Glossary
Explore the EDHEC Quantum Institute glossary and discover clear definitions of key concepts in quantum computing, mechanics, qubits and entanglement.
Quantum technologies come with their own vocabulary. This glossary explains the key terms in plain language, for managers and decision-makers rather than physicists. Each definition starts from a simple image, shows where that image stops working, and explains what the concept means for a business.
- What Is Quantum Mechanics? The theory of matter and light at the atomic scale, on which every quantum technology is built.
- What Is Quantum Superposition? How a quantum object can be in several states at once, and what that changes for computing.
- What Is a Qubit? The quantum version of the bit, and why the number of qubits on a machine can be misleading.
- What Is a Quantum Computer? What these machines can already do, what they cannot do yet, and how a company can prepare.
- What Is Quantum Entanglement? Why entangled objects always give matching results, and why that does not send any message.