An Outlook to Quantum Gate Computing
摘要
Having spent almost an entire book on working out that Hopfield nets and adiabatic quantum computing are closely related concepts, this chapter departs from our main story line of problem solving as energy minimization and concludes our study with an outlook to the possibilities of quantum gate computing. Indeed, the central ideas behind quantum gate computing differ from most of what we studied so far but our study still has us prepared for getting to grips with the basics of this paradigm. As this paradigm posits that quantum algorithms are sequences of unitary operators which each act on the joint state of a qubit system, we will look at the circuit model of quantum computing and see that quantum circuits consist of quantum gates which are interconnected by quantum wires where the latter represent the states of qubits on which the former perform unitary operations. As a practical example, we discuss how such circuits could compute univariate Boolean functions. This then seamlessly allows us to finally study Deutsch’s problem and algorithm and therefore to see an instance of a computational problem for which quantum computing algorithms can be exponentially faster than their classical counterparts.