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by ScottAaronson 2904 days ago
When the quantum computation is finished, you suck it up and you measure. The entire point of the quantum algorithm was to set things up in such a way that, even as the measurement destroys the superposition state, the right answer is observed with a high probability (since you used constructive and destructive interference to boost its amplitude, while suppressing the amplitudes of the wrong answers).