807 research outputs found
The Fragility of Quantum Information?
We address the question whether there is a fundamental reason why quantum
information is more fragile than classical information. We show that some
answers can be found by considering the existence of quantum memories and their
dimensional dependence.Comment: Essay on quantum information: no new results. Ten pages, published in
Lec. Notes in Comp. Science, Vol. 7505, pp. 47-56 (2012. One reference adde
Resolvent Positive Linear Operators Exhibit the Reduction Phenomenon
The spectral bound, s(a A + b V), of a combination of a resolvent positive
linear operator A and an operator of multiplication V, was shown by Kato to be
convex in b \in R. This is shown here, through an elementary lemma, to imply
that s(a A + b V) is also convex in a > 0, and notably, \partial s(a A + b V) /
\partial a <= s(A) when it exists. Diffusions typically have s(A) <= 0, so that
for diffusions with spatially heterogeneous growth or decay rates, greater
mixing reduces growth. Models of the evolution of dispersal in particular have
found this result when A is a Laplacian or second-order elliptic operator, or a
nonlocal diffusion operator, implying selection for reduced dispersal. These
cases are shown here to be part of a single, broadly general, `reduction'
phenomenon.Comment: 7 pages, 53 citations. v.3: added citations, corrections in
introductory definitions. v.2: Revised abstract, more text, and details in
new proof of Lindqvist's inequalit
Good approximate quantum LDPC codes from spacetime circuit Hamiltonians
We study approximate quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes, which
are approximate quantum error-correcting codes specified as the ground space of
a frustration-free local Hamiltonian, whose terms do not necessarily commute.
Such codes generalize stabilizer QLDPC codes, which are exact quantum
error-correcting codes with sparse, low-weight stabilizer generators (i.e. each
stabilizer generator acts on a few qubits, and each qubit participates in a few
stabilizer generators). Our investigation is motivated by an important question
in Hamiltonian complexity and quantum coding theory: do stabilizer QLDPC codes
with constant rate, linear distance, and constant-weight stabilizers exist?
We show that obtaining such optimal scaling of parameters (modulo
polylogarithmic corrections) is possible if we go beyond stabilizer codes: we
prove the existence of a family of approximate QLDPC
codes that encode logical qubits into physical
qubits with distance and approximation infidelity
. The code space is
stabilized by a set of 10-local noncommuting projectors, with each physical
qubit only participating in projectors. We
prove the existence of an efficient encoding map, and we show that arbitrary
Pauli errors can be locally detected by circuits of polylogarithmic depth.
Finally, we show that the spectral gap of the code Hamiltonian is
by analyzing a spacetime circuit-to-Hamiltonian
construction for a bitonic sorting network architecture that is spatially local
in dimensions.Comment: 51 pages, 13 figure
Random walk in Markovian environment
We prove a quenched central limit theorem for random walks with bounded
increments in a randomly evolving environment on . We assume that
the transition probabilities of the walk depend not too strongly on the
environment and that the evolution of the environment is Markovian with strong
spatial and temporal mixing properties.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AOP369 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Asymptotic entanglement in 1D quantum walks with a time-dependent coined
Discrete-time quantum walk evolve by a unitary operator which involves two
operators a conditional shift in position space and a coin operator. This
operator entangles the coin and position degrees of freedom of the walker. In
this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the coin position
entanglement (CPE) for an inhomogeneous quantum walk which determined by two
orthogonal matrices in one-dimensional lattice. Free parameters of coin
operator together provide many conditions under which a measurement perform on
the coin state yield the value of entanglement on the resulting position
quantum state. We study the problem analytically for all values that two free
parameters of coin operator can take and the conditions under which
entanglement becomes maximal are sought.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in IJMPB. arXiv admin
note: text overlap with arXiv:1001.5326 by other author
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