PHYS 650 - Spring 2009
1) Proposals for the realization of all five DiVincenzo criteria for quantum
computation and the current experimental status for each of those criteria.
2) Separately discuss the scalability of the approach.
3) What are the main advantages of the scheme?
4) What are the main difficulties of the practical realization of this scheme?
Note: use material beyond lecture notes (textbook, quantum computation roadmap, scientific articles, web sites), include all references.
The paper has contain a minimum of 1000 words. Hand-written material will not be accepted.
Written or oral critiques will be provided by the instructor. Students are required to revise
and resubmit their critiqued paper.