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Are the 'weak measurements' really measurements?
Weak measurements can be seen as an attempt at answering the 'Which way?'
question without destroying interference between the pathways involved. Unusual
mean values obtained in such measurements represent the response of a quantum
system to this 'forbidden' question, in which the 'true' composition of virtual
pathways is hidden from the observer. Such values indicate a failure of a
measurement where the uncertainty principle says it must fail, rather than
provide an additional insight into physical reality
Universality of quantum Brownian motion
Are Markovian master equations for quantum Brownian motion independent of
model assumptions used in the derivation and, thus, universal? With the aim of
answering this question, we use a random band-matrix model for the system-bath
interaction to derive Markovian master equations for the time evolution of
one-dimensional quantum systems weakly coupled to a heat bath. We study in
detail two simple systems, the harmonic oscillator and the two-level system.
Our results are in complete agreement with those of earlier models, like the
Caldeira-Legget model and, in the large-band limit, with the Agarwal equations
(both with and without rotating-wave approximation). This proves the
universality of these master equations.Comment: 24 page
Numerical Evidence for Robustness of Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport
Recent theoretical studies show that decoherence process can enhance
transport efficiency in quantum systems. This effect is known as
environment-assisted quantum transport (ENAQT). The role of ENAQT in optimal
quantum transport is well investigated, however, it is less known how robust
ENAQT is with respect to variations in the system or its environment
characteristic. Toward answering this question, we simulated excitonic energy
transfer in Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) photosynthetic complex. We found that
ENAQT is robust with respect to many relevant parameters of environmental
interactions and Frenkel-exciton Hamiltonian including reorganization energy,
bath frequency cutoff, temperature, and initial excitations, dissipation rate,
trapping rate, disorders, and dipole moments orientations. Our study suggests
that the ENAQT phenomenon can be exploited in robust design of highly efficient
quantum transport systems.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1104.481
An efficient quantum parallel repetition theorem and applications
We prove a tight parallel repetition theorem for -message computationally-secure quantum interactive protocols between an efficient challenger and an efficient adversary. We also prove under plausible assumptions that the security of -message computationally secure protocols does not generally decrease under parallel repetition. These mirror the classical results of Bellare, Impagliazzo, and Naor [BIN97]. Finally, we prove that all quantum argument systems can be generically compiled to an equivalent -message argument system, mirroring the transformation for quantum proof systems [KW00, KKMV07].
As immediate applications, we show how to derive hardness amplification theorems for quantum bit commitment schemes (answering a question of Yan [Yan22]), EFI pairs (answering a question of Brakerski, Canetti, and Qian [BCQ23]), public-key quantum money schemes (answering a question of Aaronson and Christiano [AC13]), and quantum zero-knowledge argument systems. We also derive an XOR lemma [Yao82] for quantum predicates as a corollary
Does Quantum Mechanics Need Interpretation?
Since the beginning, quantum mechanics has raised major foundational and
interpretative problems. Foundational research has been an important factor in
the development of quantum cryptography, quantum information theory and,
perhaps one day, practical quantum computers. Many believe that, in turn,
quantum information theory has bearing on foundational research. This is
largely related to the so-called epistemic view of quantum states, which
maintains that the state vector represents information on a system and has led
to the suggestion that quantum theory needs no interpretation. I will argue
that this and related approaches fail to take into consideration two different
explanatory functions of quantum mechanics, namely that of accounting for
classically unexplainable correlations between classical phenomena and that of
explaining the microscopic structure of classical objects. If interpreting
quantum mechanics means answering the question, "How can the world be for
quantum mechanics to be true?", there seems to be no way around it.Comment: Based on quant-ph/0510120, quant-ph/0502049 and quant-ph/040512
Recovering hidden Bloch character: Unfolding Electrons, Phonons, and Slabs
For a quantum state, or classical harmonic normal mode, of a system of
spatial periodicity "R", Bloch character is encoded in a wavevector "K". One
can ask whether this state has partial Bloch character "k" corresponding to a
finer scale of periodicity "r". Answering this is called "unfolding." A theorem
is proven that yields a mathematically clear prescription for unfolding, by
examining translational properties of the state, requiring no "reference
states" or basis functions with the finer periodicity (r,k). A question then
arises, how should one assign partial Bloch character to a state of a finite
system? A slab, finite in one direction, is used as the example. Perpendicular
components k_z of the wavevector are not explicitly defined, but may be hidden
in the state (and eigenvector |i>.) A prescription for extracting k_z is
offered and tested. An idealized silicon (111) surface is used as the example.
