quantum computing

typed in font Times New Roman 12 point, double spaced, only one 3”x4” figure per question if desired, with the number of maximum and minimum pages specified in the question. While any reference is allowed, the copying from the reference is not. Use MS Word with your originally drawn jpg figures or symbols scanned The correct answer should show that the student, without receiving or giving help, fully understands the issue being asked. Each of the first four questions are worth 19 points and the last 24 points. Question 1. Explain in two to three pages the evolution from the blackbody radiation problem (you may refresh the concept from the Course Content in Blackboard) to the development by Planck relating the spectrum to energy and the subsequent photoelectric effect problem solution by Einstein. Question 2. There was one experiment that definitively demonstrated the dual nature of particles and waves. In one to three pages name and describe the experiment and its results. Question 3. While in our classical Newtonian world we can measure with deterministic experimental precision the position in space and the momentum of objects we experience indeterminacy in doing the same in the quantum world. Who discovered the probabilistic relation between quantal particles? Explain the principle that was discovered and formulated and also how it led to a probabilistic wave equation that was a solution to a very general equation by Schrodinger in two to three pages. Question 4. Two of the most important phenomena of quantum computing to be explained here are: 4a. Entanglement in 1-2 pages, 4b. Superposition in 1-2 pages Question 5. Describe and explain in 3-5 pages (you may refer precisely to your answers to previous questions if you wish) the potential complete quantum special purpose (why not general purpose?) computer including laser pumping, bi-reflection, heralding, Pockels effect, quantum memory, multi-residue arithmetic.