Understanding the Quantum States of a Quantum Computer
note: The above word button is where I started thinking about all this. end note.
Since Quantum computers work at a zero and one and then a Superposition of zero and one and then everything between the two (zero and one of both states) this likely is not a logical rational numeric or algebraic reality. So, there has to be some reconciliation (or other way of bridging the gap) between logical rational mathematical reality and a Quantum reality which is completely different at that level of computation.
So, I was thinking that one way to do this would be to check what a Quantum computer was calculating with a digital supercomputer. (Not the complete process because that would be much too time consuming for the digital supercomputer). But, instead it would ferret out potential errors in principles or basic errors in the output of the Quantum Computer so people could trust what information came out of the Quantum Computer.
There would have to be some way for someone to check the accuracy of the output of the Supercomputer and that might not be obvious under some circumstances.
The more information that is being processed in a short period of time the more likely this problem can occur with a digital supercomputer or a Quantum computer. And if one did not know what to look for to ferret out errors in programming or output, errors at either end could easily slip through and possibly even snowball if no one knew what to look for.
And this problem could be potentially catastrophic considering the amounts of information and the number of calculations a Quantum Computer might process even in a short period of time.
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