Glossary

Glossary

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Dee

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Entanglement

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Gee

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Hajg

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Integer Factorisation

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Interference

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Jay

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Kilogram (Kg)

Measurement of mass as defined by the International System of Units (SI). First defined as one litre of water in 1795 (1000cm3) as water was easy to get hold of in a pure form. Later defined with more precision due to create need of accuracy. Today a kilogram is not defined as something made of matter like atoms as atoms are not stable. Instead mass will be defined in terms universal constants and with mass this will be Planck’s constant which is (in simple terms) the smallest amount of anything in the universe. From here it can be multiplied up to a kilogram i n terms of electrical charge or pull through an electro magnet. That pull will equal the force of 1 kilogram. Electric charge is used as it is stable and universally constant allowing anyone to create a kilogram if they have the right equipment (e.g. Kibble Balance) instead of having a physical artefact to guess at.

Here is the SI definition for more detail: SI base unit: kilogram (kg)


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Elle

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Mass

The measure of matter in the SI base unit of kilogram. Ma

Matter

For simplicity sake matter is anything in the universe that contains particles that give that thing mass where mass gives the thing 1) inertia (takes a force to move it, change its direction, stop it (like an elephant stomping around), 2) has a gravitational field even if small (like a planet, or Sun and, 3) is noticeably affected by gravitational fields field (you sticking to the Earth). Things with mass sit inside the work of classical mechanics – how things move at the atom scale and up. Things get trickier as the subatomic levels as matter stop being seen as a definite thing but packets of energy arranged into sets of probabilities.


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Enn

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Ohh

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Planck constant

6.62607015 × 10-34 m2 kg/s or (as I know you want to see it 0.00000000000000000000000000000000066260715 metre2 x 1 kilogram / second

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Quantum Information Science (QIS)

Quantum Mechanics

An area of physics that studies how very, very small things work with each other – the mechanics of sub-atomic particles. Sub-atomic particles can be thought of as packets of energy or “quantums” (discrete package) of energy.

Compare classical mechanics that deals with bigger things starting at the atomic level and upwards to planets and galaxies. This form of physics is often called Newtonian physics coming from Sir Issac Newton’s publication on universal forces, momentum, and gravity. Newtonian physics doesn’t work at the sub-atomic level due to way forces and states interact.

Qubit

Stands for quantum bit – qubit. The store of data used in a quantum computing. In conventional computing data is stored in one of two states: zeros (0) or ones (1) where a single state is called a bit. Bits are used as inputs from input devices such as a keyboard then manipulated in arithmetic (added to together) and logical operations (if 1 then print “Y”)) through the computers central processing unit (CPU) before being either stored or outputted such as a screen. In quantum computing a qubit operates in a similar way but instead of having two independent states of 0 or 1 a qubit can store 0 and 1 at the same time through quantum superposition. Like bits qubits are used to store data that is used in computing.


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RSA Encryption

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Superposition

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Tee

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You

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Vee

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Double U

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Ex

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Why

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Zed (Zee)

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Numbers

No

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Symbols

$%&

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