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We link optimal filtering for hidden Markov models to the notion of duality for Markov processes. We show that when the signal is dual to a process that has two components, one deterministic and one a pure death process, and with respect to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-23 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Matteo Ruggiero

We propose a fidelity measure for quantum channels in a straightforward analogy to the corresponding mixed-state fidelity of Jozsa. We describe properties of this fidelity measure and discuss some applications of it to quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Raginsky

We establish an intriguing connection between quantum phase transitions and bifurcations in the reduced fidelity between two different reduced density matrices for quantum lattice many-body systems with symmetry-breaking orders. Our finding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-20 Jin-Hua Liu , Qian-Qian Shi , Jian-Hui Zhao , Huan-Qiang Zhou

We experimentally address the significance of fidelity as a figure of merit in quantum state reconstruction of discrete (DV) and continuous variable (CV) quantum optical systems. In particular, we analyze the use of fidelity in quantum…

We propose to study echo dynamics in a random matrix framework, where we assume that the perturbation is time independent, random and orthogonally invariant. This allows to use a basis in which the unperturbed Hamiltonian is diagonal and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gorin , T. Prosen , T. H. Seligman

We study quantum fidelity, the overlap between two ground states of a many-body system, focusing on the thermodynamic regime. We show how drop of fidelity near a critical point encodes universal information about a quantum phase transition.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Marek M. Rams , Bogdan Damski

We extend to finite temperature the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions (QPTs). This is done by resorting to the notion of mixed-state fidelity that allows one to compare two density matrices corresponding to two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Zanardi , H. T. Quan , Xiaoguang Wang , C. P. Sun

We study the evolution of reduced density matrix of an impurity coupled to a Fermi sea after the coupling is switched on at time $t=0$. We find the non-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix decay exponentially, and the decay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-02 Pei Wang

Fidelity is crucial for characterizing transformations of quantum states under various quantum channels, which can be served as a fundamental tool in resource theories. Firstly, we define an $\alpha$-$z$-fidelity as a significant quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Xiaojing Yan , Xiao Sun , Mingming Du , Jiashan Tang

When a system undergoes a quantum phase transition, the ground-state wave-function shows a change of nature, which can be monitored using the fidelity concept. We introduce two Quantum Monte Carlo schemes that allow the computation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-21 David Schwandt , Fabien Alet , Sylvain Capponi

In order to evaluate and compare different recursive filters, simulation is a common tool and numerous simulation models are widely used as 'benchmark'. In the simulation, the continuous time dynamic system is converted into a discrete-time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Tiancheng Li

Recently the problem of Unambiguous State Discrimination (USD) of mixed quantum states has attracted much attention. So far, bounds on the optimum success probability have been derived [1]. For two mixed states they are given in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 Philippe Raynal , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We show that every density matrix of an n-particle system prepared by a quantum network of constant depth is asymptotically commuting with the mean-field observables. We introduce certain pairs of hypersurfaces in the space of density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

We prove a rigorous inequality estimating the purity of a reduced density matrix of a composite quantum system in terms of cross-correlation of the same state and an arbitrary product state. Various immediate applications of our result are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomaz Prosen , Thomas H. Seligman , Marko Znidaric

We study the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions (QPTs) and apply it to general thermal phase transitions (PTs). We analyze two particular cases: the Stoner-Hubbard itinerant electron model of magnetism and the BCS theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikola Paunkovic , Vitor Rocha Vieira

The implementation of quantum gates with fidelities that exceed the threshold for reliable quantum computing requires robust gates whose performance is not limited by the precision of the available control fields. The performance of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-30 Alexandre M. Souza , Roberto S. Sarthour , Ivan S. Oliveira , Dieter Suter

In this note we introduce a new kind of augmentation of filtrations along a sequence of stopping times. This augmentation is suitable for the construction of new probability measures associated to a positive strict local martingale as done…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Doerte Kreher , Ashkan Nikeghbali

We introduce a real-parameter refinement of the classical integer hierarchies underlying Schmidt number, block-positivity, and $k$-positivity for maps between matrix algebras. Starting from a compact family of $\alpha$-admissible unit…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Mohsen Kian

In the field of quantum information theory, the concept of quantum fidelity is employed to quantify the similarity between two quantum states. It has been observed that the fidelity between two states describing a bipartite quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Seong-Kun Kim , Yonghae Lee

We define the model of quantum circuits with density matrices, where non-unitary gates are allowed. Measurements in the middle of the computation, noise and decoherence are implemented in a natural way in this model, which is shown to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Alexei Kitaev , Noam Nisan