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Pure state

Pure state is a quantum state that completely encodes the information about a quantum system.

All of quantum computing is done with pure qubits.

If the information about a quantum system leaks into the environment the state becomes “mixed”. This is why the environment is one of the major enemies of quantum computing.

A classical bit has two states: 0 and 1. Behind the sc

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