Quantum Amnesia Leaves Cryptographic Mementos: A Note On Quantum Skepticism. (arXiv:2212.08750v2 [quant-ph] CROSS LISTED)

Leonard Shelby, the protagonist of Memento, uses mementos in the form of
tattoos and pictures to handle his amnesia. Similar to Leonard, contemporary
quantum computers suffer from "quantum amnesia": the inability to store quantum
registers for a long duration. Quantum computers can only retain classical
"mementos" of quantum registers by measuring them before those vanish. Some
quantum skeptics argue that this quantum amnesia is inherent. We point out that
this variant of a skeptic world is roughly described by the …

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