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A Dyson map explicitly determines the appropriate basis of electromagnetic fields which yields a unitary representation of the Maxwell equations in an inhomogeneous medium. A qubit lattice algorithm (QLA) is then developed perturbatively to…

In this paper we give an overview of the quantum computational complexity class QMA and a description of known QMA-complete problems to date. Such problems are believed to be difficult to solve, even with a quantum computer, but have the…

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Previous research has shown that students often struggle to develop an understanding of linear and quadratic relationships. Covariational reasoning has been identified as a way to support this development. This study aims to investigate how…

Quantum algorithms have the potential to provide exponential speedups over some of the best known classical algorithms. These speedups may enable quantum devices to solve currently intractable problems such as those in the fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Ciarán Ryan-Anderson

We show that the use of real measuring rods in quantum mechanics places a fundamental gravitational limit to the level of entanglement that one can ultimately achieve in quantum systems. The result can be seen as a direct consequence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael A. Porto , Jorge Pullin

To find the regularities of formed fingers in gravity driven coating flows on upper cylinder and sphere, the mathematical formulation to model the fingering instability on cylindrical or spherical surface which consists of a capillary wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-14 Shuo Hou

We show that quantum gravity yields exponentially growing gravitational waves. Without a mechanism to stop these modes from growing, the universe would go through a gravitational collapse. For Minkowski background, we propose a solution by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Iberê Kuntz , Roldão da Rocha

Cosmic vortons are closed loops of superconducting cosmic strings carrying current and charge. Despite a large number of studies the existence and stability of cosmic vorton solutions is still an open problem. Numerical simulations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Battye , Paul Sutcliffe

The presence of Kaluza-Klein particles in the universe is a potential manifestation of string theory cosmology. In general, they can be present in the high temperature bath of the early universe. In particular examples, string theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 J. F. Dufaux , L. Kofman , M. Peloso

Quantum annealing has the potential to provide a speedup over classical algorithms in solving optimization problems. Just as for any other quantum device, suppressing Hamiltonian control errors will be necessary before quantum annealers can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Adam Pearson , Anurag Mishra , Itay Hen , Daniel Lidar

Optimal parameter setting for applications problems embedded into hardware graphs is key to practical quantum annealers (QA). Embedding chains typically crop up as harmful Griffiths phases, but can be used as a resource as we show here: to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Sergey Knysh , Eugeniu Plamadeala , Davide Venturelli

Cosmological perturbations are generally described by quantum fields on (curved but) classical space-times. While this strategy has a large domain of validity, it can not be justified in the quantum gravity era where curvature and matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

Wrinkling instabilities of thin elastic sheets can be used to generate periodic structures over a wide range of length scales. Viscosity of the thin elastic sheet or its surrounding medium has been shown to be responsible for dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-25 Veit Krause , Axel Voigt

Quantum Information scrambling (QI-scrambling) is a pivotal area of inquiry within the study of quantum many-body systems. This research derives mathematical upper and lower bounds for the scrambling rate by applying the Maligranda…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Ahmed Zahia , M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Atta ur Rahman , Cong Feng Qiao

Quantum Computing (QC) refers to an emerging paradigm that inherits and builds with the concepts and phenomena of Quantum Mechanic (QM) with the significant potential to unlock a remarkable opportunity to solve complex and computationally…

We summarize studies of growing lengths in different aging systems. The article is structured as follows. We recall the definition of a number of observables, typically correlations and susceptibilities, that give access to dynamic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-04 Federico Corberi , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Hajime Yoshino

When a single long piece of elastic wire is injected trough channels into a confining two-dimensional cavity, a complex structure of hierarchical loops is formed. In the limit of maximum packing density, these structures are described by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-19 M A F Gomes , V P Brito , A S O Coelho , C C Donato

Inter alia, the high precision WMAP data on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation marginally indicate that the universe has positively curved (and hence spherical) spatial sections. In this paper, we take this data seriously and consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean-Philippe Uzan , Ulrich Kirchner , George F. R. Ellis

Insight in the crumpling or compaction of one-dimensional objects is of great importance for understanding biopolymer packaging and designing innovative technological devices. By compacting various types of wires in rigid confinements and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-21 M. Reza Shaebani , Javad Najafi , Ali Farnudi , Daniel Bonn , Mehdi Habibi

Shear thickening, an increase of viscosity with shear rate, is a ubiquitous phenomena in suspended materials that has implications for broad technological applications. Controlling this thickening behavior remains a major challenge and has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Neil Y. C. Lin , Christopher Ness , Michael E. Cates , Jin Sun , Itai Cohen