Some remarks on a conditional unitary operator

Felipe Araújo de Oliveira, I. A. Pedrosa, B. Baseia

Luigi Accardi, Ruben Sabbadini

We investigate the necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a unitary operator can amplify a pre-assigned component relative to a particular basis of a generic vector at the expence of the other components. This leads to a general method which allows, given a vector and one of its components we want to amplify, to choose the optimal unitary operator which realizes that goal. Grover’s quantum algorithm is shown to be a particular case of our general method. However the general structure of the unitary we find is remarkably similar to that of Grover’s one: a sign flip of one component combined with a reflection with respect to a vector. In Grover’s case this vector is fixed; in our case it depends on a parameter and this allows optimization. 1 Unitary operators which increase the probability of the |0> component of a pre-assigned vector

G. Alagar Ramanujam

Atri Mukhopadhyay

Luigi Accardi, Ruben Sabbadini

We investigate the necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a unitary operator can amplify a pre-assigned component relative to a particular basis of a generic vector at the expense of the other components. This leads to a general method which allows, given a vector and one of its components we want to amplify, to choose the optimal unitary operator which realizes that goal. Grover's quantum algorithm is shown to be a particular case of our general method. However the general structure of the unitary we find is remarkably similar to that of Grover's one: a sign flip of one component combined with a reflection with respect to a vector. In Grover's case this vector is fixed; in our case it depends on a parameter and this allows optimization.

S. T.

The temporal development of the state vectors in the interaction representation is investigated for a quantum-mechanical system that has bound states. It is shown that there is a non-unitary operator which determines the variation of the state vectors of the free states. This operator satisfies the same differential equation and initial condition as the unitary operator which transforms a state vector at the remote past to the state vector at a finite time or in the remote future. The present investigation is relevant to a remark made by H. S. Snyder.No iteration process is made use of in the general investigation. Born's method of successive approximations is discussed at the end.