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The unitary dynamics of quantum systems can be modeled as a trajectory on a Riemannian manifold. This theoretical framework naturally yields a purely geometric interpretation of computational complexity for quantum algorithms, a notion…

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In this paper and a companion paper, we show how the framework of information geometry, a geometry of discrete probability distributions, can form the basis of a derivation of the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon a few…

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Quantum metrology based on quantum entanglement and quantum coherence improves the accuracy of measurement. In this paper, we briefly review the schemes of quantum metrology in various complex systems, including non-Markovian noise,…

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We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

Quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, is pivotal in diverse physical phenomena in quantum materials. In condensed matter systems, quantum geometry refers to the geoemtric properties of Bloch states in the…

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We present a quantum-state-diffusion equation to characterize the dynamics of a generic atomic system coupled to a leaky cavity mode. As quantum resources, the population, the coherence and even the entanglement of the system would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Yusui Chen , Quanzhen Ding , Wufu Shi , Jun Jing , Ting Yu

Momentum diffusion is a possible mechanism for driving macroscopic quantum systems towards classical behaviour. Experimental tests of this hypothesis rely on a precise estimation of the strength of this diffusion. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-22 Dominic Branford , Christos N. Gagatsos , Jai Grover , Alexander J. Hickey , Animesh Datta

We analyse the quantum evolution of a particle moving in a potential in interaction with an environment of harmonic oscillators in a thermal state, using the quantum state diffusion (QSD) picture of Gisin and Percival, in which one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Jonathan Halliwell , Andreas Zoupas

We outline selected trends and results in theoretical modeling of quantum systems in support of the developing research field of quantum information processing. The resulting modeling tools have been applied to semiconductor materials and…

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The metric underlying the mixed state geometric phase in unitary and nonunitary evolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 85}, 2845 (2000); Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 080405 (2004)] is delineated. An explicit form for the line element is derived and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Erik Sjöqvist

For the eight-dimensional Riemannian manifold comprised by the three-level quantum systems endowed with the Bures metric, we numerically approximate the integrals over the manifold of several functions of the curvature and of its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul B. Slater

We show that the Hilbert space spanned by a continuously parametrized wavefunction family---i.e., a quantum state manifold---is dominated by a subspace, onto which all member states have close to unity projection weight. Its characteristic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-29 Zhoushen Huang , Alexander V. Balatsky

We consider a heavy quantum particle with an internal degree of freedom moving on the $d$-dimensional lattice $\bbZ^d$ (e.g., a heavy atom with finitely many excited states). The particle is coupled to a thermal medium (bath) consisting of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 W. De Roeck , J. Froehlich

The Gaussian curvature of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold is uniquely determined by the choice of the metric. The formulas for computing the curvature in terms of components of the metric, in isothermal coordinates, involve the…

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We study quantum decoherence numerically in a system consisting of a relativistic quantum field theory coupled to a measuring device that is itself coupled to an environment. The measuring device and environment are treated as quantum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Chris Nagele , Oliver Janssen , Matthew Kleban

The effects of fluctuating boundaries on a superposition state of a quantum particle in a box is studied. We consider a model in one space dimension in which the initial state is a coherent superposition of two energy eigenstates. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

An alternative model to describe the electronic and thermal properties of quantum dot based on triangle geometry is proposed. The model predicts characteristics and limitations of the system by controlling the magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Francisco A. G. de Lira , Edilberto O. Silva

We represent both the states and the evolution of a quantum computer in phase space using the discrete Wigner function. We study properties of the phase space representation of quantum algorithms: apart from analyzing important examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

In this work we have shown precisely that the curvature of a 2-sphere introduces quantum features in the system through the introduction of the noncommutative (NC) parameter that appeared naturally via equations of motion. To obtain this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-24 B. F. Rizzuti , E. M. C. Abreu , A. C. R. Mendes , M. A. Freitas , V. Nikoofard

The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing attention in last the decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physics, and with a focus on non-classical signatures. While a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Gonzalo Manzano , Roberta Zambrini