Optical quantum computer
Pulled an all-nighter pondering Mason's advice and possible strategies to counteract these effects. I ended up realizing that not only can I set interval limits on the old style of computing with respect to the applied-or-not state of the target qubits, setting each of the intervals to be smaller and smaller by a factor of 1/2 every time you added another layer of CNOT computation, and this ensures that a lot of the possiblilities get pruned away, since for most algorithms, you can ignore the ones with low probability of occurring. Also, realized that we can just save the information provided by the CNOT instead of re-entangling it.
Worked with Mason Wright at UChicago to realize that there were a few kinks in the entanglement simulator system I had planned. Primarily, it would be slower than a normal quantum simulator since it had to do more computations. I thought light would be fast enough, but I guess not.
Cleared to start building the system for real in the TJ labs, moving from the paper to the bench. Also, started thinking about a possible chip style development of the system.
Finalized designs for CNOT interaction gates and the whole computer, started paper writing.
First working optical tweezers are assembled and entering their testing phase.
Shifted to laser-based quantum computing, realized that SPDC crystals and single photon generators are super expensive
Initial designs made, using single photon generators and SPDC crystals, along with mirrors to delay CNOT gate actions.