Quantum Computation via Sparse Distributed Representation

Volume 10 No 2 (2012)

Gerard J. Rinkus

Abstract

Quantum superposition states that any physical system simultaneously exists in all of its possible states, the number of which is exponential in the number of entities composing the system. The strength of presence of each possible state in the superposition—i.e., the probability with which it would be observed if measured—is represented by its probability amplitude coefficient. The assumption that these coefficients must be represented physically disjointly from each other, i.e., localistically, is nearly universal in the quantum theory/computing literature.

Keywords

sparse distributed representations, quantum computing, superposition, probability amplitude, localist

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