Slab-unfolding reveals surface-localized states and resonances which were not
evident from dispersion curves alone.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
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Quantum Stochastic Processes and Quantum Many-Body Physics
This dissertation investigates the theory of quantum stochastic processes and its applications in quantum many-body physics.
The main goal is to analyse complexity-theoretic aspects of both static and dynamic properties of physical systems modelled by quantum stochastic processes.
The thesis consists of two parts: the first one addresses the computational complexity of certain quantum and classical divisibility questions, whereas the second one addresses the topic of Hamiltonian complexity theory.
In the divisibility part, we discuss the question whether one can efficiently sub-divide a map describing the evolution of a system in a noisy environment, i.e. a CPTP- or stochastic map for quantum and classical processes, respectively, and we prove that taking the nth root of a CPTP or stochastic map is an NP-complete problem.
Furthermore, we show that answering the question whether one can divide up a random variable into a sum of iid random variables , i.e. , is poly-time computable; relaxing the iid condition renders the problem NP-hard.
In the local Hamiltonian part, we study computation embedded into the ground state of a many-body quantum system, going beyond "history state" constructions with a linear clock.
We first develop a series of mathematical techniques which allow us to study the energy spectrum of the resulting Hamiltonian, and extend classical string rewriting to the quantum setting.
This allows us to construct the most physically-realistic QMAEXP-complete instances for the LOCAL HAMILTONIAN problem (i.e. the question of estimating the ground state energy of a quantum many-body system) known to date, both in one- and three dimensions.
Furthermore, we study weighted versions of linear history state constructions, allowing us to obtain tight lower and upper bounds on the promise gap of the LOCAL HAMILTONIAN problem in various cases.
We finally study a classical embedding of a Busy Beaver Turing Machine into a low-dimensional lattice spin model, which allows us to dictate a transition from a purely classical phase to a Toric Code phase at arbitrarily large and potentially even uncomputable system sizes
On the sampling complexity of open quantum systems
Open quantum systems are ubiquitous in the physical sciences, with widespread
applications in the areas of chemistry, condensed matter physics, material
science, optics, and many more. Not surprisingly, there is significant interest
in their efficient simulation. However, direct classical simulation quickly
becomes intractable with coupling to an environment whose effective dimension
grows exponentially. This raises the question: can quantum computers help model
these complex dynamics? A first step in answering this question requires
understanding the computational complexity of this task. Here, we map the
temporal complexity of a process to the spatial complexity of a many-body state
using a computational model known as the process tensor framework. With this,
we are able to explore the simulation complexity of an open quantum system as a
dynamic sampling problem: a system coupled to an environment can be probed at
successive points in time -- accessing multi-time correlations. The complexity
of multi-time sampling, which is an important and interesting problem in its
own right, contains the complexity of master equations and stochastic maps as a
special case. Our results show how the complexity of the underlying quantum
stochastic process corresponds to the complexity of the associated family of
master equations for the dynamics. We present both analytical and numerical
examples whose multi-time sampling is as complex as sampling from a many-body
state that is classically hard. This also implies that the corresponding family
of master equations are classically hard. Our results pave the way for studying
open quantum systems from a complexity-theoretic perspective, highlighting the
role quantum computers will play in our understanding of quantum dynamics
A Quantum Many-body Wave Function Inspired Language Modeling Approach
The recently proposed quantum language model (QLM) aimed at a principled
approach to modeling term dependency by applying the quantum probability
theory. The latest development for a more effective QLM has adopted word
embeddings as a kind of global dependency information and integrated the
quantum-inspired idea in a neural network architecture. While these
quantum-inspired LMs are theoretically more general and also practically
effective, they have two major limitations. First, they have not taken into
account the interaction among words with multiple meanings, which is common and
important in understanding natural language text. Second, the integration of
the quantum-inspired LM with the neural network was mainly for effective
training of parameters, yet lacking a theoretical foundation accounting for
such integration. To address these two issues, in this paper, we propose a
Quantum Many-body Wave Function (QMWF) inspired language modeling approach. The
QMWF inspired LM can adopt the tensor product to model the aforesaid
interaction among words. It also enables us to reveal the inherent necessity of
using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in QMWF language modeling.
Furthermore, our approach delivers a simple algorithm to represent and match
text/sentence pairs. Systematic evaluation shows the effectiveness of the
proposed QMWF-LM algorithm, in comparison with the state of the art
quantum-inspired LMs and a couple of CNN-based methods, on three typical
Question Answering (QA) datasets.Comment: 10 pages,4 figures,CIK
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