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Characterization and quantification of symmetric Gaussian state entanglement through a local classicality criterion
A necessary and sufficient condition for characterization and quantification
of entanglement of any bipartite Gaussian state belonging to a special symmetry
class is given in terms of classicality measures of one-party states. For
Gaussian states whose local covariance matrices have equal determinants it is
shown that separability of a two-party state and classicality of one party
state are completely equivalent to each other under a nonlocal operation,
allowing entanglement features to be understood in terms of any available
classicality measure.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Replaced with final published versio
Strategy Logic with Imperfect Information
We introduce an extension of Strategy Logic for the imperfect-information
setting, called SLii, and study its model-checking problem. As this logic
naturally captures multi-player games with imperfect information, the problem
turns out to be undecidable. We introduce a syntactical class of "hierarchical
instances" for which, intuitively, as one goes down the syntactic tree of the
formula, strategy quantifications are concerned with finer observations of the
model. We prove that model-checking SLii restricted to hierarchical instances
is decidable. This result, because it allows for complex patterns of
existential and universal quantification on strategies, greatly generalises
previous ones, such as decidability of multi-player games with imperfect
information and hierarchical observations, and decidability of distributed
synthesis for hierarchical systems. To establish the decidability result, we
introduce and study QCTL*ii, an extension of QCTL* (itself an extension of CTL*
with second-order quantification over atomic propositions) by parameterising
its quantifiers with observations. The simple syntax of QCTL* ii allows us to
provide a conceptually neat reduction of SLii to QCTL*ii that separates
concerns, allowing one to forget about strategies and players and focus solely
on second-order quantification. While the model-checking problem of QCTL*ii is,
in general, undecidable, we identify a syntactic fragment of hierarchical
formulas and prove, using an automata-theoretic approach, that it is decidable.
The decidability result for SLii follows since the reduction maps hierarchical
instances of SLii to hierarchical formulas of QCTL*ii
Interpretable Deep Learning applied to Plant Stress Phenotyping
Availability of an explainable deep learning model that can be applied to
practical real world scenarios and in turn, can consistently, rapidly and
accurately identify specific and minute traits in applicable fields of
biological sciences, is scarce. Here we consider one such real world example
viz., accurate identification, classification and quantification of biotic and
abiotic stresses in crop research and production. Up until now, this has been
predominantly done manually by visual inspection and require specialized
training. However, such techniques are hindered by subjectivity resulting from
inter- and intra-rater cognitive variability. Here, we demonstrate the ability
of a machine learning framework to identify and classify a diverse set of
foliar stresses in the soybean plant with remarkable accuracy. We also present
an explanation mechanism using gradient-weighted class activation mapping that
isolates the visual symptoms used by the model to make predictions. This
unsupervised identification of unique visual symptoms for each stress provides
a quantitative measure of stress severity, allowing for identification,
classification and quantification in one framework. The learnt model appears to
be agnostic to species and make good predictions for other (non-soybean)
species, demonstrating an ability of transfer learning
Bipartite entanglement of quantum states in a pair basis
The unambiguous detection and quantification of entanglement is a hot topic
of scientific research, though it is limited to low dimensions or specific
classes of states. Here we identify an additional class of quantum states, for
which bipartite entanglement measures can be efficiently computed, providing
new rigorous results. Such states are written in arbitrary
dimensions, where each basis state in the subsystem A is paired with only one
state in B. This new class, that we refer to as pair basis states, is
remarkably relevant in many physical situations, including quantum optics. We
find that negativity is a necessary and sufficient measure of entanglement for
mixtures of states written in the same pair basis. We also provide analytical
expressions for a tight lower-bound estimation of the entanglement of
formation, a central quantity in quantum information.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
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