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Quantum Register Physics

Quantum Physics 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

Motivated by Feynman's 1983 paper on the simulation of physics by computers, we present a general approach to the description of quantum experiments which uses quantum bit registers to represent the spatio-temporal changes occurring in apparatus-systems during the course of such experiments. To illustrate our ideas, we discuss the Stern-Gerlach experiment, Wollaston prisms, beam splitters, Mach-Zender interferometers, von Neumann (PVM) tests, the more general POVM formalism, and a variety of modern quantum experiments, such as two-particle interferometry and the EPR scenario.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0409094,
  title  = {Quantum Register Physics},
  author = {George Jaroszkiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0409094},
  year   = {2013}
}

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32 pages, 17 figures