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Using quantum-classical analogies, we find that dynamical pictures of quantum mechanics have precise counterparts in classical mechanics. In particular, the Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of fluid dynamics in classical mechanics are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 M. Hossein Partovi

In categorical quantum mechanics, classical structures characterize the classical interfaces of quantum resources on one hand, while on the other hand giving rise to some quantum phenomena. In the standard Hilbert space model of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Dusko Pavlovic

Based on the assumption that time evolves only in one direction and mechanical systems can be described by Lagrangeans, a dynamical C*-algebra is presented for non-relativistic particles at atomic scales. Without presupposing any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Detlev Buchholz , Klaus Fredenhagen

Similarities between quantum systems and analogous systems for classical waves have been used to great effect in the physics community, be it to gain an intuition for quantum systems or to anticipate novel phenomena in classical waves. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Max Lein

Starting from the observation that distinct notions of copying have arisen in different categorical fields (logic and computation, contrasted with quantum mechanics) this paper addresses the question of when, or whether, they may coincide.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Peter Hines

The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

Quantum mechanics increasingly penetrates modern technologies but, due to its non-deterministic nature seemingly contradicting our classical everyday world, our comprehension often stays elusive. Arguing along the correspondence principle,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Heribert Lorenz , Sigmund Kohler , Anton Parafilo , Mikhail Kiselev , Stefan Ludwig

We investigate the possibility that the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics might be correctly described by a classical dynamical theory, other than standard classical mechanics. Using a set of classicality criteria proposed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

A quantum field theory is described which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- Supersymmetry generators of the system are used to split its Liouville operator into two contributions, with positive and negative spectrum, respectively. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Hans-Thomas Elze

If there exists a classical, i.e. deterministic theory underlying quantum mechanics, an explanation must be found of the fact that the Hamiltonian, which is defined to be the operator that generates evolution in time, is bounded from below.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerard 't Hooft

Classical transport equations with probabilistic initial conditions can be viewed as quantum systems. In a discrete version they are probabilistic automata. The time-local probabilistic information is encoded in a classical wave function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Christof Wetterich

Applying ideas from monadic dynamics to the well-established framework of categorical quantum mechanics, we provide a novel toolbox for the simulation of finite-dimensional quantum dynamics. We use strongly complementary structures to give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Stefano Gogioso

The spin dynamics of a trimer with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction are investigated within a unified Hamiltonian framework that connects quantum-mechanical and semiclassical descriptions. The interpolation between the two regimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Robert Wieser , Raúl Sánchez Galán

We present a parallel between commutative and non-commutative polymorphisms. Our emphasis is the applications to conditional distributions from stochastic processes. In the classical case, both the measures and the positive definite kernels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , James Tian

In this initial paper in a series, we first discuss why classical motions of small particles should be treated statistically. Then we show that any attempted statistical description of any nonrelativistic classical system inevitably yields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 G. H. Goedecke

We reconstruct finite-dimensional quantum theory from categorical principles. That is, we provide properties ensuring that a given physical theory described by a dagger compact category in which one may `discard' objects is equivalent to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Sean Tull

Classical representations of quantum states and operations as vectors and matrices are plagued by an exponential growth in memory and runtime requirements for increasing system sizes. Based on their use in classical computing, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Aaron Sander , Ioan-Albert Florea , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

In this paper, we address the problem how to represent a classical data distribution in a quantum system. The proposed method is to learn quantum Hamiltonian that is such that its ground state approximates the given classical distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Hilbert J Kappen

We introduce a graphical framework for Bayesian inference that is sufficiently general to accommodate not just the standard case but also recent proposals for a theory of quantum Bayesian inference wherein one considers density operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 Bob Coecke , Robert W. Spekkens

Starting from the Schr\"odinger-equation of a composite system, we derive unified dynamics of a classical harmonic system coupled to an arbitrary quantized system. The classical subsystem is described by random phase-space coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diosi