sub-qubit

noun

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

Meanings

nounsub-qubit (plural sub-qubits)

plural sub-qubits

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

    We present a trade-off relation satisfied by these maximal violations, which gives rise to restrictions on the distribution of nonlocality among the subqubit systems.

    062339 (2015), Hui-Hui Qin, Shao-Ming Fei, Xianqing Li-Jost, “Trade-off Relations of Bell Violations among Pairwise Qubit Systems”, in Physical Review A, volume 062339
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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 […].

    2005, Mihai Udrescu-Milosav, Quantum Circuits Engineering: Efficient Simulation and Reconfigurable Quantum Hardware, Politehnica University of Timişoara, pages 74–75

Origin

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