# Is entanglement necessary for quantum computation?

Is entanglement necessary for quantum computation? If there was no error in the computation,superposition of states would be sufficient for quantum computation to be carried out.Is this right?

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Generally believed to be true, but for whom who give answer, can you add some explanation on it: "The conventional view is that such devices should get their computational power from quantum entanglement — a phenomenon through which particles can share information even when they are separated by arbitrarily large distances. But the latest experiments suggest that entanglement might not be needed after all." nature.com/news/2011/110601/full/474024a.html –  hwlau Aug 29 '13 at 7:47
@hwlau,thank you –  XL _at_China Aug 29 '13 at 7:58

Take for example if you take the two electrons , one spinning left and it is known the other is spinning right. And you pull those two apart and put them any distance apart .The fact remains .One left one right and with that info you can send data and since they are connected the data is known the instance its sent at any distance. The to me seems like an omnipresent communication. Or as like to call it "OMNICOM". This will be the term to watch for.thnx

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You can't transmit information via entanglement. –  Brandon Enright Jan 18 at 6:21
tell that to the guys that have built the first dozen quantum computers that the basis for the thing working. –  mark Jan 28 at 10:41
Entanglement is a general example of superposition. An entangled state of objects $A,B$ is nothing else than a superposition of states $$|a_i\rangle \otimes|b_i\rangle$$ for at least two values of the index $i$ that can't be written as a single tensor product $|a_i\rangle \otimes|b_i\rangle$ – and most superpositions of the states of 2 subsystems cannot be factorized in this way much like most functions $f(x,y)$ can't be written in the form $g(x)h(y)$.
Dear @WetSavannaAnimalakaRodVance, I agree with Prathyush and add a few words. Banning entanglement amounts to replace the $N$ qubits of the quantum computer by $N$ classical continuous degrees of freedom described by their individual wave functions. So you effectively reduce this quantum computer to a classical analog computer with $N$ continuous registers - with limited abilities to measure its state! - and such a classical analog computer has very limited abilities and may be emulated by a classical computer with $100N$ classical bits, anyway. –  Luboš Motl Aug 29 '13 at 9:08