Unitary Transformations in 3-D Vector Representation of Qutrit States

Abstract

The qutrit comes next in complexity after qubit as a resource for quantum information processing. The qubit density matrix can be easily visualized using Bloch sphere representation of its states. This simplicity is unavailable for the 8-D state space of a qutrit. Recently a 3-D vector was used to visualize the qutrit states. In current work we derive the transformation of these vectors under unitary transformations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1049046

Entities

People

  • Vinod K. Mishra

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Coefficients
  • Department Of Defense
  • Eigenvalues
  • Equations
  • Hilbert Space
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Quantum Bits
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

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  • Quantum Computing
  • Space