Abstract Interactions of a non-holonomic type are fundamentally different from interactions which can be treated as part of the Hamiltonian of a system. They usually lead to constraints which do not commute with the Hamiltonian, and cause important alterations in the development of a state vector. This paper deals with the Heisenberg equations of motion by analogy with classical dynamics using the Poisson bracket formalism of a previous paper (Eden 1951). The Schrödinger equation is investigated in co-ordinate representation, and it is shown that the wave function will have a non-integrabie phase factor or quasi phase. The quasi phase leads to an indefiniteness in the wave function, but does not violate the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics nor lead to any ambiguity in the physical interpretation of the theory. The relation between the Schrödinger and the Heisenberg equations shows that the Schrödinger treatment is also consistent with the classical analogue. If there is a given initial probability that the non-holonomic system has co-ordinates q(0)r, then there will be the same probability that the wave function in the subsequent motion will be zero except in a certain region of co-ordinate space. This region is the part of co-ordinate space which is accessible in the classical theory from the point q(0)r.
Circuits to achieve geometric trans- formations including two-point swapping, flip, co- ordinate swapping, orthogonal rotations and their variants on N -sized quantum images are proposed based on the basic quantum gates; NOT, CNOT and Toffoli gates. The complexity of the circuits is O(log 2 N) for two-point swapping and O(logN) for flip, co-ordinate swapping and orthogonal rotations. The results indicate that local operations like two- point swapping are slower than global operations like flip, co-ordinate swapping, and orthogonal rotations in quantum image processing. This is in contrast to performing such operations in classical image process- ing where the local operations are faster. All the proposed transformations are confirmed by simula- tion on a classical computer. With their low com- plexity, these geometric transformations can be used as the major components to build circuits for other applications on quantum images.
The solution of a problem in classical dynamics can be described, as Hamilton showed in 1834, by its Principal Function. Considering for simplicity a conservative problem with one degree of freedom, let the co-ordinate at the instant t be q, and let the Lagrangean function be L. Let Q be the value of the co-ordinate at a previous instant T. Let the quantity , after the integration has been performed, be expressed in terms of (q, Q, t — T), and let the function thus obtained, which is Hamilton's Principal Function, be denoted by W.