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Quantum pre- and post-selection (PPS) paradoxes occur when counterfactual inferences are made about different measurements that might have been performed, between two measurements that are actually performed. The 3 box paradox is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 O. J. E. Maroney

Through the development of efficient algorithms, data structures and preprocessing techniques, real-world shortest path problems in street networks are now very fast to solve. But in reality, the exact travel times along each arc in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Trivikram Dokka , Marc Goerigk

A finite dimensional quantum system for which the quantum chaos conjecture applies has eigenstates, which show the same statistical properties than the column vectors of random orthogonal or unitary matrices. Here, we consider the different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 L. Alonso , T. Gorin

For diffusive stochastic dynamics, the probability to observe any individual trajectory is vanishingly small, making it unclear how to experimentally validate theoretical results for ratios of path probabilities. We provide the missing link…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jannes Gladrow , Ulrich F. Keyser , R. Adhikari , Julian Kappler

Quantum trajectories describe the stochastic evolution of an open quantum system conditioned on continuous monitoring of its output, such as by an ideal photodetector. In practice an experimenter has access to an output filtered through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Warszawski , H. M. Wiseman

Quantum three box paradox is a prototypical example of some bizarre predictions for intermediate measurements made on pre- and post-selected systems. Although in principle those effects can be explained by measurement disturbance, it is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Pawel Blasiak , Ewa Borsuk

Generalized probabilistic theories (GPTs) provide a framework in which a range of possible theories can be examined, including classical theory, quantum theory and those beyond. In general, enlarging the state space of a GPT leads to fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Giorgos Eftaxias , Mirjam Weilenmann , Roger Colbeck

We study the dynamics of a "kicked" quantum system undergoing repeated measurements of momentum. A diffusive behavior is obtained for a large class of Hamiltonians, even when the dynamics of the classical counterpart is not chaotic. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio , A. Scardicchio

Many seemingly paradoxical effects are known in the predictions for outcomes of intermediate measurements made on pre- and post-selected quantum systems. Despite appearances, these effects do not demonstrate the impossibility of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Leifer , R. W. Spekkens

If a quantum experiment includes random processes, then the results of repeated measurements can appear consistent with irreversible decoherence even if the system's evolution prior to measurement was reversible and unitary. Two thought…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-01 Sam Kennerly

A continuously measured quantum system may be described by restricted path integrals (RPI) or equivalently by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. The measured system is then considered as an open system, the influence of the environment being taken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael B. Mensky

We predict that continuously monitored quantum dynamics can be chaotic. The optimal paths between past and future boundary conditions can diverge exponentially in time when there is time-dependent evolution and continuous weak monitoring.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Philippe Lewalle , John Steinmetz , Andrew N. Jordan

We explore the distribution of paths followed in fluctuation-induced switching between coexisting stable states. We introduce a quantitative characteristic of the path distribution in phase space that does not require a priori knowledge of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. B. Chan , M. I. Dykman , C. Stambaugh

Quantum trajectories are Markov processes modeling the evolution of a quantum system subjected to repeated independent measurements. Inspired by the theory of random products of matrices, it has been shown that these Markov processes admit…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Tristan Benoist , Arnaud Hautecoeur , Clément Pellegrini

Classical-realistic analysis of entangled systems have lead to retrodiction paradoxes, which ordinarily have been dismissed on the grounds of counter-factuality. Instead, we claim that such paradoxes point to a deeper logical structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yakir Aharonov , Alonso Botero , Sandu Popescu , Benni Reznik , Jeff Tollaksen

The path integral is not typically utilized for analyzing entanglement experiments, in part because there is no standard toolbox for converting an arbitrary experiment into a form allowing a simple sum-over-history calculation. After…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Ken Wharton , Raylor Liu

We implemented a joint weak measurement of the trajectories of two photons in a photonic version of Hardy's experiment. The joint weak measurement has been performed via an entangled meter state in polarization degrees of freedom of the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 Kazuhiro Yokota , Takashi Yamamoto , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

We study quantum steering experiments without assuming that the trusted party can perfectly control their measurement device. Instead, we introduce a scenario in which these measurements are subject to small imprecision. We show that small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Armin Tavakoli

In this article we present very intuitive, easy to follow, yet mathematically rigorous, approach to the so called data fitting process. Rather than minimizing the distance between measured and simulated data points, we prefer to find such…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-08-07 Marek W. Gutowski

We present a new formulation for the emergence of classical dynamics in a quantum world by considering a path integral approach that also incorporates continuous measurements. Our program is conceptually different from the decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Harsh Arora , Bishal Kumar Das , Baladitya Suri , Vaibhav Madhok