Quantum Information Science: An Update

6th Asian Physics Symposium

Kwek, L.C.^1,2,3,4 ; Zen, Freddy P.^5

Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore

117543, Singapore^1

Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang View, Singapore

639673, Singapore^2

National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore

637616, Singapore^3

MajuLab, CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, UMI 3654, Singapore^4

Institut Teknologi Bandung, West Java, Bandung

40132, Indonesia^5

关键词: Computer technology;    Exciting field;    Quantum Computing;    Quantum information science;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/739/1/012001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/739/1/012001

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

It is now roughly thirty years since the incipient ideas on quantum information science was concretely formalized. Over the last three decades, there has been much development in this field, and at least one technology, namely devices for quantum cryptography, is now commercialized. Yet, the holy grail of a workable quantum computing machine still lies faraway at the horizon. In any case, it took nearly several centuries before the vacuum tubes were invented after the first mechanical calculating were constructed, and several decades later, for the transistor to bring the current computer technology to fruition. In this review, we provide a short survey of the current development and progress in quantum information science. It clearly does not do justice to the amount of work in the past thirty years. Nevertheless, despite the modest attempt, this review hopes to induce younger researchers into this exciting field.