Interesting
I was telling my husband that we are starting to apply a little quantum science to cryptography and he then asked me if we had learned about Fourier transforms yet. I looked at him with one of those blank faces that conveys that I have no idea what he is talking about, so it was fun for me to find that Fourier transforms were covered in our reading tonight. Next he asked about convolutions, so we'll see if they're in our reading for tomorrow!
Challenging
-What does the Shor author mean by "superposition?" What's a superposition?
-I think I wrapped my brain around the idea of the Fourier transform from the article we read, but I think I need to see some sort of an example to apply this more thoroughly to cryptography. Is it just used to find a factor of phi(n) so that we can eventually factor n?
from the book:
-I'm embarrassed to admit this but I don't really understand the |100> notation. I understand that the 100 on the inside is three bits, 1 0 and 0, but what does the | > mean? To be honest, I didn't understand much of what the book was talking about. And when we do the continued fractions on 427/512, I thought 5/6 wouldn't work because 6 is not odd.....
-I think I wrapped my brain around the idea of the Fourier transform from the article we read, but I think I need to see some sort of an example to apply this more thoroughly to cryptography. Is it just used to find a factor of phi(n) so that we can eventually factor n?
from the book:
-I'm embarrassed to admit this but I don't really understand the |100> notation. I understand that the 100 on the inside is three bits, 1 0 and 0, but what does the | > mean? To be honest, I didn't understand much of what the book was talking about. And when we do the continued fractions on 427/512, I thought 5/6 wouldn't work because 6 is not odd.....
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