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Arxiv:Quant-Ph/0105127V3 19 Jun 2003
DECOHERENCE, EINSELECTION, AND THE QUANTUM ORIGINS OF THE CLASSICAL Wojciech Hubert Zurek Theory Division, LANL, Mail Stop B288 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Decoherence is caused by the interaction with the en- A. The problem: Hilbert space is big 2 vironment which in effect monitors certain observables 1. Copenhagen Interpretation 2 of the system, destroying coherence between the pointer 2. Many Worlds Interpretation 3 B. Decoherence and einselection 3 states corresponding to their eigenvalues. This leads C. The nature of the resolution and the role of envariance4 to environment-induced superselection or einselection, a quantum process associated with selective loss of infor- D. Existential Interpretation and ‘Quantum Darwinism’4 mation. Einselected pointer states are stable. They can retain correlations with the rest of the Universe in spite II. QUANTUM MEASUREMENTS 5 of the environment. Einselection enforces classicality by A. Quantum conditional dynamics 5 imposing an effective ban on the vast majority of the 1. Controlled not and a bit-by-bit measurement 6 Hilbert space, eliminating especially the flagrantly non- 2. Measurements and controlled shifts. 7 local “Schr¨odinger cat” states. Classical structure of 3. Amplification 7 B. Information transfer in measurements 9 phase space emerges from the quantum Hilbert space in 1. Action per bit 9 the appropriate macroscopic limit: Combination of einse- C. “Collapse” analogue in a classical measurement 9 lection with dynamics leads to the idealizations of a point and of a classical trajectory. In measurements, einselec- III. CHAOS AND LOSS OF CORRESPONDENCE 11 tion replaces quantum entanglement between the appa- A. Loss of the quantum-classical correspondence 11 B. -
Completeness of the ZX-Calculus
Completeness of the ZX-calculus Quanlong Wang Wolfson College University of Oxford A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Hilary 2018 Acknowledgements Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Bob Coecke for all his huge help, encouragement, discussions and comments. I can not imagine what my life would have been like without his great assistance. Great thanks to my colleague, co-auhor and friend Kang Feng Ng, for the valuable cooperation in research and his helpful suggestions in my daily life. My sincere thanks also goes to Amar Hadzihasanovic, who has kindly shared his idea and agreed to cooperate on writing a paper based one his results. Many thanks to Simon Perdrix, from whom I have learned a lot and received much help when I worked with him in Nancy, while still benefitting from this experience in Oxford. I would also like to thank Miriam Backens for loads of useful discussions, advertising for my talk in QPL and helping me on latex problems. Special thanks to Dan Marsden for his patience and generousness in answering my questions and giving suggestions. I would like to thank Xiaoning Bian for always being ready to help me solve problems in using latex and other softwares. I also wish to thank all the people who attended the weekly ZX meeting for many interesting discussions. I am also grateful to my college advisor Jonathan Barrett and department ad- visor Jamie Vicary, thank you for chatting with me about my research and my life. I particularly want to thank my examiners, Ross Duncan and Sam Staton, for their very detailed and helpful comments and corrections by which this thesis has been significantly improved. -
Electric Quadrupole Interaction in Cubic BCC Α-Fe
Electric quadrupole interaction in cubic BCC α-Fe A. Błachowski 1, K. Kom ędera 1, K. Ruebenbauer 1* , G. Cios 2, J. Żukrowski 2, and R. Górnicki 3 1Mössbauer Spectroscopy Division, Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University ul. Podchor ąż ych 2, PL-30-084 Kraków, Poland 2AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology Av. A. Mickiewicza 30, PL-30-059 Kraków, Poland 3RENON ul. Gliniana 15/15, PL-30-732 Kraków, Poland *Corresponding author: [email protected] PACS: 76.80.+y, 75.50.Bb, 75.70.Tj Keywords: cubic ferromagnet, electric field gradient (EFG), Mössbauer spectroscopy Short title: EFG in α-Fe Abstract Mössbauer transmission spectra for the 14.41-keV resonant line in 57 Fe have been collected at room temperature by using 57 Co(Rh) commercial source and α-Fe strain-free single crystal as an absorber. The absorber was magnetized to saturation in the absorber plane perpendicular to the γ-ray beam axis applying small external magnetic field. Spectra were collected for various orientations of the magnetizing field, the latter lying close to the [110] crystal plane. A positive electric quadrupole coupling constant was found practically independent on += 19 -2 the field orientation. One obtains the following value Vzz )4(61.1 x 10 Vm for the (average) principal component of the electric field gradient (EFG) tensor under assumption that the EFG tensor is axially symmetric and the principal axis is aligned with the magnetic hyperfine field acting on the 57 Fe nucleus. The nuclear spectroscopic electric quadrupole moment for the first excited state of the 57 Fe nucleus was adopted as +0.17 b. -
