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A path-integral approach to quantum acoustics is developed here. In contrast to the commonly utilized particle perspective, this emerging field brings forth a long neglected but essential wave paradigm for lattice vibrations. Within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Joost V. de Nijs , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen

We build an effective field theory (EFT) for quasicrystals -- aperiodic incommensurate lattice structures -- at finite temperature, entirely based on symmetry arguments and a well-define action principle. By means of Schwinger-Keldysh…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Matteo Baggioli , Michael Landry

Deconfined quantum critical point was proposed as a second-order quantum phase transition between two broken symmetry phases beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. However, numerical studies cannot completely rule out a weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-30 Gaoyong Sun , Bo-Bo Wei , Su-Peng Kou

Coherence measures and their operational interpretations lay the cornerstone of coherence theory. In this paper, we introduce a class of coherence measures with $\alpha$-affinity, say $\alpha$-affinity of coherence for $\alpha \in (0, 1)$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Chunhe Xiong , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

We consider realistic measurement systems, where measurements are accompanied by decoherence processes. The aim of this work is the construction of methods and algorithms for precise quantum measurements with fidelity close to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , N. A. Bogdanova , A. B. Kvasnyy , V. F. Lukichev

Entanglement fidelity quantifies how well a quantum channel preserves the correlations between a transmitted system and an inaccessible reference system. We derive closed-form expressions for the entanglement fidelity associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Niccolò Zanieri , Marios Kountouris

Input-output theory is a well-known tool in quantum optics and ubiquitous in the description of quantum systems probed by light. Owing to the generality of the setup it describes, the theory finds application in a wide variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Aaron Daniel , Matteo Brunelli , Aashish A. Clerk , Patrick P. Potts

A novel time domain solver of Maxwell's equations in passive (dispersive and absorbing) media is proposed. The method is based on the path integral formalism of quantum theory and entails the use of ({\it i}) the Hamiltonian formalism and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sergei V. Shabanov

We generalize the experimental success criterion for quantum teleportation/memory in continuous-variable quantum systems to be suitable for non-unit-gain condition by considering attenuation/amplification of the coherent-state amplitude.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Ryo Namiki , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

We solve time-sliced path integrals of one-dimensional Coulomb system in an exact manner. In formulating path integrals, we make use of the Duru-Kleinert transformation with Fujikawa's gauge theoretical technique. Feynman kernels in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Seiji Sakoda

We will derive a rigorous real time propagator for the Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanic $L^2$ transition probability amplitude and for the Non-relativistic wave function. The propagator will be explicitly given in terms of the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Loo

We define the idea of {\it real path quantum theory}, a realist generalisation of quantum theory in which it is postulated that the configuration space path actually followed by a closed quantum system is probabilistically chosen. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Adrian Kent

We use the uniform semiclassical approximation in order to derive the fidelity decay in the regime of large perturbations. Numerical computations are presented which agree with our theoretical predictions. Moreover, our theory allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Wen-ge Wang , G. Casati , Baowen Li , T. Prosen

Realizing the theoretical promise of quantum computers will require overcoming decoherence. Here we demonstrate numerically that high fidelity quantum gates are possible within a framework of quantum dynamical decoupling. Orders of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 Jacob R. West , Daniel A. Lidar , Bryan H. Fong , Mark F. Gyure

We employ the Loschmidt Echo, i.e. the signal recovered after the reversal of an evolution, to identify and quantify the processes contributing to decoherence. This procedure, which has been extensively used in single particle physics, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Pablo R. Zangara , Axel D. Dente , Patricia R. Levstein , Horacio M. Pastawski

Large-scale variational quantum algorithms are widely recognized as a potential pathway to achieve practical quantum advantages. However, the presence of quantum noise might suppress and undermine these advantages, which blurs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Yuguo Shao , Fuchuan Wei , Song Cheng , Zhengwei Liu

We derive a general formula of the reduced fidelity susceptibility when the reduced density matrix is $2\times2$ block-diagonal. By using this result and the continuous unitary transformations, we study finite-size scaling of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Ma , Lei Xu , Hengna Xiong , Xiaoguang Wang

The fidelity estimation between two quantum states is crucial for quantum computation and information science. However, an efficacious method for this, especially for mixed states and higher-dimensional density matrices, remains elusive.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Anumita Mukhopadhyay , Shibdas Roy , Arun Kumar Pati

The Loschmidt echo is investigated to track the effect of the local QDP. It is also quite sensitive to whether the background dynamics is integrable or not. For the integrable case, viz. the Heisenberg model, the Loschmidt echo depends on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Saikat Sur , V. Subrahmanyam

We study the response to sudden local perturbations of highly excited Quantum Ising Spin Chains. The key quantity encoding this response is the overlap between time-dependent wave functions, which we write as a two-times Loschmidt echo. Its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-29 Carla Lupo , Marco Schiró