118 research outputs found
Relative phase change during quantum operation
Quantum operations represented by completely positive maps encompass many of
the physical processes and have been very powerful in describing quantum
computation and information processing tasks. We introduce the notion of
relative phase change for a quantum system undergoing quantum operation. We
find that the relative phase shift of a system not only depends on the state of
the system, but also depends on the initial state of the ancilla with which it
might have interacted in the past. The relative phase change during a sequence
of quantum operations is shown to be non-additive in nature. This property can
attribute a `memory' to a quantum channel. Also the notion of relative phase
shift helps us to define what we call `in-phase quantum channels'. We will
present the relative phase shift for a qubit undergoing depolarizing channel
and complete randomization and discuss their implications.Comment: Latex file, article style, 15 pages, no figures. Invited talk
presented at First Feynman Festival on Quantum Computation at University of
Maryland, College Park from August 23-28th, 2002 under the title ``Quantum
phase during quantum operation'
Replication and Evolution of Quantum Species
We dwell upon the physicist's conception of `life' since Schroedinger and
Wigner through to the modern-day language of living systems in the light of
quantum information. We discuss some basic features of a living system such as
ordinary replication and evolution in terms of quantum bio-information. We also
discuss the principle of no-culling of living replicas. We show that in a
collection of identical species there can be no entanglement between one of the
mutated copies and the rest of the species in a closed universe. Even though
these discussions revolve around `artificial life' they may still be applicable
in real biological systems under suitable conditions.Comment: Latex, 12 pages, no figure
Stronger uncertainty relations for the sum of variances
Heisenberg-Robertson's uncertainty relation expresses a limitation in the
possible preparations of the system by giving a lower bound to the product of
the variances of two observables in terms of their commutator. Notably, it does
not capture the concept of incompatible observables because it can be trivial,
i.e., the lower bound can be null even for two non-compatible observables. Here
we give two stronger uncertainty relations, relating to the sum of variances,
whose lower bound is guaranteed to be nontrivial whenever the two observables
are incompatible on the state of the system.Comment: Version accepted for publication on Phys. Rev. Let
Perfect Teleportation and Superdense Coding With W-States
True tripartite entanglement of the state of a system of three qubits can be
classified on the basis of stochastic local operations and classical
communications (SLOCC). Such states can be classified in two categories: GHZ
states and W-states. It is known that GHZ states can be used for teleportation
and superdense coding, but the prototype W-state cannot be. However, we show
that there is a class of W-states that can be used for perfect teleportation
and superdense coding.Comment: 9 pages, no figur
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