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Quantum States and Qubits

These notebooks are the source files for the Quantum States and Qubits section of the Qiskit Textbook.

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The Qiskit Textbook has been superseded by IBM Quantum Learning. These source files are no longer maintained and may contain errors.

Overview

If you think quantum mechanics sounds challenging, you’re not alone. Our intuitions come from day-to-day experiences, and so are better at understanding the behavior of balls and bananas than atoms or electrons. Though quantum objects can seem random and chaotic at first, they just follow a different set of rules. Once we know what those rules are, we can use them to create new and powerful technology. Quantum computing will be the most revolutionary example of this.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Atoms of Computation
  3. Representing Qubit States
  4. Single Qubit Gates
  5. The Case for Quantum Computers