Published August 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

A model of discrete quantum computation

  • 1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. de Matemática Aplicada a las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, ETS de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos (Spain)

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We present a model of discrete quantum computing focused on a set of discrete quantum states. For this, we choose the set that is the most outstanding in terms of simplicity of the states: the set of Gaussian coordinate states, which includes all the quantum states whose coordinates in the computation base, except for a normalization factor 2k, belong to the ring of Gaussian integers Z[i]={a+bi | a,bZ}. We also introduce a finite set of quantum gates that transforms discrete states into discrete states and generates all discrete quantum states, and the set of discrete quantum gates, as the quantum gates that leave the set of discrete states invariant. We prove that the quantum gates of the model generate the expected discrete states and the discrete quantum gates of 2-qubits and conjecture that they also generate the discrete quantum gates of n-qubits.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Quantum Information Processing (Print)
Journal Volume
17
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1-18
ISSN
1570-0755

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Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
50031061
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CALCULATION METHODS; COORDINATES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM STATES; QUBITS
Descriptors DEC
COMPUTERS; INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION

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