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Quantum Chemistry on a Photonic Chip

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Complexity and Control in Quantum Photonics

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In previous chapters we have seen that quantum mechanics permits strong nonlocal correlations which are classically forbidden. It turns out that this makes it very difficult to engineer a classical digital computer to mimic the behaviour of quantum systems—it seems very likely that the general problem is classically intractable. However, we have good reason to believe that a quantum computer should be able to efficiently simulate most quantum systems of interest.

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    Note that this question is related to the Extended Church-Turing Thesis, discussed in Sect. 6.3.2 of this thesis.

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Shadbolt, P. (2016). Quantum Chemistry on a Photonic Chip. In: Complexity and Control in Quantum Photonics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21518-1_5

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