Quantum Gates
Ciarán Hughes, Joshua Isaacson, Anastasia Perry, Ranbel F. Sun, Jessica A. Turner · 2021
Abstract As discussed in Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-61601-4_2 , information in classical computers is represented by bits. However, if the bits did not change, then the computer would remain the same forever and would not be very useful! Therefore, it is necessary to change the values of bits depending on what you want the computer to do. For example, if you want a computer to multiply the number 2 and the number 3 together to produce the number 6, then you need to put each of the numbers 2 and 3 into an 8-bit binary representation, and then have a computational operation to multiply the two 8-bit values together to produce 6. The operation of changing bits in a classical computer is performed by classical logic gates.