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arXiv:1711.02086quant-ph

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Abstract

We talk about the right way to order amplitudes in a wavefunction, and the right way to interpret operator matrices in quantum computation.

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  1. What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1 1 comment

    • This does not present the correct definition of a ket. More specifically, it doesn’t present a reasonably general definition of a ket. It would be like asking “What is a list?” and implementing a data structure that can store only one element. In quantum computation, a ket is a…

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