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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Quantum Computing And Utilizing Organic Molecules In Automation Technology

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 10 December 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews quantum computing technologies and DNA-based molecular computing for onboard supercomputing on future spacecraft. It forecasts ion-trap quantum computers within 10 years, simple DNA tile computing within 20 years, and self-repairing DNA computers on a 40-year horizon.

  • p. 6 …However, the amount of active work in the field makes a disruptive advance likely in the…
  • p. 8 …to produce deterministic output emerged from the work of Turing in the 1930s. A Turing machine…
  • p. 14 …Arrays of such quantum dots with tunable tunnel-couplings between them would work as a universal…
  • p. 17 …Graphene dots can be formed from external potentials or nanocrystals but this work is only concerned…
  • p. 22 …The current treatise concentrates on organic technology but summarizes here the work of Ladd and others…
  • p. 24 …When the workings of bimolecular machines inside cells that process DNA and RNA are compared to…
  • p. 25 …This revolutionary process has created a multidisciplinary field of work within nanotechnology that intersects at the…
  • p. 27 …This work was built on previous efforts by Wang's (92)(93) embedding of computation in…
  • p. 30 …Each sticky end remains uncovered and it works as the toehold for initiating a branch migration…
  • p. 33 …This ground-breaking work in DNA synthesis technology has opened the door for several applications in…
  • p. 43 …In biology, muscle contraction and plant movement both result from small motors working together to create…
  • p. 46 …However, the amount of active work in the field makes a disruptive advance likely in the…
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Figure 3. Left; Energy diagram for quantum dot in single-layer graphene. Right; Bound state
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Graphene Disc in Single-Layer Graphene
Single layer graphene is attracting attention because its charge carriers are massless,
relativistic particles (56). The relativistic effects result from a unique, zero-gap band
structure that leads to quantum states described by the two-component Dirac-Weyl equation.
This allows relativistic physics to be explored in a solid state system and has many potential
applications ranging from high frequency electronics (57) to quantum computing (58).
Graphene dots can be formed from external potentials or nanocrystals but this work is only
concerned with external potentials. The physics of nanocrystals has been discussed recently
(59) (60) and is different from the situation treated here. The quantum states, in external
potentials are quasi-bound: they have a low amplitude oscillatory tail and are similar to the
scattering resonances studied in undergraduate physics. A perpendicular magnetic field
enhances the localization of these states (61) and true bound states can occur in graphene
dots defined by a spatially non-uniform field (62). So a magnetic vector potential has a
localizing effect that tends to cancel the delocalizing effect of a scalar potential.
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