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Various dualities are summarized. Based on the universal wave-particle duality, along an opposite direction of the developed quantum mechanics, we use a method where the wave quantities frequency and wave length are replaced on various…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 Yi-Fang Chang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of simulating open system dynamics governed by the well-known Lindblad master equation. In our prequel paper, we introduced an input model in which Lindblad operators are encoded into pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

In quantum systems, purification can map mixed states into pure states and a non-unitary evolution into a unitary one by enlarging the Hilbert space. We establish a connection between the complexities of mixed quantum states and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Rathindra Nath Das , Takato Mori

This paper proposes an experiment designed to distinguish between competing interpretations of quantum mechanics: those that involve wave function collapse and those that assume purely unitary evolution. The experiment tests whether an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Peter Renkel

Unitarity of the global evolution is an extremely stringent condition on finite state models in discrete spacetime. Quantum cellular automata, in particular, are tightly constrained. In previous work we proved a simple No-go Theorem which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 David A. Meyer

We consider a graph with a single quantum system at each node. The entire compound system evolves in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution $U$. We require that this global evolution $U$ be unitary, in accordance with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme , Reinhard Werner

The quantum master equation is a widespread approach to describing open quantum system dynamics. In this approach, the effect of the environment on the system evolution is entirely captured by the dynamical generator, providing a compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Jan Kolodynski , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Marti Perarnau-Llobet , Bogna Bylicka

A formalism is presented in which quantum particle dynamics can be developed on its own rather than `quantization' of an underlying classical theory. It is proposed that the unification of probability and dynamics should be considered as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tulsi Dass

In this paper we give a method to associate a graph with an arbitrary density matrix referred to a standard orthonormal basis in the Hilbert space of a finite dimensional quantum system. We study the related issues like classification of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Ali Saif M. Hassan , Pramod Joag

The relation between the dynamical properties of a coupled quasiparticle-oscillator system in the mixed quantum-classical and fully quantized descriptions is investigated. The system is considered to serve as a model system for applying a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Schanz , Bernd Esser

We establish the conditions under which a conservation law associated with a non-invertible operator may be realized as a symmetry in quantum physics. As established by Wigner, all quantum symmetries must be represented by either unitary or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Gerardo Ortiz , Chinmay Giridhar , Philipp Vojta , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy , Zohar Nussinov

While a pure quantum state may accumulate both the Berry phase and dynamic phase as it undergoes a cyclic path in the parameter space, the situation is more complicated when mixed quantum states are considered. From the Ulhmann bundle, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Hao Guo , Xu-Yang Hou , Yan He , Chih-Chun Chien

The interaction between two parts in a compound quantum system may be reconsidered more completely than before and some new understandings and conclusions different from current quantum mechanics are obtained, including the conservation law…

General Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 Tian-Hai Zeng

We provide theory, algorithms, and simulations of non-equilibrium quantum systems using a one-dimensional (1D) completely-positive (CP), matrix-product (MP) density-operator ($\rho$) representation. By generalizing the matrix product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Amit Jamadagni , Eugene Dumitrescu

k-uniform mixed states are a significant class of states characterized by all k-party reduced states being maximally mixed. Novel methodologies are constructed for constructing k-uniform mixed states with the highest possible purity. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Xiao Zhang , Shanqi Pang , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhu-Jun Zheng

The state matrix $\rho$ for an open quantum system with Markovian evolution obeys a master equation. The master equation evolution can be unraveled into stochastic nonlinear trajectories for a pure state $P$, such that on average $P$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 H. M. Wiseman , L. Diosi

Unitary transformations can allow one to study open quantum systems in situations for which standard, weak-coupling type approximations are not valid. We develop here an extension of the variational (polaron) transformation approach to open…

The distinction between pure states and mixed states is a kernel ingredient of what is considered to be the standard formulation of quantum mechanics and plays today a kernel role in foundational debates about the meaning of quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Christian de Ronde , César Massri

Geometric effects make evolution time vary for different evolution curves that connect the same two quantum states. Thus, it is important to be able to control along which path a quantum state evolve to achieve maximal speed in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

The problem of quantifying the difference between evolutions of an open quantum system (in particular, between the actual evolution of an open system and the ideal target operation on the corresponding closed system) is important in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Robert L. Kosut , Constantin Brif , Herschel Rabitz