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We develop a means of simulating the evolution and measurement of a multipartite quantum state under discrete or continuous evolution using another quantum system with states and operators lying in a real Hilbert space. This extends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-26 Matthew McKague , Michele Mosca , Nicolas Gisin

Perhaps the quantum state represents information about reality, and not reality directly. Wave function collapse is then possibly no more mysterious than a Bayesian update of a probability distribution given new data. We consider models for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Peter G. Lewis , David Jennings , Jonathan Barrett , Terry Rudolph

I propose a new class of interpretations, {\it real world interpretations}, of the quantum theory of closed systems. These interpretations postulate a preferred factorization of Hilbert space and preferred projective measurements on one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Adrian Kent

Arrays of optically trapped atoms excited to Rydberg states have recently emerged as a competitive physical platform for quantum simulation and computing, where high-fidelity state preparation and readout, quantum logic gates and controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 M. Morgado , S. Whitlock

Classical information can be completely hidden in the correlations of bipartite quantum systems. However, it is impossible to hide or mask all quantum information according to the no-hiding and no-masking theorems derived recently. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Huangjun Zhu

The quantum world is described by a unit vector in the Hilbert space and the Hamiltonian. Do these abstract basis-independent objects give a complete description of the physical world, or should we include observables like positions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

We discuss that there is a crucial contradiction within quantum mechanics. We derive a proposition concerning a quantum expectation value under the assumption of the existence of the directions in a spin-1/2 system. The quantum predictions…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-28 Koji Nagata , Tadao Nakamura

One of the most challenging open problems in quantum information theory is to clarify and quantify how entanglement behaves when part of an entangled state is sent through a quantum channel. Of central importance in the description of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Verstraete , Henri Verschelde

In this paper, we extend the standard formalism of quantum mechanics to a quantum theory for a total system including one internal measuring apparatus. The internality of the measuring apparatus implies that different decomposition of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Wen-ge Wang

Instead of formulating the states of a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) as density matrices over a single large Hilbert space, it has been proposed by Kijowski [Kijowski, 1977] to construct them as consistent families of partial density matrices,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Suzanne Lanéry

A few recent innovations of applicability of standard textbook Quantum Theory are reviewed. The three-Hilbert-space formulation of the theory (known from the interacting boson models in nuclear physics) is discussed in its slightly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Miloslav Znojil

Familiar formulations of classical and quantum mechanics are shown to follow from a general theory of mechanics based on pure states with an intrinsic probability structure. This theory is developed to the stage where theorems from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Peter Taylor

In quantum mechanics, physical states are represented by rays in Hilbert space $\mathscr H$, which is a vector space imbued by an inner product $\langle\,|\,\rangle$, whose physical meaning arises as the overlap $\langle\phi|\psi\rangle$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Salini Karuvade , Abhijeet Alase , Barry C. Sanders

In the past decades, quantum entanglement has been recognized to be the basic resource in quantum information theory. A fundamental need is then the understanding its qualification and its quantification: Is the quantum state entangled, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-20 Szilárd Szalay

Quantum mechanics describes seemingly paradoxical relations between the outcomes of measurements that cannot be performed jointly. In Hilbert space, the outcomes of such incompatible measurements are represented by non-orthogonal states. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Ming Ji , Holger F. Hofmann

Why are the laws of physics formulated in terms of complex Hilbert spaces? Are there natural and consistent modifications of quantum theory that could be tested experimentally? This book chapter gives a self-contained and accessible summary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Markus P. Mueller , Lluis Masanes

Recently, it has been argued that quantum mechanics is a complete theory, and that different quantum states do necessarily correspond to different elements of reality, under the assumptions that quantum mechanics is correct and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Giancarlo Ghirardi , Raffaele Romano

We consider a quaternionic quantum formalism for the description of quantum states and quantum dynamics. We prove that generalized quantum measurements on physical systems in quaternionic quantum theory can be simulated by usual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Matthew A. Graydon

Despite various parallels between quantum states and ordinary information, quantum no-go-theorems have convinced many that there is no realistic framework that might underly quantum theory, no reality that quantum states can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Ken Wharton

The paper proves that quantum mechanics is compatible with the constructive realism of modern philosophy of science. The proof is based on the observation that properties of quantum systems that are uniquely determined by their preparations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Petr Hajicek