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Compactons are solutions of the equations of motion that behave trivially outside a compact region. In general, the operators describing quantum fluctuations above compactons have singularities. However, we show that despite these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-20 D. Bazeia , D. V. Vassilevich

Integrable quantum computation is defined as quantum computing via the integrable condition, in which two-qubit gates are either nontrivial unitary solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation or the Swap gate (permutation). To make the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Yong Zhang

We identify instantons representing vacuum decay in a 6-dimensional toy model for string theory flux compactifications, with the two extra dimensions compactified on a sphere. We evaluate the instanton action for tunneling between different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Delia Schwartz-Perlov , Alexander Vilenkin

Turbulence is characterized by a large number of degrees of freedom, distributed over several length scales, that result into a disordered state of a fluid. The field of quantum turbulence deals with the manifestation of turbulence in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-29 L. Madeira , M. A. Caracanhas , F. E. A. dos Santos , V. S. Bagnato

We outline how unstable quantum fluctuations decohere classical fields in heavy ion collisions, leading to an equation of state and hydrodynamics. Explicit numerical realization of this framework in a scalar $\phi^4$ theory demonstrates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-24 Kevin Dusling , Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

We present a framework for quantifying information flow within general quantum processes. For this purpose, we introduce the signaling power of quantum channels and discuss its relevant operational properties. This function supports…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Leonardo S. V. Santos , Zhen-Peng Xu , Jyrki Piilo , Otfried Gühne

A phase space mathematical formulation of quantum mechanical processes accompanied by and ontological interpretation is presented in an axiomatic form. The problem of quantum measurement, including that of quantum state filtering, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniela Dragoman

We extract the information of a quantum motion and decode it into a certain orbit via a single measurable quantity. Such that a quantum chaotic system can be reconstructed as a chaotic attractor. Two configurations for reconstructing this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Nan Yang , Xuedong Hu , Yong-Chun Liu , Ting Yu , Franco Nori

A system of quantum computing structures is introduced and proven capable of making emerge, on average, the orbits of classical bounded nonlinear maps on \mathbb{C} through the iterative action of path-dependent quantum gates. The effects…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-14 Carlos Pedro Gonçalves

Chaos criterion for quantum field theory is proposed. Its accordance with classical chaos criterion is demonstrated in the semi-classical limit of quantum mechanics.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Kuvshinov , A. V. Kuzmin

In this paper we propose, discuss and illustrate a computationally feasible definition of chaos which can be applied very generally to situations that are commonly encountered, including attractors, repellers and non-periodically forced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-29 Brian R. Hunt , Edward Ott

The decay of quasi-stable quantum system involves primarily an outgoing probability current density. However, during the transition from exponential to inverse-power-law decay there are time intervals during which this current, although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Wytse van Dijk , F. Masafumi Toyama

Quantum dots are small conducting devices containing up to several thousand electrons. We focus here on closed dots whose single-electron dynamics are mostly chaotic. The mesoscopic fluctuations of the conduction properties of such dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Alhassid

A two-dimensional quantum system with anyonic excitations can be considered as a quantum computer. Unitary transformations can be performed by moving the excitations around each other. Measurements can be performed by joining excitations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Yu. Kitaev

A unified theory of phase transitions and quantum effects in quantum anharmonic crystals is presented. In its framework, the relationship between these two phenomena is analyzed. The theory is based on the representation of the model Gibbs…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alina Kargol , Yuri Kondratiev , Yuri Kozitsky

The split step quantum walk for two noninteracting particles is numerically simulated. The entropy of entanglement and spatial particle distributions are calculated for a range of initial states and for a range of disorder. The impact of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Samuel Huberman

Quantum backflow refers to the counterintuitive fact that the probability can flow in the direction opposite to the momentum of a quantum particle. This phenomenon has been seen to be small and fragile for one-dimensional systems, in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Maximilien Barbier , Arseni Goussev , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

We introduce information-theoretic definitions for noise and disturbance in quantum measurements and prove a state-independent noise-disturbance tradeoff relation that these quantities have to satisfy in any conceivable setup. Contrary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Francesco Buscemi , Michael J. W. Hall , Masanao Ozawa , Mark M. Wilde

This paper studies the decay of a large, closed domain wall in a closed universe. Such walls can form in the presence of a broken, discrete symmetry. We introduce a novel process of quantum decay for such a wall, in which the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Shawn J. Kolitch , Douglas M. Eardley

In a previous paper [1], it was shown that the worldline expression for the nonperturbative imaginary part of the QED effective action can be approximated by the contribution of a special closed classical path in Euclidean spacetime, known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald V. Dunne , Holger Gies , Christian Schubert , Qing-hai Wang