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Assuming they work out performance and other engineering issues, could this be used to implement something like qubits?
by rpedela 12y ago
Assuming they work out performance and other engineering issues, could this be used to implement something like qubits?
- acjohnson55 12y agoThere's nothing in the article that would make me think that this is the case. A qubit is a fundamentally different concept, in which a computation can be performed on all possible states simultaneously. This seems to just be getting more states out of a single classical element.
- adrianN 12y agoNo, you can think of a qubit as a unit vector in the complex plane. It can have two real values, but also all kinds of complex values. Computing with a qubit is rotating the vector around, measuring it collapses its imaginary state to a real state. The probability which state you get depends on the rotation at the time of the measurement.