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Quantum chaos, decoherence and quantum computation

Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati

Published Oct 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

The aim of these lectures is to discuss the limits to quantum computation due to chaos and decoherence effects.
DOI
10.1393/ncr/i2007-10024-8

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