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> so you waste less time testing bad samples.

How is this not “wrong answers are not calculated”? You gave a lot more detail on the mechanics of how these probability amplitudes are canceling each other out but the answer seems the same?

I don’t follow how this maps to helping simulate the quantum systems. Quantum computers are good at finding solutions to problems efficiently. But the quantum systems we are describing are not solution seeking systems. They’re going to be just interacting components with entanglement whatever’s going on. How would the avoidance of bad samples aid the simulation of a system like that?




For simulation, it's not about the bad samples: the point is information about the distribution itself.


But simulating a process is not the same thing as efficiently routing space exploration. Quantum computing grants you the latter. Why does it impact the former?




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