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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
Quantum key distribution allows for secure communication by ensuring that any eavesdropping will disturb the quantum state, alerting the parties involved.
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John Preskill on Quantum Computing
@ Y Combinator
05/16/18
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JP
John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
Quantum error correction takes advantage of entanglement to protect information from environmental disturbances, ensuring that the environment cannot learn anything about the protected information.
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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
To protect privacy in a quantum computing era, we need to develop new cryptographic protocols that are resistant to quantum attacks, as well as explore quantum communication for secure information transfer.
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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
Quantum entanglement is a key property that allows information to be stored in the correlations between parts of a quantum system, making it difficult to access that information by examining individual parts.
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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
Quantum computers pose a risk to current encryption schemes, particularly public key cryptography, which relies on the difficulty of certain computational problems.
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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
In the mid-90s, we developed quantum error correction theory, which encodes quantum states in a way that protects them from environmental interactions, ensuring they remain robust.
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Simon Benjamin
05/26/18
@ Y Combinator
Network approaches to quantum computing enable any qubit to link with any other qubit, enhancing connectivity and power, despite the increased risk of errors if not managed correctly.
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John Preskill
05/16/18
@ Y Combinator
The key to effective quantum computing is ensuring qubits interact as desired, rather than just focusing on increasing coherence times.
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Brian Cox
04/03/25
@ Big Think
Quantum entanglement means that when two particles are entangled, measuring one instantly determines the state of the other, regardless of the distance between them.
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Simon Benjamin
05/26/18
@ Y Combinator
Using multiple links in quantum communication can improve the quality of information transfer, similar to how conventional technology compensates for weak signals by requesting data multiple times to ensure accuracy.