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We discuss a technique and a material system that enable the controlled realization of quantum entanglement between spin-wave modes of electron ensembles in two spatially separated pieces of semiconductor material. The approach uses…

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This paper develops a theoretical framework for enabling seamless transfer of digital information from classical microwave domain to the quantum optical domain in wireless-to-optical converters. A quantum mechanical network model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Niloy Ghosh , Sarang Pendharker

We introduce a method that allows one to infer many properties of a quantum state -- including nonlinear functions such as R\'enyi entropies -- using only global control over the constituent degrees of freedom. In this protocol, the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Max McGinley , Michele Fava

A strong analog classical simulation of general quantum evolution is proposed, which serves as a novel scheme in quantum computation and simulation. The scheme employs the approach of geometric quantum mechanics and quantum informational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Dong-Sheng Wang

This paper serves as a bridge between quantum computing and analogical modeling (a general theory for predicting categories of behavior in varying contexts). Since its formulation in the early 1980s, analogical modeling has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Royal Skousen

Classical machine learning theory and theory of quantum computations are among of the most rapidly developing scientific areas in our days. In recent years, researchers investigated if quantum computing can help to improve classical machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 D. V. Fastovets , Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , V. F. Lukichev

We suggest a theoretical scheme for the simulation of quantum random walks on a line using beam splitters, phase shifters and photodetectors. Our model enables us to simulate a quantum random walk with use of the wave nature of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Jeong , M. Paternostro , M. S. Kim

The emerging field of entanglement or nonseparability in classical optics is reviewed, and its similarities with and differences from quantum entanglement clearly pointed out through a recapitulation of Hilbert spaces in general, the…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-16 Partha Ghose , Anirban Mukherjee

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Tensor network algorithms seek to minimize correlations to compress the classical data representing quantum states. Tensor network algorithms and similar tools---called tensor network methods---form the backbone of modern numerical methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andrey Kardashin , Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte

The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

Quantum computing has the potential to reduce the computational cost required for quantum dynamics simulations. However, existing quantum algorithms for coupled electron-nuclear dynamics simulation either require fault-tolerant devices, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jong-Kwon Ha , Ryan J. MacDonell

We represent both the states and the evolution of a quantum computer in phase space using the discrete Wigner function. We study properties of the phase space representation of quantum algorithms: apart from analyzing important examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

The simple genetic algorithm is proposed for the simulation of quantum many body dynamics. It uses the selection of entangled quantum states and has the inbuilt absolute decoherence that comes from the limitation of classical memory. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 Yuri Ozhigov

Simulating quantum algorithms with classical resources generally requires exponential resources. However, heuristic classical approaches are often very efficient in approximately simulating special circuit structures, for example with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 Bjarni Jónsson , Bela Bauer , Giuseppe Carleo

We describe a quantum algorithm that solves combinatorial optimization problems by quantum simulation of a classical simulated annealing process. Our algorithm exploits quantum walks and the quantum Zeno effect induced by evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-02 R. D. Somma , S. Boixo , H. Barnum , E. Knill

We report an algorithm, based on quantum optics formulation, where a coherent state is used as the elementary quantum resource for the image representation. We provide an architecture with constituent optical elements in linear order with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Vivek Mehta , Sonali Jana , Utpal Roy

We present a theoretical analysis of the connection between classical polarization optics and quantum mechanics of two-level systems. First, we review the matrix formalism of classical polarization optics from a quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Aiello , G. Puentes , J. P. Woerdman

The paper scrutinizes both the similarities and the differences between the classical optics and quantum mechanical theories in phase space, especially between the Wigner distribution functions defined in the respective phase spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Daniela Dragoman

Can complex classical systems be designed to exhibit superpositions of tensor products of basis states, thereby mimicking quantum states? We exhibit a one-to one map between the product basis of quantum states comprising an arbitrary number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Gregory D. Scholes , Graziano Amati