204 research outputs found
Criticality and phase classification for quadratic open quantum many-body systems
We study the steady states of translation-invariant open quantum many-body
systems governed by Lindblad master equations, where the Hamiltonian is
quadratic in the ladder operators, and the Lindblad operators are either linear
or quadratic and Hermitian. These systems are called quasi-free and quadratic,
respectively. We find that steady states of one-dimensional systems with
finite-range interactions necessarily have exponentially decaying Green's
functions. For the quasi-free case without quadratic Lindblad operators, we
show that fermionic systems with finite-range interactions are non-critical for
any number of spatial dimensions and provide bounds on the correlation lengths.
Quasi-free bosonic systems can be critical in dimensions. Lastly, we
address the question of phase transitions in quadratic systems and find that,
without symmetry constraints beyond invariance under single-particle basis and
particle-hole transformations, all gapped Liouvillians belong to the same
phase.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures; the employed methods for the solution of
quasi-free and quadratic open systems are described in arXiv:2112.0834
Optimized Lie-Trotter-Suzuki decompositions for two and three non-commuting terms
Lie-Trotter-Suzuki decompositions are an efficient way to approximate
operator exponentials when is a sum of (non-commuting)
terms which, individually, can be exponentiated easily. They are employed in
time-evolution algorithms for tensor network states, digital quantum simulation
protocols, path integral methods like quantum Monte Carlo, and splitting
methods for symplectic integrators in classical Hamiltonian systems. We provide
optimized decompositions up to order . The leading error term is expanded
in nested commutators (Hall bases) and we minimize the 1-norm of the
coefficients. For terms, several of the optima we find are close to those
in McLachlan, SlAM J. Sci. Comput. 16, 151 (1995). Generally, our results
substantially improve over unoptimized decompositions by Forest, Ruth, Yoshida,
and Suzuki. We explain why these decompositions are sufficient to efficiently
simulate any one- or two-dimensional lattice model with finite-range
interactions. This follows by solving a partitioning problem for the
interaction graph.Comment: 30 pages, 8 figures, 8 tables; added results, figures, and
references, extended discussio
Super-operator structures and no-go theorems for dissipative quantum phase transitions
In the thermodynamic limit, the steady states of open quantum many-body
systems can undergo nonequilibrium phase transitions due to a competition
between Hamiltonian and dissipative terms. Here, we consider Markovian systems
and elucidate structures of the Liouville super-operator that generates the
dynamics. In many cases of interest, a non-orthogonal basis transformation can
bring the Liouvillian into block-triangular form, making it possible to assess
its spectrum. The spectral gap sets the asymptotic decay rate. The
super-operator structure can be used to bound gaps from below, showing that, in
a large class of systems, dissipative phase transitions are actually impossible
and that the convergence to steady states is exponential. Furthermore, when the
blocks on the diagonal are Hermitian, the Liouvillian spectra obey Weyl
ordering relations. The results are exemplified by various spin models.Comment: 7 page
Word Embedding based Correlation Model for Question/Answer Matching
With the development of community based question answering (Q&A) services, a
large scale of Q&A archives have been accumulated and are an important
information and knowledge resource on the web. Question and answer matching has
been attached much importance to for its ability to reuse knowledge stored in
these systems: it can be useful in enhancing user experience with recurrent
questions. In this paper, we try to improve the matching accuracy by overcoming
the lexical gap between question and answer pairs. A Word Embedding based
Correlation (WEC) model is proposed by integrating advantages of both the
translation model and word embedding, given a random pair of words, WEC can
score their co-occurrence probability in Q&A pairs and it can also leverage the
continuity and smoothness of continuous space word representation to deal with
new pairs of words that are rare in the training parallel text. An experimental
study on Yahoo! Answers dataset and Baidu Zhidao dataset shows this new
method's promising potential.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
KD-MVS: Knowledge Distillation Based Self-supervised Learning for Multi-view Stereo
Supervised multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have achieved remarkable progress
in terms of reconstruction quality, but suffer from the challenge of collecting
large-scale ground-truth depth. In this paper, we propose a novel
self-supervised training pipeline for MVS based on knowledge distillation,
termed KD-MVS, which mainly consists of self-supervised teacher training and
distillation-based student training. Specifically, the teacher model is trained
in a self-supervised fashion using both photometric and featuremetric
consistency. Then we distill the knowledge of the teacher model to the student
model through probabilistic knowledge transferring. With the supervision of
validated knowledge, the student model is able to outperform its teacher by a
large margin. Extensive experiments performed on multiple datasets show our
method can even outperform supervised methods
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