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<div>Next week's MIT quantum information processing seminar will take
place as usual on Monday, November 3rd at 16:00 hours in room 4-270,
and features:</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>Quantum Computers that Fix
Themselves</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><i>by</i> Dave Bacon
(<i>postdoctoral scholar in the</i> Institute for Quantum
Information<i> at</i> CalTech)</font></div>
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<div align="center"><u>ABSTRACT</u></div>
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<blockquote>There are distinct physical reasons why classical
computers act as naturally error free devices. Not all classical
systems can act as robust classical computers. Similarly we
should not expect all quantum systems to be useful for quantum
computation. More interestingly we can ask the question of
whether there exist (or whether we can engineer) naturally
fault-tolerant quantum computers. In this talk I will discuss
recent progress toward this goal and present a sequence of examples
which possess many of the properties of a naturally fault-tolerant
quantum computer.</blockquote>
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