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i think essentially it's translating from classical logic gates operations to these weird gate types they have on quantum computers. This atleast, i think, is what 'compilers' do which target quantum computers or simulations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate

There's a few types, and I imagine most things can be translated between them.

I think the most things are possible between the two, either will just be faster / more optimized for certain things, so it's less ideal to pick one or the other depending on what you're doing.