>>12247722>What the fuck is a quantum algorithm?>What's so quantum about them?algorithms designed to be run on quantum computers, whose properties make them substantially different from classical computation. There's a lot more work going into using universal quantum computation than just classical - and they have to obey quantum information theoretic laws related to measurement, channel communication, etc etc.
>What language are they usually written in?Like all algorithms, they are written out in mathematics lmao. There are *some* languages out there to help specific operations on a quantum computer, but that's active research and not what the algorithmicists studying quantum computing care about.
>Do I need to get a graduate degree in CS to research them?A graduate degree in math, CS, physics, or EE would suffice. All of these fields eventually learn more of each other. Famous people on all sides have contributed to a lot of other places - Vazirani and Kitaev are CS and physics respectively, but they *both* proved the major results in Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity.
