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Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we…

Based on phase-space structures of quantum states, we propose a novel measure to quantify macroscopic quantum superpositions. Our measure simultaneously quantifies two different kinds of essential information for a given quantum state in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 Chang-Woo Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum correlation includes quantum entanglement and quantum discord. Both entanglement and discord have a common necessary condition--------quantum coherence or quantum superposition. In this paper, we attempt to give an alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Chang-shui Yu , Yang Zhang , Haiqing Zhao

I tentatively suggest that the superposition principle of quantum mechanics is explicable in a mathematically natural way if it is possible to understand probability amplitudes as complex-valued logarithms. This notion is inspired by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kent A. Peacock

Quantum physics is a long established content in high school curricula. More recently, alternative approaches based on information-theoretical formulations of quantum theory have been discussed, in which conceptual emphases change in…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-01-18 Andreas J. C. Woitzik , Oliver Passon

A quantum algorithm succeeds not because the superposition principle allows 'the computation of all values of a function at once' via 'quantum parallelism,' but rather because the structure of a quantum state space allows new sorts of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Jeffrey Bub

Quantum computing algorithms require that the quantum register be initially present in a superposition state. To achieve this, we consider the practical problem of creating a coherent superposition state of several qubits. Owing to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Subhash Kak

Quantum computing, leveraging quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement, is emerging as a transformative force in computing technology, promising unparalleled computational speed and efficiency crucial for engineering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Osama Muhammad Raisuddin , Suvranu De

Quantum coherence is a fundamental property of quantum systems, separating quantum from classical physics. Recently, there has been significant interest in the characterization of quantum coherence as a resource, investigating how coherence…

Perturbation theory in quantum mechanics studies how quantum systems interact with their environmental perturbations. Harmonic perturbation is a rare special case of time-dependent perturbations in which exact analysis exists. Some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-01 Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Dah-Wei Chiou , Cheng-En Wu

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations lie in the center of quantum information science, since they both are considered as fundamental reasons for significant features of quantum mechanics different from classical mechanics. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Zeyang Fan , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

A quantum-like description of human decision process is developed, and a heuristic argument supporting the theory as sound phenomenology is given. It is shown to be capable of quantitatively explaining the conjunction fallacy in the same…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Taksu Cheon , Taiki Takahashi

Superposition is the core feature that sets quantum theory apart from classical physics. Here, we investigate whether sets of quantum measurements can be modelled by using only devices that are operationally classical, in the sense that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Gabriele Cobucci , Alexander Bernal , Roope Uola , Armin Tavakoli

Overcoming the influence of noise and imperfections in quantum devices is one of the main challenges for viable quantum applications. In this article, we present different protocols, which we denote as "superposed quantum error mitigation",…

Though some years remain before quantum computation can fully outperform conventional computation, it already provides resources that can be used for exploratory purposes in various fields. This includes certain tasks for procedural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 James R. Wootton , Marcel Pfaffhauser

There are many striking phenomena which are attributed to ``quantum coherence''. It is natural to wonder if there are new quantum coherence effects waiting to be discovered which could lead to interesting results and perhaps even practical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Albrecht

The concept of a superposition is a revolutionary novelty introduced by Quantum Mechanics. If a system may be in any one of two pure states x and y, we must consider that it may also be in any one of many superpositions of x and y. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 Daniel Lehmann

Experiments in cognitive science and decision theory show that the ways in which people combine concepts and make decisions cannot be described by classical logic and probability theory. This has serious implications for applied disciplines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Diederik Aerts , Liane Gabora , Sandro Sozzo , Tomas Veloz

The quantum superposition principle is reexamined and reformulated based on the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics, nonadiabatic dressed states and experimental evidences. The collapse of the wave function and the quantum measurement…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 I. G. Koprinkov

Quantum information theory is a rapidly growing area of math and physics that combines two independent theories, quantum mechanics and information theory. Quantum entanglement is a concept that was first proposed in the EPR paradox. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Lane Boswell , Ying Cao