Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q#

appendix B  Glossary and quick reference

This appendix provides a quick reference to many of the quantum concepts covered in this book, as well as to the Q# language (version 0.15). Most of the contents of this appendix are covered in the main body but are collected here for convenience.

B.1 Glossary

adjoint operation A quantum operation that perfectly reverses or undoes the action of another quantum operation. Operations that are their own adjoint, such as X and H, are self-adjoint. If an operation can be simulated by the unitary matrix U, its adjoint operation can be simulated by the complex transpose of U, also known as the adjoint of U and written U†. In Q#, operations that have adjoint operations are denoted by is Adj.

algorithm A procedure ...