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.