The Centre for Quantum Computation or CQC, part of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, conducts theoretical and experimental research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself. The centre was originally founded in Oxford, and split into two on the migration of Artur Ekert. Oxbridge is a portmanteau name for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ... Quantum information processing is concerned with what we can and cannot do with quantum information. ... Fig. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... Artur Ekert Artur Ekert (born 19 September 1961 in Wroclaw) is a Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge University. ...
The Cambridge CQC is based at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). The Oxford base is the Clarendon Laboratory (Lindemann building), which is located opposite the T-junction of Keble Road and Parks Road. The Cambridge group mostly works on theoretical research while Oxford concentrates on experimental implementations. Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics is based at Centre for Mathematical Sciences. ... The Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford) is part of the Physics Department at Oxford University. ...
The quantum theory of computation is useful in this investigation because, as we shall see, the structure of the multiverse is determined by information flow, and the universality of computation ensures that by studying quantumcomputational networks it is possible to obtain results about information flow that must also hold for quantum systems in general.
That is not to say that the quantum network is a classical computer during such a period: it still has qubits rather than bits; it (or at least, the network as a whole) is still undergoing coherent motion; and its computational state is not specified by any sequence of N binary digits.
Quantumcomputations When a quantumcomputational network is performing a general computation, it need not be the case that the descriptors of any part of the network over two or more computational steps constitute a representation of an evolving e-algebra.