Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Quantum Information Processing with Adversarial Devices

I just came across this on arXiv: Quantum Information Processing with Adversarial Devices. This is a thesis by Matthew McKague out of the University of Waterloo.

I only skimmed the first part of it so far, but seems like some interesting work. Most quantum programming methods proposed make use of Knill's QRAM model, either explicitly or implicitly. Knill's QRAM model essentially states that a quantum computer is a slave device controlled by a classical computer. Given this, I've always pondered the possibility that something could get in between and tweak the input or output of the quantum computer. So along those lines, interesting to see this.

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