Relation Between Stereographic Projection and Concurrence Measure in Bipartite Pure States

One-qubit pure states, living on the surface of Bloch sphere, can be mapped onto the usual complex plane by using stereographic projection. In this paper, after reviewing the entanglement of two-qubit pure state, it is shown that the quaternionic stereographic projection is related to concurrence measure. This is due to the fact that every two-qubit state, in ordinary complex field, corresponds to the one-qubit state in quaternionic skew field, called quaterbit. Like the one-qubit states in complex field, the stereographic projection maps every quaterbit onto a quaternion number whose complex and quaternionic parts are related to Schmidt and concurrence terms respectively. Rather, the same relation is established for three-qubit state under octonionic stereographic projection which means that if the state is bi-separable then, quaternionic and octonionic terms vanish. Finally, we generalize recent consequences to 2?N and 4?N dimensional Hilbert spaces (N ≥ 2) and show that, after stereographic projection, the quaternionic and octonionic terms are entanglement sensitive. These trends are easily confirmed by direct computation for general multi-particle W- and GHZ-states.     

Scaling Transform and Stretched States in Quantum Mechanics

We consider the Husimi Q(q, p)-functions which are quantum quasiprobability distributions on the phase space. It is known that, under a scaling transform (q; p) → (?q; ?p), the Husimi function of any physical state is converted into a function which is also the Husimi function of some physical state. More precisely, it has been proved that, if Q(q, p) is the Husimi function, the function ?² Q(?q; ?p) is also the Husimi function. We call a state with the Husimi function ?² Q(?q; ?p) the stretched state and investigate the properties of the stretched Fock states. These states can be obtained as a result of applying the scaling transform to the Fock states of the harmonic oscillator. The harmonic-oscillator Fock states are pure states, but the stretched Fock states are mixed states. We find the density matrices of stretched Fock states in an explicit form. Their structure can be described with the help of negative binomial distributions. We present the graphs of distributions of negative binomial coefficients for different stretched Fock states and show the von Neumann entropy of the simplest stretched Fock state.     

Tight Uniform Continuity Bounds for Quantum Entropies: Conditional Entropy,Relative Entropy Distance and Energy Constraints

We present a bouquet of continuity bounds for quantum entropies, falling broadly into two classes: first, a tight analysis of the Alicki–Fannes continuity bounds for the conditional von Neumann entropy, reaching almost the best possible form that depends only on the system dimension and the trace distance of the states. Almost the same proof can be used to derive similar continuity bounds for the relative entropy distance from a convex set of states or positive operators. As applications, we give new proofs, with tighter bounds, of the asymptotic continuity of the relative entropy of entanglement, E_R, and its regularization \({E_R^{\infty}}\), as well as of the entanglement of formation, E_F. Using a novel “quantum coupling” of density operators, which may be of independent interest, we extend the latter to an asymptotic continuity bound for the regularized entanglement of formation, aka entanglement cost, \({E_C=E_F^{\infty}}\). Second, we derive analogous continuity bounds for the von Neumann entropy and conditional entropy in infinite dimensional systems under an energy constraint, most importantly systems of multiple quantum harmonic oscillators. While without an energy bound the entropy is discontinuous, it is well-known to be continuous on states of bounded energy. However, a quantitative statement to that effect seems not to have been known. Here, under some regularity assumptions on the Hamiltonian, we find that, quite intuitively, the Gibbs entropy at the given energy roughly takes the role of the Hilbert space dimension in the finite-dimensional Fannes inequality.     

Intertwining Symmetry Algebras of Quantum Superintegrable Systems on Constant Curvature Spaces

A class of quantum superintegrable Hamiltonians defined on a hypersurface in a n+1 dimensional ambient space with signature (p,q) is considered and a set of intertwining operators connecting them are determined. It is shown that the intertwining operators can be chosen such that they generate the su(p,q) and so(2p,2q) Lie algebras and lead to the Hamiltonians through Casimir operators. The physical states corresponding to the discrete spectrum of bound states as well as the degeneration are characterized in terms of some particular unitary representations.     

Persistence of quantum correlations in a XY spin-chain environment

Quantum correlations in a physical system are usually degraded whenever there is aninteraction with the environment. Here we consider the action of a XY spin-chain interactingwith a system of two qubits. Results are surprising for particular families of statessince their evolution does not destroy the presence of either entanglement or nonlocality,that is, those correlations persist for any possible configuration of theenvironment. In addition, we unveil the form of those states which, although being mixed,their entanglement implies nonlocality and vice versa. This finding constitutes anextension of the well-known Gisin Theorem for pure states of two qubits.The ensuing form will enable us to find the evolved entanglement and nonlocality in ananalytical fashion.     

