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2009

Portland State University

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Games of chance (Mathematics)

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Quantum Multiplexers, Parrondo Games, And Proper Quantization, Faisal Shah Khan Apr 2009

Quantum Multiplexers, Parrondo Games, And Proper Quantization, Faisal Shah Khan

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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 …