Recommended Reading and Related Groups

There are only a few research groups worldwide working on the issues of large-scale quantum computer architecture. Here we highlight some we have found particularly interesting. Suggestions for additions to this list are welcome.

The Qwiki page on quantum arithmetic.
The Wineland group at NIST has proposed a scalable ion trap processor. See http://qubit.nist.gov/ and the Kielpinski Nature paper.
Isaac Chuang's group at MIT is pursuing a similar ion trap system.
Andrew Steane's work on implementing quantum error correction is critically important. See especially quant-ph/0207119 and quant-ph/0203047.
The work of Hollenberg and Fowler et. al. on implementation of Shor's algorithm on linear-nearest-neighbor architectures, including with QEC, is important. See quant-ph/0408081 and quant-ph/0402196.
The two seminal quantum arithmetic papers, with complete circuits for modular exponentiation, are Vedral, Barenco and Ekert, PRA (also available at quant-ph/9511018), and Beckman et. al., PRA (also available at quant-ph/9602016).
Draper, Svore, Gossett, Cuccaro, and others have proposed various adder circuits, which are necessary building blocks for any arithmetic algorithms. See quant-ph/0410184, quant-ph/0008033, quant-ph/0406142, and quant-ph/9808061.
Copsey, Oskin et. al. are addressing issues of classical control and VLSI wiring in solid-state and ion trap systems. See Copsey's SPAA paper, Metodiev's NSC-3 paper, and Oskin's ISCA paper.
Grover was the first to suggest quantum telecomputation, and Yimsiriwattana and Lomonaco have done one of the few studies of its practicality. See quant-ph/9704012 and quant-ph/0403146.
Although the web pages appear not to have been updated recently, the Quantum Architecture Research Center (QARC) is some of the above folks, with groups at MIT, Berkeley, and UC Davis.
Julia Wallace has a useful, though slightly dated, list of quantum computer simulations.