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Recently, there has been increased interest in understanding entanglement and quantum communication in black hole spacetimes and in using quantum information techniques to address questions in gravity. Studies on relativistic entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 E. Martin-Martinez

These notes are from a series of lectures given at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogot\'a, Colombia on some topics of current interest in quantum information. While they aim to be self-contained, they are necessarily incomplete and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Matthias Christandl , Aram W. Harrow , Michael Walter

Three existing interpretations of quantum mechanics, given by Heisenberg, Bohm and Madelung, are examined to describe dissipative quantum systems as well. It is found that the Madelung quantum hydrodynamics is the only correct approach. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Roumen Tsekov

These are lecture notes for a mini-course on stochastic sewing, taught at the University of Edinburgh and Beijing Institute of Technology in Spring/Summer 2025. The aim is to introduce the reader to stochastic sewing techniques and to show…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Oleg Butkovsky

We review of the interface between (theoretical) physics and information for non-experts. The origin of information as related to the notion of entropy is described, first in the context of thermodynamics then in the context of statistical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 F. Alexander Bais , J. Doyne Farmer

This paper explains some fundamental ideas of {\em feedback} control of quantum systems through the study of a relatively simple two-level system coupled to optical field channels. The model for this system includes both continuous and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Matthew James

This paper is a programmatic article presenting an outline of a new view of the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. In short, the proposed foundations are given by the following statements: * Coherent quantum physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Arnold Neumaier

Quantum walks are a promising framework that can be used to both understand and implement quantum information processing tasks. The quantum stochastic walk is a recently developed framework that combines the concept of a quantum walk with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Bruno G. Taketani , Luke C. G. Govia , Frank K. Wilhelm

We show how quantum dynamics can be captured in the state of a quantum system, in such a way that the system can be used to stochastically perform, at a later time, the stored transformation perfectly on some other quantum system. Thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Vidal , L. Masanes , J. I. Cirac

We present a short survey of a novel approach, called "ETH approach", to the quantum theory of events happening in isolated physical systems and to the effective time evolution of states of systems featuring events. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Philippe Blanchard , Juerg Froehlich , Baptiste Schubnel

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement which excludes in principle the singular direct observability continual case. Quantum theory of time continuous measurements and quantum prediction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin

Uncertainty is an important and fundamental concept in physics education. Students are often first exposed to uncertainty in introductory labs, expand their knowledge across lab courses, and then are introduced to quantum mechanical…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-06-30 Andy Schang , Matthew Dew , Emily M. Stump , N. G. Holmes , Gina Passante

The concepts and methods used for the study of disordered systems have proven useful in the analysis of the evolution equations of quantum chromodynamics in the high-energy regime: Indeed, parton branching in the semi-classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-06 Stephane Munier

These are lectures notes prepared for a series of seminars I am invited to give at Princeton Philosophy Department in November 2024. They cover the conceptual structure of quantum gravity, the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Carlo Rovelli

This tutorial introduces a systematic approach for addressing the key question of quantum metrology: For a generic task of sensing an unknown parameter, what is the ultimate precision given a constrained set of admissible strategies. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Qiushi Liu , Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Yuxiang Yang

The goal of this book is to present classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics in an almost completely algebraic setting, thereby introducing mathematicians, physicists, and engineers to the ideas relating classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Arnold Neumaier , Dennis Westra

These are lecture notes for a simple minicourse approaching the satistical properties of a dynamical system by the study of the associated transfer operator (considered on a suitable functions or measures spaces). The following questions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Stefano Galatolo

We outline selected trends and results in theoretical modeling of quantum systems in support of the developing research field of quantum information processing. The resulting modeling tools have been applied to semiconductor materials and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Vladimir Privman

Using the principles of the ETH - Approach to Quantum Mechanics we study fluorescence and the phenomenon of ``quantum jumps'' in idealized models of atoms coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field. In a limiting regime where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Jürg Fröhlich , Zhou Gang , Alessandro Pizzo