Quantum Computation & Quantum Computer
I had the amazing opportunity to go and look at the photonic quantum computer at University of Tokyo last month. It was the photonic quantum computer by Professor Furusawa in his lab. I listened to his talk and some of the talks by students and a different teacher as well.
I’ve been following the quantum computation field for some time now, since around 2011 or 2012.
The D:Wave got me really excited to want me to study this field. The famous quantum search algorithm, also known as Grover’s algorithm is something I want to deeply understand and later on apply it to my search engine.
I’ve been taking a quantum computation course by coursera online for some time now, and gradually I am grasping some core aspects of quantum computation. It’s not that hard once you get some key elements memorized.
The fact that you can use a lot of matrix knowledge in this field is really interesting for me too. Several years ago, I started using IBM’s Q 5 qubit quantum computer, and that was quite an experience. I think I now have more knowledge now to step it up to actually code for the quantum computer, instead of just the composer. The composer of IBM Q is good for me to understand core concepts, but it doesn’t let me program in a way classical computers do.
Back to photonic quantum computer:
Here’s a picture of the machine in University of Tokyo’s lab: (photo after clicking on the link below)
