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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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By means of Klein tunneling, two distant qubits can be strongly coupled without touching the
states of intermediate qubits that might be located between the two. Thus, a ribbon of
graphene hosting many spin qubits in a line can be viewed as a qubit piano where any two of
them can be entangled with leaving the states of the others unchanged; see Figure 7.
Interestingly, this feature, i.e., the availability of non-local interactions, is important for
quantum error correction since it raises the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum computing
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Figure 7. Qubit piano. Illustration of many spin qubits in a line hosted within a
graphene nanoribbon. Quantum dots are red bars and barrier regions are blue
bars. Different spin qubits that are strongly coupled to each other via Klein
tunneling are marked with the same color.
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Spin Relaxation and De-phasing in Graphene Quantum Dots
Why can we expect stable spin qubits in graphene quantum dots? There is hope that spin
relaxation and dephasing will be very weak in graphene for the following reasons: (i) Carbon
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