## Tag: terminology

42 What is meant by "Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum" (NISQ) technology? 2018-04-23T10:17:42.513

27 What is 'Surface Code'? (Quantum Error Correction) 2018-05-19T14:16:46.973

24 What is meant by the term "computational basis"? 2018-03-28T19:32:31.093

23 What exactly is an oracle? 2018-11-05T10:29:14.613

17 What is postselection in quantum computing? 2018-03-13T10:12:45.070

17 Significance of The Church of the Higher Hilbert space 2018-04-10T00:46:03.353

14 What does "measurement in a certain basis" mean? 2018-04-22T15:43:42.417

12 What is the difference between "code space", "code word" and "stabilizer code"? 2018-04-17T18:44:52.797

12 What counts as an "ancilla" qubit? 2018-04-21T11:24:29.037

11 When was the first use of the word Entanglement? 2018-05-18T19:46:48.373

11 What's the difference between T1 and T2? 2020-02-06T09:30:38.350

10 Is qsphere an actual term representing 5 qubits? 2018-03-30T05:36:52.240

10 What is the difference between a qubit and a quantum state? 2018-04-23T14:33:21.520

8 Use of the term "dimension" in this description of Simon's algorithm? 2018-04-23T07:40:11.190

8 What is quantum computing vs. what is not quantum computing 2018-09-02T09:20:48.703

7 In qubit/qudit terms, where is the experimental limit between S=3/2 and 2·S=1/2? 2018-04-22T09:14:27.913

7 What do we mean by parity of qubits? 2018-04-22T18:06:45.973

7 Do any specific types of qudits other than qubits and qutrits have a name? 2018-05-19T02:02:13.063

7 What is a flying qubit? 2019-11-22T05:32:42.030

6 What is the definition of Bell state on a n-qubit system? 2019-06-07T17:49:36.137

6 What is the difference between relaxation, dephasing, and decoherence? 2019-09-29T14:44:41.487

6 What are boost and shift operators and why are they called so? 2020-06-08T13:10:53.070

5 Significance of the term "diffusion" in Grover's diffusion operator 2019-10-26T11:41:24.463

4 What does it mean for a result of a measurement to be known/unknown? 2018-04-23T20:07:53.377

4 'Rectilinear' and 'Diagonal' Basis in BB84 Protocol 2018-05-16T17:42:16.183

4 Why do we say 'classical computer' to mean 'digital computer'? 2020-06-04T12:45:17.420

4 Terminology: what do $|i\rangle$ and $|\mbox{-}i\rangle$ represent? 2020-08-17T19:53:38.770

3 What is meant with "shot" in quantum computation? 2020-02-11T05:34:38.483

3 What's the observable when measuring multiple qubits in the computational basis? 2020-08-19T12:21:08.453

2 Terminology : Are basis states the same as basis vectors? 2020-03-23T19:35:00.517

2 What is the pseudo threshold of a QECC using stabilizer formalism 2020-07-13T17:39:21.147

2 What is the significance of transpiling time, validating time, in queue time and running time? 2020-09-15T13:29:34.803