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Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo... by elorant on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:10AM (#22993602)
OK but we're back on square one. If you can't read info from qbits without breaking the state of the whole freaking system then what exactly is that you reading? Doesn't the alignment info collapses superposition?
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Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo... by taejo on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:34AM (#22993734)
You do "break the state of the whole freaking system". Once you've read the output, you're done. You have to set up your initial state again and run the computation from scratch.
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Re:Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone wo... by sasaf5 on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:31AM (#22994307)
You design the algorithm so that it collapses the state into the right result.
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