Unitary and anti-unitary quantum description of the classical not gate

2014/09/12 by Gianpiero Cattaneo, Cattaneo, G., G. Conte +3
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.4263

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Abstract

We consider the unitary and the anti--unitary operator realizations of two important genuine quantum gates that transform elements of the computational basis of into superpositions: the square root of the identity and the square root of the negation.

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