to determine whether you can read and understand a topical research article at least at the 30-40% level, though it might have been incomprehensible at the start of the semester.
Sample arXiv searches:
Cnot,
qubit,
GHZ,
quantum comput*,
teleportation,
... , turn up things such as the below (biased toward the more recent), but feel free especially to survey references
therein, or any other resource.
This is not meant to be either definitive or representative, just a sample.
Feel free to suggest other possibilities.
Surveys
-
Nature news feature: 2020 computing: Champing at the bits
- One Complexity Theorist's View
of Quantum Computing (Lance Fortnow, 2000)
- Quantum NP - A Survey
(Dorit Aharonov and Tomer Naveh, 2002)
- Fault-tolerant quantum
computation (John Preskill, 1997)
- Are Quantum States
Exponentially Long Vectors? (Scott Aaronson, 2005)
- From Schr\"odinger's Equation to the Quantum Search Algorithm (Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ), 2001)
- Grover's Algorithm: Quantum Database Search (C. Lavor, L.R.U. Manssur, R. Portugal, 2003)
- Review article: Linear optical quantum computing (Pieter Kok, W.J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, T.C. Ralph, Jonathan P. Dowling,..., 2005)
- An Overview of Quantum Computing for Technology Managers (Eleanor G. Rieffel, 2008)
Theory and Algorithms
- How many CNOT gates does it take to
generate a three-qubit state ? (Marko Znidaric, Olivier Giraud and Bertrand
Georgeot, 2007)
- Interference versus success
probability in quantum algorithms with imperfections (Daniel Braun and Bertrand Georgeot,
2007)
- Quantum computing of
delocalization in small-world networks (O. Giraud, B. Georgeot and
D.L. Shepelyansky, 2005)
- Quantum Computing of Poincare
Recurrences and Periodic Orbits (B. Georgeot (UPS-CNRS, Toulouse),
2003), Strange attractor simulated on
a quantum computer (M. Terraneo, B. Georgeot and D.L. Shepelyansky
(2002)
- Quantum Simulations of Classical
Annealing Processes (R. D. Somma, S. Boixo, H. Barnum, E. Knill, 2008)
- Quantum random access memory
(Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, 2007)
(news article)
- The Solovay-Kitaev
algorithm (Christopher M. Dawson and Michael A. Nielsen, 2005)
- Quantum information can be
negative (Michal Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim & Andreas Winter, 2005)
- original shor article: Polynomial-Time Algorithms for
Prime Factorization and Discrete (Peter W. Shor, 1995)
- Architecture of a Quantum
Multicomputer Optimized for Shor's Factoring (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III,
2006)
Experimental realizations
- Experimental quantum information
processing with 43Ca+ ions (J. Benhelm, G. Kirchmair, C. F. Roos, R. Blatt,
2008)
- Realization of the quantum Toffoli gate with trapped ions (T. Monz, K. Kim, W. H\"ansel, M. Riebe, A. Villar, P. Schindler, M., 2008)
- Qubits from tight knots and bent
nano-bars (Victor Atanasov and Rossen Dandoloff, 2008)
- An All Optical Fibre Quantum
Controlled-NOT Gate (Alex S. Clark, Jeremie Fulconis, John G. Rarity,
William J. Wadsworth,..., 2008)
- Many-qubit network of cavity QED in
decoherence-free subspace (Hua Wei, Wan Li Yang, Zhi Jiao Deng, Mang Feng,
2008)
- Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum
Circuits (Alberto Politi, Martin J. Cryan, John G. Rarity, Siyuan Yu, and
Jeremy, 2008)
- Photonic entanglement as a resource in quantum computation and quantum (Robert Prevedel, Markus Aspelmeyer, Caslav Brukner, Thomas Jennewein, 2008)
- Quantum logic gates with controllable and selective interaction for (Jie-Qiao Liao, Qin-Qin Wu and Le-Man Kuang, 2008)
- Optical simulation of the quantum Hadamard operator (2006)
- Efficient optical implementation of the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm (2004)
- Optical Simulation of Quantum Logic (N. J. Cerf, C. Adami, and P. G. Kwiat, 1997),
Quantum computation with linear optics (C. Adami and N.J. Cerf, 1998)
- Grover's search algorithm: An optical approach (P. G. Kwiat, J. R. Mitchell, P. D. D. Schwindt, and A. G. White (1999))
- others linked from main course page: photonics,
Ion traps,
Solid-state NMR,
Liquid-state NMR,
telecom band photonics
(news article)
Dense coding
qutrits, etc
- Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions (B. P. Lanyon, M. Barbieri, M. P. Almeida, T. Jennewein, T. C. Ralph,..., 2008)
- Manipulating biphotonic qutrits
(B. P. Lanyon, T. J. Weinhold, N. K. Langford, J. L. O'Brien, K. J., 2007)
(news article)
- Review on qudits production and their
application to Quantum Communication and Studies on Local Realism (Genovese, Traina, 2007)
Error Correction and Architecture
Counterfactual Computation and Quantum Zeno
- Counterfactual quantum computation
- Counterfactual computation
revisited (Onur Hosten, Matthew T. Rakher, Julio T. Barreiro, Nicholas
A. Peters,.., 2006)
- The Impossibility of the
Counterfactual Computation for all Possible Outcomes (Lev Vaidman, 2006)
- Weak Measurements and
Counterfactual Computation (Onur Hosten and Paul G. Kwiat, 2006)
- Quantum searching a classical database (or how we learned to stop worrying and love the bomb) (Terry Rudolph and Dr.(Strange)Lov Grover, 2002)
- Quantum Computing Using Single Photons and the Zeno Effect (J.D. Franson, B.C. Jacobs, and T.B. Pittman, 2004)