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by whoomp12342 1554 days ago
cue: article to tell me how qubits represent both 0 and 1 and not tell me anything else about how quantum computing works
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Topological quantum computers don’t really represent 0 and 1 even like a standard gate based quantum computer or classical computer does. You have a collection of anyons that you move around each other in a way that encodes the computation (see: T-junction). Then you test to see which anyons, when combined, will go away/annihilate. This encodes the result.
this response has more information about QC than I have passively read in 5 years.