Quantum Machine Learning with Python: Using Cirq from Google Research and IBM Qiskit

© Santanu Pattanayak 2021

S. PattanayakQuantum Machine Learning with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6522-2_2

2. Mathematical Foundations and Postulates of Quantum Computing

Santanu Pattanayak¹  

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

We must know! We will know!

—David Hilbert

Quantum mechanics is more fundamental than classical mechanics, and it works at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels. However, the manifestation of quantum mechanics becomes more significant for particles and systems in the microscopic domain, which moves with high velocity. There are still questions about the interpretational aspects of quantum mechanics. However, at an operational level, it works over a wide range of phenomena with a high level of precision. The mathematics ...