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MIT Physics Lecture Series:a Quantum Money from Knots
Professor Edward Farhi
Fri Jan 13, 01:30-02:30pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Money, either in the form of bills or information on a computer, should be impossible to copy and also verifiable as good money when tendered to a merchant. Quantum mechanics may make this possible to achieve with far greater security than can be achieved without quantum mechanics. I will discuss Quantum Money generally and present our scheme which uses ideas from Knot Theory. Quantum Money may be the basis of E-commerce on a future quantum internet and would not require communication with a central server such as a credit card company or PayPal.
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 253-4855, denisew@mit.edu
Sponsor: Physics
Latest update: 08-Dec-2011
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