Index

A

average - Appendix A

B

basic vectors real - Appendix C

bit - Chapter 1

bit-flip operation - Chapter 2

Bloch Sphere - Chapter 3, Chapter 3

C

closed-system evolution

CNOT gate(see controlled NOT)

commutator

complex conjugate

of a matrix

complex number

computational basis

controlled NOT

controlled phase gate

controlled unitary operation

D

decoherence

degenerate

delta

Kronecker

dense coding

density matrix

for two qubits

mixed state

pure state

density operator

determinant

DiVencenzo's requirements

density matrix

dot product

E

eigenvalue decomposition

eigenvalues

eigenvector

eigenvectors

entangled state

expectation value

H

Hadamard gate

Hamiltonian

Hermitian matrix

Hilbert-Schmidt inner product

I

inner product

inverse

K

ket

Kraus operators

Kronecker delta

Kronecker product

L

local operations

local unitarty transformations

M

maximally entangled states

maximally mixed state

two qubits

mean

median

mixed state density matrix

modulus squared