Quantum Discord of 2<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>-Dimensional Bell-Diagonal States

In this study, using the concept of relative entropy as a distance measure of correlations we investigate the important issue of evaluating quantum correlations such as entanglement, dissonance and classical correlations for 2 ⁿ -dimensional Bell-diagonal states. We provide an analytical technique, which describes how we find the closest classical states(CCS) and the closest separable states(CSS) for these states. Then analytical results are obtained for quantum discord of 2 ⁿ -dimensional Bell-diagonal states. As illustration, some special cases are examined. Finally, we investigate the additivity relation between the different correlations for the separable generalized Bloch sphere states.     

Entanglement measure for pure <Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis> ⊗ <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis> bipartite quantum states

We propose an entanglement measure for pure M ? N bipartite quantum states. We obtain the measure by generalizing the equivalent measure for a 2 ? 2 system, via a 2 ? 3 system, to the general bipartite case. The measure emphasizes the role Bell states have, both for forming the measure and for experimentally measuring the entanglement. The form of the measure is similar to the generalized concurrence. In the case of 2 ? 3 systems, we prove that our measure, which is directly measurable, equals the concurrence. It is also shown that, in order to measure the entanglement, it is sufficient to measure the projections of the state onto a maximum of M(M ? 1)N(N ? 1)/2 Bell states.     

A first order Tsallis theory

We investigate first-order approximations to both (i) Tsallis’ entropy S _q and (ii) the S _q -MaxEnt solution (called q-exponential functions e _q ). We use an approximation/expansion for q very close to unity. It is shown that the functions arising from the procedure (ii) are the MaxEnt solutions to the entropy emerging from (i). Our present treatment is motivated by the fact it is FREE of the poles that, for classic quadratic Hamiltonians, appear in Tsallis’ approach, as demonstrated in [A. Plastimo, M.C. Rocca, Europhys. Lett. 104, 60003 (2013)]. Additionally, we show that our treatment is compatible with extant date on the ozone layer.     

Entangled Two Two-Level Atom in the Presence of External Classical Fields

In this contribution, we investigate a TTLAs (two two-level atoms) in interaction with an electromagnetic field in presence of the external classical fields. The general solution of the time evolution operator is obtained and used to derive the density matrix operator. The temporal evolution of the atomic inversion, the degree of entanglement measured by the negativity, as well as the single atom entropy squeezing are discussed. We consider the atomic system at either the upper or Bell states, while the field in the coherent state. It has been shown that the coupling parameter g (the coupling of the external classical fields) gets more effective for the case in which the g is not equal to zero. Also for a strong coupling parameter g the superstructure phenomenon can be reported. The results shown that for increase the value of the classical external fields parameter leads to the entanglement between the atoms and the fields gets stronger. Also it has shown that for specific value of the classical external fields the system never reaches the pure state except during the revival periods.     

Phase-space treatment of the driven quantum harmonic oscillator

A recent phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of the Glauber coherent states is applied to study the interaction of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator with an arbitrary time-dependent force. Wave functions of the simultaneous values of position q and momentum p are deduced, which in turn give the standard position and momentum wave functions, together with expressions for the ηth derivatives with respect to q and p, respectively. Afterwards, general formulae for momentum, position and energy expectation values are obtained, and the Ehrenfest theorem is verified. Subsequently, general expressions for the cross-Wigner functions are deduced. Finally, a specific example is considered to numerically and graphically illustrate some results.     

Uniform Entanglement Frames

We present several criteria for genuine multipartite entanglement from universal uncertainty relations based on majorization theory. Under non-negative Schur-concave functions, the vector-type uncertainty relation generates a family of infinitely many detectors to check genuine multipartite entanglement. We also introduce the concept of k-separable circles via geometric distance for probability vectors, which include at most (k?1)-separable states. The entanglement witness is also generalized to a universal entanglement witness which is able to detect the k-separable states more accurately.     

