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International Conference on Quantum Technologies, Communications, Computing, Hardware and Embedded Systems Security (iQ-CCHESS)

Exploring Data as Quantum Bits: Analysis of Quantum Image Encoding Patterns for NISQ era

Parvathy Gopakumar, Rubell Marion Lincy G

Published Sep 15, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

The generall efficiency of a computational system, be it simple or complex, presentation of the data plays a crucial role in getting the most out of it. Classical information theory, quantum mechanics, and computer science collectively influence Quantum Information in comprehending how information can be encoded, transmitted, and modified using quantum systems. Quantum mechanics allows quantum information to incorporate a variety of properties, such as quantum encoding of classical information, storing coherent details in quantum superpositions, quantum computations and entanglement, which occurs when two or more qubits become highly correlated and share an unbreakable quantum state. There are numerous barriers and constraints in the broad field of quantum computation, ranging from dealing with Decoherence to ensuring error correction. Moreover, the qubit, a fundamental computational unit, is challenging to create, manipulate, and store. To ensure the quality of the Quantum Algorithms, the area of quantum data encoding has been thoroughly researched and explored as relevant results can be obtained by adequate encoding. In this paper, we reviewed the terminology and physical modeling of qubits, as well as the encoding approaches used to transform data from classical to quantum models. Furthermore, different encoding schemes for Quantum Image Processing were explored to determine the efficiency of quantum pixel representation(QPIXL) framework for effective application in NISQ era.

DOI
10.1109/iq-cchess56596.2023.10391781

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