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Equation 4 · Part 7 · How Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute Actually Works

Symbol A

C(θ)=⟨ψ0∣V†(x) U†(θ) A U(θ) V(x)∣ψ0⟩C(\theta) = \left\langle \psi_0 \right| V^{\dagger}(x)\, U^{\dagger}(\theta)\, A\, U(\theta)\, V(x) \left|\psi_0\right\rangle
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What this part means

the observable.

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A is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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Third, an observable A is measured on the resulting state; because quantum measurement is probabilistic, this means running the identical circuit many times and using the statistics of the 0/1 outcomes to estimate an expectation value, which becomes a term in a classical cost function C(θ)=⟨ψ0∣V†(x) U†(θ) A U(θ) V(x)∣ψ0⟩C(\theta) = \left\langle \psi_0 \right| V^{\dagger}(x)\, U^{\dagger}(\theta)\, A\, U(\theta)\, V(x) \left|\psi_0\right\rangle.

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For a machine-learning task, the near-term architecture almost universally used is the parameterized (or variational) quantum circuit, and its mechanism has four concrete steps. First, classical input data x is encoded into a quantum state by applying a data-dependent unitary V(x) to a fixed initial…

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