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In this paper, we extend the standard formalism of quantum mechanics to a quantum theory for a total system including one internal measuring apparatus. The internality of the measuring apparatus implies that different decomposition of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Wen-ge Wang

Examples of geometric phases abound in many areas of physics. They offer both fundamental insights into many physical phenomena and lead to interesting practical implementations. One of them, as indicated recently, might be an inherently…

A formulation of quantum mechanics based on an operational definition of state is presented. This formulation, which includes explicitly the macroscopic systems, assumes the probabilistic interpretation and is nevertheless objective. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Medina

We investigate the notion of quasi-invariant states introduced in [2, 3] from an analytic viewpoint.We give the structures of quasi-invariant states with uniformly bounded cocycles. As a consequence, we can apply a Theorem of Kovacs and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ameur Dhahri , Eric Ricard

We provide a rate distortion interpretation of the problem of quantum data compression of ensembles of mixed states with commuting density operators. There are two versions of this problem. In the visible case the sequence of states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Kramer , Serap A. Savari

New status in quantum mechanics is connected with recent achievements in the inverse problem. With its help instead of about ten exactly solvable models which serve as a basis of the contemporary education there are infinite (!) number,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

The main subject of the paper is the description of unstable states in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Unstable states in quantum field theory can only be introduced as the intermediate states and not as asymptotic states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr Kielanowski

We illustrate through numerical results a number of features of environment-induced decoherence under a broad class of apparatus-environment interactions in quantum measurements wherein the reduced system-apparatus density matrix evolves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Avijit Lahiri

Observational entropy captures both the intrinsic uncertainty of a thermodynamic state and the lack of knowledge due to coarse-graining. We demonstrate two interpretations of observational entropy, one as the statistical deficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Ge Bai , Dominik Šafránek , Joseph Schindler , Francesco Buscemi , Valerio Scarani

The questions we raise in this letter are as follows: What is the most general representation of a quantum state at a single point in time? Can we adapt the current formalisms to situations where the order of quantum operations is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Onur Pusuluk , Zafer Gedik , Vlatko Vedral

Quantum incompatibility, referred as the phenomenon that some quantum measurements cannot be performed simultaneously, is necessary for various quantum information processing tasks, such as nonlocality and steering. When these applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Xiaolin Zhang , Rui Qu , Zehong Chang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenyu Guo , Min An , Hong Gao , Fuli Li , Pei Zhang

We introduce algebraic sets in the products of complex projective spaces for the mixed states in multipartite quantum systems as their invariants under local unitary operations. The algebraic sets have to be the union of the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hao Chen

Applications of quantum mechanics have led to many successful predictions and explanations of puzzling phenomena, and we now apply quantum mechanics to gain, process, and communicate information in novel ways. We can understand quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Richard Healey

We ask what type of mixed quantum states can arise when a number of separated parties start by sharing a pure quantum state and then this pure state becomes contaminated by noise. We show that not all mixed states arise in this way. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Henderson , N. Linden , S. Popescu

State representations summarize our knowledge about a system. When unobservable quantities are introduced the state representation is typically no longer unique. However, this non-uniqueness does not affect subsequent inferences based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kae Nemoto , Samuel L. Braunstein

An addition rule of impure density operators, which provides a pure state density operator, is formulated. Quantum interference including visibility property is discussed in the context of the density operator formalism. A measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir I Man'ko , Giuseppe Marmo , E C George Sudarshan , Francesco Zaccaria

We discuss a model for quantum computing with initially mixed states. Although such a computer is known to be less powerful than a quantum computer operating with pure (entangled) states, it may efficiently solve some problems for which no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael Siomau , Stephan Fritzsche

In this paper, we introduce a mixed form of ambiguous and unambiguous quantum state discriminations, and show that the mixed form has higher success probability than the unambiguous quantum state discriminations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Sunho Kim , Junde Wu , Minhyung Cho

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition in a quantum system, and is the reason and resource behind several phenomena and technologies. It depends on the natural basis in which the quantum state of the system is expressed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Ingita Banerjee , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

We present a method for describing and characterizing the state of N particles that may be distinguishable in principle but not in practice due to experimental limitations. The technique relies upon a careful treatment of the exchange…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 R. B. A. Adamson , P. S. Turner , M. W. Mitchell , A. M. Steinberg