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Classical Tensors and Quantum Entanglement I: Pure States
The geometrical description of a Hilbert space asociated with a quantum
system considers a Hermitian tensor to describe the scalar inner product of
vectors which are now described by vector fields. The real part of this tensor
represents a flat Riemannian metric tensor while the imaginary part represents
a symplectic two-form. The immersion of classical manifolds in the complex
projective space associated with the Hilbert space allows to pull-back tensor
fields related to previous ones, via the immersion map. This makes available,
on these selected manifolds of states, methods of usual Riemannian and
symplectic geometry. Here we consider these pulled-back tensor fields when the
immersed submanifold contains separable states or entangled states. Geometrical
tensors are shown to encode some properties of these states. These results are
not unrelated with criteria already available in the literature. We explicitly
deal with some of these relations.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phy
Ehrenfest dynamics is purity non-preserving: a necessary ingredient for decoherence
We discuss the evolution of purity in mixed quantum/classical approaches to
electronic nonadiabatic dynamics in the context of the Ehrenfest model. As it
is impossible to exactly determine initial conditions for a realistic system,
we choose to work in the statistical Ehrenfest formalism that we introduced in
Ref. 1. From it, we develop a new framework to determine exactly the change in
the purity of the quantum subsystem along the evolution of a statistical
Ehrenfest system. In a simple case, we verify how and to which extent Ehrenfest
statistical dynamics makes a system with more than one classical trajectory and
an initial quantum pure state become a quantum mixed one. We prove this
numerically showing how the evolution of purity depends on time, on the
dimension of the quantum state space , and on the number of classical
trajectories of the initial distribution. The results in this work open new
perspectives for studying decoherence with Ehrenfest dynamics.Comment: Revtex 4-1, 14 pages, 2 figures. Final published versio
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health of Ilhas Selvagens, Portugal
In September 2015, National Geographic's Pristine Seas project, in conjunction with the Instituto Universitário-Portugal, The Waitt Institute, the University of Western Australia, and partners conducted a comprehensive assessment of the rarely surveyed Ilhas Selvagens to explore the marine environment, especially the poorly understood deep sea and open ocean areas, and quantify the biodiversity of the nearshore marine environment
Aspectos do controlo da qualidade da fluodesoxiglucose num laboratório de produção
Resumo do poster apresentado ao XII Congresso Nacional de Medicina Nuclear, 12-14 Novembro 2009, Mealhad
Hybrid Quantum-Classical Monte-Carlo Study of a Molecule-Based Magnet
Using a Monte Carlo (MC) method, we study an effective model for the
Fe(II)Fe(III) bimetallic oxalates. Within a hybrid quantum-classical MC
algorithm, the Heisenberg S=2 and spins on the Fe(II) and Fe(III)
sites are updated using a quantum MC loop while the Ising-like orbital angular
momenta on the Fe(II) sites are updated using a single-spin classical MC flip.
The effective field acting on the orbital angular momenta depends on the
quantum state of the system. We find that the mean-field phase diagram for the
model is surprisingly robust with respect to fluctuations. In particular, the
region displaying two compensation points shifts and shrinks but remains
finite.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
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