From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-04-05T10:42:23+09:00
Subject: Modelling quantum computation

Maybe this is from the 'way out there' department.... or maybe it'll be 
the next big thing (TM).

There's an article in the Economist that was linked on /. today about 
efforts to create a quantum comuting language (or maybe it could also be 
described as creating a quantum computation simulator).  Here's an except:

"The trick is to find a way to describe, in a manner useful to computer 
scientists, the unitary transformations that underlie a program. Dr 
Bettelli has managed to do it using object-oriented programming-long a 
buzzword among software developers."

Looks like they've created a C++ class lib for doing this.  Maybe it's 
time to create some Ruby modules/classes for doing this as well.  Can't 
hurt to be a little early ;-)

There's a more technical description at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103009

Phil