Re:What would a very simple quantum program look like?
by yorwba on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:22AM
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Every quantum operation maps basis states to something, it's not specific enough to single out the Hadamard transform.
Note that the full description in your linked Wikipedia article " a one-qubit rotation, mapping the qubit-basis states |0⟩ and |1⟩ to two superposition states with equal weight of the computational basis states |0⟩ and |1⟩".
If I had to choose a descriptive name, I might call it the "equal superposition" operation; but I'm not a quantum physicist either, so that might be wrong as well.
Re:What would a very simple quantum program look like?
by majewsky on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:41AM
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> Unfortunately "Hadamard" is not part of the English language.
Of course "Hadamard operation" is part of the English language. If you didn't allow proper nouns and foreign terms to be added to a language, none of the contemporary languages would exist.
It's great that "AND" is not taken by itself. It very much helps that AND comes from our language. The AND gate is named after "and" which is an English concept.
The word 'and' is used to group two things that will happen together. For example: "I will go to the park and go to the pool." This is much like the AND gate which only turns on after the two inputs turn on.
Unfortunately "Hadamard" is not part of the English language.
> The problem is that nearly everything on quantum physics is so profoundly unfamiliar that we cannot map these concepts and operations to familiar words
There is no simple way to explain this in laymen terms? From what the Wikipedia article says I doubt that [1].
Why not just call it a "map basis states" operations? That's what the Wikipedia article implies it does.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard_transform#Quantum_com...