Achievements of the IARPA-QEO and DARPA-QAFS Programs & The
Achievements of the IARPA-QEO and DARPA-QAFS programs & The prospects for quantum enhancement with QA Elizabeth Crosson & DL, Nature Reviews Physics (2021) AQC 20201 June 22, 2021 Daniel Lidar USC A decade+ since the D‐Wave 1: where does QA stand? Numerous studies have attempted to demonstrate speedups using the D-Wave processors. Some studies have succeeded in A scaling speedup against path-integral Monte demonstrating constant-factor Carlo was claimed for quantum simulation of speedups in optimization against all geometrically frustrated magnets (scaling of classical algorithms they tried, e.g., relaxation time in escape from topological frustrated cluster-loop problems [1]. obstructions) [2]. Simulation is a natural and promising QA application. But QA was originally proposed as an optimization heuristic. No study so far has demonstrated an unequivocal scaling speedup in optimization. [1] S. Mandrà, H. Katzgraber, Q. Sci. & Tech. 3, 04LT01 (2018) [2] A. King et al., arXiv:1911.03446 What could be the reasons for the lack of scaling speedup? • Perhaps QA is inherently a poor algorithm? More on this later. • Control errors? Random errors in the final Hamiltonian (J-chaos) have a strong detrimental effect. • Such errors limit the size of QA devices that can be expected to accurately solve optimization instances without error correction/suppression [1,2]. • Decoherence? Single-qubit and ≪ anneal time. Often cited as a major problem of QA relative to the gate-model. • How important is this? Depends on weak vs strong coupling to the environment [3]. More on this later as well. [1] T. Albash, V. Martin‐Mayor, I. Hen, Q. -
Why and When Is Pausing Beneficial in Quantum Annealing?
Why and when pausing is beneficial in quantum annealing Huo Chen1, 2 and Daniel A. Lidar1, 2, 3, 4 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 2Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 3Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA Recent empirical results using quantum annealing hardware have shown that mid anneal pausing has a surprisingly beneficial impact on the probability of finding the ground state for of a variety of problems. A theoretical explanation of this phenomenon has thus far been lacking. Here we provide an analysis of pausing using a master equation framework, and derive conditions for the strategy to result in a success probability enhancement. The conditions, which we identify through numerical simulations and then prove to be sufficient, require that relative to the pause duration the relaxation rate is large and decreasing right after crossing the minimum gap, small and decreasing at the end of the anneal, and is also cumulatively small over this interval, in the sense that the system does not thermally equilibrate. This establishes that the observed success probability enhancement can be attributed to incomplete quantum relaxation, i.e., is a form of beneficial non-equilibrium coupling to the environment. I. INTRODUCTION lems [23] and training deep generative machine learn- ing models [24]. Numerical studies [25, 26] of the p-spin Quantum annealing [1{4] stands out among the multi- model also agree with these empirical results. -
Einselection Without Pointer States
Einselection without pointer states Einselection without pointer states - Decoherence under weak interaction Christian Gogolin Universit¨atW¨urzburg 2009-12-16 C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 1 / 26 Einselection without pointer states j Introduction New foundation for Statistical Mechanics X Thermodynamics X Statistical Mechanics Second Law ergodicity equal a priory probabilities Classical Mechanics [2, 3] C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 2 / 26 Einselection without pointer states j Introduction New foundation for Statistical Mechanics X Thermodynamics X Statistical Mechanics Second Law ergodicity ? equal a priory probabilities Classical Mechanics ? [2, 3] C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 2 / 26 Einselection without pointer states j Introduction New foundation for Statistical Mechanics X Thermodynamics X Statistical Mechanics [2, 3] C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 2 / 26 Einselection without pointer states j Introduction New foundation for Statistical Mechanics X Thermodynamics X Statistical Mechanics * Quantum Mechanics X [2, 3] C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 2 / 26 quantum mechanical orbitals discrete energy levels coherent superpositions hopping Einselection without pointer states j Introduction Why do electrons hop between energy eigenstates? C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 3 / 26 discrete energy levels hopping Einselection without pointer states j Introduction Why do electrons hop between energy eigenstates? quantum mechanical orbitals coherent superpositions C. Gogolin j Universit¨atW¨urzburg j 2009-12-16 3 / 26 Einselection without pointer states j Introduction Why do electrons hop between energy eigenstates? quantum mechanical orbitals discrete energy levels coherent superpositions hopping C. -
