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We consider mutual information between release times and capture times for a set of M identical quanta traveling independently from a source to a target. The quanta are immediately captured upon arrival, first-passage times are assumed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Christopher Rose , I. Saira Mian , Ruochen Song

In this note we point out the fact that the proper conceptual setting of quantum computation is the theory of Linear Time Invariant systems. To convince readers of the utility of the approach, we introduce a new model of computation based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Gopalkrishna Gadiyar , K. M. Sangeeta Maini , R. Padma , H. S. Sharatchandra

We develop a non-perturbative method for calculating partition functions of strongly coupled quantum mechanical systems with interactions between subsystems described by a path integral of a dual system. The dual path integral is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 Vitaly Vanchurin

Quantum computing has garnered attention for its potential to solve complex computational problems with considerable speedup. Despite notable advancements in the field, achieving meaningful scalability and noise control in quantum hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Willwock Lussi , Rafael de Santiago , Eduardo Inacio Duzzioni

In this contribution I discuss a path integral approach for the quantum motion on two-dimensional spaces according to Koenigs, for short ``Koenigs-Spaces''. Their construction is simple: One takes a Hamiltonian from two-dimensional flat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Grosche

Paper contains description of the fields nonlinear modes successive quantization scheme. It is shown that the path integrals for absorption part of amplitudes are defined on the Dirac ($\d$-like) functional measure. This permits arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Manjavidze

In this work we present a re-evaluation of the concept of time in non-relativistic quantum theory. We suggest a formalism in which time is changed into the status of an operator, and where expectation values of observables and the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Eduardo O. Dias , Fernando Parisio

In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, path integrals are normally derived from the Schroedinger equation. This assumes the two formalisms are equivalent. Since time plays a very different role in the Schroedinger equation and in path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Ashmead

We suggest a closed form expression for the path integral of quantum transition amplitudes. We introduce a quantum action with renormalized parameters. We present numerical results for the $V \sim x^{4}$ potential. The renormalized action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 H. Jirari , H. Kröger , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty , S. G. Rubin

The concept of time as used in various applications and interpretations of quantum theory is briefly reviewed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-06 H. D. Zeh

A reformulation of a physical theory in which measurements at the initial and final moments of time are treated independently is discussed, both on the classical and quantum levels. Methods of the standard quantum mechanics are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Pavel Krtous

This article first gives a concise introduction to quantum phase transitions, emphasizing similarities with and differences to classical thermal transitions. After pointing out the computational challenges posed by quantum phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-18 Thomas Vojta

We address the timing problem in realizing correcting codes for quantum information processing. To deal with temporal uncertainties we employ a consistent quantum mechanical approach. The conditions for optimizing the effect of error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Mancini , Rodolfo Bonifacio

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

The paper is the second part of the work devoted to the problem of time in quantum cosmology. Here we consider in detail two approaches within the scope of Feynman path integration scheme: The first, by Simeone and collaborators, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Shestakova , C. Simeone

In the first quantised description of strings, we integrate over target space co-ordinates $X^\mu$ and world sheet metrics $g_{\alpha\beta}$. Such path integrals give scattering amplitudes between the `in' and `out' vacuua for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Samir D. Mathur

The cavity method is a well established technique for solving classical spin models on sparse random graphs (mean-field models with finite connectivity). Laumann et al. [arXiv:0706.4391] proposed recently an extension of this method to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Florent Krzakala , Alberto Rosso , Guilhem Semerjian , Francesco Zamponi

We study the temporal aspects of quantum tunneling as manifested in time-of-arrival experiments in which the detected particle tunnels through a potential barrier. In particular, we present a general method for constructing temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

This work addresses the quantization of a self-interacting higher order time derivative theory using path integrals. To quantize this system and avoid the problems of energy not bounded from below and states of negative norm, we observe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-14 Carlos A. Margalli , J. David Vergara

Recently a path integral formalism has been proposed by the author which gives the time evolution of moments of slow variables in a Hamiltonian statistical system. This closure relies on evaluating the informational discrepancy of a time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Richard Kleeman