: an aid to achieving or mastering something difficult
Examples of ancilla in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebEach logical qubit gets encoded into three qubits, and ancilla qubits check to see if one of the phases has flipped.—Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
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