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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Probabilistic logic of quantum computers

Su‐Shing Chen

Published Nov 11, 1996• 0 citations
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Abstract

Recently, quantum computers have been proposed as potentially the next-generation computer systems which will overcome the physical and computational limitations of current solid state technology. This paper suggests that the natural logic of quantum computers should be the probabilistic logic rather than the ordinary logic. In probabilistic logic, computational problems formulated directly may be solved with much less complexities by quantum computers.

DOI
10.1117/12.258125

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