Picturing qubits in phase space

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-110

  Wootters, William K ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; SPHERES; VECTORS; VORTEX FLOW;

QUANTUM STATES; QUBITS; SPIN PARTICLES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1342324599     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.481.0099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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