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Particle Physicists Detect 'Magic' at the Large Hadron Collider (quantamagazine.org)
3 points by ibobev 13 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment




> In quantum information theory, magic is a property of entangled qubits that makes their state difficult to simulate on a classical computer.

Wow that isn't confusing at all...

> “It’s an appalling word,” said Martin White, but after 20 years, there’s probably no changing it now.




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