Devices in Superposition
Quantum Physics
2020-03-05 v2
Abstract
Under the assumption that every material object can ultimately be described by quantum theory, we ask how a probe system evolves in a device prepared and kept in a superposition state of values of its classical parameter. We find that, under ideal conditions, the evolution of the system would be unitary, generated by an effective Hamiltonian. We describe also an incoherent use of the device that achieves the same effective evolution on an ensemble. The effective Hamiltonian thus generated may have qualitatively different features from that associated to a classical value of the parameter.
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@article{arxiv.2002.07398,
title = {Devices in Superposition},
author = {Asaph Ho and Valerio Scarani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07398},
year = {2020}
}