Quantum computation Particle and wave aspects of algorithms

• Published in: Resonance Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 821 - 835
• Main Author: Patel, Apoorva
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Springer-Verlag 01.09.2011
• Subjects: Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Science; Science Education; superposition; Boolean logic; digital language; qubit; Hilbert space; Feynman; computation; computational complexity

The driving force in the pursuit for quantum computation is the exciting possibility that quantum algorithms can be more efficient than their classical analogues. Research on the subject has unraveled several aspects of how that can happen. Clever quantum algorithms have been discovered in recent ye...