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Natural Numbers and Quantum States in Fock Space

Quantum Physics 2009-02-18 v1

Abstract

We investigate the expression of natural numbers in any base from a quantum point of view. In particular, resorting to the one-to-one correspondence between natural numbers and Fock states, we construct a set of multiboson operators and a set of translation operators, whose action on the Fock states leads to the coefficients identifying a natural number in any base.

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@article{arxiv.0806.3146,
  title  = {Natural Numbers and Quantum States in Fock Space},
  author = {Francesco A. Raffa and Mario Rasetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3146},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, no figures, submitted to Int. J. Quantum Inf