Quantum Fundamentals
The principle states that a quantum system can exist in multiple states at once.
What is Superposition?
The fundamental unit of quantum information
What is a Qubit?
The primary physical system used by IBM’s quantum computers
What are superconducting qubits?
Algorithm that provides a speedup for searching unsorted databases
What is Grover’s Algorithm?
The person who developed the uncertainty principle
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
The equation that describes the time evolution of a quantum system
What is the Schrödinger's equation?
Property that allows qubits to be in a state of 0 and 1
What is superposition?
The company that developed the first quantum computer to achieve quantum supremacy
What is Google?
Cryptographic protocol expected to be broken by quantum computers?
What is RSA encryption?
The people who introduced the idea of quantum entanglement
Who are Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen (EPR Paradox)
Define the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
What is it states that position and momentum cannot both be precisely determined at the same time
Used to simulate algorithms on quantum computers
What is a Quantum Circuit?
Quantum computer that uses trapped ions for computation?
What is a Ion trap quantum computer?
The key advantage of quantum annealing?
What is it can solve optimization problems efficiently?
The person who formulated the wavefunction equation for quantum mechanics?
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
Define a wavefunction
What is a probability amplitude of a quantum state?
The term for a quantum gate that flips a qubit’s state
What is a X Gate?
The main challenge preventing large-scale quantum computing?
What is Quantum decoherence and noise?
What is Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) primarily used for?
VQE is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm used to approximate the ground state energy of molecules in quantum chemistry simulations
A person to propose or expand on the concept of quantum bits?
Who is Stephen Wiesner or Paul Benioff or Richard Feynman?
Define the Born Rule
What is the probability of measurement outcomes based on the wavefunction
Algorithm Peter Shor developed to factor large numbers efficiently.
What is Shor’s Algorithm
Major breakthrough that Microsoft announced in topological quantum computing?
Microsoft successfully created and detected Majorana zero modes, a key step toward building topological qubits, which could enable more stable and scalable quantum computing with intrinsic error resistance
What is the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) designed to solve?
QAOA is designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems by leveraging quantum circuits to find near-optimal solutions more efficiently than classical methods
The people who co-developed the quantum teleportation protocol?
Who are Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard?