quantum-computing-toolkit/glossary.md

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.