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Enhancing Feynman's Quantum Computational Positioning to Inject New Possibility into the Foundations of the Quantum Computing Industry

Pravir Malik

Published Oct 12, 2022• 1 citation

Abstract

Due to his charisma. exceptional insight and logical capabilities Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman has had a decisive role in how the quantum computing industry has evolved. He equated nature's apparent probabilistic dynamics with the need for a different kind of probabilistic computer, beyond the classical digital computer, that could sufficiently imitate this, and worked out the initial mathematics of such a computer. This has been the genesis of the hardware and software development of today's entire quantum computing industry. Yet, by piercing behind Nature's probabilistic veil based on a light-based quantum computational model, it becomes possible to enhance Feynman's conceptualization and resulting mathematics to do with simulating time, space, and nature's unpredictability itself, to create a foundationally different quantum computer. This would result in reinterpreting foundational quantum equations such as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Schrodinger's Wave Equation, and Euler's Identity, to thereby conceptualize a fundamentally different type of quantum computation leading to an entirely different genre of emergent-type quantum computational devices. The very foundation of the entire quantum computing industry would be changed as a result.

DOI: 10.1109/iemcon56893.2022.9946451

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