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That a resource analogous to negentropy can be vastly increased by merely adding a single qubit seems very counterintuitive. If I told you that by adding a single molecule to a gas of \(10^{30}\) molecules in thermal equilibrium, it would allow you to extract a large amount of useful work you would probably dismiss the claim as nonsense. You would of course be right. When I first thought about the fact that a single qubit can restore an exponential amount of uncomplexity I was skeptical about its meaning. So as I always do when I am confused about quantum information I went to Patrick Hayden. I asked him: Can adding one qubit to a computer significantly increase its power?
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Susskind, L. (2020). The Power of One Clean Qubit. In: Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45109-7_22
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