Introduction to Quantum Computing
In this brief introduction to quantum computing, we’ll cover the following topics:
- What is quantum computing?
- Baby steps toward quantum computing
- Programming a quantum computer
- The future of quantum computing
What is quantum computing?
Quantum reality is very strange.
Imagine a spinning wheel that’s turning neither clockwise nor counterclockwise. Just by looking at the wheel, you set up a relationship between yourself and the wheel, and this makes the wheel turn in one direction or another.
Imagine two friends who travel to opposite ends of the Milky Way galaxy. Whatever one randomly decides to say upon landing on a distant planet, the other feels compelled to say too.
That’s the world of quantum mechanics. ...
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