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How does a quantum computer do basic math at the hardware level?

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How do I add 1+1 using a quantum computer?

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Twirling Quantum Channels: Pauli and Clifford Twirling

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Why can't quantum annealing be described by a gate model?

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What level of "confidence" of the result from a quantum computer is possible?

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What exactly is meant by "noise" in the following context?

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State produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC)

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How does approximating gates via universal gates scale with the length of the computation?

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How are gates implemented in a continuous-variable quantum computer?

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How should different quantum computing devices be compared?

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What components are needed to realize a photonic CNOT gate?

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Can quantum computers design quantum computers autonomously better than other methods?

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How does Fourier sampling actually work (and solve the parity problem)?

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What does quantum error correction code notation stand for?

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How does the Grover diffusion operator work and why is it optimal?

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Are qutrits more robust to decoherence?

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Accessible information of system vs system, apparatus and environment

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'Rectilinear' and 'Diagonal' Basis in BB84 Protocol

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Why or how is 'cat' state preparation via a C-not-not operation not fault tolerant?

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What do we mean by parity of qubits?

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A two qubit state in a special form

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Is it possible to speed up the generation of the weighting matrix using a quantum algorithm?

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PennyLane operations - Kerr, Displacement and Squeeze

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Why is the decomposition of a qubit-qutrit Hamiltonian in terms of Pauli and Gell-Mann matrices not unique?

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Matrix representation of continuous-variable gates

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Deduce the Kraus operators of the dephasing channel using the Choi

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Eigenvalues of CPT operator

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Can the theory of quantum computation assist in the miniaturization of transistors?

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Why do error correction protocols only work when the error rates are already significantly low to begin with?

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Can we use quantum parallelism to calculate many functions at once?