{"id":3960,"date":"2004-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2004\/10\/12\/quantum-computation-why-what-and-how\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:46:24","slug":"quantum-computation-why-what-and-how","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/quantum-computation-why-what-and-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computation: Why, What, and How"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Carlton M. Caves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The traditional view of quantum mechanics as restricting what can be done classically has been turned upside down by quantum information science, which explores how coherent quantum-mechanical information processing can be used to accomplish tasks that would be impossible in a classical world. Implementing quantum information processing protocols promises to be one of the enduring scientific and technological challenges of the 21st Century. I will focus on quantum computation: why it\u2019s important, what is required to make it work, and how it might be implemented in physical systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3960","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}