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Discrete time crystals (DTCs) are novel out-of-equilibrium quantum states of matter which break time translational symmetry. DTCs have been extensively realized in experiments, particularly their subclass that is characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Tianqi Chen , Ruizhe Shen , Ching Hua Lee , Bo Yang , Raditya Weda Bomantara

Notoriously, the Einstein equations of general relativity have solutions in which closed timelike curves (CTCs) occur. On these curves time loops back onto itself, which has exotic consequences. However, in order to make time travel stories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Ruward A. Mulder , Dennis Dieks

We analyze how the presence of closed timelike curves (CTCs) characterizing a time machine can be discerned by placing a local particle detector in a region of spacetime which is causally disconnected from the CTCs. Our study shows that not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Erickson Tjoa , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We propose an approach to reconstruct any superconducting charge qubit state by using quantum state tomography. This procedure requires a series of measurements on a large enough number of identically prepared copies of the quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu-xi Liu , L. F. Wei , Franco Nori

Periodically driven quantum systems manifest various non-equilibrium features which are absent at equilibrium. For example, discrete time-translation symmetry can be broken in periodically driven quantum systems leading to an exotic phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 C. M. Dai , Z. C. Gu , X. X. Yi

A discrete time crystal (DTC) is a robust phase of driven systems that breaks the discrete time translation symmetry of the driving Hamiltonian. Recent experiments have observed DTC signatures in two distinct systems. Here we show nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Jared Rovny , Robert L. Blum , Sean E. Barrett

Tomographic reconstruction of quantum states plays a fundamental role in benchmarking quantum systems and accessing information encoded in quantum-mechanical systems. Among the informationally complete sets of quantum measurements, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Victor Gonzalez Avella , Jakub Czartowski , Dardo Goyeneche , Karol Życzkowski

Space-time is one of the most essential, yet most mysterious concepts in physics. In quantum mechanics it is common to understand time as a marker of instances of evolution and define states around all the space but at one time; while in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Tian Zhang , Oscar Dahlsten , Vlatko Vedral

Discrete (DTCs) and continuous time crystals (CTCs) are novel dynamical many-body states, that are characterized by robust self-sustained oscillations, emerging via spontaneous breaking of discrete or continuous time translation symmetry.…

The measurement procedures used in quantum teleportation are analyzed from the viewpoint of the general theory of quantum-mechanical measurements. It is shown that to find the teleported state one should only know the identity resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Molotkov , S. S. Nazin

We consider non-Gaussian states generated by photon subtraction (PS) and photon addition (PA) on two-mode squeezed coherent (TMSC) states, as resource states for continuous variable (CV) quantum teleportation (QT). To this end, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Shikhar Arora , Chandan Kumar , Arvind

Quantum mechanics allows the existence of "virtual states" that have no classical analogue. Such virtual states defy direct observation through strong measurement, which would destroy the volatile virtual state. Here we show how a virtual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

A recent paper from Brun et al. has argued that access to a closed timelike curve (CTC) would allow for the possibility of perfectly distinguishing nonorthogonal quantum states. This result can be used to develop a protocol for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Lucas Dunlap

Quantum teleportation of an unknown state basing on the interaction between discrete-valued states (DV) and continuous-valued states (CV) presented a particular challenge in quantum technologies. Here we consider the problem of controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 M. El Kirdi , A. Slaoui , N. Ikken , M. Daoud , R. Ahl Laamara

We show that a quantum state transfer, previously studied as a continuous time process in networks of interacting spins, can be achieved within the model of discrete time quantum walks with position dependent coin. We argue that due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Pawel Kurzynski , Antoni Wojcik

Discrete time-crystals are periodically driven quantum many-body systems with broken discrete-time translational symmetry, a non-equilibrium steady state representing self-organization of motion of quantum particles. Observations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

In this paper we present the two-state vector formalism of quantum mechanics. It is a time-symmetrized approach to standard quantum theory particularly helpful for the analysis of experiments performed on pre- and post-selected ensembles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-10 Yakir Aharonov , Lev Vaidman

We propose and analyze quantum state estimation (tomography) using continuous quantum measurements with resource limitations, allowing the global state of many qubits to be constructed from only measuring a few. We give a proof-of-principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Areeya Chantasri , Shengshi Pang , Teerawat Chalermpusitarak , Andrew N. Jordan

We study the capacity of a quantum channel for retrocausal communication, where messages are transmitted backward in time, from a sender in the future to a receiver in the past, through a noisy postselected closed timelike curve (P-CTC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Kaiyuan Ji , Seth Lloyd , Mark M. Wilde

We define a new quantity we call a ctcbit that provides a means for quantifying a qubit on a closed time-like curve (CTC) as a shared resource. We describe a simple protocol for the sharing of information that is similar to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-25 Ian T. Durham