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Bifurcation diagram for saddle/source bimodal linear dynamical systems
We continue the study of the structural stability and the bifurcations of planar bimodal linear dynamical systems (BLDS) (that is, systems consisting of two linear dynamics acting on each side of a straight line, assuming continuity along the separating line). Here, we enlarge the study of the bifurcation diagram of saddle/spiral BLDS to saddle/source BLDS and in particular we study the position of the homoclinic bifurcation with regard to the new improper node bifurcationPostprint (published version
Hybrid stochastic-deterministic calculation of the second-order perturbative contribution of multireference perturbation theory
A hybrid stochastic-deterministic approach for computing the second-order
perturbative contribution within multireference perturbation theory
(MRPT) is presented. The idea at the heart of our hybrid scheme --- based on a
reformulation of as a sum of elementary contributions associated with
each determinant of the MR wave function --- is to split into a
stochastic and a deterministic part. During the simulation, the stochastic part
is gradually reduced by dynamically increasing the deterministic part until one
reaches the desired accuracy. In sharp contrast with a purely stochastic MC
scheme where the error decreases indefinitely as (where is the
computational time), the statistical error in our hybrid algorithm displays a
polynomial decay with in the examples considered here. If
desired, the calculation can be carried on until the stochastic part entirely
vanishes. In that case, the exact result is obtained with no error bar and no
noticeable computational overhead compared to the fully-deterministic
calculation. The method is illustrated on the F and Cr molecules. Even
for the largest case corresponding to the Cr molecule treated with the
cc-pVQZ basis set, very accurate results are obtained for for an
active space of (28e,176o) and a MR wave function including up to determinants.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Supersymmetric Path Integrals II: The Fermionic Integral and Pfaffian Line Bundles
The Pfaffian line bundle of the covariant derivative and the transgression of
the spin lifting gerbe are two canonically given real line bundles on the loop
space of an oriented Riemannian manifold. It has been shown by Prat-Waldron
that these line bundles are naturally isomorphic as metric line bundles and
that the isomorphism maps their canonical sections to each other. In this
paper, we provide a vast generalization of his results, by showing that there
are natural sections of the corresponding line bundles for any ,
which are mapped to each other under this isomorphism (with the previously
known being the one for ). These canonical sections are important to
define the fermionic part of the supersymmetric path integral on the loop
space.Comment: The contents of this article have been integrated into
arXiv:1709.10027, which now contains a simplified presentation of the result
Verifying the quantumness of bipartite correlations
Entanglement is at the heart of most quantum information tasks, and therefore
considerable effort has been made to find methods of deciding the entanglement
content of a given bipartite quantum state. Here, we prove a fundamental
limitation to deciding if an unknown state is entangled or not: we show that
any quantum measurement which can answer this question necessarily gives enough
information to identify the state completely. Therefore, only prior information
regarding the state can make entanglement detection less expensive than full
state tomography in terms of the demanded quantum resources. We also extend our
treatment to other classes of correlated states by considering the problem of
deciding if a state is NPT, discordant, or fully classically correlated.
Remarkably, only the question related to quantum discord can be answered
without resorting to full state tomography
Universality of single quantum gates
We supply a rigorous proof that an open dense set of all possible 2-qubit
gates G has the property that if the quantum circuit model is restricted to
only permit swap of qubits lines and the application of G to pairs of lines,
then the model is still computationally universal.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; added references to previous proof
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