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by quantum_mcts 1316 days ago
Quantum algorithms are nonlinear. If someone is saying "quantum mechanics is a linear theory" as a counterargument to anything QC related. Then that person has no idea what they are talking about. Because they likely never cared to learn event the basics of QC.
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I don't think it's quite as simple as that:

"New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations. Two teams found different ways for quantum computers to process nonlinear systems by first disguising them as linear ones."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithms-finall...

Quantum mechanics is a linear theory. That's not an erroneous statement.

Quantum computing and quantum mechanics, not the same thing.