{"id":189234,"date":"2013-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/so-you-think-quantum-computing-is-bunk\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:17:36","slug":"so-you-think-quantum-computing-is-bunk","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/so-you-think-quantum-computing-is-bunk\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Think Quantum Computing Is Bunk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>In this talk, I&#8217;ll take an unusual tack in explaining quantum computing to a broad audience.  I&#8217;ll start by assuming, for the sake of argument, that scalable quantum computing is &#8220;too crazy to<br \/>\nwork&#8221;: i.e., that it must be impossible for some fundamental physical reason.  I&#8217;ll then investigate the sorts of radical additions or changes to current physics that we seem forced to contemplate in order to justify such an assumption.  I&#8217;ll point out the many cases where such changes seem ruled out by existing experiments, or by no-go theorems such as the Bell Inequality.  I&#8217;ll also mention two recent no-go theorems for so-called &#8220;epistemic&#8221; hidden-variable theories: one due to Pusey, Barrett, and Rudolph, the other to Bouland, Chua, Lowther, and myself.  Finally, I&#8217;ll discuss my 2004 notion of a &#8220;Sure\/Shor separator,&#8221; as well as the BosonSampling proposal [A.-Arkhipov 2011] and its recent experimental realizations&#8212;which suggest one possible route to falsifying the Extended Church-Turing Thesis more directly than by building a universal quantum computer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this talk, I&#8217;ll take an unusual tack in explaining quantum computing to a broad audience. I&#8217;ll start by assuming, for the sake of argument, that scalable quantum computing is &#8220;too crazy to work&#8221;: i.e., that it must be impossible for some fundamental physical reason. I&#8217;ll then investigate the sorts of radical additions or changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":197555,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-189234","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/spue5TBoIFo","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/189234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/189234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=189234"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=189234"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=189234"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=189234"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=189234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}