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This paper proposes an experiment designed to distinguish between competing interpretations of quantum mechanics: those that involve wave function collapse and those that assume purely unitary evolution. The experiment tests whether an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Peter Renkel

Spontaneous collapse models, which are phenomenological mechanisms introduced and designed to account for dynamical wavepacket reduction, are attracting a growing interest from the community interested in the characterisation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Giorgio Zicari , Matteo Carlesso , Andrea Trombettoni , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum computation offers a promising new kind of information processing, where the non-classical features of quantum mechanics can be harnessed and exploited. A number of models of quantum computation exist, including the now well-studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 H. J. Briegel , D. E. Browne , W. Dür , R. Raussendorf , M. Van den Nest

The measurement process of observables in a quantum system comes out to be an unsovable problem which started in the early times of the development of the theory. In the present note we consider the measured system part of an open system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Jean Richert , Tarek Khalil

Quantum measurement remains a puzzle through its stormy history from the birth of quantum mechanics to state-of-the-art quantum technologies. Two complementary measurement schemes have been widely investigated in a variety of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Yiming Pan , Jie Zhang , Eliahu Cohen , Chun-wang Wu , Ping-Xing Chen , Nir Davidson

Ergodic quantum many-body systems undergoing unitary dynamics evolve towards increasingly entangled states characterized by an extensive scaling of entanglement entropy with system volume. At the other extreme, quantum systems repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Jin Ming Koh , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

Is the dynamical evolution of physical systems objectively a manifestation of information processing by the universe? We find that an affirmative answer has important consequences for the measurement problem. In particular, we calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Srikanth

It is proposed a possible new approach of quantum measurements (QMS), disconnected of the traditional interpretation of uncertainty relations and independent of any appeal to the strange idea of collapse (reduction) of wave functions. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dumitru

Monitored quantum systems evolve along stochastic trajectories correlated with the observer's knowledge of the system's state. Under such dynamics, certain quantum resources like entanglement may depend on the observer's state of knowledge.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Christian Carisch , Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito

Quantum processors enable computational speedups for machine learning through parallel manipulation of high-dimensional vectors. Early demonstrations of quantum machine learning have focused on processing information with qubits. In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Chi-Huan Nguyen , Ko-Wei Tseng , Gleb Maslennikov , H. C. J. Gan , Dzmitry Matsukevich

We show that long standing debates on the collapse and the role of the observer in quantum mechanics can be resolved experimentally via a nondistructive continuous monitoring of a single quantum system. An example of such a system, coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gurvitz

A long-standing quantum-mechanical puzzle is whether the collapse of the wave function is a real physical process or simply an epiphenomenon. This puzzle lies at the heart of the measurement problem. One way to choose between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 A. Yu. Ignatiev

Recently, there is interest in coincident 'sharpening' and 'learnability' transitions in monitored quantum systems. In the latter, an outside observer's ability to infer properties of a quantum system from measurements undergoes a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Sun Woo P. Kim , Curt von Keyserlingk , Austen Lamacraft

The rapid progress in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) has attracted growing attention, prompting extensive research into quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to solve diverse and complex problems. Designing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Shinjae Yoo

Quantum systems subject to random unitary evolution and measurements at random points in spacetime exhibit entanglement phase transitions which depend on the frequency of these measurements. Past work has experimentally observed…

Experimental characterizations of a quantum system involve the measurement of expectation values of observables for a preparable state |psi> of the quantum system. Such expectation values can be measured by repeatedly preparing |psi> and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emanuel Knill , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando D. Somma

For many quantum systems intended for information processing, one detects the logical state of a qubit by integrating a continuously observed quantity over time. For example, ion and atom qubits are typically measured by driving a cycling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Shawn Geller , Daniel C. Cole , Scott Glancy , Emanuel Knill

Quantum phase transitions occur when the ground state of a quantum system undergoes a qualitative change when an external control parameter reaches a critical value. Here, we demonstrate a technique for studying quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Jingfu Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Nageswaran Rajendran , Dieter Suter

Recent development in quantum information sciences and technologies, especially building programmable quantum computers, provide us new opportunities to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. We propose qubit models to emulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Meng-Jun Hu , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Xiang Li , Yubao Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Haixing Miao

We introduce a quantum measurement process that is capable of characterizing an unknown state of a system almost without disturbing or collapsing it. The underlying idea is to extract information of a system from the thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Mohit Lal Bera , Manabendra Nath Bera