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Tightening Quantum Speed Limits for Almost All States
Conventional quantum speed limits perform poorly for mixed quantum states:
They are generally not tight and often significantly underestimate the fastest
possible evolution speed. To remedy this, for unitary driving, we derive two
quantum speed limits that outperform the traditional bounds for almost all
quantum states. Moreover, our bounds are significantly simpler to compute as
well as experimentally more accessible. Our bounds have a clear geometric
interpretation; they arise from the evaluation of the angle between generalized
Bloch vectors.Comment: Updated and revised version; 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 page appendi
Tomographically reconstructed master equations for any open quantum dynamics
Memory effects in open quantum dynamics are often incorporated in the
equation of motion through a superoperator known as the memory kernel, which
encodes how past states affect future dynamics. However, the usual prescription
for determining the memory kernel requires information about the underlying
system-environment dynamics. Here, by deriving the transfer tensor method from
first principles, we show how a memory kernel master equation, for any quantum
process, can be entirely expressed in terms of a family of completely positive
dynamical maps. These can be reconstructed through quantum process tomography
on the system alone, either experimentally or numerically, and the resulting
equation of motion is equivalent to a generalised Nakajima-Zwanzig equation.
For experimental settings, we give a full prescription for the reconstruction
procedure, rendering the memory kernel operational. When simulation of an open
system is the goal, we show how our procedure yields a considerable advantage
for numerically calculating dynamics, even when the system is arbitrarily
periodically (or transiently) driven or initially correlated with its
environment. Namely, we show that the long time dynamics can be efficiently
obtained from a set of reconstructed maps over a much shorter time.Comment: 10+4 pages, 5 figure
Non-thermal radiation from molecular clouds illuminated by cosmic rays from nearby supernova remnants
Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray
interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud
is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if cosmic rays can leave
the accelerator and diffusively reach the cloud. We consider the situation in
which a molecular cloud is located in the proximity of a supernova remnant
which is accelerating cosmic rays and gradually releasing them into the
interstellar medium. We calculate the multiwavelength spectrum from radio to
gamma rays which emerges from the cloud as the result of cosmic ray
interactions. The total energy output is dominated by the gamma ray emission,
which can exceed the emission from other bands by an order of magnitude or
more. This suggests that some of the unidentified TeV sources detected so far,
with no obvious or very weak counterpart in other wavelengths, might be
associated with clouds illuminated by cosmic rays coming from a nearby source.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the "4th Heidelberg International
Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy" July 7-11, 2008, Heidelberg,
German
On the Regularized Fermionic Projector of the Vacuum
We construct families of fermionic projectors with spherically symmetric
regularization, which satisfy the condition of a distributional -product. The method is to analyze regularization tails with a power-law or
logarithmic scaling in composite expressions in the fermionic projector. The
resulting regularizations break the Lorentz symmetry and give rise to a
multi-layer structure of the fermionic projector near the light cone. The
remaining freedom for the regularization parameters and the consequences for
the normalization of the fermionic states are discussed.Comment: 66 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, minor improvements (published version
An introduction to operational quantum dynamics
In the summer of 2016, physicists gathered in Torun, Poland for the 48th
annual Symposium on Mathematical Physics. This Symposium was special; it
celebrated the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the
Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master equation, which is widely used in
quantum physics and quantum chemistry. This article forms part of a Special
Volume of the journal Open Systems & Information Dynamics arising from that
conference; and it aims to celebrate a related discovery -- also by Sudarshan
-- that of Quantum Maps (which had their 55th anniversary in the same year).
Nowadays, much like the master equation, quantum maps are ubiquitous in physics
and chemistry. Their importance in quantum information and related fields
cannot be overstated. In this manuscript, we motivate quantum maps from a
tomographic perspective, and derive their well-known representations. We then
dive into the murky world beyond these maps, where recent research has yielded
their generalisation to non-Markovian quantum processes.Comment: Submitted to Special OSID volume "40 years of GKLS
Multiple Parameter Estimation With Quantized Channel Output
We present a general problem formulation for optimal parameter estimation
based on quantized observations, with application to antenna array
communication and processing (channel estimation, time-of-arrival (TOA) and
direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation). The work is of interest in the case
when low resolution A/D-converters (ADCs) have to be used to enable higher
sampling rate and to simplify the hardware. An Expectation-Maximization (EM)
based algorithm is proposed for solving this problem in a general setting.
Besides, we derive the Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) and discuss the effects of
quantization and the optimal choice of the ADC characteristic. Numerical and
analytical analysis reveals that reliable estimation may still be possible even
when the quantization is very coarse.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas -
WSA 2010, Bremen, German
Do the low PN velocity dispersions around elliptical galaxies imply that these lack dark matter?
While kinematical modelling of the low PN velocity dispersions observed in
the outer regions of elliptical galaxies suggest a lack of dark matter around
these galaxies, we report on an analysis of a suite of -body simulations
(with gas) of major mergers of spiral galaxies embedded in dark matter halos,
and find that the outer velocity dispersions are as low as observed for the
PNe. The inconsistency between our dynamical modelling and previous kinematical
modelling is caused by very radial stellar orbits and projection effects when
viewing face-on oblate ellipticals. Our simulations (weakly) suggest the youth
of PNe around ellipticals, and we propose that the universality of the PN
luminosity function may be explained if the bright PNe in ellipticals are
formed after the regular accretion of very low mass gas-rich galaxies.Comment: Contributed talk at meeting, "Planetary Nebulae as astronomical
tools", Gdansk, Poland, June-July 2005, ed. R. Szczerba, G. Stasi\'nska, and
S. K. G\'orny, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville, New York, 2005. 4 or 5
pages, 6 figure
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