It and Bit: Decoherence and Information Storage

• Main Author: Nguyen, Hieu Duy
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Computer science; Quantum physics

We studied two topics: i) how much physical resources are needed to store information and ii) decoherent histories theory applied to Grover search. Given a system consisting of d degrees of freedom each of mass m to store an amount S of information, we find that its average energy, ⟨H⟩, or size, ⟨r2...