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Here we explore the possibility of precise time-keeping in quantum systems using athermal resources. We show that quantum measurement engineered reservoirs can be used as athermal resources to drive the ticks of a quantum clock. Two and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Sreenath K. Manikandan

The Dirac equation is a cornerstone in the history of physics, merging successfully quantum mechanics with special relativity, providing a natural description of the electron spin and predicting the existence of anti-matter. Furthermore, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 R. Gerritsma , G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , E. Solano , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

A self-adjoint dynamical time operator is introduced in Dirac's relativistic formulation of quantum mechanics and shown to satisfy a commutation relation with the Hamiltonian analogous to that of the position and momentum operators. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Mariano Bauer

Modifying the discrete mechanics proposed by T.D. Lee, we construct a class of discrete classical Hamiltonian systems, in which time is one of the dynamical variables. This includes a toy model of time machines which can travel forward and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Hans-Thomas Elze

Increasing fidelity is the ultimate challenge of quantum information technology. In addition to decoherence and dissipation, fidelity is affected by internal imperfections such as impurities in the system. Here we show that the quality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 E. Rasanen , E. J. Heller

Canonical quantization of spherically symmetric space-times is carried out, using real-valued densitized triads and extrinsic curvature components, with specific factor ordering choices ensuring in an anomaly free quantum constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Suddhasattwa Brahma

Equivariant Pyragas control is a delayed feedback method that aims to stabilize spatio-temporal patterns in systems with symmetries. In this article, we apply equivariant Pyragas control to discrete waves, which are periodic solutions that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Babette de Wolff

The Dirac equation is invariant under rotations with a constant frequency and invariable cylindrical radius. 3D transformation for rotating frames is found with help of this invariance. Exact localized solutions of the Dirac equation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Boris V. Gisin

Two-dimensional systems with time-dependent controls admit a quadratic Hamiltonian modelling near potential minima. Independent, dynamical normal modes facilitate inverse Hamiltonian engineering to control the system dynamics, but some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 A. Tobalina , E. Torrontegui , I. Lizuain , M. Palmero , J. G. Muga

Revivals of the coherent states of a deformed, adiabatically and cyclically varying oscillator Hamiltonian are examined. The revival time distribution is exactly that of Poincar\'{e} recurrences for a rotation map: only three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Seshadri , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

Quantum algorithms are built enabling to find Poincar\'e recurrence times and periodic orbits of classical dynamical systems. It is shown that exponential gain compared to classical algorithms can be reached for a restricted class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Georgeot

Given its importance to many other areas of physics, from condensed matter physics to thermodynamics, time-reversal symmetry has had relatively little influence on quantum information science. Here we develop a network-based picture of…

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

Today, the 'hydrogen atom model' is known to play its role not only in teaching the basic elements of quantum mechanics but also for building up effective theories in atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, plasma physics, or even in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Surzhykov , Peter Koval , Stephan Fritzsche

Atomic frequency standards have achieved steadily increasing precision over the past seventy years, enabled in part by feedback mechanisms that stabilise their output. In parallel, the timekeeping capabilities of quantum systems have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jakob Miller , Paul Erker

One major objective of controlling classical chaotic dynamical systems is exploiting the system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in order to arrive at a predetermined target state. In a recent letter [Phys.~Rev.~Lett. 130, 020201…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Steven Tomsovic , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

Assuming that, with some care, dislocations could be meaningfully described by torsion, we propose here a scenario based on a previously unexplored role of time in the low-energy Dirac field theory description of two-space-dimensional Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Alfredo Iorio , Pablo Pais

The quantum Rabi model has been a useful and pedagogical quantum model in the past decades, sufficiently simple to be solved analytically and intuitively understood, while sufficiently complex as to provide highly non-trivial eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Lucas Lamata

We report an experimental quantum simulation of unitary dynamics of an XY spin chain with pre-engineered couplings. Using this simulation, we demonstrate the mirror inversion of quantum states, proposed by Albanese et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 K. Rama Koteswara Rao , T. S. Mahesh , Anil Kumar

Temporal waveform manipulation is a fundamental functionality in optics and crucial for applications like optical communications, microwave photonics and quantum optics. Traditional IQ- or phase-amplitude modulators shape light by carving…