LYCEN 7112 Février 1972 Notice 92Ft on the Generalized Exchange
LYCEN 7112 Février 1972 notice 92ft On the Generalized Exchange Operators for SU(n) A. Partensky Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Claude Bernard de Lyon Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules 43, Bd du 11 novembre 1918, 69-Villeurbanne, France Abstract - By following the work of Biedenharn we have redefined the k-particles generalized exchange operators (g.e.o) and studied their properties. By a straightforward but cur-jersome calculation we have derived the expression, in terms of the SU(n) Casimir operators, of the ?., 3 or 4 particles g.e.o. acting on the A-particles states which span an irreducible representation of the grown SU(n). A striking and interesting result is that the eigenvalues of each of these g.e.o. do not depend on the n in SU(n) but only on the Young pattern associated with the irreducible representation considered. For a given g.e.o. , the eigenvalues corresponding to two conjugate Young patterns are the same except for the sign which depends on the parity of the g.e.o. considered. Three Appendices deal with some related problems and, more specifically, Appendix C 2 contains a method of obtaining the eigenvalues of Gel'fand invariants in a new and simple way. 1 . Introduction The interest attributed by physicists to the Lie groups has 3-4 been continuously growing since the pionner works of Weyl , Wigner and Racah • In particular, unitary groups have been used successfully in various domains of physics, although the physical reasons for their introduction have not always been completely explained. -
5.1 Two-Particle Systems
5.1 Two-Particle Systems We encountered a two-particle system in dealing with the addition of angular momentum. Let's treat such systems in a more formal way. The w.f. for a two-particle system must depend on the spatial coordinates of both particles as @Ψ well as t: Ψ(r1; r2; t), satisfying i~ @t = HΨ, ~2 2 ~2 2 where H = + V (r1; r2; t), −2m1r1 − 2m2r2 and d3r d3r Ψ(r ; r ; t) 2 = 1. 1 2 j 1 2 j R Iff V is independent of time, then we can separate the time and spatial variables, obtaining Ψ(r1; r2; t) = (r1; r2) exp( iEt=~), − where E is the total energy of the system. Let us now make a very fundamental assumption: that each particle occupies a one-particle e.s. [Note that this is often a poor approximation for the true many-body w.f.] The joint e.f. can then be written as the product of two one-particle e.f.'s: (r1; r2) = a(r1) b(r2). Suppose furthermore that the two particles are indistinguishable. Then, the above w.f. is not really adequate since you can't actually tell whether it's particle 1 in state a or particle 2. This indeterminacy is correctly reflected if we replace the above w.f. by (r ; r ) = a(r ) (r ) (r ) a(r ). 1 2 1 b 2 b 1 2 The `plus-or-minus' sign reflects that there are two distinct ways to accomplish this. Thus we are naturally led to consider two kinds of identical particles, which we have come to call `bosons' (+) and `fermions' ( ). -
Aleksei A. Abrikosov 1928–2017
Aleksei A. Abrikosov 1928–2017 A Biographical Memoir by M. R. Norman ©2018 National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. ALEKSEI ALEKSEEVICH ABRIKOSOV June 25, 1928–March 29, 2017 Elected to the NAS, 2000 Shortly after the 2003 announcement that Aleksei Abrikosov had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, a number of colleagues took Alex to lunch at a nearby Italian restau- rant. During lunch, one of the Russian visitors exclaimed that Alex should get a second Nobel Prize, this time in Literature for his famous “AGD” book with Lev Gor’kov and Igor Dzyaloshinskii (Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics.) Somewhat taken aback, I looked closely at this individual and realized that he was deadly serious. Although I could imagine the reaction of the Nobel Literature committee to such a book (for a lay person, perhaps analogous to trying to read Finnegan’s Wake), I had to admit that my own copy of this book is quite dog-eared, having been put to good use over the By M. R. Norman years. In fact, you know you have made it in physics when your book gets a Dover edition. One of the most charming pictures I ever saw was a rare drawing in color that Alexei Tsvelik did (commissioned by Andrei Varlamov for Alex’s 50th birthday) that was proudly displayed in Alex’s home in Lemont, IL. It showed Alex with his fingers raised in a curled fashion as in the habit of medieval Popes. -
Science & ROGER PENROSE
