Quantum computing
Wikipedia page on quantum computing link
R. Feynman suggestion
- R. Feynman
There’s plenty of room at the bottom
Talk at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech (1959) pdfWhen we get to the very, very small world—say circuits of seven atoms—we have a lot of new things that would happen that represent completely new opportunities for design. Atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale, for they satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics. So, as we go down and fiddle around with the atoms down there, we are working with different laws, and we can expect to do different things. We can manufacture in different ways. We can use, not just circuits, but some system involving the quantized energy levels, or the interactions of quantized spins, etc.
Seminal papers that opened the field of quantum computing
P. Benioff
The computer as a physical system: A microscopic quantum mechanical Hamiltonian model of computers as represented by Turing machines
Journal of Statistical Physics 22, 563 (1980) articleY. Manin
Computable and uncomputable (Вычислимое и невычислимое)
Moscow: Sovetskoye Radio Publishing House. Cybernetic Literature Editorial Board, 1980. - Cybernetics Series
Москва: Издательство “Советское радио”. Редакция кибернетической литературы, 1980. - Серия Кибернетика link to djvu (in russian)P. Benioff
Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian models of discrete processes that erase their own histories: application to Turing machines
International Journal of Theoretical Physics 21, 177 (1982) articleP. Benioff
Quantum mechanical Hamiltonian models of Turing machines
Journal of Statistical Physics 29, 515 (1982) articleR. Feynman
Simulating physics with computers
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 21, 467 (1982) article pdf