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Fermionic Permutation Quantum Computation.

aspuru — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:20:01 +0000

Stephen Jordan (Caltech), a friend and collaborator, gave a group meeting to our group about his recent model of quantum computation using Fermions. The model uses a tree-representation to describe Fermionic Young’s diagrams. The details are left to his upcoming papers on quant-ph/. This model is quite appealing as we quantum chemists think about Fermion symmetry for molecular wave functions in the configuration interaction-type methods. His diagrams look something like:

After his talk, we began trying to find more organic ways of representing these trees and came up with the following representation:

Ode to quantum chemistry.

aspuru — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:13:57 +0000

At the Sanibel conference, inspired by the great quantum chemists, I used a 1981 song from Kraftwerk, their Youtube video, and the Kino Linux software package to create the following “Ode to quantum chemistry”. I have to think about the “Ode to quantum computing”. It will hopefully follow. On other updates, the lab, the research, and life is going very well. I am a happy man. Ok, with you, “It is fun to compute –Remix” by Kraftwerk/Alan

Interactive blog.

aspuru — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:29:01 +0000

I just found that my blog can have polls. To “reactivate it” a bit, I add one vis a vis the elections:

Also, stay tuned, we will post pictures of the Tacos al Pastor trompo assembly experiment that starts this Sunday.

Si yo fuera Maradona: Life is a raffle.

aspuru — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:44:03 +0000

I have always liked the energy of Emir Kusturica. I have always liked the Energy of Manu Chao. I have always liked the energy of Maradona. When they get together to make a movie. . .

And create a song. . .

Or an earlier one. . .

You can only feel energy for life with Manu Chao and Mano Negra’s songs and Kusturica’s movies. Maybe that is why I like all these characters, because that’s what is happening to me right now in Science, I want to squeeze out as much juice out of the tasty lemon that life is!