Glossary
Every technical term this platform uses, with what it means and — the part that is harder to find elsewhere — the mistake it prevents. On this subject the intuitive reading is often the wrong one, so each entry says what a reader would otherwise get wrong.
Circuits
- Statevector
The complete description of a quantum state, as one amplitude per possible outcome.
Easy to get wrong: It doubles in size with every qubit, so a statevector simulation is exact and small only. It also does not survive measurement — measuring collapses the state.
Seen in use on /workbench