Understanding Basic Quantum Computing Principles
Quantum computing, particularly its algorithms, leverages three quantum computing principles, namely, superposition, entanglement, and interference. In this chapter, we’ll review each of these so that we can understand what each provides, the effect it has on each qubit, and how to represent them using the quantum gate sets provided to us. The quantum computers hosted on the IBM Quantum Platform leverage all these principles using the various quantum gates, some of which you used earlier in this book.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introducing quantum computing
- Understanding superposition
- Understanding entanglement
- Understanding interference
- Exploring the Bell states
