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We investigate the interference setup claimed to reveal the quantum pigeonhole effect. It is a claim that it is possible that three parties travel across a two-path interferometer, but no pair of them share a path. We demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Marcin Wieśniak

We characterize operationally meaningful quantum gains in a paradigmatic model of lossless multiple-phase interferometry and stress insufficiency of the analysis based solely on the concept of quantum Fisher information. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Wojciech Gorecki , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

A full treatment for the scattering of an arbitrary number of bosons through a Bell multiport beam splitter is presented that includes all possible output arrangements. Due to exchange symmetry, the event statistics differs dramatically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 Malte C. Tichy , Markus Tiersch , Fernando de Melo , Florian Mintert , Andreas Buchleitner

Counterfactual explanations have been a popular method of post-hoc explainability for a variety of settings in Machine Learning. Such methods focus on explaining classifiers by generating new data points that are similar to a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Joshua Nathaniel Williams , Anurag Katakkar , Hoda Heidari , J. Zico Kolter

We show that quantum-interference-related phenomena, such as electromagnetically induced transparency, gain without inversion and enhanced refractive index may occur on electric-dipole forbidden transitions. Gain/dispersion characteristics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. A. Koganov , R. Shuker

We propose partial measurements as a conceptual tool to understand how to operate with counterfactual claims in quantum physics. Indeed, unlike standard von Neumann measurements, partial measurements can be reversed probabilistically. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 G. S. Paraoanu

Quantum walks constitute important tools in different applications, especially in quantum algorithms. To a great extent their usefulness is due to unusual diffusive features, allowing much faster spreading than their classical counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 F. M. Andrade , M. G. E. da Luz

We consider the scattering of particles by an obstacle which tunnels coherently between two positions. We show that the obstacle mimics two classical scatterers at fixed positions when the kinetic energy epsilon of the incident particles is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schomerus , Y. Noat , J. Dalibard , C. W. J. Beenakker

Estimating counterfactual distributions under interventions is central to treatment risk assessment and counterfactual generation tasks. Existing approaches model the counterfactual distribution as a standalone generative target, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Hugh Dance , Johnny Xi , Peter Orbanz , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy

This paper presents a quantum generalization of the multinomial distribution for the transition probabilities of $m$ identical photons in a $k$-port linear optical interferometer: two multinomial coefficients (one for the input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Alfonso Martinez , Josep Font-Segura

We demonstrate quantum advantage with several basic assumptions, specifically based on only the existence of OWFs. We introduce inefficient-verifier proofs of quantumness (IV-PoQ), and construct it from classical bit commitments. IV-PoQ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Tomoyuki Morimae , Takashi Yamakawa

The possibility of interaction-free measurements and counterfactual computations is a striking feature of quantum mechanics pointed out around 20 years ago. We implement such phenomena in actual 5-qubit, 15-qubit and 20-qubit IBM quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 J. Alberto Casas , Bryan Zaldivar

The ``Which Path?'' interferometer consists of an Aharonov-Bohm ring with a quantum dot (QD) built in one of its arms, and an additional quantum point contact (QPC) located close to the QD. The transmission coefficient of the QPC depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 I. L. Aleiner , Ned S. Wingreen , Yigal Meir

Quantum backflow is an interference effect in which a matter-wave packet comprised of only plane waves with non-negative momenta exhibits negative probability flux. Here we show that this effect is mathematically equivalent to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Arseni Goussev

We study the effect of inter-band interactions in the absorption profile of a semi-classical model describing electromagnetically induced transparency. We develop a consistent approach using a non-hermitian Hamiltonian to model particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Jose Reslen

We analyze the statistical mechanical properties of n-detectors in arbitrary states of motion interacting with each other via a quantum field. We use the open system concept and the influence functional method to calculate the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alpan Raval , B. L. Hu , James Anglin

Achieving quantum computational advantage requires solving a classically intractable problem on a quantum device. Natural proposals rely upon the intrinsic hardness of classically simulating quantum mechanics; however, verifying the output…

Which-path information of a quantum particle in interferometers is the key to infer the past of quantum particle. It arises many extensive discussions including quantum complementarity and path-visibility relation. The basic of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Jinxian Guo , Qizhang Yuan , Yuan Wu , Weiping Zhang

A mesoscopic Coulomb blockade system with two identical transport channels is studied in terms of full counting statistics. It is found that the average current cannot distinguish the quantum constructive interference from the classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shi-Kuan Wang , Hujun Jiao , Feng Li , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

It is shown that the maximal phase sensitivity of a two-path interferometer with high-intensity coherent light and squeezed vacuum in the input ports can be achieved by photon-number-resolving detection of only a small number of photons in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Jun-Yi Wu , Norifumi Toda , Holger F. Hofmann