Keywords

quantum computation, associative memory

Abstract

Quantum computation uses microscopic quantum level effects to perrform computational tasks and has produced results that in some cases are exponentially faster than their classical counterparts by taking advantage of quantum parallelism. The unique characteristics of quantum theory may also be used to create a quantum associative memory with a capacity exponential in the number of neurons. This paper covers necessary high-level quantum mechanical ideas and introduces a simple quantum associative memory. Further, it provides discussion, empirical results and directions for future work.

Original Publication Citation

Ventura, D. and Martinez, T. R., "Quantum Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity", Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN'98, pp. 59-513, 1998.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1998-05-09

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2436

Publisher

IEEE

Language

English

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Computer Science

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