3 papers
quant-ph2005
Quantum computing (Kwantumberekening)
W. L. Fouché, J. Heidema, P. H. Potgieter
There has been no lack of coverage in the past few years in scientific journals of the topic of quantum computation. Rightly so, as this is a novel idea with--so far--at least one…
cs.CC2004
Zeno machines and hypercomputation
Petrus H. Potgieter
This paper reviews the Church-Turing Thesis (or rather, theses) with reference to their origin and application and considers some models of "hypercomputation", concentrating on per…
cs.GL2004
The pre-history of quantum computation
P. H. Potgieter
The main ideas behind developments in the theory and technology of quantum computation were formulated in the late 1970s and early 1980s by two physicists in the West and a mathema…