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# Quantum Circuit Summary

## Overview

While classical computers take advantage of the properties of wires, quantum systems use the energy given off by electrons. This is what allows for us to take advantage of things like superposition in our calculations.

## Material

In this section we'll talk about the differences between classical and quantum systems, and start to get into how to use these ideas to solve problems.

### Review Material

* The Turing machine
* Classical logic gates
* Classical circuits

### New Material

* Quantum information
* Quantum models of computation
* Quantum Gates
* Quantum circuits

## Resources

### Additional Info Summary

Below is a list of all of the extra detail & problem sets included in this section of the tutorial:

#### [Classical Models of Computation](/learning-quantum/quantum-circuits/classical-models-of-computation.md)

* [More information on classical logic gates](https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/ap-computer-science-principles/computers-101/logic-gates-and-circuits/a/logic-gates)
* [More about universal gates](https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/logic/universal-gates.html)

#### [Quantum Information](/learning-quantum/quantum-circuits/quantum-information.md)

* [More detail on what measurement is and how it works](https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-basics-of-measurements-in-quantum-computation-4c885879eba0)
* [More general information about the Bloch sphere](https://www.quantiki.org/wiki/bloch-sphere)
* [More detailed information about how the Bloch sphere is derived and what information we can find on it](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/204090/understanding-the-bloch-sphere)

#### [Single Qubit Gates](/learning-quantum/quantum-circuits/single-qubit-gates.md)

* [More about the Pauli matrices and where they come from](https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Pauli_matrices)


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