On the Non-k-Separability of Dicke Class of States and N-Qudit W States

In this paper, we present the separability criteria to identify non-k-separability and genuine multipartite entanglement in mixed multipartite states using elements of density matrices. Our criteria can detect the non-k-separability of Dicke class of states, anti W states and mixtures thereof and higher dimensional W class of states. We then investigate the performance of our criteria by considering N-qubit Dicke states with arbitrary excitations added with white noise and mixture of N-qudit W state with white noise. We also study the robustness of our criteria against white noise. Further, we demonstrate that our criteria are experimentally implementable by means of local observables such as Pauli matrices and generalized Gell-Mann matrices.     

New forms of the Cauchy operator and some of their applications

In this paper, we first construct the Cauchy q-shift operator T(a, b;D _xy ) and the Cauchy q-difference operator L(a, b; θ _xy ). We then apply these operators in order to represent and investigate some new families of q-polynomials which are defined in this paper. We derive some q-identities such as generating functions, symmetry properties and Rogers-type formulas for these q-polynomials. We also give an application for the q-exponential operator R(bD _q ).     

Kauffman Cellular Automata on Quasicrystal Topology

In this paper, we perform numerical simulations to study Kauffman cellular automata (KCA) on quasiperiod lattices. In particular, we investigate phase transition, magnetic entropy, and propagation speed of the damage on these lattices. Both the critical threshold parameter \(p_{c}\) and the critical exponents are estimated with good precision. In order to investigate the increase of statistical fluctuations and the onset of chaos in the critical region of the model, we have also defined a magnetic entropy to these systems. It is seen that the magnetic entropy behaves in a different way when one passes from the frozen regime (p < p_c) to the chaotic regime (p > p_c). For a further analysis, the robustness of the propagation of failures is checked by introducing a quenched site dilution probability q on the lattices. It is seen that the damage spreading is quite sensitive when a small fraction of the lattice sites are disconnected. A finite-size scaling analysis is employed to estimate the critical exponents. From these numerical estimates, we claim that on both pure (q =?0) and diluted (q =?0.05) quasiperiodic lattices, the KCA model belongs to the same universality class than on square lattices. Furthermore, with the aim of comparing the dynamical behavior between periodic and quasiperiodic systems, the propagation speed of the damage is also calculated for the square lattice assuming the same conditions. It is found that on square lattices the propagation speed of the damage obeys a power law as \(v\sim (p-p_{c})^{\alpha }\), whereas on quasiperiod lattices, it follows a logarithmic law as \(v \sim \ln (p-p_{c})^{\alpha }\).     

A New Family of Solvable Pearson-Dirichlet Random Walks

An n-step Pearson-Gamma random walk in ? ^d starts at the origin and consists of n independent steps with gamma distributed lengths and uniform orientations. The gamma distribution of each step length has a shape parameter q>0. Constrained random walks of n steps in ? ^d are obtained from the latter walks by imposing that the sum of the step lengths is equal to a fixed value. Simple closed-form expressions were obtained in particular for the distribution of the endpoint of such constrained walks for any d≥d ₀ and any n≥2 when q is either \(q = \frac{d}{2} - 1 \) (d ₀=3) or q=d?1 (d ₀=2) (Le Caër in J. Stat. Phys. 140:728–751, 2010). When the total walk length is chosen, without loss of generality, to be equal to 1, then the constrained step lengths have a Dirichlet distribution whose parameters are all equal to q and the associated walk is thus named a Pearson-Dirichlet random walk. The density of the endpoint position of a n-step planar walk of this type (n≥2), with q=d=2, was shown recently to be a weighted mixture of 1+floor(n/2) endpoint densities of planar Pearson-Dirichlet walks with q=1 (Beghin and Orsingher in Stochastics 82:201–229, 2010). The previous result is generalized to any walk space dimension and any number of steps n≥2 when the parameter of the Pearson-Dirichlet random walk is q=d>1. We rely on the connection between an unconstrained random walk and a constrained one, which have both the same n and the same q=d, to obtain a closed-form expression of the endpoint density. The latter is a weighted mixture of 1+floor(n/2) densities with simple forms, equivalently expressed as a product of a power and a Gauss hypergeometric function. The weights are products of factors which depends both on d and n and Bessel numbers independent of d.     

