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Independent Study in Quantum Computing

A self-directed study of quantum computing fundamentals, prepared as the technical basis for a guest lecture series at Detroit Country Day Upper School. The notes that follow cover no-cloning, quantum money, teleportation, and entanglement swapping, with an aside on quantum solipsism.

The writing is aimed at readers with cursory familiarity with quantum computing — roughly the level of an upper-division undergraduate physics or computer science student. The goal throughout is to make the reasoning behind each result clear, not just the result itself.

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