Chinese Automation Congress

What quantum technology will bring to our daily life?

Ming Zhang

Published Oct 1, 2017• 0 citations

Abstract

The motivation of this talk is to investigate what quantum resources will bring about in our daily life. A kind of quantization for general bipartite games is first given and then applied to both the modified classical “cash in a hat” game and modified Prisoners Dilemma game with different distribution policies. It is shown that quantum entanglement can bring full cooperation with the help of fair distribution policies. It is further demonstrated that quantum networks will make possible playing quantum game between remote players. Two schemes are given to illustrate how to play distributed quantum games between two players on the nodes of quantum networks. In our opinion, it is a worthy research topic to investigate how quantum entanglement can be exploited to achieve full cooperation with equitable distribution polices.

DOI: 10.1109/cac.2017.8243155

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