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Apology for the naive question, am I supposed to be able to see the difference between a quantum computer and a standard computer from the simulator? I ran som
by S4M 12y ago
Apology for the naive question, am I supposed to be able to see the difference between a quantum computer and a standard computer from the simulator?
I ran some basic examples, and while it seems a neat scripting language to play with the computer, I couldn't see anything unusual.
My vague knowledge about quantum computers is that they don't deal with binary bits (that can be only 0 or 1), but their "bits" (qubits?) can be anything from 0 to 1, which should accelerate massively some calculations.
- j2kun 12y ago> but their "bits" (qubits?) can be anything from 0 to 1 This is not the interesting part, because there are models of computation that allow for this, but are believed to be equivalent to classical computation. What makes quantum computing different is that 1. the basic data are unit vectors in a 2^n dimensional vector space (when you have n qubits) and 2. you don't have direct access to the qubits during a computation, and "reading" a qubit destroys all the information in any related qubits! So imagine a classical computer program where reading a variable destroyed the content of your other variables! That's closer to the quantum model. So it's more of a semantic difference than a syntactic one.