What a graduate student at UW discovered when searching for Kitaev's paper on anyons:
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Trip to Zurich for 8th Symposium on Topological Quantum Computing, Zurich 29th-31st August 2009.
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I just saw the news that Alexei Kitaev, a pioneer in quantum computing and an incredible physicst/computer scientist, has won a MacArthur "genius" award. Awesome!
Kitaev was my next door neighbor while I was a postdoc at Caltech, and among the many highlights of my short life I count listening to…
One of the funniest abstracts to a paper on the arxiv in many moons appeared yesterday, authored by Carlos Mochon:
arXiv:0711.4114
Title: Quantum weak coin flipping with arbitrarily small bias
Authors: Carlos Mochon
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Quantum error correction and quantum hard drives in four dimension. Part IV of my attempt to explain one of my main research interests in quantum computing:
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Considering that anyons don't actually exist, Google's response actually makes a lot of sense.
Well, maybe they do.
That's a stretch!
Google has made several things possible for anyone that were previously pretty niche. Google Earth, SketchUp, Jabber chat, ... exploration of Mars. Maybe this is just they're latest Google Labs product. If they're smart, they'll use the obvious catchy name: Google Fusion (beta).
A stretch, yes. But the box tightens a bit, I think, with that experiment. What odds would you give me for evidence of anyons in the next decade? (I'm sure your VCs would support the bet. Wait, I can't play at that level :) )