Elementary Particles as Gates for Universal Quantum Computation
arXiv:1307.0096
Abstract
It is shown that there exists a mapping between the fermions of the Standard Model (SM) represented as braids in the Bilson-Thompson model, and a set of gates which can perform Universal Quantum Computation (UQC). This leads us to conjecture that the "Computational Universe Hypothesis" (CUH) can be given a concrete implementation in a new physical framework where elementary particles and the gauge bosons (which intermediate interactions between fermions) are interpreted as the components of a quantum computational network, with the particles serving as quantum computational gates and the gauge fields as the information carrying entities.
8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to FQXi 2013 essay contest ("It from Bit, or Bit from It?")
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