Trigate: A Quantum Cryptocurrency Project

Jonathan Barlow Gee

Jonathan Barlow Gee Florida State University, 2223 Tallahassee Drive, Tallahassee, Florida, 32309, USA

Keywords: quantum cryptocurrency, trinary switch-gate, tetrahelix blockchain, Bloch sphere, Riemann sphere, quantum encryption, spinor dynamics, magic number hypercube, spherical mapping, quantum portfolio

Abstract

Herein is proposed a three-staged progressive presentation toward the theoretical prism of creating any functional quantum cryptocurrency system. In the initial phase, a trinary quantum switch-gate will be proposed instead of the commonplace binary qubits as a means of encoding a quantum cryptocurrency. The switch-gate permits the construction of a tetra-helix blockchain that acts as a spherical radius for modeling encrypted data. The second phase deals with geometrically translating this tetra-helix structure on the surface of a Riemann sphere to represent trinary logic as spherical topologies. This projection allows encryption to be made more complex without increasing spatial volume, thereby perfectly suiting quantum coin systems that demand scalability. Phase 3 employs spinor dynamics so that quantum encrypted transaction data are stored as summable vectors within perfect magic number hypercubes, which act as multidimensional "wallets" for secure storage and management of varying denominations of quantum currency. This model provides a fresh landscape to incorporate a tetrahedral tessellation of the Bloch and Riemann spheres on entanglement-based spin quantification with an aim to encourage further investigation into encryption-rich, scalable, and physically realizable quantum financial architectures.

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