Potential of quasielastic meson knockout from a nucleon by high-energy electrons and pions for studying the structure of exotic excited states of a final-state baryon

The possibility of studying q ⁴ \(\bar q\) exotic baryon states by means of N(e, e’M)B reactions proceeding via an extremely simple mechanism and involving the quasielastic knockout of various mesons from a nucleon by electrons of energy in the few-GeV region is considered as a development of the previous investigations of our group. A quark microscopic formalism based on the cluster model of q ⁴ \(\bar q\) states, which makes it possible to determine momentum distributions of mesons in various channels of B → N + M virtual decays (in principle, these distributions can be compared with experimental data), is expounded by considering the example of the pentaquark (B = Θ⁺). The decay widths of the q ⁴ \(\bar q\) baryon states being discussed are governed by the degree of separation of quark clusters (this is a parameter of the model used). The electroproduction cross sections prove to be small because of kinematical constraints requiring that physically admissible values of the momentum ‖k‖ of the virtual meson M lie in the region where relevant amplitudes are suppressed substantially by form factors in pentaquark vertices. In particular, N (e, e′π ^±)B reactions involving pion knockout furnish direct information about nonstrange components of baryon B; however, the expected cross sections for such reactions are an order of magnitude smaller than their counterparts for analogous reactions leading to the production of a pentaquark Θ⁺. Because of the smallness of the electroproduction cross sections, it is reasonable to consider the production of a pentaquark and other q ⁴ \(\bar q\) exotic states in reactions characterized by quasielastic kinematics and initiated by pions of energy in the range between about 1 and 5 GeV and in similar stripping and pickup nuclear reactions.     

Slow dynamics in glycerol: collective de gennes narrowing and independent angstrom motion

The slow dynamics of microscopic density correlations in supercooled glycerol was studied by time-domain interferometry using ⁵⁷Fe-nuclear resonant scattering gamma rays of synchrotron radiation. The dependence of the relaxation time at 250 K on the momentum transfer q is maximum near the first peak of the static structure factor S(q) at q ～ 15 nm ^?1. The q-dependent behavior of the relaxation time known as de Gennes narrowing was confirmed in glycerol. Conversely, de Gennes narrowing around the second and third peaks of S(q) at q ～ 26 nm ^?1 and 54 nm ^?1 was not detected. The q dependence of the relaxation time was found to follow a power-law equation with power-law index of 1.9(2) in the q region well above the first peak of S(q) up to ～ 60 nm ^?1, which corresponds to angstrom scale, within experimental error. This suggests that in the angstrom-scale dynamics of supercooled glycerol, independent motions dominate over collective motion.     

Maximizing Complementary Quantities by Projective Measurements

In this work, we study the so-called quantitative complementarity quantities. We focus in the following physical situation: two qubits (q _A and q _B ) are initially in a maximally entangled state. One of them (q _B ) interacts with a N-qubit system (R). After the interaction, projective measurements are performed on each of the qubits of R, in a basis that is chosen after independent optimization procedures: maximization of the visibility, the concurrence, and the predictability. For a specific maximization procedure, we study in detail how each of the complementary quantities behave, conditioned on the intensity of the coupling between q _B and the N qubits. We show that, if the coupling is sufficiently “strong,” independent of the maximization procedure, the concurrence tends to decay quickly. Interestingly enough, the behavior of the concurrence in this model is similar to the entanglement dynamics of a two qubit system subjected to a thermal reservoir, despite that we consider finite N. However, the visibility shows a different behavior: its maximization is more efficient for stronger coupling constants. Moreover, we investigate how the distinguishability, or the information stored in different parts of the system, is distributed for different couplings.     

A Minkowski Type Trace Inequality and Strong Subadditivity of Quantum Entropy II: Convexity and Concavity

We revisit and prove some convexity inequalities for trace functions conjectured in this paper’s antecedent. The main functional considered is

$ \Phi_{p,q} (A_1,\, A_2, \ldots, A_m) = \left({\rm Tr}\left[\left( \, {\sum\limits_{j=1}^m A_j^p } \, \right) ^{q/p} \right] \right)^{1/q} $

for m positive definite operators A _j . In our earlier paper, we only considered the case q = 1 and proved the concavity of Φ _p,1 for 0 < p ≤ 1 and the convexity for p = 2. We conjectured the convexity of Φ _p,1 for 1 < p < 2. Here we not only settle the unresolved case of joint convexity for 1 ≤ p ≤ 2, we are also able to include the parameter q ≥ 1 and still retain the convexity. Among other things this leads to a definition of an L ^q (L ^p ) norm for operators when 1 ≤ p ≤ 2 and a Minkowski inequality for operators on a tensor product of three Hilbert spaces – which leads to another proof of strong subadditivity of entropy. We also prove convexity/concavity properties of some other, related functionals.