Highly Efficient Transfer of Quantum State and Robust Generation of Entanglement State Around Exceptional Lines

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian degeneracies or branch points where eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors coalesce. Due to the complex non-trivial topology of Riemann surfaces associated with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, the dynamical encirclement or proximity of EPs in parameter space has been shown to lead to topological mode conversions and some novel physical phenomena. In fact, degeneracies can also form continuous line geometries, which are called exceptional lines (ELs). The problem is whether the state transfer around the ELs can show different characteristics from the EPs, which is less explored. Here, novel properties of quantum state transfer around the ELs based on a quantum walk platform are explored. It is found that the evolutionary state around the ELs is independent of the initial state and evolution direction, and the transfer of quantum state is more efficient than the case around the EPs. Furthermore, based on such a property, an entangled state generation insensitive to the incident state is realized experimentally. The work opens up a new way for the application of non-Hermitian physics in the field of quantum information.     

含时滞的参数不确定主动悬架离散系统鲁棒控制

针对主动悬架存在传输时滞和参数不确定性的控制问题，设计了含时滞的参数不确定鲁棒控制器。首先，运用线性分式变换方法推导出含时滞的参数不确定主动悬架状态空间方程，采用零阶保持器取值处理和双线性变换，建立主动悬架离散控制系统模型。其次，以车身垂向加速度为车辆悬架系统的最优化输出目标，采用Lyapunov泛函方法，推导出系统渐进稳定的鲁棒控制器充分条件，得到满足最优H_∞性能指标约束的反馈控制律，再通过求解线性矩阵不等式获得控制器参数。最后，进行数值算例仿真，结果表明，相较于只考虑时滞的控制器，含时滞的参数不确定鲁棒控制器具有更好的控制效果和鲁棒性，且受采样周期与不确定参数的耦合影响较小。     

具时滞Kolmogorov系统的强区间稳定性与部分稳定性

通过得用区间动力系统的稳定性理论和构造适当的Ｌｙａｐｕｎｏｖ科学家函，我们讨论了具离散时滞Ｋｏｌｍｏｇｏｒｏｖ生态系统的渐近性，分别获得了该系统强稳定、部分稳定的充分条件。     

Block preconditioners for energy stable schemes of magnetohydrodynamics equations

In this article, we develop the first and second order unconditionally energy stable schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations and design robust preconditioners for these schemes. Inspired by operator preconditioning ideas, appropriate parameter-dependent norms on function spaces are subtly defined to uniformly bound the bilinear and trilinear terms, which implies the uniform well-posedness of the schemes under the newly defined norms. Then robust block preconditioners are constructed using the Riesz operators. We prove that, if time step size $k\le C$, the proposed preconditioners are uniformly robust with respect to physical parameters and discrete parameters. Various numerical experiments, including energy stability tests, Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and magnetic driven cavity physical benchmark problems, are presented to manifest unconditional energy stability of the schemes and robustness of our preconditioners.     

Tensor rank bounds and explicit QTT representations for the inverses of circulant matrices

In this paper, we are concerned with the inversion of circulant matrices and their quantized tensor-train (QTT) structure. In particular, we show that the inverse of a complex circulant matrix $A$, generated by the first column of the form ${(a_0,\dots ,a_{m-1},0,\dots ,0,a_{-n},\dots ,a_{-1})}^{\top }$ admits a QTT representation with the QTT ranks bounded by $(m+n)$. Under certain assumptions on the entries of $A$, we also derive an explicit QTT representation of $A^{-1}$. The latter can be used, for instance, to overcome stability issues arising when numerically solving differential equations with periodic boundary conditions in the QTT format.