Coupling of quantum angular momenta: an insight into analogic/discrete and local/global models of computation

DOI10.1007/S11047-006-9018-4zbMATH Open1120.68054arXivcs/0610171OpenAlexW3122474548MaRDI QIDQ885684FDOQ885684

Authors: Annalisa Marzuoli, M. Rasetti 

Publication date: 14 June 2007

Published in: Natural Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the past few years there has been a tumultuous activity aimed at introducing novel conceptual schemes for quantum computing. The approach proposed in (Marzuoli A and Rasetti M 2002, 2005a) relies on the (re)coupling theory of SU(2) angular momenta and can be viewed as a generalization to arbitrary values of the spin variables of the usual quantum-circuit model based on `qubits' and Boolean gates. Computational states belong to finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces labelled by both discrete and continuous parameters, and unitary gates may depend on quantum numbers ranging over finite sets of values as well as continuous (angular) variables. Such a framework is an ideal playground to discuss discrete (digital) and analogic computational processes, together with their relationships occuring when a consistent semiclassical limit takes place on discrete quantum gates. When working with purely discrete unitary gates, the simulator is naturally modelled as families of quantum finite states--machines which in turn represent discrete versions of topological quantum computation models. We argue that our model embodies a sort of unifying paradigm for computing inspired by Nature and, even more ambitiously, a universal setting in which suitably encoded quantum symbolic manipulations of combinatorial, topological and algebraic problems might find their `natural' computational reference model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0610171

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum automatatopological quantum computationquantum complexity theory\(SU(2)\) recoupling theoryanalogic and discrete models of computationbinary coupling of quantum angular momentaRacah-Wigner algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) (68Q10) Quantum computation (81P68) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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