> developed what we now call “magic state cultivation.”
Somehow I can't help but read that phrase as a translated Wuxia [0] thing.
"It was then that the Non-Observing Sage secluded himself in the clan datacenter to focus on magic state cultivation. Half a year later, he emerged having mastered Rosen-Bridge Crossing Under Plum Blossoms."
It's kinda like magic numbers in a normal numerical algorithm. The issue is, the constants ('states') you need in some quantum computer themselves require some level of quantum computing to generate (in this case, iteratively 'cultivate'). In a normal computer you could read constants from the code, but that isn't possible here. You have to bootstrap the necessary quantum states from your non-quantum problem, and that needs to be efficient or else why did you build a quantum computer.
Somehow I can't help but read that phrase as a translated Wuxia [0] thing.
"It was then that the Non-Observing Sage secluded himself in the clan datacenter to focus on magic state cultivation. Half a year later, he emerged having mastered Rosen-Bridge Crossing Under Plum Blossoms."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia