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In this work, we simulate the behavior of photons in a laboratory experiment using a quantum computer and examine how the simulation results compare with the theoretical predictions. The experiment involves both protective and…

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In this chapter we explore the connection between mesoscopic physics and quantum computing. After giving a bibliography providing a general introduction to the subject of quantum information processing, we review the various approaches that…

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Spin is commonly thought to reflect the true quantum nature of microphysics. We show that spin is related to intrinsic and field-like properties of single particles. These properties change continuously in external magnetic fields.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Hofer

Modern imaging technologies are widely based on classical principles of light or electromagnetic wave propagation. They can be remarkably sophisticated, with recent successes ranging from single molecule microscopy to imaging far-distant…

The difficult issues related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics and, in particular, the "measurement problem" are revisited using as motivation the process of generation of structure from quantum fluctuations in inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-25 Mario Castagnino , Sebastian Fortin , Roberto Laura , Daniel Sudarsky

Over the past six years, a detailed framework has been constructed to unravel the quantum nature of the Riemannian geometry of physical space. A review of these developments is presented at a level which should be accessible to graduate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar

Examination of the Einstein energy-momentum relationship suggests that simple unbound forms of matter exist in a four-dimensional Euclidean space. Position, momentum, velocity, and other vector quantities can be expressed as Euclidean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul J. Freitas

The association of the variational method with supersymmetric quantum mechanics through an ansatz for the superpotential is reviewed and the approximate energy spectra of non-exactly solvable potentials, such like the Hulthen, the Morse and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Elso Drigo filho , Regina Maria Ricotta

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

A sketch is given of a circle of ideas relating quantum field theories with representation theory. The main mathematical ingredients are spinor geometry and the gauge group equivariant K-theory of the space of connections.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Woit

In this paper, we will assume that the structure picture of the rotation angles will be changed according to the scale of measurement (minimum measurable angle) and if we have a device with very high accuracy (high resolution) then we can…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ahmad Adel Abutaleb

We review some connections between quantum information and statistical mechanics. We focus on three sets of results for classical spin models. First, we show that the partition function of all classical spin models (including models in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Gemma De las Cuevas

We introduce new representations to formulate quantum mechanics on noncommutative phase space, in which both coordinate-coordinate and momentum-momentum are noncommutative. These representations explicitly display entanglement properties…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 Si-Cong Jing , Bing-Sheng Lin

We study the classical mechanics and dynamics of particles that retains some memory of quantum statistics. Our work builds on earlier work on the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of such particles. Starting from the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Varsha Subramanyan , T. H. Hansson , Smitha Vishveshwara

Aiming at providing an objective motion picture for the microscopic object described by the wave function, new analysis about motion is presented by use of the point set theory in mathematics, through which we show that a new kind of motion…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gao Shan

Quantum machine learning techniques have been proposed as a way to potentially enhance performance in machine learning applications. In this paper, we introduce two new quantum methods for neural networks. The first one is a quantum…

In view of experimentally obtainable resolutions, equal to the Compton wavelength of an electron, the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics no longer seems to provide a sufficiently subtle tool. Based on the intrinsic properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 W. a. Hofer

The minimal-length paradigm is a cornerstone of quantum gravity phenomenology. Recently, it has been demonstrated that minimal-length quantum mechanics can alternatively be described as an undeformed theory set on a nontrivial momentum…

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The supposed equivalence of the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics with Bohm's interpretation is generally demonstrated only in the coordinate representation. It is shown, however, that in the momentum representation this…

General Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Michael Nauenberg

We provide a compendium of the quantum mechanical equations for photon emission rates, photon absorption cross sections, and photon scattering cross sections. For each case, the different equations that apply for discrete or continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Rainer Dick