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Exploiting Particle Statistics in Quantum Computation

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We describe a plausible-speculative form of quantum computation which exploits particle (fermionic, bosonic) statistics, under a generalized, counterfactual interpretation thereof. In the idealized situation of an isolated system, it seems that this form of computation yields to NP-complete=P.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9806086,
  title  = {Exploiting Particle Statistics in Quantum Computation},
  author = {Giuseppe Castagnoli and Dalida Monti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9806086},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures. This manuscript is a further development of "Quantum Computation Based on Particle Statistics", quant-ph/9806010 3 Jun 1998. Submitted to Fourth Biannual IQSA Meeting QUANTUM STRUCTURES '98