| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/J009377/1 |
| Title: |
Hybrid Rotaxanes as Scaleable Two Qubit-Gates for Quantum Information Processing |
| Principal Investigator: |
Winpenny, Professor RE |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 January 2012 |
Ends: |
31 December 2014 |
Value (£): |
350,923
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
Quantum Optics & Information |
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| No relevance to Underpinning Sectors |
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| Panel History: |
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08 Sep 2011
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EPSRC Physical Sciences Chemistry - September 2011
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
Modern computers work by storing and processing information in "bits". Within a bit the information is stored either as a 0 or 1. The huge computing power we now possess has some limitations. For example, computers are very fast at multiplying numbers together - 2 x 3 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 11 x 17 x 23 x 41 = 111094830. The reverse operation is slow on a modern computer, i.e. if you are given 111094830 a computer would find it difficult working out the factors multiplied together. This operation - factoring large numbers into primes - looks like a mathematical oddity, but is the basis of how information is encrypted in the modern world.
An alternative computer - based on quantum information processing (QIP) - would operate in a very different way, using the strange principles of quantum mechanics. The information would be stored in a "qubit". In contrast to a bit, a qubit stores information as 0, 1 and the superposition of all numbers between 0 and 1. As an analogy: if a bit is like a light switch - either on or off - a qubit is like a dimmer switch, but one which is set at all positions simultaneously. In most cases a quantum computer would have few advantages over a normal computer, however in some cases - and factorising large numbers into primes is one example - then a quantum computer can perform a calculation quickly that is impossibly slow classically.
Some examples have been reported where simple calculations have been performed, but no quantum computer has been reported that could carry out a complex computation. Our proposal is develop molecules that can act as qubits, link then together to form the fundamental units for a computer - a two-qubit gate - and then develop further chemistry that would allow us to prepare devices with these molecular qubits.
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http://www.man.ac.uk |