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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • describe a qubit and understand how it differs from a bit in classical computing
  • explain how a two-qubit CNOT gate can generate entanglement between two qubits
  • derive the output qubits of a quantum circuit given the input qubits
  • describe different ways quantum computing is being implemented in practice.
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OpenLearn - Introduction to quantum computing
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