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Testing integrability with a single bit of quantum information

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We show that deterministic quantum computing with a single bit (DQC1) can determine whether the classical limit of a quantum system is chaotic or integrable using O(N) physical resources, where NN is the dimension of the Hilbert space of the system under study. This is a square root improvement over all known classical procedures. Our study relies strictly on the random matrix conjecture. We also present numerical results for the nonlinear kicked top.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303042,
  title  = {Testing integrability with a single bit of quantum information},
  author = {David Poulin and Raymond Laflamme and G. J. Milburn and Juan Pablo Paz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303042},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Minor changes taking into account Howard Wiseman's comment: quant-ph/0305153. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A