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Programmable photonic integrated circuits represent an emerging technology that amalgamates photonics and electronics, paving the way for light-based information processing at high speeds and low power consumption. Considering their wide…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Matthew Markowitz , Kevin Zelaya , Mohammad-Ali Miri

Photonic information processing demands programmable multiport interferometers capable of implementing arbitrary transfer matrices, for which planar meshes of error-sensitive Mach-Zehnder interferometers are usually exploited. We propose an…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-02 Suren A. Fldzhyan , Mikhail Yu. Saygin , Sergei P. Kulik

It is shown that quantum walks on one-dimensional arrays of special linear-optical units allow the simulation of discrete-time Hamiltonian systems with distinct topological phases. In particular, a slightly modified version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

Coherent control of motional degrees of freedom of ultracold atoms in optical lattices offers a promising route towards programmable quantum dynamics with massive particles. We propose and analyze a scheme for implementing coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Alexander Roth , Liyang Qiu , Timon Hilker , Titus Franz , Philipp M. Preiss

In order to provide scalability to quantum information processors utilizing trapped atoms or ions as quantum bits (qubits), the capability to address multiple individual qubits in a large array is needed. Micro-electromechanical systems…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Caleb Knoernschild , Changsoon Kim , Bin Liu , Felix P. Lu , Jungsang Kim

We introduce a novel parameterization of complex unitary matrices, which allows for the efficient photonic implementation of arbitrary linear discrete unitary operators. The proposed architecture is built on factorizing an $N \times N$…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-17 Matthew Markowitz , Mohammad-Ali Miri

A particular type of linear optical multiport, the Grover four-port, has previously been shown to couple the spatial symmetry of a photon to its direction of travel. It is shown here that use of a nonstandard choice of qubit, based on…

Matrix product states (MPS) provide a powerful framework for characterizing one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases of matter and for formulating Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM)-type constraints. Here we generalize the MPS…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-20 Amogh Anakru , Sarvesh Srinivasan , Linhao Li , Zhen Bi

We present an algorithm to solve the Simultaneous Unitary Similarity(S.U.S) problem which is to check if there exists a Similarity transformation determined by a Unitary $U$ s.t $UA_lU^*=B_l$, $l \in \{1,...,p\}$, where $A_l$ and $B_l$ are…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Harikrishna VJ , Vittal Rao , Ramakrishnan K. R

$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is a unique platform for light manipulation and versatile use in unidirectional invisibility, lasing, sensing, etc. Broken and unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric states in non-Hermitian open systems are described by…

We examine noninvertible symmetry (NIS) in one-dimensional (1D) symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases protected by dipolar and exponential-charge symmetries, which are two key examples of modulated SPT (MSPT). To set the stage, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Jintae Kim , Yizhi You , Jung Hoon Han

We theoretically demonstrate a method for producing the maximally path-entangled state (1/Sqrt[2]) (|N,0> + exp[iN phi] |0,N>) using intensity-symmetric multiport beamsplitters, single photon inputs, and either photon-counting postselection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Pryde , A. G. White

The bulk S-Matrix can be given a non-perturbative definition in terms of the flat space limit of AdS/CFT. We show that the unitarity of the S-Matrix, ie the optical theorem, can be derived by studying the behavior of the OPE and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

We study a model for nonperturbative unitarization of the four-point contact scalar amplitude in four dimensions. It is defined through an infinite sum of planar diagrams, constructed using two-particle unitarity and crossing symmetry. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Mehmet Asim Gumus , Damien Leflot , Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

This paper introduces a novel method for compact representation of sets of n-dimensional binary sequences in a form of compact triplets structures (CTS), supposing both logic and arithmetic interpretations of data. Suitable illustration of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-13 V. F. Romanov

The optical beam splitter is a widely-used device in photonics-based quantum information processing. Specifically, linear optical networks demand large numbers of beam splitters for unitary matrix realization. This requirement comes from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shuto Osawa , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

We analyze various quantum phases of ultracold bosonic atoms in a periodic one dimensional optical superlattice. Our studies have been performed using the finite size density matrix renormalization group (FS-DMRG) method in the framework of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Arya Dhar , Tapan Mishra , Ramesh V. Pai , B. P. Das

We propose a framework to describe and simulate a class of many-body quantum states. We do so by considering joint eigenspaces of sets of monomial unitary matrices, called here "M-spaces"; a unitary matrix is monomial if precisely one entry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 Maarten Van den Nest

We construct families of symmetric, antisymmetric, and asymmetric solitary modes in one-dimensional bichromatic lattices with the second-harmonic-generating ($\chi ^{(2)}$) nonlinearity concentrated at a pair of sites placed at distance…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-17 V. A. Brazhnyi , B. A. Malomed

It was observed recently, that the low energy effective action of the four-dimensional supersymmetric theories may be obtained as a certain limit of M Theory. From this point of view, the BPS states correspond to the minimal area membranes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrei Mikhailov