Codes and Demons: Are Quantum Computers Possible?

Link to manuscript on arXivOr copy and paste the following into the search bar:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00132AuthorsMircea Bejan, Campbell McLauchlan, Benjamin BériAbstractThe classical simulation of highly-entangling quantum dynamics is conjectured to be generically hard. Thus, recently discovered measurement-induced transitions between...

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