Rotation station
What gate rotates a qubit 180° around the z-axis?
Z gate / Pauli Z gate
What types of circular polarization are there?
Right hand and left hand polarization
The plus state is a "______" of the 0 and 1 state
Superposition
What is the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing?
Qubits
What year did the Nobel Prize in Physics that revolutionized quantum sciences with the violation of Bell's inequality occur?
2022
What singular gate would change a qubit in a 0 polarization state to a + polarization state?
H gate / Hadamard gate
What is the expected effect when placing two polarizers 90° to each other?
Blocks out all light
What are the two types of interference?
Destructive and constructive interference
What unitary action, change the phase states?
Quantum gates
What is the big band in a single slit experiment called?
Central maximum
What gate rotates a qubit 90° along the z-axis?
S gate / Z dagger gate
What is the individual probability of each phase state?
(1/sqrt2) (|0| + |1|)
1/2 / 50%
What phenomenon cannot be explained with the wave model but with the particle model instead?
Photoelectric effect
What makes polarized light change from linear to circular polarized light?
Quarter-wave plate
What phenomena is described as being "spooky at a distance"?
Quantum entanglement
If given the matrix, with a target qubit of 1 and a control qubit of 0, represented as (1,0), what would be the output if a CNOT gate was applied?
(1,0) / Target bit is 1, control bit is 0
By what factor, are the intensity of transmitted and incident light related?
(cos theta)^2
The loss of information into the environment is called what?
Decoherence
What does adding a 45° polarizer to the end of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer cause?
Quantum erasure
What does the plank's constant relate frequency to?
The energy of a wave
What matrix represents the hadamard gate?
(1/sqrt 2)
(1 1)
(1 -1)
What type of crystal leads to a slow and fast axis within waveplates?
Birefringent crystals
In a double slit experiment, what effect will moving the slits closer and lowering the frequency have on the bands?
The bands will be farther apart from each other
What diagram represents a multi-qubit configuration/states and its phase shifts?
Q-sphere
What are the three stages of a one-qubit circuit?
Initialization, Gates, and Measurement