Quantum diagonalization of Hermitean matrices

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/27/312MaRDI QIDQ2757881zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Weigert

Publication date 5 December 2001

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001082, https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1350/1/weigerts1.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68)

Abstract: To measure an observable of a quantum mechanical system leaves it in one of its eigenstates and the result of the measurement is one of its eigenvalues. This process is shown to be a computational resource. It allows one, in principle, to diagonalize hermitean (N by N) matrices by quantum mechanical measurements only. To do so, one considers the given matrix as an observable of a single spin with appropriate length s=(N-1)/2, which can be measured using a generalized Stern-Gerlach apparatus. Then, each run provides one eigenvalue of the observable. As it is based on the `collapse of the wave function' associated with a measurement, the procedure is neither a digital nor an analog calculation--it defines thus a new quantum mechanical method of computation.

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