Limits on Efficient Computation in the Physical World
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More than a speculative technology, quantum computing seems to challenge our most basic intuitions about how the physical world should behave. In this thesis I show that, while some intuitions from classical computer science must be jettisoned in the light of modern physics, many others emerge nearly unscathed; and I use powerful tools from computational complexity theory to help determine which are which.
UC Berkeley PhD thesis, 258 pages. Some minor errors fixed
UC Berkeley PhD thesis, 258 pages. Some minor errors fixed