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The persistence of sub-Planck structure in phase space with loss of coherence is demonstrated in a mixed state, which comprises two terms in the density matrix. Its utility in carrying out Heisenberg-limited measurement and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Asmita Kumari , A. K. Pan , P. K. Panigrahi

We introduce two- and one-dimensional (2D and 1D) systems of two linearly-coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) with the cubic self-attraction and harmonic-oscillator (HO) trapping potential in each GPE. The system models a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-03 Zhaopin Chen , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed , Luca Salasnich

We describe recent progress in our understanding of the interplay between interactions, symmetry, and topology in states of quantum matter. We focus on a minimal generalization of the celebrated topological band insulators to interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 T. Senthil

Symmetries are intrinsic to many combinatorial problems including Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Constraint Programming (CP). In SAT, the identification of symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) is a well-known, often effective, technique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joao Marques-Silva , Ines Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

For quantum field theories with global symmetry, we can study the behavior of the partition function with the background gauge field to diagnose different quantum phases. For the case of discrete symmetries, we find that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Jun Maeda , Yuya Tanizaki

Beginning with Anderson (1972), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in infinite quantum systems is often put forward as an example of (asymptotic) emergence in physics, since in theory no finite system should display it. Even the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 N. P. Landsman

Quantum states picked from non-trivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases have computational power in measurement based quantum computation. This power is uniform across SPT phases, and is unlocked by measurements that break the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Arnab Adhikary , Wang Yang , Robert Raussendorf

Open quantum systems host mixed-state phases that go beyond the symmetry-protected topological and spontaneous symmetry-breaking paradigms established for closed, pure-state systems. Developing a unified and physically transparent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yuchen Guo , Shuo Yang

Symmetry is an important property of quantum mechanical systems which may dramatically influence their behavior in and out of equilibrium. In this paper, we study the effect of symmetry on tripartite entanglement properties of typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Kasra Hejazi , Hassan Shapourian

Spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism in quantum phase transitions manifests the existence of degenerate groundstates in broken symmetry phases. To detect such degenerate groundstates, we introduce a quantum fidelity as an overlap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-11 Yao Heng Su , Bing-Quan Hu , Sheng-Hao Li , Sam Young Cho

In this paper, we study coherence-induced state ordering with Tsallis relative entropy of coherence, relative entropy of coherence and $l_{1}$ norm of coherence. Firstly, we show that these measures give the same ordering for single-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-10 Fu-Gang Zhang , Yongming Li

Recently it was shown that by means of an STM it is experimentally possible to stimulate clock transitions between the singlet and the non-magnetic triplet state of a Heisenberg-coupled spin dimer (Bae et al., Science Advances 4, eaau4159).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 P. Vorndamme , J. Schnack

Artificial quantum systems with synthetic dimensions enable exploring novel quantum phenomena difficult to create in conventional materials. These synthetic degrees of freedom increase the system's dimensionality without altering its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexey Gorlach , Andrea Pizzi , Klaus Mølmer , Joseph Avron , Mordechai Segev , Ido Kaminer

In this paper we consider the simplified form that a recently introduced general operator description of the Hubbard model on the square lattice with $N_a^2\gg 1$ sites, effective transfer integral $t$, and onsite repulsion $U$ has in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-14 J. P. Carmelo

Pure states are fundamental for the implementation of quantum technologies, and several methods for the purification of the state of a quantum system S have been developed in the past years. In this letter we present a new approach, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raffaele Romano

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when modes of asymmetric profile appear in a symmetric, double-well potential, due to the nonlinearity of the potential exceeding a critical value. In this study, we examine SSB in a periodic…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-21 Ruihan Peng , Qidong Fu , Yejia Chen , Weidong Luo , Changming Huang , Fangwei Ye

We reveal the connection between two-dimensional subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) states and two-dimensional topological orders via a self-dual frustrated toric code model. This model, an enrichment of the toric code (TC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-28 Shi Feng

The decoherence of a quantum system $S$ coupled to a quantum environment $E$ is considered. For states chosen uniformly at random from the unit hypersphere in the Hilbert space of the closed system $S+E$ we derive a scaling relationship for…

In dissipative quantum systems, strong symmetries can lead to the existence of conservation laws and multiple steady states. In this work we investigate a strong symmetry for bosonic atoms coupled to an optical cavity, an experimentally…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-15 Catalin-Mihai Halati , Ameneh Sheikhan , Corinna Kollath

Pure states are usually used to observe quantum phenomena. In this study, we show that a quantum superposition of spatially displaced mixed cat states can be generated within an optical waveguide via nonparaxial unitary evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 N. I. Petrov