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Gate-error analysis in simulations of quantum computers with transmon qubits
In the model of gate-based quantum computation, the qubits are controlled by
a sequence of quantum gates. In superconducting qubit systems, these gates can
be implemented by voltage pulses. The success of implementing a particular gate
can be expressed by various metrics such as the average gate fidelity, the
diamond distance, and the unitarity. We analyze these metrics of gate pulses
for a system of two superconducting transmon qubits coupled by a resonator, a
system inspired by the architecture of the IBM Quantum Experience. The metrics
are obtained by numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation
of the transmon system. We find that the metrics reflect systematic errors that
are most pronounced for echoed cross-resonance gates, but that none of the
studied metrics can reliably predict the performance of a gate when used
repeatedly in a quantum algorithm
Li in a Three-Body Model with Realistic Forces: Separable vs. Non-separable Approach
{\bf Background:} Deuteron induced reactions are widely used to probe nuclear
structure and astrophysical information. Those (d,p) reactions may be viewed as
three-body reactions and described with Faddeev techniques.
{\bf Purpose:} Faddeev equations in momentum space have a long tradition of
utilizing separable interactions in order to arrive at sets of coupled integral
equations in one variable. However, it needs to be demonstrated that their
solution based on separable interactions agrees exactly with solutions based on
non-separable forces.
{\bf Results:} The ground state of Li is calculated via momentum space
Faddeev equations using the CD-Bonn neutron-proton force and a Woods-Saxon type
neutron(proton)-He force. For the latter the Pauli-forbidden -wave bound
state is projected out. This result is compared to a calculation in which the
interactions in the two-body subsystems are represented by separable
interactions derived in the Ernst-Shakin-Thaler framework.
{\bf Conclusions:} We find that calculations based on the separable
representation of the interactions and the original interactions give results
that agree to four significant figures for the binding energy, provided an
off-shell extension of the EST representation is employed in both subsystems.
The momentum distributions computed in both approaches also fully agree with
each other
Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and Quantum Jarzynski Relation for Pure Initial States
Since the first suggestion of the Jarzynski equality many derivations of this
equality have been presented in both, the classical and the quantum context.
While the approaches and settings greatly differ from one to another, they all
appear to rely on the initial state being a thermal Gibbs state. Here, we
present an investigation of work distributions in driven isolated quantum
systems, starting off from pure states that are close to energy eigenstates of
the initial Hamiltonian. We find that, for the nonintegrable system in quest,
the Jarzynski equality is fulfilled to good accuracy.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Quantum Decoherence at Finite Temperatures
We study measures of decoherence and thermalization of a quantum system
in the presence of a quantum environment (bath) . The whole system is
prepared in a canonical thermal state at a finite temperature. Applying
perturbation theory with respect to the system-environment coupling strength,
we find that under common Hamiltonian symmetries, up to first order in the
coupling strength it is sufficient to consider the uncoupled system to predict
decoherence and thermalization measures of . This decoupling allows closed
form expressions for perturbative expansions for the measures of decoherence
and thermalization in terms of the free energies of and of . Numerical
results for both coupled and decoupled systems with up to 40 quantum spins
validate these findings.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator
We study the semirelativistic Hamiltonian operator composed of the
relativistic kinetic energy and a static harmonic-oscillator potential in three
spatial dimensions and construct, for bound states with vanishing orbital
angular momentum, its eigenfunctions in compact form, i. e., as power series,
with expansion coefficients determined by an explicitly given recurrence
relation. The corresponding eigenvalues are fixed by the requirement of
normalizability of the solutions.Comment: 14 pages, extended discussion of result
Dynamo quenching due to shear flow
We provide a theory of dynamo (α effect) and momentum transport in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics. For the first time, we show that the α effect is reduced by the shear even in the absence of magnetic field. The α effect is further suppressed by magnetic fields well below equipartition (with the large-scale flow) with different scalings depending on the relative strength of shear and magnetic field. The turbulent viscosity is also found to be significantly reduced by shear and magnetic fields, with positive value. These results suggest a crucial effect of shear and magnetic field on dynamo quenching and momentum transport reduction, with important implications for laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, in particular, for the dynamics of the Sun
An Asymptotic Preserving Scheme for the Euler equations in a strong magnetic field
This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of the isothermal
Euler equations for charged particles subject to the Lorentz force. When the
magnetic field is large, the so-called drift-fluid approximation is obtained.
In this limit, the parallel motion relative to the magnetic field direction
splits from perpendicular motion and is given implicitly by the constraint of
zero total force along the magnetic field lines. In this paper, we provide a
well-posed elliptic equation for the parallel velocity which in turn allows us
to construct an Asymptotic-Preserving (AP) scheme for the Euler-Lorentz system.
This scheme gives rise to both a consistent approximation of the Euler-Lorentz
model when epsilon is finite and a consistent approximation of the drift limit
when epsilon tends to 0. Above all, it does not require any constraint on the
space and time steps related to the small value of epsilon. Numerical results
are presented, which confirm the AP character of the scheme and its Asymptotic
Stability
Coulomb Distortion Effects for (e,e'p) Reactions at High Electron Energy
We report a significant improvement of an approximate method of including
electron Coulomb distortion in electron induced reactions at momentum transfers
greater than the inverse of the size of the target nucleus. In particular, we
have found a new parametrization for the elastic electron scattering phase
shifts that works well at all electron energies greater than 300 . As an
illustration, we apply the improved approximation to the reaction
from medium and heavy nuclei. We use a relativistic ``single particle'' model
for as as applied to and to recently measured data
at CEBAF on to investigate Coulomb distortion effects while
examining the physics of the reaction.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, PRC submitte
Borel-Moore motivic homology and weight structure on mixed motives
By defining and studying functorial properties of the Borel-Moore motivic
homology, we identify the heart of Bondarko-H\'ebert's weight structure on
Beilinson motives with Corti-Hanamura's category of Chow motives over a base,
therefore answering a question of Bondarko
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