  Quantum Information processing by NMR with small number of qubits is well
established. Scaling to higher number of qubits is hindered by two major
requirements (i) mutual coupling among qubits and (ii) qubit addressability. It
has been demonstrated that mutual coupling can be increased by using residual
dipolar couplings among spins by orienting the spin system in a liquid
crystalline matrix. In such a case, the heteronuclear spins are weakly coupled
but the homonuclear spins become strongly coupled. In such circumstances, the
strongly coupled spins can no longer be treated as qubits. However, it has been
demonstrated elsewhere, that the $2^N$ energy levels of a strongly coupled N
spin-1/2 system can be treated as an N-qubit system. For this purpose the
various transitions have to be identified to well defined energy levels. This
paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the energy level diagram of a
heteronuclear 5-spin system is obtained by using a newly developed
heteronuclear z-cosy (HET-Z-COSY) experiment. In the second part,
implementation of logic gates, preparation of pseudopure states, creation of
entanglement and entanglement transfer is demonstrated, validating the use of
such systems for quantum information processing.
