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Quantum resources for purification and cooling: fundamental limits and opportunities
Preparing a quantum system in a pure state is ultimately limited by the
nature of the system's evolution in the presence of its environment and by the
initial state of the environment itself. We show that, when the system and
environment are initially uncorrelated and arbitrary joint unitary dynamics is
allowed, the system may be purified up to a certain (possibly arbitrarily
small) threshold if and only if its environment, either natural or engineered,
contains a "virtual subsystem" which has the same dimension and is in a state
with the desired purity. Beside providing a unified understanding of quantum
purification dynamics in terms of a "generalized swap process," our results
shed light on the significance of a no-go theorem for exact ground-state
cooling, as well as on the quantum resources needed for achieving an intended
purification task.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Quantum and classical resources for unitary design of open-system evolutions
A variety of tasks in quantum control, ranging from purification and cooling to quantum stabilisation and open-system simulation, rely on the ability to implement a target quantum channel over a specified time interval within prescribed accuracy. This can be achieved by engineering a suitable unitary dynamics of the system of interest along with its environment, which, depending on the available level of control, is fully or partly exploited as a coherent quantum controller. After formalising a controllability framework for completely positive trace-preserving quantum dynamics, we provide sufficient conditions on the environment state and dimension that allow for the realisation of relevant classes of quantum channels, including extreme channels, stochastic unitaries or simply any channel. The results hinge on generalisations of Stinespring's dilation via a subsystem principle. In the process, we show that a conjecture by Lloyd on the minimal dimension of the environment required for arbitrary open-system simulation, albeit formally disproved, can in fact be salvaged, provided that classical randomisation is included among the available resources. Existing measurement-based feedback protocols for universal simulation, dynamical decoupling and dissipative state preparation are recast within the proposed coherent framework as concrete applications, and the resources they employ discussed in the light of the general results
Quantum Markovian Subsystems: Invariance, Attractivity, and Control
We characterize the dynamical behavior of continuous-time, Markovian quantum
systems with respect to a subsystem of interest. Markovian dynamics describes a
wide class of open quantum systems of relevance to quantum information
processing, subsystem encodings offering a general pathway to faithfully
represent quantum information. We provide explicit linear-algebraic
characterizations of the notion of invariant and noiseless subsystem for
Markovian master equations, under different robustness assumptions for
model-parameter and initial-state variations. The stronger concept of an
attractive quantum subsystem is introduced, and sufficient existence conditions
are identified based on Lyapunov's stability techniques. As a main control
application, we address the potential of output-feedback Markovian control
strategies for quantum pure state-stabilization and noiseless-subspace
generation. In particular, explicit results for the synthesis of stabilizing
semigroups and noiseless subspaces in finite-dimensional Markovian systems are
obtained.Comment: 16 pages, no figures. Revised version with new title, corrected
typos, partial rewriting of Section III.E and some other minor change
Quantum State Preparation by Controlled Dissipation in Finite Time: From Classical to Quantum Controllers
We propose a general scheme for dissipatively preparing arbitrary pure
quantum states on a multipartite qubit register in a finite number of basic
control blocks. Our "splitting-subspace" approach relies on control resources
that are available in a number of scalable quantum technologies (complete
unitary control on the target system, an ancillary resettable qubit and
controlled-not gates between the target and the ancilla), and can be seen as a
"quantum-controller" implementation of a sequence of classical feedback loops.
We show how a large degree of flexibility exists in engineering the required
conditional operations, and make explicit contact with a stabilization protocol
used for dissipative quantum state preparation and entanglement generation in
recent experiments with trapped ions.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to CDC 201
ÂżLos derechos humanos,son derechos naturales?
L'articolo difende la tesi della profonda differenza fra i diritti umani e i diritti natural
Los derechos y las etades de la vida humana
the author proposes a vision for the human right based in the different stages of the
natural human life that overcomes the abstract and ahistorical visiĂłn of them. In front of the universal
justification insufficiency from the theories of the will and interest, the consideration based in the
different truly universal and common stages, gives an universal justification of the human rights and
specially of the human of the children and elder but not as special human rights but as essential
human rights of every human being
Ermeneutica filosofica, pluralismo e diritto
The purpose of this essay is to show that philosophical hermeneutics is particularly suited for
facing problems of understanding among different cultural worlds. These issues are relevant
even for legal interpretation that, now more than ever, is not up against culturally homogeneous
societies and against legal systems shaped by a single source or by a steady hierarchy
of sources. Therefore, philosophical hermeneutics’ approaches to intercultural dialogue can
be useful to the present practice of legal interpretation, not by building new interpretative
methods, but by clarifying contexts which give significance to legal practice. The paths trodden
by legal philosophical hermeneutics are devoted to the understanding of texts which
have a paradigmatic feature for jurists’ work and to the identification of legal practice’s ends
and values. These paths are complementary, not alternative. The historic consciousness and
the practice reason are both essential for the discovery of legal meaning, within which legal
interpretation articulates
I diritti in carcere
Si esamina il problema del sovraffollamento delle carceri in relazione al principio costituzionale della funzione di rieducazione della pen
La disponibilitĂ della vita umana.Linee generali
L'articolo esplora i problemi principali sollevati dal diritto di rifiutare le cura e dal testamento biologic
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