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OK. Well, I thought I could've digested the two papers by this time. But I've failed and will probably give up for now. It's still entirely unclear to me how the 3 level system's dark states facilitate the finer-than-diffraction-limited resolution. So, I can't place the OR gate example into the context of the laser lattice and my 1st basic question about energy state transitions via different energy photons.

I believe I grok your point about any given "degenerate" state being "computed over" as if it is or could be real[ized], just so that the solutions are meaningful. But in the context of microscopy, distinguishing things below the resolution allowed by the drive beam, I remain completely lost.

Hopefully, I'll try again soon ... maybe on an airplane flight when I have nothing to distract me. 8^)

On 5/18/19 8:00 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Glen writes:
> 
> "What evidence is there of degenerate ground states?"
> 
> The Hamiltonians for a logical operator like an OR gate need ground-state degeneracies for non-trivial applications.
> 
> Configuration Input0 Input1 -> Output
> A 0 0 -> 0
> B 0 1 -> 1
> C 1 0 -> 1
> D 1 1 -> 1
> 
> P(A) = P(B) = P(C) = P(D) = 0.25
> 
> If the probabilities (thus energies) were not balanced, then the OR gate could not be inverted in a fair way.   Excited eigenstates typically exist, but they would give configurations that were wrong like "D 0 0 -> 1".  Suppose one wanted to find the key for a complex encryption circuit.  A gate encoding that completely favored one gate, P(X) = 1, would not enable search. 


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