Diffusive-ballistic crossover in 1D quantum walks

We show that particle transport, as characterized by the equilibrium mean square displacement, in a uniform, quantum multibaker map, is generically ballistic in the long time limit, for any fixed value of Planck's constant. However, for fixed times, the semiclassical limit leads to diffusion. Random matrix theory provides explicit analytical predictions for the mean square displacement of a particle in the system. These results exhibit a crossover from diffusive to ballistic motion, with crossover time on the order of the inverse of Planck's constant. We expect that, for a large class of 1D quantum random walks similar to the quantum multibaker, a sufficient condition for diffusion in the semiclassical limit is classically chaotic dynamics in each cell. The systems described generalize known quantum random walks and may have applications for quantum computation.     

A Classical Explanation of Quantization

In the context of our recently developed emergent quantum mechanics, and, in particular, based on an assumed sub-quantum thermodynamics, the necessity of energy quantization as originally postulated by Max Planck is explained by means of purely classical physics. Moreover, under the same premises, also the energy spectrum of the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator is derived. Essentially, Planck’s constant h is shown to be indicative of a particle’s “zitterbewegung” and thus of a fundamental angular momentum. The latter is identified with quantum mechanical spin, a residue of which is thus present even in the non-relativistic Schrödinger theory.     

Long Time Energy Transfer in the Random Schrödinger Equation

We consider the long time behavior of solutions of the d-dimensional linear Boltzmann equation that arises in the weak coupling limit for the Schrödinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. We show that the intermediate mesoscopic time limit satisfies a Fokker–Planck type equation with the wave vector performing a Brownian motion on the (d ? 1)-dimensional sphere of constant energy, as in the case of a time-independent Schrödinger equation. However, the long time limit of the solution with an isotropic initial data satisfies an equation corresponding to the energy being the square root of a Bessel process of dimension d/2.     

再论时域的量子化及其物理本质

本文在提出时域吸收过程、时域辐射过程和时域无辐射跃迁过程等概念的基础上,进一步揭示出时域量子化的本质含义.对时间不可逆性问题进行了详细论证,并在给出“时间量子”t与光子能量ε_t之间的关系式t=h/ε_t(式中h为普朗克常量)的同时,进一步提出了时域量子化的新观点.利用t=h/ε_t这一关系对超快科学研究领域中的新时间尺度(诸如超短激光脉冲的脉宽压缩、阿秒界限的突破等)问题进行了详细讨论.最后,在对时空对称性以及时空对称结构等问题进行详细分析的基础上,进一步提出了量子时空观和量子化时空结构的基本观点.     

Continuous Time Open Quantum Random Walks and Non-Markovian Lindblad Master Equations

A new type of quantum random walks, called Open Quantum Random Walks, has been developed and studied in Attal et al. (Open quantum random walks, preprint) and (Central limit theorems for open quantum random walks, preprint). In this article we present a natural continuous time extension of these Open Quantum Random Walks. This continuous time version is obtained by taking a continuous time limit of the discrete time Open Quantum Random Walks. This approximation procedure is based on some adaptation of Repeated Quantum Interactions Theory (Attal and Pautrat in Annales Henri Poincaré Physique Théorique 7:59–104, 2006) coupled with the use of correlated projectors (Breuer in Phys Rev A 75:022103, 2007). The limit evolutions obtained this way give rise to a particular type of quantum master equations. These equations appeared originally in the non-Markovian generalization of the Lindblad theory (Breuer in Phys Rev A 75:022103, 2007). We also investigate the continuous time limits of the quantum trajectories associated with Open Quantum Random Walks. We show that the limit evolutions in this context are described by jump stochastic differential equations. Finally we present a physical example which can be described in terms of Open Quantum Random Walks and their associated continuous time limits.     

The reliability horizon for semi-classical quantum gravity: metric fluctuations are often more important than back-reaction

In this note I introduce the notion of the “reliability horizon” for semi-classical quantum gravity. This reliability horizon is an attempt to quantify the extent to which we should trust semi-classical quantum gravity, and to get a better handle on just where the “Plack regime” resides. I point out that the key obstruction to pushing semi-classical quantum gravity into the Planck regime is often the existence of large metric fluctuations, rather than a large back-reaction. There are many situations where the metric fluctuations become large long before the back-reaction is significant. Issues of this type are fundamental to any attempt at proving Hawking's chronology protection conjecture from first principles, since I shall prove that the onset of chronology violation is always hidden behind the reliability horizon.     

