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The idea that the search efficiency can be increased with the help of a number of autonomous agents is often relevant in many situations, which is known among biologists and roboticists as a stigmergy. This is due to the fact that, in any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Jin-Hui Zhu , Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

Some recent works have introduced a quantum twist to the concept of complementarity, exemplified by a setup in which the which-way detector is in a superposition of being present and absent. It has been argued that such experiments allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Tabish Qureshi

We show that quantum walks interpolate between a coherent `wave walk' and a random walk depending on how strongly the walker's coin state is measured; i.e., the quantum walk exhibits the quintessentially quantum property of complementarity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Viv Kendon , Barry C. Sanders

Interference lies at the heart of the behavior of classical and quantum light. It is thus crucial to understand the boundaries between which interference patterns can be explained by a classical electromagnetic description of light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Luca Rigovacca , Carlo Di Franco , Benjamin J. Metcalf , Ian A. Walmsley , M. S. Kim

Wave-particle duality and complementarity principle stand at the conceptual core of quantum theory in its orthodox Copenhagen interpretation. They imply that the wave behavior and particle behavior of quantum objects are mutually exclusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhi-Yuan Li

The decoherence of quantum states defines the transition between the quantum world and classical physics. Decoherence or, analogously, quantum mechanical collapse events pose fundamental questions regarding the interpretation of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 P. Bredol , H. Boschker , D. Braak , J. Mannhart

Common sense suggests that a particle must have a definite origin if its full path information is available. In quantum mechanics, the knowledge of path information is captured through the well-established duality relation between path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Xinhe Jiang , Armin Hochrainer , Jaroslav Kysela , Manuel Erhard , Xuemei Gu , Ya Yu , Anton Zeilinger

Counterfactuals, or modified inputs that lead to a different outcome, are an important tool for understanding the logic used by machine learning classifiers and how to change an undesirable classification. Even if a counterfactual changes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jesse Friedbaum , Sudarshan Adiga , Ravi Tandon

We study the effect of quantum motion in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer where ultracold, two-level atoms cross a $\pi/2 $-$\pi $-$\pi/2$ configuration of separated, laser illuminated regions. Explicit and exact expressions are obtained for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Lizuain , S. V. Mousavi , D. Seidel , J. G. Muga

The idea behind the research presented is based upon apparently contradictory experimental results obtained here by means of photoacoustics modalities for the same drug donor/acceptor membrane system, serving as a surrogate for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-03 Pawel Rochowski

A curious effect is uncovered by calculating the it time evolving probability of reflection of a Gaussian wave packet from a rectangular potential barrier while it is perturbed by reducing its height. A time interval is found during which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Bandyopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar , D. Home

It was recently suggested that a novel type of phase transition may occur in the visibility of electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Here, we present experimental evidence for the existence of this transition. The transition is induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 A. Helzel , L. V. Litvin , I. P. Levkivskyi , E. V. Sukhorukov , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

We consider two-way interference channels (ICs) where forward and backward channels are ICs but not necessarily the same. We first consider a scenario where there are only two forward messages and feedback is offered through the backward IC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Changho Suh , I-Hsiang Wang , David Tse

Realizing practical quantum advantage with meaningful economic impact is the holy grail of the quantum information field. Recent quantum technology advances have driven exponential growth in quantum information research, with resultant…

Popular Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Zhenhuan Liu

The study of measurements in quantum mechanics exposes many of the ways in which the quantum world is different. For example, one of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics is that observables may be incompatible, implying among other things…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Emery Doucet , Sebastian Deffner

For a continuous-time quantum walk on a line the variance of the position observable grows quadratically in time, whereas, for its classical counterpart on the same graph, it exhibits a linear, diffusive, behaviour. A quantum walk, thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-30 Diego de Falco , Dario Tamascelli

We make a systematic theoretical analysis on the quantum interference (QI) effects in various fast-light media (including gain-assisted $N$, gain-assisted ladder-I, and gain-assisted ladder-II atomic systems). We show that such fast-light…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-15 Datang Xu , Chaohua Tan , Guoxiang Huang

Uplift modeling estimates the causal effect of an intervention as the difference between potential outcomes under treatment and control, whereas counterfactual identification aims to recover the joint distribution of these potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Théo Verhelst , Gianluca Bontempi

Randomized experiments have become a cornerstone of evidence-based decision-making in contexts ranging from online platforms to public health. However, in experimental settings with network interference, a unit's treatment can influence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sadegh Shirani , Yuwei Luo , William Overman , Ruoxuan Xiong , Mohsen Bayati

We theoretically analyze the observations reported in a four-path quantum interference experiment via multiple beam Ramsey interference [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 559 (2001)]. In this experiment, a selective scattering of photons from just one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sandeep Mishra , Anu Venugopalan , Tabish Qureshi