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Computational physics is an important tool for analysing, verifying, and -- at times -- replacing physical experiments. Nevertheless, simulating quantum systems and analysing quantum data has so far resisted an efficient classical treatment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sam McArdle

Extracting information from quantum many-body systems remains a key challenge in quantum technologies due to experimental limitations. In this work, we employ a single spin qubit to probe a strongly interacting system, creating an…

For many years coherent states have been a useful tool for understanding fundamental questions in quantum mechanics. Recently, there has been work on developing a consistent way of including constraints into the phase space path integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. C. Ashworth

Finding the ground state of a quantum mechanical system can be formulated as an optimal control problem. In this formulation, the drift of the optimally controlled process is chosen to match the distribution of paths in the Feynman--Kac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Ariel Barr , Willem Gispen , Austen Lamacraft

In this article, we study the problem of designing a Decoherence Control for quantum systems with the help of a scalable ancillary quantum control and techniques from geometric control theory, in order to successfully and completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 Narayan Ganesan , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

The theory of decoherent histories is an attempt to derive classical physics from positing only quantum laws at the fundamental level without notions of a classical apparatus or collapse of the wave-function. Searching for a marked target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Wim van Dam , Hieu D. Nguyen

We investigate a two-level spin system based anti-parity-time (anti-$\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric qubit and study its decoherence as well as entanglement entropy properties. We compare our findings with that of the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Julia Cen , Avadh Saxena

Quantum chaos---the study of quantized nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems---is an extremely well-developed and sophisticated field. By contrast, very little work has been done in looking at quantum versions of systems which classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Todd A. Brun

In many physical systems, inputs related by intrinsic system symmetries are mapped to the same output. When inverting such systems, i.e., solving the associated inverse problems, there is no unique solution. This causes fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Kshitij Tayal , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Vipin Kumar , Ju Sun

We show that quantum computation can be performed in a system at thermal equilibrium if a spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs. The computing process is associated to the time evolution of the statistical average of the qubit coherence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. de Pasquale , S. M. Giampaolo

Symmetric quantum states are fascinating objects. They correspond to multipartite systems that remain invariant under particle permutations. This symmetry is reflected in their compact mathematical characterisation but also in their unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Carlo Marconi , Guillem Müller-Rigat , Jordi Romero-Pallejà , Jordi Tura , Anna Sanpera

Quantum systems are exceedingly difficult to engineer because they are sensitive to various types of noises. In particular, time-dependent noises are frequently encountered in experiments but how to overcome them remains a challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Open quantum systems are ubiquitous in the physical sciences, with widespread applications in the areas of chemistry, condensed matter physics, material science, optics, and many more. Not surprisingly, there is significant interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Isobel A. Aloisio , Gregory A. L. White , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi

The quantum nature of a microscopic system can only be revealed when it is sufficiently decoupled from surroundings. Interactions with the environment induce relaxation and decoherence that turn the quantum state into a classical mixture.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Alexey M. Shakirov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Pedro Ribeiro

Recent advances in levitated optomechanics provide new perspectives for the use of rotational degrees of freedom for the development of quantum technologies as well as for testing fundamental physics. As for the translational case, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Matteo Carlesso , Hamid Reza Naeij , Angelo Bassi

The resurgence of self-supervised learning, whereby a deep learning model generates its own supervisory signal from the data, promises a scalable way to tackle the dramatically increasing size of real-world data sets without human…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ben Jaderberg , Lewis W. Anderson , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

The decoherence phenomenon arising from an environmental monitoring of the state of a quantum system, as opposed to monitoring of a preferred observable, is worked out in detail using two equivalent formulations, namely, repeated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Dorje C. Brody , Rishindra Melanathuru

We present a discussion of the fundamental loss of unitarity that appears in quantum mechanics due to the use of a physical apparatus to measure time. This induces a decoherence effect that is independent of any interaction with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael Porto , Jorge Pullin

A central challenge in quantum computing is to identify more computational problems for which utilization of quantum resources can offer significant speedup. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical scheme to tackle the quantum optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jun Li , Xiaodong Yang , Xinhua Peng , Chang-Pu Sun

Efficient representation of quantum many-body states on classical computers is a problem of enormous practical interest. An ideal representation of a quantum state combines a succinct characterization informed by the system's structure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Abhijith Jayakumar , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov