On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Mike Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So, I'm not at all a quantum computing expert, but so far as I know they just 
> aren't expected to work like this.  There almost certainly won't be an oracle 
> which will distinguish with high probability between a register that's all 
> zeros and one with a 2^-n amplitude to be nonzero.

Am not an QM computing expert either, but for our sake I hope it turns out that 
you're right, because if you aren't, then modern cryptography will have been 
defeated by what effectively amounts to magic.

- Greg

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