Non-Markovian decoherent quantum walks

Quantum walks act in obviously different ways from their classical counterparts, but decoherence will lessen and close this gap between them. To understand this process, it is necessary to investigate the evolution of quantum walks under different decoherence situations. In this article, we study a non-Markovian decoherent quantum walk on a line. In a short time regime, the behavior of the walk deviates from both ideal quantum walks and classical random walks. The position variance as a measure of the quantum walk collapses and revives for a short time, and tends to have a linear relation with time. That is, the walker's behavior shows a diffusive spread over a long time limit, which is caused by non-Markovian dephasing affecting the quantum correlations between the quantum walker and his coin. We also study both quantum discord and measurement-induced disturbance as measures of the quantum correlations, and observe both collapse and revival in the short time regime, and the tendency to be zero in the long time limit. Therefore, quantum walks with non-Markovian decoherence tend to have diffusive spreading behavior over long time limits, while in the short time regime they oscillate between ballistic and diffusive spreading behavior, and the quantum correlation collapses and revives due to the memory effect.     

Central Limit Theorems for Open Quantum Random Walks on the Crystal Lattices

We consider the open quantum random walks on the crystal lattices and investigate the central limit theorems for the walks. On the integer lattices the open quantum random walks satisfy the central limit theorems as was shown by Attal et al (Ann Henri Poincaré 16(1):15–43, 2015). In this paper we prove the central limit theorems for the open quantum random walks on the crystal lattices. We then provide with some examples for the Hexagonal lattices. We also develop the Fourier analysis on the crystal lattices. This leads to construct the so called dual processes for the open quantum random walks. It amounts to get Fourier transform of the probability densities, and it is very useful when we compute the characteristic functions of the walks. In this paper we construct the dual processes for the open quantum random walks on the crystal lattices providing with some examples.

     

Space use by foragers consuming renewable resources

Through the analysis of unbiased random walks on fractal trees and continuous time random walks, we show that even if a process is characterized by a mean square displacement (MSD) growing linearly with time (standard behaviour) its diffusion properties can be not trivial. In particular, we show that the following scenarios are consistent with a linear increase of MSD with time: (i) the high-order moments, ?x(t) ^q ? for q > 2 and the probability density of the process exhibit multiscaling; (ii) the random walk on certain fractal graphs, with non integer spectral dimension, can display a fully standard diffusion; (iii) positive order moments satisfying standard scaling does not imply an exact scaling property of the probability density.     

The Operator Formulation of Classical Mechanics and Semiclassical Limit

The algebra of polynomials in operators that represent generalized coordinate and momentum and depend on the Planck constant is defined. The Planck constant is treated as the parameter taking values between zero and some nonvanishing h ₀. For the later of these two extreme values, introduced operator algebra becomes equivalent to the algebra of observables of quantum mechanical system defined in the standard manner by operators in the Hilbert space. For the vanishing Planck constant, the generalized algebra gives the operator formulation of classical mechanics since it is equivalent to the algebra of variables of classical mechanical system defined, as usually, by functions over the phase space. In this way, the semiclassical limit of kinematical part of quantum mechanics is established through the generalized operator framework.     

Statistical interpretation of the Planck constant and the uncertainty relation

A statistically founded derivation of the quanta of energy is presented, which yields the Planck formula for the mean energy of the blackbody radiation without making use of the quantum postulate. The derivation presupposes an ensemble of particles and leads to a statistical interpretation of the Planck constant, which is defined and discussed. By means of the proposed interpretation ofh and as an application of it, the quantum uncertainty relation is derived classically and results as a statistical inequality. On the whole this paper is compatible with the statistical ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics.     

Dynamical correlations for vicious random walk with a wall

A one-dimensional system of nonintersecting Brownian particles is constructed as the diffusion scaling limit of Fisher's vicious random walk model. N Brownian particles start from the origin at time t=0 and undergo mutually avoiding motion until a finite time t=T. Dynamical correlation functions among the walkers are exactly evaluated in the case with a wall at the origin. Taking an asymptotic limit N→∞, we observe discontinuous transitions in the dynamical correlations. It is further shown that the vicious walk model with a wall is equivalent to a parametric random matrix model describing the crossover between the Bogoliubov–deGennes universality classes.     

Variable Step Random Walks and Self-Similar Distributions

We study a scenario under which variable step random walks give anomalous statistics. We begin by analyzing the Martingale Central Limit Theorem to find a sufficient condition for the limit distribution to be non-Gaussian. We study the case when the scaling index∼ζ is∼1₂. For corresponding continuous time processes, it is shown that the probability density function W(x;t) satisfies the Fokker–Planck equation. Possible forms for the diffusion coefficient are given, and related to W(x,t). Finally, we show how a time-series can be used to distinguish between these variable diffusion processes and Lévy dynamics.     

