Current Development Version: 0.3.3a

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[General]

*Renamed:	QState -> Q_StateVector
QRegister -> Q_BitSet
QException -> Q_Exception
*Added:	Q_GateMatrix, a class that contains the SingleBit and Controlled classes inside. This is simply for clarification on the fact that the SingleBit and Controlled classes are in fact classes that simulate gate matrices.

0.2.0

[General]
This is rafals release of fixed 0.1.6 code
now the factoring is _really_ working
63 factorable on 32MB of RAM
removed ReverseBits operator class (not functioning properly)
use the Reverse() function in utility.h instead

0.1.5b

[General]
removed _State variable
implemented operators as classes with operator() overloaded
two base classes for operators: SingleBit for one bit gates and Controlled for multi-bit controlled gates where the first parameter is the controlling bitmask, and the second is the controlled bit. Please see the qop.h file for more information and main.cc for examples.
created DoAllBits class that allows any ordinary operator to operator on all bits. so opWalshHadamard is really:

typedef DoAllBits<opHadamard> opWalshHadamard;

this is an experimental class. It probably will only work with gates requiring no parameters such as the Hadamard operator.
added stream printing for QState using code by Artur Ruszczynski
changed some code in stream printing to support printing plus sign between two coefficients separated by more than one zero, and changed some other things for cleaner code.

0.1.0a

[General]
Array of amplitudes implemented as STL vector
Perceps used for documentation of classes.
only classes are documented. header files not containing classes are not documented by perceps.
[qstate.h & qstate.cc]
implemented ‘Bernhard’s Algorithm’ for collapse which uses a random starting point in the collapse
added Dump() to put state to file using Bernhard Oemer’s format
added Read() to read in from file

I believe this version to be more or less ‘complete’ in the sense that it has achieved the model of a quantum register/state including entanglement. This is why I have jumped revision numbers to 0.1. The next step, 0.2 will be the implementation of basic quantum gates. This version is still to be considered alpha and is open to testing, debugging, and discussion. If the only changes are made to this current code and no additions, it should remain as 0.1 but will change revision states according to letters (alpha,beta,gamma) and minor additions will earn minor revision numbers such as 0.1.1.

0.0.4

[General]
QRegister has been renamed to QState.
QState implements Rafal’s collapsing algorithms.
States that are not direct tensor products are now possible.
See main.cc for examples.

0.0.3

Completely rewritten almost from scratch.
Language has been [temporarily] named ‘h’ for obvious reasons.

Changes executed:
[General]
Made major changes to Makefile.
Qubit stuff is not compiled into a lib.
   (qregister.o and qubit.o -> libOpenQubit.a)
Added debugging module “debug.h”
   (please see debug.h for use)

[qubit.h & qubit.cc]
Qubit is the basic unit.
Added normalization and validation code for coefficients and probabilities.
Added default constructor (no coefficients given)
Cleaned code; got rid of int() cast because short() cast will be implicitly promoted to int
Moved srand() to QRegister code, otherwise collapse happens too fast for numbers to be random.

[qregister.h & qregister.cc]
Create QRegister class which implements a Qubit array.
Each Qubit holds its own probability coefficients.
This removes the necessity to hold 2^n complex numbers.
   Instead, to compute each of the outcome probabilities the function prob() is used, which multiplies various probabilities to obtain the state probability.
Use dtob() function implemented in binary.h in order to calculate above mentioned probabilities.
Added auto-collapsing int cast and auto-collapsint stream << operator.

[misc: complex.h & binary.h & random.h]
Changed conjuageMult() to abs2() in complex.h
Added assignment operator for complex numbers
   Complex c; c=5; (re=5,im=0);
Added stream >> operator to read in complex number
   as “[real] [img]”
   -RNG encapsulation (random.h) contributed by Joe Nelson
[main.cpp]
Implemented prototype mini-parser for commands.
Accepts one command: “qureg” and upon recieving this command asks for size and coefficients for a quantum register, creates it and collapses it.
Coefficients read in space delimited, so in order to use
   .707 + 0i, .707 + 0i you type
   h Coefficients?> .707 0 .707 0

Development Comments:

rand() will not be sufficient for sure. We need good PRNG. Any suggestions? I do not own Knuth’s book on the topic but planning to get it soon. We’re going to need a fairly sophisticated PRNG if this is going to work at all. srand() based on time() does not work because, for example the qubits collapse so fast that repeatdly srand()ing in that time period causes the same seed and thus the same number. I battled this by putting the srand() into the function in QRegister which then calls all the individual Qubit collapses.

Last development updates made by the following:

Yan Pritzker (skwp)(qubit.h, qubit.cc, qregister.h, qregister.cc, complex.h, binary.h, random.h, main.cpp)
Jonathan Blow(binary.h)
Joe Nelson(random.h)

Additional Code Contributions By:

Igor Kofman
Danny Rathjens
Bill Yerazunis
Daniel W. Dulitz

0.0.2:
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Igor Kofman ([digriz])(qbit.h, main.cpp, qubit.cpp, Makefile)
0.0.1:
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Yan Pritzker (skwp)(qbit [main], complex.h, driver program)