Universal Quantum Simulators

Science. 1996 Aug 23;273(5278):1073-8. doi: 10.1126/science.273.5278.1073.

Author

S Lloyd¹

Affiliation

¹ The author is at the D'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: slloyd@mit.edu

PMID: 8688088
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5278.1073

Abstract

Feynman's 1982 conjecture, that quantum computers can be programmed to simulate any local quantum system, is shown to be correct.