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The concept of coherence is one of cornerstones in physics. The development of quantum information science has lead to renewed interest in properly approaching the coherence at the quantum level. Various measures could be proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alexey E. Rastegin

Mirkovic and Vilonen discovered a canonical basis of algebraic cycles for the intersection homology of (the closures of the strata of) the loop Grassmannian. The moment map images of these varieties are a collection of polytopes, and they…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jared E. Anderson

The Circuit diameter of polytopes was introduced by Borgwardt, Finhold and Hemmecke as a fundamental tool for the study of circuit augmentation schemes for linear programming and for estimating combinatorial diameters. Determining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Christian Nöbel , Raphael Steiner

The invariant polytope algorithm was a breakthrough in the joint spectral radius computation, allowing to find the exact value of the joint spectral radius for most matrix families~\cite{GP2013,GP2016}. This algorithm found many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Thomas Mejstrik

Quantum coherence is an important quantum resource and it is intimately related to various research fields. The geometric coherence is a coherence measure both operationally and geometrically. We study the trade-off relation of geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Bingyu Hu , Ming-Jing Zhao

In quantum computing, knowing the symmetries a given system or state obeys or disobeys is often useful. For example, Hamiltonian symmetries may limit allowed state transitions or simplify learning parameters in machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Margarite L. LaBorde , Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde

We discuss how to reconstruct quantum theory from operational postulates. In particular, the following postulates are consistent only with for classical probability theory and quantum theory. Logical Sharpness: There is a one-to-one map…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Lucien Hardy

We consider, for complete bipartite graphs, the convex hulls of characteristic vectors of all matchings, extended by a binary entry indicating whether the matching contains two specific edges. These polytopes are associated to the quadratic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Matthias Walter

We present a change of basis that may allow more efficient calculation of the volumes of Birkhoff polytopes using a slicing method. We construct the basis from a special set of square matrices. We explain how to construct this basis easily…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Trevor Glynn

We consider the entanglement marginal problem, which consists of deciding whether a number of reduced density matrices are compatible with an overall separable quantum state. To tackle this problem, we propose hierarchies of semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Miguel Navascues , Flavio Baccari , Antonio Acin

Quantum coherence plays an important role in quantum information protocols that provide an advantage over classical information processing. The amount of coherence that can exist between two orthogonal subspaces is limited by the positivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Tristan Kraft , Marco Piani

Let $\rho$ be a metric on the set $X=\{1,2,\dots,n+1\}$. Consider the $n$-dimensional polytope of functions $f:X\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, which satisfy the conditions $f(n+1)=0$, $|f(x)-f(y)|\leq \rho(x,y)$. The question on classifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-25 J. Gordon , F. Petrov

We introduce the notion of integrable modules over $\imath$quantum groups (a.k.a. quantum symmetric pair coideal subalgebras). After determining a presentation of such modules, we prove that each integrable module over a quantum group is…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Hideya Watanabe

The existence of observables that are incompatible or not jointly measurable is a characteristic feature of quantum mechanics, which lies at the root of a number of nonclassical phenomena, such as uncertainty relations, wave--particle dual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Huangjun Zhu

Quantum State Tomography is the task of inferring the state of a quantum system from measurement data. A reliable tomography scheme should not only report an estimate for that state, but also well-justified error bars. These may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jinzhao Wang , Volkher B. Scholz , Renato Renner

One of the basic distinctions between classical and quantum mechanics is the existence of fundamentally incompatible quantities. Such quantities are present on all levels of quantum objects: states, measurements, quantum channels, and even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Erkka Haapasalo , Tristan Kraft , Nikolai Miklin , Roope Uola

We propose a new contact relation between polytopes. Intuitively, we say that two polytopes are in strong contact if a small enough object can pass from one of them to the other while remaining in their union. In the first half of the paper…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Tsvetlin Marinov , Tinko Tinchev

Whereas complementarity manifests itself via two incompatible observables, quantum contextuality can only be revealed via the joint measurements among at least three observables. By incorporating unsharp measurements and joint measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Sixia Yu , C. H. Oh

This paper presents a quantum search approach to combinatorial constraint satisfaction problems, demonstrated through the generation of magic squares. We reformulate magic square construction as a quantum search problem in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Rituparna R , Harsha Varthini , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

We show how to construct homology bases for certain CW complexes in terms of discrete Morse theory and cellular homology. We apply this technique to study certain subcomplexes of the half cube polytope studied in previous works. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 R. M. Green , Jacob T. Harper