Exact solution of the 1D Hubbard model with NN and NNN interactions in the narrow-band limit

In this paper, we propose a family of weighted extended Koch networks based on a class of extended Koch networks. They originate from a r-complete graph, and each node in each r-complete graph of current generation produces mr-complete graphs whose weighted edges are scaled by factor h in subsequent evolutionary step. We study the structural properties of these networks and random walks on them. In more detail, we calculate exactly the average weighted shortest path length (AWSP), average receiving time (ART) and average sending time (AST). Besides, the technique of resistor network is employed to uncover the relationship between ART and AST on networks with unit weight. In the infinite network order limit, the average weighted shortest path lengths stay bounded with growing network order (0 < h < 1). The closed form expression of ART shows that it exhibits a sub-linear dependence (0 < h < 1) or linear dependence (h = 1) on network order. On the contrary, the AST behaves super-linearly with the network order. Collectively, all the obtained results show that the efficiency of message transportation on weighted extended Koch networks has close relation to the network parameters h, m and r. All these findings could shed light on the structure and random walks of general weighted networks.     

A mesoscopic quantum gravity effect

We explore the symmetry reduced form of a non-perturbative solution to the constraints of quantum gravity corresponding to quantum de Sitter space. The system has a remarkably precise analogy with the non-relativistic formulation of a particle falling in a constant gravitational field that we exploit in our analysis. We find that the solution reduces to de Sitter space in the semi-classical limit, but the uniquely quantum features of the solution have peculiar property. Namely, the unambiguous quantum structures are neither of Planck scale nor of cosmological scale. Instead, we find a periodicity in the volume of the universe whose period, using the observed value of the cosmological constant, is on the order of the volume of the proton.     

Realization of quantum walks with negligible decoherence in waveguide lattices

Quantum random walks are the quantum counterpart of classical random walks, and were recently studied in the context of quantum computation. Physical implementations of quantum walks have only been made in very small scale systems severely limited by decoherence. Here we show that the propagation of photons in waveguide lattices, which have been studied extensively in recent years, are essentially an implementation of quantum walks. Since waveguide lattices are easily constructed at large scales and display negligible decoherence, they can serve as an ideal and versatile experimental playground for the study of quantum walks and quantum algorithms. We experimentally observe quantum walks in large systems ( approximately 100 sites) and confirm quantum walks effects which were studied theoretically, including ballistic propagation, disorder, and boundary related effects.     

The quantum Hall＇s effect： A quantum electrodynamic phenomenon

<正>We have applied Maxwell’s equations to study the physics of quantum Hall’s effect.The electromagnetic properties of this system are obtained.The Hall’s voltage,V_H = 2πh²n_s/em,where n_s is the electron number density,for a 2- dimensional system,and h = 2πh is the Planck’s constant,is found to coincide with the voltage drop across the quantum capacitor.Consideration of the cyclotronic motion of electrons is found to give rise to Hall’s resistance. Ohmic resistances in the horizontal and vertical directions have been found to exist before equilibrium state is reached. At a fundamental level,the Hall’s effect is found to be equivalent to a resonant LCR circuit with L_H = 2πm/e²n_s and C_H = me²/2πh²n_s satisfying the resonance condition with resonant frequency equal to the inverse of the scattering （relaxation） time,τ_s.The Hall’s resistance is found to be R_H =（（L_H）/C_H）^1/2.The Hall’s resistance may be connected with the impedance that the electron wave experiences when it propagates in the 2-dimensional gas.     

Growth and Roughness of the Interface for Ballistic Deposition

In ballistic deposition (BD), (d+1)-dimensional particles fall sequentially at random towards an initially flat, large but bounded d-dimensional surface, and each particle sticks to the first point of contact. For both lattice and continuum BD, a law of large numbers in the thermodynamic limit establishes convergence of the mean height and surface width (sample standard deviation of the height) of the interface to constants h(t) and w(t), respectively, depending on time t. We show that h(t) is asymptotically linear in t, while (w(t))² grows at least logarithmically in t when d=1. We use duality results showing that w(t) can be interpreted as the standard deviation of the height for deposition onto a surface growing from a single point.     

Semi-classical Time-frequency Analysis and Applications

This work represents a first systematic attempt to create a common ground for semi-classical and time-frequency analysis. These two different areas combined together provide interesting outcomes in terms of Schrödinger type equations. Indeed, continuity results of both Schrödinger propagators and their asymptotic solutions are obtained on \(\hbar \)-dependent Banach spaces, the semi-classical version of the well-known modulation spaces. Moreover, their operator norm is controlled by a constant independent of the Planck’s constant \(\hbar \). The main tool in our investigation is the joint application of standard approximation techniques from semi-classical analysis and a generalized version of Gabor frames, dependent of the parameter \(\hbar \). Continuity properties of more general Fourier integral operators (FIOs) and their sparsity are also investigated.