Science & ROGER PENROSE Live Webinar - hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies August 3 – 6, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm (MST-Arizona) each day 4 Online Live Sessions DAY 1 Tuesday August 3, 2021 9:00 am to 12:30 pm MST-Arizona Overview / Black Holes SIR ROGER PENROSE (Nobel Laureate) Oxford University, UK Tuesday August 3, 2021 9:00 am – 10:30 am MST-Arizona Roger Penrose was born, August 8, 1931 in Colchester Essex UK. He earned a 1st class mathematics degree at University College London; a PhD at Cambridge UK, and became assistant lecturer, Bedford College London, Research Fellow St John’s College, Cambridge (now Honorary Fellow), a post-doc at King’s College London, NATO Fellow at Princeton, Syracuse, and Cornell Universities, USA. He also served a 1-year appointment at University of Texas, became a Reader then full Professor at Birkbeck College, London, and Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University (during which he served several 1/2-year periods as Mathematics Professor at Rice University, Houston, Texas). He is now Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor, Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford (now Emeritus Fellow). He has received many awards and honorary degrees, including knighthood, Fellow of the Royal Society and of the US National Academy of Sciences, the De Morgan Medal of London Mathematical Society, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, the Wolf Prize in mathematics (shared with Stephen Hawking), the Pomeranchuk Prize (Moscow), and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, the other half shared by Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. -
ß-NM R Study of the Electric Field Gradient in the Metallic Intercalation
ß-NMR Study of the Electric Field Gradient in the Metallic Intercalation Compound LiC6 P. Freiländer, P. Heitjans, H. Ackermann, B. Bader, G. Kiese, A. Schirmer and H.-J. Stockmann Fachbereich Physik, Universität Marburg, West Germany and Institut Laue-Langevin, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex, France Z. Naturforsch. 41 a, 109 -1 1 2 (1986); received July 22, 1985 In the layered compound LiC 6 polarized /?-active 8Li probe nuclei were produced by capture of polarized thermal neutrons. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of 8Li were recorded via the /5-radiation asymmetry. The 8 Li quadrupole coupling constant e2qQ/h, measured in the temperature range 7 = 5... 500 K decreases with increasing 7 from 45.2(8) to 22.8(4) kHz. Anomalies in the overall temperature dependence are discussed in terms of phase transitions proposed for LiC6. 1. Introduction graphite the carbon layers are stacked in direct registry with respect to each other. The lithium A characteristic feature of graphite intercalation atoms, being sandwiched between two carbon layers compounds (GICs) is the variety of ordered struc such that one-third of the C hexagons have Li tures and phase transitions observed. A GIC of atoms directly above and below, form a 2D hexa stage n is formed by a periodic arrangement of one gonal superlattice (j/3 x |/3 30° structure: the Li- layer of intercalant followed by n layers of graphite. superlattice vectors are measured in units of the Both intercalant in-plane order and layer sequence graphite lattice, their direction is obtained by 30° are known to undergo various phase transitions for rotation of the graphite lattice vectors). -
IJSRP, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2012 Edition
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2012 1 ISSN 2250-3153 OF QUANTUM GATES AND COLLAPSING STATES- A DETERMINATE MODEL APRIORI AND DIFFERENTIAL MODEL APOSTEORI 1DR K N PRASANNA KUMAR, 2PROF B S KIRANAGI AND 3 PROF C S BAGEWADI ABSTRACT : We Investigate The Holistic Model With Following Composition : ( 1) Mpc (Measurement Based Quantum Computing)(2) Preparational Methodologies Of Resource States (Application Of Electric Field Magnetic Field Etc.)For Gate Teleportation(3) Quantum Logic Gates(4) Conditionalities Of Quantum Dynamics(5) Physical Realization Of Quantum Gates(6) Selective Driving Of Optical Resonances Of Two Subsystems Undergoing Dipole-Dipole Interaction By Means Of Say Ramsey Atomic Interferometry(7) New And Efficient Quantum Algorithms For Computation(8) Quantum Entanglements And No localities(9) Computation Of Minimum Energy Of A Given System Of Particles For Experimentation(10) Exponentially Increasing Number Of Steps For Such Quantum Computation(11) Action Of The Quantum Gates(12) Matrix Representation Of Quantum Gates And Vector Constitution Of Quantum States. Stability Conditions, Analysis, Solutional Behaviour Are Discussed In Detailed For The Consummate System. The System Of Quantum Gates And Collapsing States Show Contrast With The Documented Information Thereto. Paper may be extended to exponential time with exponentially increasing steps in the computation. INTRODUCTION: LITERATURE REVIEW: Double quantum dots: interdot interactions, co-tunneling, and Kondo resonances without spin (See for details Qing-feng Sun, Hong Guo ) Authors show that through an interdot off-site electron correlation in a double quantum-dot (DQD) device, Kondo resonances emerge in the local density of states without the electron spin-degree of freedom.