Glossary

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Adiabatic Quantum Optimization

Analog Quantum Computing

Bell Inequality

Combinatorial Optimization

Cryogenic Cooling

DiVincenzo Criteria

Diamond Vacancy Centers

Distributed Quantum Computing

Fault-tolerant Computing

Grover's Algorithm

High-Performance Computing

Maximum Independent Set

Mid-circuit Measurement

No-Cloning Theorem

Optical Tweezers

Photonic Qubits

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum Advantage

Quantum Algorithm

Quantum Annealer

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)

Quantum Circuits

Quantum Compiler

Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS)

Quantum Convolutional Codes

Quantum Cryptography

Quantum Cybersecurity

Quantum Decoherence

Quantum Error Correction (QEC)

Quantum Firmware

Quantum Fourier Transform

Quantum Key Distribution

Quantum Neural Networks

Quantum Parallelism

Quantum Phase Estimation

Quantum Processing Unit (QPU)

Quantum Reservoir Computing

Quantum Sensing

Quantum Supremacy

Quantum Teleportation

Qubit Shuttling

Rydberg Blockade

Shor's Algorithm

Silicon spin qubits

Stabilizer Codes

Superconducting qubits

Syndrome Extraction

Tensor Networks

The [[8,3,2]] Code

Universal Gate Set

Variational Quantum Algorithm

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)

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