Interferometric Computation Beyond Quantum Theory

There are quantum solutions for computational problems that make use of interference at some stage in the algorithm. These stages can be mapped into the physical setting of a single particle travelling through a many-armed interferometer. There has been recent foundational interest in theories beyond quantum theory. Here, we present a generalized formulation of computation in the context of a many-armed interferometer, and explore how theories can differ from quantum theory and still perform distributed calculations in this set-up. We shall see that quaternionic quantum theory proves a suitable candidate, whereas box-world does not. We also find that a classical hidden variable model first presented by Spekkens (Phys Rev A 75(3): 32100, 2007) can also be used for this type of computation due to the epistemic restriction placed on the hidden variable.     

Quantum system identification by Bayesian analysis of noisy data: Beyond Hamiltonian tomography

We consider how to characterize the dynamics of a quantum system from a restricted set of initial states and measurements using Bayesian analysis. Previous work has shown that Hamiltonian systems can be well estimated from analysis of noisy data. Here we show how to generalize this approach to systems with moderate dephasing in the eigenbasis of the Hamiltonian. We illustrate the process for a range of three-level quantum systems. The results suggest that the Bayesian estimation of the frequencies and dephasing rates is generally highly accurate and the main source of errors are errors in the reconstructed Hamiltonian basis.     

Secondary Quantum Hamiltonian Reductions

Recently, it has been shown how to perform the quantum hamiltonian reduction in the case of general embeddings into Lie (super)algebras, and in the case of general embeddings into Lie superalgebras. In another development it has been shown that when and are both subalgebras of a Lie algebra with , then classically the algebra can be obtained by performing a secondary hamiltonian reduction on . In this paper we show that the corresponding statement is true also for quantum hamiltonian reduction when the simple roots of can be chosen as a subset of the simple roots of . As an application, we show that the quantum secondary reductions provide a natural framework to study and explain the linearization of the algebras, as well as a great number of new realizations of algebras. Received: 18 May 1995 / Accepted: 16 January 1996     

Quantum Hamiltonian for the Rigid Rotator

An excess term exists when using hermitian form of Cartesian momentum p _i (i = 1,2,3) in usual kinetic energy 1/(2) p ² _i for the rigid rotator, and the correct kinetic energy turns to be 1/(2) (1/f _i ) p _i f _i p _i where f _i are dummy factors in classical mechanics and nontrivial in quantum mechanics.     

Weak Quantum Theory: Complementarity and Entanglement in Physics and Beyond

The concepts of complementarity and entanglement are considered with respect to their significance in and beyond physics. A formally generalized, weak version of quantum theory, more general than ordinary quantum theory of physical systems, is outlined and tentatively applied to two examples.     

Cross Section for Bhabha and Compton Scattering Beyond Quantum Field Theory

International Journal of Theoretical Physics - We consider the theory of spinor fields written in polar form, that is the form in which the spinor components are given in terms of a module times a...     

Hamiltonian Formalism in Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

Heisenberg motion equations in Quantum mechanics can be put into the Hamilton form. The difference between the commutator and its principal part, the Poisson bracket, can be accounted for exactly. Canonical transformations in Quantum mechanics are not, or at least not what they appear to be; their properties are formulated in a series of Conjectures.

To Vladimir Igorevich Arnol’d with admiration, on occasion of his 60^th birthday.     

On a Quantum Theory of Relativity

As expressed in terms of classical coordinates, the inertial spacetime metric that contains quantum corrections deriving from a quantum potential defined from the quantum probability amplitude is obtained to be given as an elliptic integral of the second kind that does not satisfy Lorentz transformations but a generalised invariance quantum group. Based on this result, we introduce a new, alternative procedure to quantise Einstein general relativity where the metric is also given in terms of elliptic integrals and is free from the customary problems of the current quantum models. We apply the procedure to Schwarzschild black holes and briefly analyse the results.     

From Classical Hamiltonian Flow to Quantum Theory: Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation

It is shown how the essentials of quantum theory, i.e., the Schrödinger equation and the Heisenberg uncertainty relations, can be derived from classical physics. Next to the empirically grounded quantisation of energy and momentum, the only input is given by the assumption of fluctuations in energy and momentum to be added to the classical motion. Extending into the relativistic regime for spinless particles, this procedure leads also to a derivation of the Klein-Gordon equation. Comparing classical Hamiltonian flow with quantum theory, then, the essential difference is given by a vanishing divergence of the velocity of the probability current in the former, whereas the latter results from a much less stringent requirement, i.e., that only the average over fluctuations and positions on the average divergence be identical to zero.     

Quantum Hamiltonian formalism with constraints

A quantum system with constraints that does not necessarily correspond to a classical system with constraints is described in the Hamiltonian formalism.     

早期量子论发展的研究

1 普朗克在黑体辐射研究中提出能量量子化 1900年12月14日,普朗克(Max Ernst Ludwig Planek,1858～1947)在德国物理学会的一次会议上宣布了一个令人吃惊的结果:他认为在黑体辐射中所放出的能量不是连续的,而是以一个与辐射频率有关的,称之为"能量子"的最小能量单位一份一份发出的.他提出的这一概念,成功地解释了不久前他提出的黑体辐射公式,这是一个与实验结果完全符合的公式.     

Asymptotic Completeness for a Renormalized Nonrelativistic Hamiltonian in Quantum Field Theory: The Nelson Model

Scattering theory for the Nelson model is studied. We show Rosen estimates and we prove the existence of a ground state for the Nelson Hamiltonian. Also we prove that it has a locally finite pure point spectrum outside its thresholds. We study the asymptotic fields and the existence of the wave operators. Finally we show asymptotic completeness for the Nelson Hamiltonian.     

Learning the Effective Spin Hamiltonian of a Quantum Magnet

To understand the intriguing many-body states and effects in the correlated quantum materials,inference of the microscopic effective Hamiltonian from experiments constitutes an important yet very challenging inverse problem.Here we propose an unbiased and efficient approach learning the effective Hamiltonian through the many-body analysis of the measured thermal data.Our approach combines the strategies including the automatic gradient and Bayesian optimization with the thermodynamics many-body solvers including the exact diagonalization and the tensor renormalization group methods.We showcase the accuracy and powerfulness of the Hamiltonian learning by applying it firstly to the thermal data generated from a given spin model,and then to realistic experimental data measured in the spin-chain compound copper nitrate and triangular-lattice magnet TmMgGaO_4.The present automatic approach constitutes a unified framework of many-body thermal data analysis in the studies of quantum magnets and strongly correlated materials in general.     

On Unentangled Gleason Theorems for Quantum Information Theory

It is shown here that a strengthening of Wallach's Unentangled Gleason Theorem can be obtained by applying results of the present authors on generalised Gleason theorems for quantum multi-measures arising from investigations of quantum decoherence functionals.     

Anticontrol of Quantum Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems

We present a method of realizing anticontrol chaos in a quantum confined system consisting of N two-levelatoms within a cavity, using a time-delayed optic field. The delay time plays a construction and organization role forproducing temporal chaos, while the interaction between atoms and photons creates spatial chaos. The chaos is quitesensitive to small time delayed. The spectral decomposition of the Hamiltonian obtained by using projection methodologyreveals that evolution of the left eigenvectors shows quite complicated chaotic fashions. The method we proposed maybe easily tested in experiment, and provides a general method using a sort of driving optic field to achieve anticontrol ofchaos for quantum systems.