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Quantum Supersampling (SIGGRAPH 2016)

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A presentation given by ej at SIGGRAPH 2016. In about 25 minutes, this talk/demo provides a quick introduction to quantum computation, a live demo on a QC simulator, and a look at two different physical implementations.

**Update**: A more complete version of this material, complete with ready-to-run code samples, is now Chapter 11 of the O'Reilly Media book "Programming Quantum Computers"! https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Quantum-Computers-Essential-Algorithms/dp/1492039683 Enjoy!

Some related links and resources:
- The QC simulator (with source code and these examples): http://qcengine.com
- Solid Angle, makers of the Arnold ray tracing engine: http://solidangle.com
- University of Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/research/quantum/
- SIGGRAPH 2016: http://s2016.siggraph.org/talks/sessions/roll-dice
- The abstract on ACM: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2927422
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If you want to know the current (or at least 2016) state of actually running an algorithm on a real quantum computer then this video is great https://vimeo.com/180284417 It's about using a quantum computer to perform supersampling / anti-aliasing
SIGGRAPH 2016 had a paper about "quantum supersampling" which does something like that: https://vimeo.com/180284417
orbital-decay
I've enjoyed the talk up until the liquid helium part.
Someone linked this video the other day: https://vimeo.com/180284417

I really enjoyed it for layman's perspective while still exposing technical depth. I hadn't thought about how one of the big challenges of quantum computing is figuring out how to morph your traditional parallel algorithm into a quantum algorithm (with all the weirdness that entails)

The best introduction to this kind of computation that I've seen is Eric Johnston's SIGGRAPH 2016 talk[1], and the associated interactive simulator[2]. In the talk uses quantum superposition to implement a type of "quantum supersampling[3]".

[1] https://vimeo.com/180284417

[2] http://qcengine.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling

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