July 2025
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
11h 48m
English
Content preview from A Practical Guide to Quantum Computing
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Index
adiabatic quantum computation, 100 adjoint operators, 741, 745, 747 amplitude amplification, 526, 528, 530, 532, 533, 536, 537, 539, 540, 544, 546 amplitudes, 56 Anaconda installing, 761 Anaconda Distribution, 762 asymmetric cryptographic protocol, 452
banknote checking, 115, 117, 119 creating, 111, 113 BB84 protocol implementing, 228–233 Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm, 408–410, 442, 443 big O notation, 759 bit-flip, 627, 629, 633, 635, 637, 640, 642, 644 Bloch sphere, 175, 754, 756–758 boson sampling, 715 bra, 69 bra-ket notation, 64, 67, 71, 750, 752, 753 braket, 751
canonical basis, 65, 733 CHSH game, 289–297 simulating, 329–333 CIRCUIT-SAT, 519 Cirq, 191 classical computers used, for simulating ...
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