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Modal interpretations constitute a particular approach to associating dynamical variables with physical systems in quantum mechanics. Given the `quantum logical' constraints that are typically adopted by such interpretations, only certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. Spekkens , J. E. Sipe

We introduce two methods for estimating the density matrix for a quantum system: Quantum Maximum Likelihood and Quantum Variational Inference. In these methods, we construct a variational family to model the density matrix of a mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 Kyle Cranmer , Siavash Golkar , Duccio Pappadopulo

Modelling quantum devices is to find a model according to quantum theory that can explain the result of experiments in a quantum device. We find that usually we cannot correctly identify the model describing the actual physics of the device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Hang Ren , Ying Li

Using the Bloch representation of an N-dimensional quantum system and immediate results from quantum stochastic calculus, we establish a closed formula for the Bloch vector, hence also for the density operator, of a quantum system following…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Salgado , J. L. Sanchez-Gomez

The generation of arbitrary single-mode quantum states from the vacuum by alternate coherent displacement and photon adding as well as the measurement of the overlap of a signal with an arbitrarily chosen quantum state are studied. With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 J. Clausen , M. Dakna , L. Knoell , D. -G. Welsch

We present a general formalism for charecterizing 2-time quantum states, describing pre- and post-selected quantum systems. The most general 2-time state is characterized by a `density vector' that is independent of measurements performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Ralph Silva , Yelena Guryanova , Nicolas Brunner , Noah Linden , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

We formulate and investigate a statistical inverse problem of a random tomographic nature, where a probability density function on $\mathbb{R}^3$ is to be recovered from observation of finitely many of its two-dimensional projections in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Victor M. Panaretos

The review of star-product formalism providing the possibility to describe quantum states and quantum observables by means of the functions called symbols of operators which are obtained by means of bijective maps of the operators acting in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 S. N. Belolipetskiy , V. N. Chernega , O. V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

The expression for the density operator of the damped harmonic oscillator is derived from the master equation in the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. Then the von Neumann entropy and effective temperature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Isar

We consider a class of quantum dissipative systems governed by a one parameter completely positive maps on a von-Neumann algebra. We introduce a notion of recurrent and metastable projections for the dynamics and prove that the unit…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anilesh Mohari

We present a quantum Monte-Carlo simulation for a pumped atom in a strong coupling cavity with dissipation, where two ordered spatial modes are formed for the atomic probability density, with the peaks distributed either only in the odd…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhen Fang , Baoguo Yang , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

Decompositions of the unitary group U(n) are useful tools in quantum information theory as they allow one to decompose unitary evolutions into local evolutions and evolutions causing entanglement. Several recursive decompositions have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mehmet Dagli , Domenico D'Alessandro , Jonathan D. H. Smith

Based on ideas of R.W. Cross, a simplified proof is presented of the density invariance of certain operational quantities associated with bounded linear operators in normed vector spaces.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael K. Kinyon

The objective of this work is to develop a recursive, discrete time quantum filtering equation for a system that interacts with a probe, on which measurements are performed according to the Positive Operator Valued Measures (POVMs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Ram A. Somaraju , Alain Sarlette , Hugo Thienpont

Evolution of charged quantum fields under the action of constant nonuniform electric fields is studied. To this end we construct a special generating functional for density operators of the quantum fields with different initial conditions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-25 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. A. Shishmarev

Standard methods of the theory of permanent state reduction are shown to offer an alternative realization of Omn\`es' project. Our proposal, as simple as Omn\`es' one, possesses closed master equation for the ensemble density operator,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diósi

We describe rigorous quantum measurement theory in the Heisenberg picture by applying operator deformation techniques previously used in noncommutative quantum field theory. This enables the conventional observables (represented by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Andreas Andersson

Incommensurate structures arise from stacking single layers of low-dimensional materials on top of one another with misalignment such as an in-plane twist in orientation. While these structures are of significant physical interest, they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Ting Wang , Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou , Daniel Massatt

We describe a technique for self consistently characterizing both the quantum state of a single qubit system, and the positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) that describes measurements on the system. The method works with only ten…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 A. Stephens , J. M. Cutshall , T. McPhee , M. Beck

We define a new measurement of entanglement, the entanglement of projection, and find that it is natural to write the entanglements of formation and assistance in terms of it. Our measure allows us to describe a new class of quantum erasers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert Garisto , Lucien Hardy