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Fundamental Speed Limits on Quantum Coherence and Correlation Decay
The study and control of coherence in quantum systems is one of the most
exciting recent developments in physics. Quantum coherence plays a crucial role
in emerging quantum technologies as well as fundamental experiments. A major
obstacle to the utilization of quantum effects is decoherence, primarily in the
form of dephasing that destroys quantum coherence, and leads to effective
classical behaviour. We show that there are universal relationships governing
dephasing, which constrain the relative rates at which quantum correlations can
disappear. These effectively lead to speed limits which become especially
important in multi-partite systems
Cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculation for Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
A rotating bosonic many-body system in a harmonic trap is studied with the
3D-Cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method at zero temperature, which has been
applied to nuclear many-body systems at high spin. This method is a variational
method extended from the Hartree-Fock theory, which can treat the pairing
correlations in a self-consistent manner. An advantage of this method is that a
finite-range interaction between constituent particles can be used in the
calculation, unlike the original Gross-Pitaevskii approach. To demonstrate the
validity of our method, we present a calculation for a toy model, that is, a
rotating system of ten bosonic particles interacting through the repulsive
quadrupole-quadrupole interaction in a harmonic trap. It is found that the
yrast states, the lowest-energy states for the given total angular momentum,
does not correspond to the Bose-Einstein condensate, except a few special
cases. One of such cases is a vortex state, which appears when the total
angular momentum is twice the particle number (i.e., ).Comment: accepted to Phys. Rev.
Interference of Quantum Channels
We show how interferometry can be used to characterise certain aspects of
general quantum processes, in particular, the coherence of completely positive
maps. We derive a measure of coherent fidelity, maximum interference visibility
and the closest unitary operator to a given physical process under this
measure.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, REVTeX 4, typographical corrections and added
acknowledgemen
Quantum Hilbert hotel
In 1924 David Hilbert conceived a paradoxical tale involving a hotel with an infinite number of rooms to illustrate some aspects of the mathematical notion of “infinity.” In continuous-variable quantum mechanics we routinely make use of infinite state spaces: here we show that such a theoretical apparatus can accommodate an analog of Hilbert’s hotel paradox. We devise a protocol that, mimicking what happens to the guests of the hotel, maps the amplitudes of an infinite eigenbasis to twice their original quantum number in a coherent and deterministic manner, producing infinitely many unoccupied levels in the process. We demonstrate the feasibility of the protocol by experimentally realizing it on the orbital angular momentum of a paraxial field. This new non-Gaussian operation may be exploited, for example, for enhancing the sensitivity of NOON states, for increasing the capacity of a channel, or for multiplexing multiple channels into a single one
Surface Acoustic Wave Single-Electron Interferometry
We propose an experiment to observe interference of a single electron as it
is transported along two parallel quasi-one-dimensional channels trapped in a
single minimum of a travelling periodic electric field. The experimental device
is a modification of the surface acoustic wave (SAW) based quantum processor.
Interference is achieved by creating a superposition of spatial wavefunctions
between the two channels and inducing a relative phase shift via either a
transverse electric field or a magnetic field. The interference can be used to
estimate the decoherence time of an electron in this type of solid-state
device
Operational approach to the Uhlmann holonomy
We suggest a physical interpretation of the Uhlmann amplitude of a density
operator. Given this interpretation we propose an operational approach to
obtain the Uhlmann condition for parallelity. This allows us to realize
parallel transport along a sequence of density operators by an iterative
preparation procedure. At the final step the resulting Uhlmann holonomy can be
determined via interferometric measurements.Comment: Added material, references, and journal reference
Evolutionary history of tall fescue morphotypes inferred from molecular phylogenetics of the Lolium-Festuca species complex
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The agriculturally important pasture grass tall fescue (<it>Festuca arundinacea </it>Schreb. syn. <it>Lolium arundinaceum </it>(Schreb.) Darbysh.) is an outbreeding allohexaploid, that may be more accurately described as a species complex consisting of three major (Continental, Mediterranean and rhizomatous) morphotypes. Observation of hybrid infertility in some crossing combinations between morphotypes suggests the possibility of independent origins from different diploid progenitors. This study aims to clarify the evolutionary relationships between each tall fescue morphotype through phylogenetic analysis using two low-copy nuclear genes (encoding plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase [<it>Acc1</it>] and <it>centroradialis </it>[<it>CEN</it>]), the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (rDNA ITS) and the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) genome-located <it>matK </it>gene. Other taxa within the closely related <it>Lolium</it>-<it>Festuca </it>species complex were also included in the study, to increase understanding of evolutionary processes in a taxonomic group characterised by multiple inter-specific hybridisation events.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Putative homoeologous sequences from both nuclear genes were obtained from each polyploid species and compared to counterparts from 15 diploid taxa. Phylogenetic reconstruction confirmed <it>F. pratensis </it>and <it>F. arundinacea </it>var. <it>glaucescens </it>as probable progenitors to Continental tall fescue, and these species are also likely to be ancestral to the rhizomatous morphotype. However, these two morphotypes are sufficiently distinct to be located in separate clades based on the ITS-derived data set. All four of the generated data sets suggest independent evolution of the Mediterranean and Continental morphotypes, with minimal affinity between cognate sequence haplotypes. No obvious candidate progenitor species for Mediterranean tall fescues were identified, and only two putative sub-genome-specific haplotypes were identified for this morphotype.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>This study describes the first phylogenetic analysis of the <it>Festuca </it>genus to include representatives of each tall fescue morphotype, and to use low copy nuclear gene-derived sequences to identify putative progenitors of the polyploid species. The demonstration of distinct tall fescue lineages has implications for both taxonomy and molecular breeding strategies, and may facilitate the generation of morphotype and/or sub-genome-specific molecular markers.</p
Identifying a Two-State Hamiltonian in the Presence of Decoherence
Mapping the system evolution of a two-state system allows the determination
of the effective system Hamiltonian directly. We show how this can be achieved
even if the system is decohering appreciably over the observation time. A
method to include various decoherence models is given and the limits of this
technique are explored. This technique is applicable both to the problem of
calibrating a control Hamiltonian for quantum computing applications and for
precision experiments in two-state quantum systems. For simple models of
decoherence, this method can be applied even when the decoherence time is
comparable to the oscillation period of the system.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. Minor corrections, published versio
A universal quantum estimator
Almost all computational tasks in the modem computer can be designed from basic building blocks. These building blocks provide a powerful and efficient language for describing algorithms. In quantum computers, the basic building blocks are the quantum gates. In this tutorial, we will look at quantum gates that act on one and two qubits and briefly discuss how these gates can be used in quantum networks
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