Exploring Quantum Reversibility with Young Learners
Diana M. Franklin, Jen Palmer, Woorin Jang, Elizabeth Lehman, Jasmine Marckwordt, Randall H. Landsberg, Alexandria Muller, Danielle B. Harlow · 2020
Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize some critical intractable computing problems; but to fully take advantage of this computation, computer scientists will need to learn to program in a new way, with new constraints. The challenge in developing a quantum computing curriculum for younger learners is that two dominant approaches, teaching via the underlying quantum physical phenomenon or the mathematical operations that emerge from those phenomenon, require extensive technical knowledge. Our goal is to extract some of the essential insights in the principles of quantum computing and present them in contexts that a broad audience can understand.