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Quantum computers exhibit an inherent randomness, so it seems natural to consider them for procedural content generation. In this work, a quantum version of the famous (classical) wave function collapse algorithm is proposed. This quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Raoul Heese

Backflow is a counter-intuitive phenomenon in which a forward propagating quantum particle propagates locally backwards. The actual counter-propagation property associated with this delicate interference phenomenon has not been observed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-26 Yaniv Eliezer , Thomas Zacharias , Alon Bahabad

Quantum physics is a linear theory, so it is somewhat puzzling that it can underlie very complex systems such as digital computers and life. This paper investigates how this is possible. Physically, such complex systems are necessarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 George F R Ellis

The decay of quasi-stable quantum system involves primarily an outgoing probability current density. However, during the transition from exponential to inverse-power-law decay there are time intervals during which this current, although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Wytse van Dijk , F. Masafumi Toyama

In this work, dissipative quantum backflow is studied for a superposition of two stretched Gaussian wave packets and two identical spinless particles within the Caldirola-Kanai framework. Backflow is mainly an interference process and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

We analyse the quantum backflow effect and extend it, as a limiting constraint to its spatial extent, for scattering situations in the presence of a purely transmitting discontinuous jump-defect. Analytical and numerical comparisons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Alexandre Hefren de Vasconcelos

The probability density of a quantum particle moving freely within a circular ring can exhibit local flow patterns inconsistent with its angular momentum, a phenomenon known as quantum backflow. In this study, we examine a quantum particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Arseni Goussev , Felix Quinque , Jaewoo Joo , Andrew Burbanks

Backflow, or retro-propagation, is a counterintuitive phenomenon where for a forward-propagating wave the energy or probability density locally propagates backward. In this study the energy backflow has been examined in connection with…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-15 Ioannis Besieris , Peeter Saari

Semiclassical techniques have proven to be a very powerful method to extract physical effects from different quantum theories. Therefore, it is expected that in the near future they will play a very prominent role in the context of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-17 David Brizuela

We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

We derive some rigorous results concerning the backflow operator introduced by Bracken and Melloy. We show that it is linear bounded, self adjoint, and not compact. Thus the question is underlined whether the backflow constant is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Markus Penz , Gebhard Grübl , Sabine Kreidl , Peter Wagner

Obtaining an accurate ground state wave function is one of the great challenges in the quantum many-body problem. In this paper, we propose a new class of wave functions, neural network backflow (NNB). The backflow approach, pioneered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Di Luo , Bryan K. Clark

There are certain dynamics while being non-Markovian, do never exhibit information backflow. We show that if two such dynamical maps are considered in a scenario where the order of application of these two dynamical maps are not definite,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Ananda G. Maity , Samyadeb Bhattacharya

The possibility of consistency between the basic quantum principles of quantum mechanics and wave function collapse is reexamined. A specific interpretation of environment is proposed for this aim and applied to decoherence. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Roland Omnès

Control flow of quantum programs is often divided into two different classes: classical and quantum. Quantum programs with classical control flow have their conditional branching determined by the classical outcome of measurements, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Pablo Andrés-Martínez

Backflow, or retropropagation, is a counterintuitive phenomenon whereby for a forward-propagating wave the energy locally propagates backward. In the context of backflow, physically most interesting are the so-called unidirectional waves,…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-04 Peeter Saari , Ioannis Besieris

We present a framework for quantifying information flow within general quantum processes. For this purpose, we introduce the signaling power of quantum channels and discuss its relevant operational properties. This function supports…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Leonardo S. V. Santos , Zhen-Peng Xu , Jyrki Piilo , Otfried Gühne

Electromagnetic energy backflow is a phenomenon occurring in regions where the direction of the Poynting vector is opposite to that of the propagation of the wave field. It is particularly remarkable in the nonparaxial regime and has been…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Peeter Saari , Ioannis Besieris

Efficacious quantum information processing relies on extended coherence and precise control. Investigating the limitations surrounding quantum processors is vital for their advancement. In their operation, one challenge is inadvertent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Alfred Li , Herschel A. Rabitz , Benjamin Lienhard

Quantum mechanics is potentially advantageous for certain information-processing tasks, but its probabilistic nature and requirement of measurement back action often limit the precision of conventional classical information-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Mankei Tsang , Carlton M. Caves