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Jarlskog's Parametrization of Unitary Matrices and Qudit Theory

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the paper (math-ph/0504049) Jarlskog gave an interesting simple parametrization to unitary matrices, which was essentially the canonical coordinate of the second kind in the Lie group theory (math-ph/0505047). In this paper we apply the method to a quantum computation based on multi-level system (qudit theory). Namely, by considering that the parametrization gives a complete set of modules in qudit theory, we construct the generalized Pauli matrices which play a central role in the theory and also make a comment on the exchange gate of two-qudit systems. Moreover we give an explicit construction to the generalized Walsh-Hadamard matrix in the case of n=3, 4 and 5. For the case of n=5 its calculation is relatively complicated. In general, a calculation to construct it tends to become more and more complicated as n becomes large. To perform a quantum computation the generalized Walsh-Hadamard matrix must be constructed in a quick and clean manner. From our construction it may be possible to say that a qudit theory with n5n\geq 5 is not realistic. This paper is an introduction towards Quantum Engineering.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0508006,
  title  = {Jarlskog's Parametrization of Unitary Matrices and Qudit Theory},
  author = {Kazuyuki Fujii and Kunio Funahashi and Takayuki Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0508006},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Latex, 20 pages, 2 figures, minor changes. To appear in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics