Is quantum information/computers more similar to computer science or physics?

[Substance D]

Hey,

Is anyone here involved in this, or doing their grad work in this area? I was wondering how similar it is to actual computer science. I'm currently a Physics major and was interested in this field of study, but I really dislike computer science (not writing code, just the theory of it all).

Thanks

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[leon1127]

My thesis advisor is a researcher in quantum information. I think he is an expert in matrices and applid algebra. His research mainly focus on factorisation of matrices. I also audited his quantum information class, and it was nothing about matrices manipulation.

 

[Substance D]

so it doesn't involve any coding or algorithims or anything like that?

 

[leon1127]

that was like a survey class. Moreover, it was purely mathematical, with no computer coding at all.