Unconventional Quantum Computing Devices

TL;DR

This paper explores various unconventional quantum computing devices, such as fermionic and nonlinear quantum computers, demonstrating their potential to outperform traditional quantum computers in certain computations.

Contribution

It introduces and analyzes unconventional quantum computing devices, highlighting their potential advantages over standard quantum computing methods.

Findings

Unconventional devices can compute some quantities faster.

Fermionic quantum computers are a key example.

Nonlinear quantum mechanics can be exploited for computation.

Abstract

This paper investigates a variety of unconventional quantum computation devices, including fermionic quantum computers and computers that exploit nonlinear quantum mechanics. It is shown that unconventional quantum computing devices can in principle compute some quantities more rapidly than `conventional' quantum computers.