Quantum Computing at NASA: Current Status

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Ein Quantensprung? - Neuste Entwicklungen im Quantencomputing

Bei der Berechnung großer Probleminstanzen stoßen klassische Rechner bereits heute an ihre Grenzen. Die wachsende Komplexität der Aufgabenstellungen erfordert daher die Erforschung neuer Rechnerarchitekturen. Es zeigen sich deutliche Hinweise, dass die Ausnutzung quantenmechanischer Prinzipien einen entscheidenden Vorteil gegenüber klassischen Systemen liefert: Quantenbits können sich zugleich im Zustand „0“ und „1“ befinden und somit beide Werte simultan manipuliert werden. Durch diese Quantenparallelität weisen Quantenalgorithmen eine geringere Laufzeit als ihre klassischen Gegenstücke auf. Von einer praktischen Nutzbarkeit sind aktuelle Realisierungen des universellen Quantencomputers jedoch weit entfernt. Von der Firma D-Wave Systems Inc. ist hingegen ein sogenannter adiabatischer Quanten-Annealer kommerziell verfügbar. Durch die Transformation von Quantensystemen können damit spezielle Optimierungsprobleme gelöst werden. Deren eingeschränkte Struktur erschwert jedoch die Übertragung von Anwendungsproblemen. Betrachtet wurden dazu zum einen ein vereinfachtes Modell einer Satellitenmissionsplanung und zum anderen ein Luftverkehrsmanagementproblem aus einem Kooperationsprojekt mit der NASA. Zu letzterem wurden bereits erfolgreich Berechnungen auf der Maschine durchgeführt. Obwohl die Überlegenheit des adiabatischen Quanten-Annealing noch nicht zweifelsfrei nachgewiesen werden konnte, zeigt dies die Lösbarkeit von Problemen der Luft- und Raumfahrt

Research reports: 1991 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program

The basic objectives of the programs, which are in the 28th year of operation nationally, are: (1) to further the professional knowledge of qualified engineering and science faculty members; (2) to stimulate an exchange of ideas between participants and NASA; (3) to enrich and refresh the research and teaching activities of the participants' institutions; and (4) to contribute to the research objectives of the NASA Centers. The faculty fellows spent 10 weeks at MSFC engaged in a research project compatible with their interests and background and worked in collaboration with a NASA/MSFC colleague. This is a compilation of their research reports for summer 1991

The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, volume 1

These papers comprise a peer-review selection of presentations by authors from NASA, LPI industry, and academia at the Second Conference (April 1988) on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, sponsored by the NASA Office of Exploration and the Lunar Planetary Institute. These papers go into more technical depth than did those published from the first NASA-sponsored symposium on the topic, held in 1984. Session topics covered by this volume include (1) design and operation of transportation systems to, in orbit around, and on the Moon, (2) lunar base site selection, (3) design, architecture, construction, and operation of lunar bases and human habitats, and (4) lunar-based scientific research and experimentation in astronomy, exobiology, and lunar geology

Director's discretionary fund

This technical memorandum contains brief technical papers describing research and technology development programs sponsored by the ARC Director's Discretionary Fund during fiscal year 1992 (Oct. 1991 through Sep. 1992). An appendix provides administrative information for each of the 45 sponsored research programs

A study of the university role in engineering research for NASA particularized to the Stanford University case Final report

University role in engineering research for NAS

Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop : February 27–28 and March 1, 2017, Washington, DC

This workshop is meant to provide NASA’s Planetary Science Division with a very long-range vision of what planetary science may look like in the future.Organizer, Lunar and Planetary Institute ; Conveners, James Green, NASA Planetary Science Division, Doris Daou, NASA Planetary Science Division ; Science Organizing Committee, Stephen Mackwell, Universities Space Research Association [and 14 others]PARTIAL CONTENTS: Exploration Missions to the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud--Future Mercury Exploration: Unique Science Opportunities from Our Solar System’s Innermost Planet--A Vision for Ice Giant Exploration--BAOBAB (Big and Outrageously Bold Asteroid Belt) Project--Asteroid Studies: A 35-Year Forecast--Sampling the Solar System: The Next Level of Understanding--A Ground Truth-Based Approach to Future Solar System Origins Research--Isotope Geochemistry for Comparative Planetology of Exoplanets--The Moon as a Laboratory for Biological Contamination Research--“Be Careful What You Wish For:” The Scientific, Practical, and Cultural Implications of Discovering Life in Our Solar System--The Importance of Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Analysis and Imaging to the Search for Life on the Ocean Worlds--Follow the (Outer Solar System) Water: Program Options to Explore Ocean Worlds--Analogies Among Current and Future Life Detection Missions and the Pharmaceutical/ Biomedical Industries--On Neuromorphic Architectures for Efficient, Robust, and Adaptable Autonomy in Life Detection and Other Deep Space Missions

Research and Technology, 1989

Selected research and technology activities at Ames Research Center, including the Moffett Field site and the Dryden Flight Research Facility, are summarized. These accomplishments exemplify the Center's varied and highly productive research efforts for 1989