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What is the difference between shot and iteration of the quantum circuit?
The methods are different on physical devices because "under the hood" there are control operations that perform various actions at the beginning and end of an iteration. For example, there ...
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Why is the word amplitude used in quantum computing?
Quantum mechanics has two different formulations which were later proven to be equivalent. Wave mechanics (Schrödinger) and matrix mechanics (Heisenberg). What we normally use is the matrix mechanics ...
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Why is the word amplitude used in quantum computing?
It's an interesting question as to who first coined the term "amplitude" in the context of quantum mechanics, for the coefficients in wavefunctions - this forum suggests that it was ...
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