Title page for E-project-042805-084649

Project Type MQP

Submission date 2005-04-28

Authors
Michael J. Holmes, PH
Warren J Schudy, wschudy@alum.wpi.edu, PH

URN E-project-042805-084649

Title Discrete Wigner Function Formulation of Qubits

Advisor
Aravind, Padmanabhan K., PH

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
This project investigates the discrete Wigner function for systems of qubits following Wootters's recent work. The general formalism is developed for n qubits and applied to systems of one and two qubits. Among the applications considered are: implementation of rotations and gates on 1- and 2-qubit systems and state reconstruction through quantum tomography. We discover that crossing two 1-qubit DWFs to form one 2-qubit DWF requires the use of different quantum nets. We also investigate reduction of the 2-qubit DWF.

Files
DWF_MQP.pdf

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Project Type	MQP
Submission date	2005-04-28
Authors	Michael J. Holmes, PH Warren J Schudy, wschudy@alum.wpi.edu, PH
URN	E-project-042805-084649
Title	Discrete Wigner Function Formulation of Qubits
Advisor	Aravind, Padmanabhan K., PH
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This project investigates the discrete Wigner function for systems of qubits following Wootters's recent work. The general formalism is developed for n qubits and applied to systems of one and two qubits. Among the applications considered are: implementation of rotations and gates on 1- and 2-qubit systems and state reconstruction through quantum tomography. We discover that crossing two 1-qubit DWFs to form one 2-qubit DWF requires the use of different quantum nets. We also investigate reduction of the 2-qubit DWF.
Files	DWF_MQP.pdf