论文标题
研究学生对经典计算机和量子计算机之间差异的解释：量子计算机只是模拟经典计算机吗？
Investigating student interpretations of the differences between classical and quantum computers: Are quantum computers just analog classical computers?
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论文摘要
每个社区中的极大关注已经对学生认知和本科量子力学的推理过程非常关注。但是，直到最近，在新兴的跨学科量子信息科学（QIS）课程的背景下，这些相同的主题仍未探索。我们在一所大型R1大学的大型R1大学中对22名学生进行了探索性访谈，并在物理学和计算机科学方面交叉列表，并在类似的研究生级QIS课程中提供了6名研究生。我们对学生对一对有关古典计算机和量子计算机之间的基本差异的问题进行分类和分析。我们特别注意到对教育工作者的两个关键主题：（1）当关于计算能力的推理时，学生经常努力区分指数和线性缩放的相对效果，从而导致学生经常专注于差异，这些区别可以更好地理解为比较类似于类似物的模糊性，而不是经典的Quantum，以及在介绍Aptaligitials of Aptaligal computiment apaligitial computiment operag computiment的工具上，并且（2）在经典计算机和量子计算机之间。
Significant attention in the PER community has been paid to student cognition and reasoning processes in undergraduate quantum mechanics. Until recently, however, these same topics have remained largely unexplored in the context of emerging interdisciplinary quantum information science (QIS) courses. We conducted exploratory interviews with 22 students in an upper-division quantum computing course at a large R1 university crosslisted in physics and computer science, as well as 6 graduate students in a similar graduate-level QIS course offered in physics. We classify and analyze students' responses to a pair of questions regarding the fundamental differences between classical and quantum computers. We specifically note two key themes of importance to educators: (1) when reasoning about computational power, students often struggled to distinguish between the relative effects of exponential and linear scaling, resulting in students frequently focusing on distinctions that are arguably better understood as analog-digital than classical-quantum, and (2) introducing the thought experiment of analog classical computers was a powerful tool for helping students develop a more expertlike perspective on the differences between classical and quantum computers.
