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Fractal Fidelity as a signature of Quantum Chaos

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We analyze the fidelity of a quantum simulation and we show that it displays fractal fluctuations iff the simulated dynamics is chaotic. This analysis allows us to investigate a given simulated dynamics without any prior knowledge. In the case of integrable dynamics, the appearance of fidelity fractal fluctuations is a signal of a highly corrupted simulation. We conjecture that fidelity fractal fluctuations are a signature of the appearance of quantum chaos. Our analysis can be realized already by a few qubit quantum processor.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0701044,
  title  = {Fractal Fidelity as a signature of Quantum Chaos},
  author = {Franco Pellegrini and Simone Montangero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0701044},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures