{"id":655,"date":"2011-05-16T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2017-01-13T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:55:04","slug":"the-territory-around-bqp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"The Territory Around BQP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commenter named Blake Stacey pointed me to a talk entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/pirsa.org\/10050096\/\">The Territory Around BQP: Results and Open Problems<\/a>, which was given at the Perimeter Institute this past Friday, and which I&#8217;d had no idea was available on streaming video.\u00a0 This talk was part of a fantastic workshop called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca\/Events\/Conceptual_Foundations_and_Foils_for_Quantum_Information_Processing\/Conceptual_Foundations_and_Foils_for_Quantum_Information_Processing\/\">Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing<\/a>, which was about ways of changing the laws of quantum mechanics to get alternative theories that still make some sort of sense, and that might shed new light on the &#8220;tried-and-true original.&#8221;\u00a0 In this particular talk, the speaker discusses a large number of ways to make the complexity class <a href=\"http:\/\/qwiki.stanford.edu\/index.php\/Complexity_Zoo:B#bqp\">BQP<\/a> (Bounded-Error Quantum Polynomial-Time) &#8220;slightly&#8221; bigger or smaller.\u00a0 I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit that I watched this particular talk transfixed to the computer screen: I genuinely couldn&#8217;t predict how BQP was going to get mutilated next, and I looked forward to finding out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commenter named Blake Stacey pointed me to a talk entitled The Territory Around BQP: Results and Open Problems, which was given at the Perimeter Institute this past Friday, and which I&#8217;d had no idea was available on streaming video.\u00a0 This talk was part of a fantastic workshop called Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-embarrassing-myself","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}