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Quantum Information Processing via Indirect Quantum Control

Go Kato

Published Nov 1, 2020• 1 citation

Abstract

Quantum information processing will enable us to solve problems that conventional computers cannot or provide informationally secure cryptography.However, there are still difficulties in achieving quantum information processing.This article introduces indirect quantum control as one method to overcome these difficulties and shows that indirect quantum control has excellent properties for achieving quantum information processing.

DOI: 10.53829/ntr202011fa5

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