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Quantum-proof randomness extractors are an important building block for classical and quantum cryptography as well as device independent randomness amplification and expansion. Furthermore they are also a useful tool in quantum Shannon…

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Engineering quantum operations is one of the main abilities we need for developing quantum technologies and designing new fundamental tests. Here we propose a scheme for realising a controlled operation acting on a travelling quantum field,…

In various contexts in mathematical physics one needs to compute the logarithm of a positive unbounded operator. Examples include the von Neumann entropy of a density matrix and the flow of operators with the modular Hamiltonian in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Nima Lashkari , Hong Liu , Srivatsan Rajagopal

Quantum mechanics can be formulated in terms of phase-space functions, according to Wigner's approach. A generalization of this approach consists in replacing the density operators of the standard formulation with suitable functions, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Paolo Aniello

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications of tensor networks and show that they are an important…

It is convenient to describe a quantum system at all times by means of a "history operator" $C$, encoding measurements and unitary time evolution between measurements. These operators naturally arise when computing the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Leonardo Castellani

While complex numbers are essential in mathematics, they are not needed to describe physical experiments, expressed in terms of probabilities, hence real numbers. Physics however aims to explain, rather than describe, experiments through…

A central feature of quantum mechanics is the non-commutativity of operators used to describe physical observables. In this article, we present a critical analysis on the role of non-commutativity in quantum theory, focusing on its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Luca Curcuraci

We study the tomography of multispin quantum states in the context of finite-dimensional Wigner representations. An arbitrary operator can be completely characterized and visualized using multiple shapes assembled from linear combinations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 David Leiner , Robert Zeier , Steffen J. Glaser

Simulating quantum dynamics beyond the reach of classical computers is one of the main envisioned applications of quantum computers. The most promising quantum algorithms to this end in the near-term are the simplest, which use the Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 David Layden

Quantum state preparation is a fundamental component of quantum algorithms, particularly in quantum machine learning and data processing, where classical data must be encoded efficiently into quantum states. Existing amplitude encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Carsten Blank , Israel F. Araujo

A quantum simulator is a device engineered to reproduce the properties of an ideal quantum model. It allows the study of quantum systems that cannot be efficiently simulated on classical computers. While a universal quantum computer is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 J. Casanova , C. Sabin , J. Leon , I. L. Egusquiza , R. Gerritsma , C. F. Roos , J. J. Garcia-Ripoll , E. Solano

The fundamental dynamics of quantum particles is neutral with respect to the arrow of time. And yet, our experiments are not: we observe quantum systems evolving from the past to the future, but not the other way round. A fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Giulio Chiribella , Zixuan Liu

Quantum theory (QT) has been confirmed by numerous experiments, yet we still cannot fully grasp the meaning of the theory. As a consequence, the quantum world appears to us paradoxical. Here we shed new light on QT by having it follow from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Alessio Benavoli , Alessandro Facchini , Marco Zaffalon

For theoretical approach of quantum measurements it is proposed a set of reconsidered conjectures. The proposed approach implies linear functional transformations for probability density and current but preserves the expressions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dumitru

The three-particle operator in a second quantized form is studied. The operator is transformed into irreducible tensor form. Possible coupling schemes, distinguished by the classes of symmetric group \mathrm{S_{6}}, are presented.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Rytis Jursenas , Gintaras Merkelis

Any quantum resource theory is based on free states and free operations, i.e., states and operations which can be created and performed at no cost. In the resource theory of coherence free states are diagonal in some fixed basis, and free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Julio I. de Vicente , Alexander Streltsov

The operation of a quantum computer is considered as a general quantum operation on a mixed state on many qubits followed by a measurement. The general quantum operation is further represented as a Feynman-Vernon double path integral over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Erik Aurell

Several linear algebra routines for quantum computing use a basis of tensor products of identity and Pauli operators to describe linear operators, and obtaining the coordinates for any given linear operator from its matrix representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Daniel Gunlycke , Mark C. Palenik , Alex R. Emmert , Sean A. Fischer

We provide an algorithm that factorizes one-dimensional quantum walks into a protocol of two basic operations: A fixed conditional shift that transports particles between cells and suitable coin operators that act locally in each cell. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 C. Cedzich , T. Geib , R. F. Werner