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Record W4415360672 · doi:10.3390/encyclopedia5040173

Quantum Computing: A Concise Introduction

2025· article· en· W4415360672 on OpenAlexaff
Brady Lund, Sakib Shahriar

Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuantum computerQuantum informationQuantum algorithmQuantum technologyQuantumQuantum networkQubitOpen quantum systemQuantum error correction

Abstract

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Quantum computing is an emerging field in computing technology that harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics—including superposition, entanglement, and quantum tunneling—to process information in fundamentally new ways. While classical computers use bits that represent states of either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits. Unlike classical bits, a qubit can exist in a superposition of the logical states 0 and 1 simultaneously. This property allows quantum-powered systems to perform certain complex computations much faster than classical computing systems. Quantum computing holds great potential to transform many sectors by enabling breakthroughs in quantum cryptography, information retrieval, optimization, and artificial intelligence. Through quantum algorithms such as Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms, quantum computers can significantly accelerate the speed of data searching and break encryption systems that would take classical computers billions of years to crack. While still in the relatively early stages of development, quantum computers hold considerable potential to shape our next generation of computing.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.056

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.007
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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