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A classical bit is either 0 or 1. A qubit is a complex unit vector, wherein the classical states of 0 and 1 correspond to antipodal points on the unit sphere p
by kvathupo 5y ago
A classical bit is either 0 or 1.
A qubit is a complex unit vector, wherein the classical states of 0 and 1 correspond to antipodal points on the unit sphere painted by the range of possible qubits.
- bradleykingz 5y agoHardly an ELI5
- kvathupo 5y agoPerhaps some things (thankfully for our employment prospects) can't be explained to a 5 year old ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'd imagine the following Google image [1] is sufficiently understandable to a child: the two dots are bits while the sphere is a qubit. [1] - http://langsrv.astro.cf.ac.uk/research/research_SQDFWM/Blochsphere.PNG http://langsrv.astro.cf.ac.uk/research/research_SQDFWM/Bloch...