Simple questions

This is a forum for simple QI questions - don't be shy!

bloch sphere

I couldn't understand the relationships between the qubits and their bloch sphere representation. I do not understand the very equation itself. If someone can help me uderstand the equation and how the rotations and reflections are equivalent to gates, it would be a great help.

Thanking you
Vivek Kumar

Quantun Arithmetic and Logic

I ve read about the power of quantum computing and its prospects. I have a good knowledge of binary arithmetic and classical computing. But at the very basics i dont understand how quantum computers carry out operations on simple arithmetic like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and how logical operations are done.

Key distribution via entanglement

I understand how keys are sent via quantum entanglement. So that Alice and Bob each receive one of the entangled bits, and upon measuring it, assuming they used the same basis will be certain of the others result. Then using this they can detect the presence of an eavesdropper.

My question is can this be used to distribute the same key to more than two people?

quantum circuit

i have a quantum circuit which is

it is combination of two hadamarded gates and one CNOT gate and my input state is (1/sqrt(2))*(|00>+|11>)
what is the basis unitary matrix for these combination gates and what is the out put state

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