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We employ quantum mechanical principles in the computability exploration of the class of classically noncomputable Hilbert's tenth problem which is equivalent to the Turing halting problem in Computer Science. The Quantum Adiabatic Theorem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tien D Kieu

We have obtained explicit analytical formulas for the mean energy and its variance (characterizing the energy fluctuations) of a quantum harmonic oscillator with time-dependent frequency in the adiabatic regimes after the frequency passes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Viktor V. Dodonov , Alexandre V. Dodonov

By assuming that a particle of energy hbar.omega is actually a dissipative system maintained in a nonequilibrium steady state by a constant throughput of energy (heat flow), the exact Schroedinger equation is derived, both for conservative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-02 Gerhard Groessing

Recently, some quantum algorithms have been implemented by quantum adiabatic evolutions. In this paper, we discuss the accurate relation between the running time and the distance of the initial state and the final state of a kind of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

Quantum theory is formulated as the only consistent way to manipulate probability amplitudes. The crucial ingredient is a consistency constraint: if there are two different ways to compute an amplitude the two answers must agree. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

It has been recently argued that adiabatic quantum optimization would fail in solving NP-complete problems because of the occurrence of exponentially small gaps due to crossing of local minima of the final Hamiltonian with its global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Neil G. Dickson , M. H. S. Amin

We study the adiabatic approximation of the dynamics of a bipartite quantum system with respect to one of the components, when the coupling between its two components is perturbative. We show that the density matrix of the considered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 David Viennot , Lucile Aubourg

We discuss the application of the adiabatic perturbation theory to analyze the dynamics in various systems in the limit of slow parametric changes of the Hamiltonian. We first consider a two-level system and give an elementary derivation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. De Grandi , A. Polkovnikov

We investigate the quantum mechanics of a single particle constrained to move along an arbitrary smooth reference curve by a confinement that is allowed to vary along the waveguide. The Schr\"odinger equation is evaluated in the adapted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 J. Stockhofe , P. Schmelcher

The adiabatic theorem is one of the most interesting and significant theorems in quantum mechanics. However, the adiabatic theorem can fail for general non-Hermitian quantum systems. In this paper, by utilizing the complex geometric phase,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Minyi Huang , Ray-Kuang Lee

Quantum theory is formulated as the uniquely consistent way to manipulate probability amplitudes. The crucial ingredient is a consistency constraint: if the amplitude of a quantum process can be computed in two different ways, the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ariel Caticha

The adiabatic quantum computation is a universal and robust method of quantum computing. In this architecture, the problem can be solved by adiabatically evolving the quantum processor from the ground state of a simple initial Hamiltonian…

We develop the constrained adiabatic trajectory method (CATM) which allows one to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation constraining the dynamics to a single Floquet eigenstate, as if it were adiabatic. This constrained Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 A. Leclerc , S. Guérin , G. Jolicard , J. P. Killingbeck

Quantum work fluctuation theorems are known to hold when the work is defined as the difference between the outcomes of projective measurements carried out on the Hamiltonian of the system at the initial and the final time instants of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-20 Sourabh Lahiri , Subhashish Banerjee , A. M. Jayannavar

We review mathematical results concerning exponentially small corrections to adiabatic approximations and Born--Oppenheimer approximations.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

In quantum adiabatic algorithm, as the adiabatic parameter $s(t)$ changes slowly from zero to one with finite rate, a transition to excited states inevitably occurs and this induces an intrinsic computational error. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Hongye Hu , Biao Wu

This study looks at the finite-dimensional adiabatic evolution influenced by weak perturbations, extending the analysis to the asymptotic time limit. Beginning with the fundamentals of adiabatic transformations and time-dependent effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Zsolt Szabó , Kazuya Yuasa , Daniel Burgarth

We prove the existence of a unitary transformation that enables two arbitrarily given Hamiltonians in the same Hilbert space to be transformed into one another. The result is straightforward yet, for example, it lays the foundation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Lian-Ao Wu , Dvira Segal

According to the quantum adiabatic theorem, we can in principle obtain a true vacuum of a quantum system starting from a trivial vacuum of a simple Hamiltonian. In actual adiabatic digital quantum simulation with finite time length and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Kazuto Oshima

The quantum-mechanical state vector is not directly observable even though it is the fundamental variable that appears in Schrodinger's equation. In conventional time-dependent perturbation theory, the state vector must be calculated before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. Franson , Michelle M. Donegan