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A ring resonator involves a scattering process where a part of the output is fed again into the input. The same formal structure is encountered in the problem of time travel in a neighborhood of a closed timelike curve (CTC). We know how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Marek Czachor

We present a cross-language C++/Python program for simulations of quantum mechanical systems with the use of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We describe a system for which to apply QMC, the algorithms of variational Monte Carlo and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Nilsen

This is the manual of the first version of QEDtool, an object-oriented Python package that performs numerical quantum electrodynamics calculations, with focus on full state reconstruction in the internal degrees of freedom, correlations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Jesse Smeets , Preslav Asenov , Alessio Serafini

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

We study the paradoxical aspects of closed time-like curves and their impact on the theory of computation. After introducing the $\text{TM}_\text{CTC}$, a classical Turing machine benefiting CTCs for backward time travel, Aaronson et al.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Sara Babaee Khanehsar , Farzad Didehvar

TEMPO (Time-dependent Evolution of Multiple Pulse Operations) offers accessible and efficient simulations of pulse sequences in Python, using the suite of master equation solvers available in the Quantum Toolbox in Python (QuTiP). It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jner Tzern Oon , Sonja A. Hakala , George A. Witt , Ronald Walsworth

We investigate the relationship between computation and spacetime structure, focussing on the role of closed timelike curves (CTCs) in promoting computational speedup. We note first that CTC traversal can be interpreted in two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-08 Mike Stannett

Quantum computer programming is emerging as a new subject domain from multidisciplinary research in quantum computing, computer science, mathematics (especially quantum logic, lambda calculi, and linear logic), and engineering attempts to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Donald A. Sofge

We construct a metrology experiment in which the metrologist can sometimes amend her input state by simulating a closed timelike curve, a worldline that travels backward in time. The existence of closed timelike curves is hypothetical.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur , Aidan G. McConnell , Nicole Yunger Halpern

Truly concurrent process algebras are generalizations to the traditional process algebras for true concurrency, CTC to CCS, APTC to ACP, $\pi_{tc}$ to $\pi$ calculus, APPTC to probabilistic process algebra. Now, it is the time to utilize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yong Wang

This paper describes the VARTOOLS program, which is an open-source command-line utility, written in C, for analyzing astronomical time-series data, especially light curves. The program provides a general-purpose set of tools for processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-24 Joel D. Hartman , Gáspár Á Bakos

Software bugs typically result from errors in specifications or code translation. While classical software engineering has evolved with various tools and methodologies to tackle such bugs, the emergence of quantum computing presents unique…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mushahid Khan , Prashant J. Nair , Olivia Di Matteo

Although it will be a while before a practical quantum computer is available, there is no need to hold off. Methods and algorithms are being developed to demonstrate the feasibility of running machine learning (ML) pipelines in QC (Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Prabhat Santi , Kamakhya Mishra , Sibabrata Mohanty

There are a number of different phenomena in the early universe that have to be studied numerically with lattice simulations. This paper presents a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated Python program called PyCOOL that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jani Sainio

Quantum computing (QC) is a new computational paradigm whose foundations relate to quantum physics. Notable progress has been made, driving the birth of a series of quantum-based algorithms that take advantage of quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Yehui Tang , Junchi Yan , Hancock Edwin

Grounded theory (GT) is a qualitative research method for building theory grounded in data. GT uses textual and numeric data and follows various stages of coding or tagging data for sense-making, such as open coding and selective coding.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Bell Raj Eapen , Norm Archer , Kamran Sartipi

PyRQA is a software package that efficiently conducts recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) on time series consisting of more than one million data points. RQA is a method from non-linear time series analysis that quantifies the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-03 Tobias Rawald , Mike Sips , Norbert Marwan

One way to study the physical plausibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is to examine their computational power. This has been done for Deutschian CTCs (D-CTCs) and post-selection CTCs (P-CTCs), with the result that they allow for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mateus Araújo , Philippe Allard Guérin , Ämin Baumeler

We study the power of closed timelike curves (CTCs) and other nonlinear extensions of quantum mechanics for distinguishing nonorthogonal states and speeding up hard computations. If a CTC-assisted computer is presented with a labeled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Charles H. Bennett , Debbie Leung , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

Small and wide angle x-ray scattering tensor tomography are powerful methods for studying anisotropic nanostructures in a volume-resolved manner, and are becoming increasingly available to users of synchrotron facilities. The analysis of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-24 Leonard C. Nielsen , Mads Carlsen , Sici Wang , Arthur Baroni , Torne Tänzer , Marianne Liebi , Paul Erhart