Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Mathmatics and Statistics
First Advisor
Steven A. Bleiler
Term of Graduation
Spring 2009
Date of Publication
4-22-2009
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mathematical Sciences
Department
Mathematics and Statistics
Language
English
Subjects
Quantum logic, Quaternions, Games of chance (Mathematics), Mathematical physics
DOI
10.15760/etd.7848
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 124 pages)
Abstract
A quantum logic gate of particular interest to both electrical engineers and game theorists is the quantum multiplexer. This shared interest is due to the facts that an arbitrary quantum logic gate may be expressed, up to arbitrary accuracy, via a circuit consisting entirely of variations of the quantum multiplexer, and that certain one player games, the history dependent Parrondo games, can be quantized as games via a particular variation of the quantum multiplexer. However, to date all such quantizations have lacked a certain fundamental game theoretic property.
The main result in this dissertation is the development of quantizations of history dependent quantum Parrondo games that satisfy this fundamental game theoretic property. Our approach also yeilds fresh insight as to what should be considered as the proper quantum analogue of a classical Markov process and gives the first game theoretic measures of multiplexer behavior.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37786
Recommended Citation
Khan, Faisal Shah, "Quantum Multiplexers, Parrondo Games, and Proper Quantization" (2009). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5978.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.7848
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