Quantum Computing presentation ideas

[dumbperson]

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, but here it goes:

I have to do a presentation on a topic on quantum computing.

Does anyone know any cool doable topics? We have been working through Ballentine's quantum mechanics book, to give you an idea of the level.

Thanks!

 

[atyy]

What is the current state-of-the-art in terms of a real quantum computer? Eg. how is Google's quantum computing group coming along?

http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/

Incidentally, Ballentine is not a good book for quantum mechanics, as it does not give the axioms of the subject correctly. I would recommend a standard text such as Nielsen and Chuang's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information".

 

[dumbperson]

What is the current state-of-the-art in terms of a real quantum computer? Eg. how is Google's quantum computing group coming along?

http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/

Incidentally, Ballentine is not a good book for quantum mechanics, as it does not give the axioms of the subject correctly. I would recommend a standard text such as Nielsen and Chuang's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information".

thanks for the suggestion. Do you mean that it's not a good book for quantum computing or do you actually mean quantum mechanics ? I liked the book so far

 

[atyy]

thanks for the suggestion. Do you mean that it's not a good book for quantum computing or do you actually mean quantum mechanics ? I liked the book so far

Ballentine is not a good book for the axioms of quantum mechanics, in particular Chapter 9 is very misleading. When compared to a standard text like Nielsen and Chuang, Ballentine lacks the state reduction postulate, colloquially called the "collapse of the wave function".