From b8ce674fdc34a5f6260766ad50f3886bdf6c5b05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bt3gl <1130416+bt3gl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:43:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update glossary.md --- glossary.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/glossary.md b/glossary.md index 372a25f..519a90f 100644 --- a/glossary.md +++ b/glossary.md @@ -1 +1,14 @@ +## Quantum Computing Glossary + +* ** Superposition**: allows a quantum computer’s memory to be in many classical states "at the +same time", each state having a certain weight or "amplitude" (which may be negative). + +* **Interference**: allows different superpositions to combine in a way that is similar to waves: +positive and negative amplitudes will cancel each other out, while amplitudes with the same +sign will add up. + +* **Entanglement**: allows different parts of the quantum computer, or even different quantum +computers that are far away from each other, to be correlated in ways that are not possible +classically + **Quantum information scrambling**: when local information is thrown into a disorder throughout a quantum system.