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A Philosophical Perspective on the New Quantum Computing Paradigm

Zhou Chang-l

Published Jan 1, 2003• 0 citations
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Centering on the issue beyond classical computing ability, this paper presents a comprehensive philosophical perspective on the new quantum computing paradigm. It gives a systematic introduction to the new algorithm with natural mechanisms, and conducts comparison with the quantum computing paradigm and all the existing computational paradigms. A finding concludes the paper that by now only the quantum computing paradigm has truly gone beyond the limits of classical computing and it has profound scientific and philosophical significance.

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