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Procedia Engineering

Operations on Quantum Physical Artificial Neural Structures

Florian Neukart, Sorin-Aurel Morar

Published Jan 1, 2014• 4 citations
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Abstract

The advances that have been achieved in quantum computer science to date, slowly but steadily find their way into the field of artificial intelligence. Specifically the computational capacity given by quantum parallelism, resulting from the quantum linear superposition of quantum physical systems, as well as the entanglement of quantum bits seem to be promising for the implementation of quantum artificial neural networks. Within this elaboration, the required information processing from bit-level up to the computational neuroscience-level is explained in detail, based on the combined research in the fields of quantum physics and artificial neural systems.

DOI
10.1016/j.proeng.2014.03.148

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