Quantum Computing: A Machine Built to Speak Nature's Language

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Quantum Computing: A Machine Built to Speak Nature's Language · 2:08 · Intellect Plus

In short: Starting from Richard Feynman's 1981 question about simulating physics, this film explains what qubits and entanglement are, what quantum computers may realistically do for chemistry and materials, and why their arrival is gradual, specialised and still uncertain.

A 2:08 short film in the series “From Fingers to Qubits”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

Sources used in this film: Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos Science, Number 27, 2002), “Richard Feynman on Quantum Physics and Computer Simulation”; International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Plenum Publishing Corporation), 1982; copy hosted on a Princeton University Computer Science course archive, “Simulating physics with computers”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, “Quantum Computing Explained”; Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center (SC24 tutorial by Scott Pakin and Eleanor G. Rieffel, 18 November 2024, hosted on NASA Technical Reports Server), “all.pdf”; Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge: lecture notes by Richard Jozsa, Part IIC Quantum Information and Computation, Michaelmas term 2021, “D27L.pdf”; U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Roundtable, 2017), “Quantum Computing”; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy), news release of September 8, 2005, “Closing In On Quantum Chemistry”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce, “Entanglement for quantum computing explainer”; Nature (Google Quantum AI and collaborators), hosted on PubMed Central by the US National Library of Medicine, “Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold”; Nature (Springer Nature); article by Google Quantum AI and Collaborators, “Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold”; Nature (Springer Nature); research article by Google Quantum AI and Collaborators, “Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Computer Security Resource Center, “FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard | CSRC”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S. Department of Commerce), notice in the Federal Register via the U.S. Government Publishing Office, “Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 157 (Wednesday, August 14, 2024)”; IBM, “Quantum Roadmap — IBM Technology Atlas”; U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI); report by the USDOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, “Basic Energy Sciences Roundtable: Opportunities for Quantum Computing in Chemical and Materials Sciences”.

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