Sub-qubit

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quantity of information less than one qubit, or a physical system used to represent such a quantity.

    "A solution for fault tolerant quantum computation with arbitrary length is concatenated coding, where each qubit is encoded by a block of n sub-qubits, each sub-qubit being encoded by other n blocks of qubits, and so on […]."

Example

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"A solution for fault tolerant quantum computation with arbitrary length is concatenated coding, where each qubit is encoded by a block of n sub-qubits, each sub-qubit being encoded by other n blocks of qubits, and so on […]."

Etymology

From sub- + qubit.

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