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Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon in which a quantum state traverses energy barriers above the energy of the state itself. Tunneling has been hypothesized as an advantageous physical resource for optimization. Here we present the first…

A long-standing challenge in quantum error correction is the infeasibility of universal transversal gates, as shown by the Eastin-Knill theorem. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a quantum code to have universal transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Pragati Gupta , Andrea Morello , Barry C. Sanders

Tunneling is an iconic concept that captures the peculiarity of quantum dynamics but, despite its ubiquity, questions remain. We focus on strong-field tunneling, which is vital to all attosecond science. We find an unexpected optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Anne Weber , Margarita Khokhlova , Emilio Pisanty

Quantum networks are considered as a promising future platform for quantum information exchange and quantum applications, which have capabilities far beyond the traditional communication networks. Remote quantum entanglement is an essential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yiming Zeng , Jiarui Zhang , Ji Liu , Zhenhua Liu , Yuanyuan Yang

The WKB approximation is a standard tool for studying tunnelling problems in quantum cosmology. We compare this method to the Supersymmetric WKB (SWKB) applied to a closed FRW minisuperspace model. We consider the transition from a dust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Duarte Guimarães , João Marto , Paulo Vargas Moniz

It is well known that quantum computers are superior to classical computers in efficiently simulating quantum systems. Here we report the first experimental simulation of quantum tunneling through potential barriers, a widespread phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Guan Ru Feng , Yao Lu , Liang Hao , Fei Hao Zhang , Gui Lu Long

Tunneling delay times of wavepackets in quantum mechanical penetration of rectangular barriers have long been known to show a perplexing independence with respect to the width of the barrier. This also has relevence to the transmission of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Arya Paul , Arnab Saha , Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Binayak Dutta-Roy

Within the B\"{u}ttiker dephasing model, the backscattering in the dephasing process is eliminated by setting a proper boundary condition. Explicit expression is carried out for the effective total tunneling probability in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

An important concept in digital geometry for computer imagery is that of tunnel. In this paper we obtain a formula for the number of tunnels as a function of the number of the object vertices, pixels, holes, connected components, and 2x2…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Valentin Brimkov , Angelo Maimone , Giorgio Nordo

There remains the old question of how long a quantum particle takes to tunnel through a potential barrier higher than its incident kinetic energy. In this article a solution of the question is proposed on the basis of a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-26 Wang Guowen

We find exact solutions for a universal set of quantum gates on a scalable candidate for quantum computers, namely an array of two level systems. The gates are constructed by a combination of dynamical and geometrical (non-Abelian) phases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Karimipour , N. Majd

A simple model of a quantum clock is applied to the old and controversial problem of how long a particle takes to tunnel through a quantum barrier. The model I employ has the advantage of yielding sensible results for energy eigenstates,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. W. Davies

Quantum computing has the potential for disruptive change in many sectors of industry, especially in materials science and optimization. In this paper, we describe how the Turbine Balancing Problem can be solved with quantum computing,…

In the deformed quantum mechanics with a minimal length, one WKB connection formula through a turning point is derived. We then use it to calculate tunnelling rates through potential barriers under the WKB approximation. Finally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Xiaobo Guo , Bochen Lv , Jun Tao , Peng Wang

Quantum annealing has emerged as a promising approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, leveraging quantum phenomena such as quantum tunneling to navigate complex energy landscapes. However, the extent to which quantum tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Vishwajeet Ohal , Pierre Boulanger

Quantum tunneling, a phenomenon in which a quantum state traverses energy barriers above the energy of the state itself, has been hypothesized as an advantageous physical resource for optimization. Here we show that multiqubit tunneling…

In the tight binding model with multiple degenerate vacua we might treat wave function overlaps as instanton tunnelings between different wells (vacua). An amplitude for such a tunneling process might be constructed as $\mathsf{T}_{i\to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 Dmitry Galakhov , Alexei Morozov

Quantum tunneling is mostly discussed in the Euclidean path integral formalism using instantons. On the other hand, it is difficult to understand quantum tunneling based on the real-time path integral due to its oscillatory nature, which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-02 Jun Nishimura

We present an analytical solution for the tunneling process in a piecewise linear and quadratic potential which does not make use of the thin-wall approximation. A quadratic potential allows for smooth attachment of various slopes exiting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-24 Koushik Dutta , Pascal M. Vaudrevange , Alexander Westphal

Quantum annealing (QA) has been proposed as a quantum enhanced optimization heuristic exploiting tunneling. Here, we demonstrate how finite range tunneling can provide considerable computational advantage. For a crafted problem designed to…