Entanglement in non-Hermitian quantum theory

Entanglement is one of the key features of quantum world that has no classical counterpart. This arises due to the linear superposition principle and the tensor product structure of the Hilbert space when we deal with multiparticle systems. In this paper, we will introduce the notion of entanglement for quantum systems that are governed by non-Hermitian yet PT-symmetric Hamiltonians. We will show that maximally entangled states in usual quantum theory behave like non-maximally entangled states in PT-symmetric quantum theory. Furthermore, we will show how to create entanglement between two PT qubits using non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and discuss the entangling capability of such interaction Hamiltonians that are non-Hermitian in nature.     

Analysis of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment by relativistic quantum logic

The EPR experiment is investigated within the abstract language of relativistic quantum physics (relativistic quantum logic). First we show that the principles of reality (R) and locality (L) contradict the validity principle (Q) of quantum physics. A reformulation of this argument is then given in terms of relativistic quantum logic which is based on the principlesR andQ. It is shown that the principleL must be replaced by a convenient relaxation ¯L, by which the contradiction can be eliminated. On the other hand this weak locality principle ¯L does not contradict Einstein causality and is thus in accordance with special relativity.     

Quantum physics as a particular domain of probabilistic physics

Quantum physics (QP) is meant as a whole science having both theoretical and experimental parts. The subjects of these parts in any science are entirely different. The experimental part deals with really existing particular objects (concrete objects), whereas the theoretical part refers to the so-calledabstract objects which are used in our considerations only. The necessity of a strict distinction between concrete and abstract objects is a crucialkey methodological principle (KMP). This principle allows one to construct the science of probability (probabilistics) whose theoretical and experimental parts are, respectively,probability theory andexperimental statistics, Probabilistics suggests two methods of solving probabilistic problems: theclassical method and thequantum approach. The application of probabilistics to physics leads toprobabilistic physics, whose two interconnected particular domains,classical statistical physics (CSP) and QP, result, respectively, from the treatment of macrosystems by the classical method and of microsystems by the quantum approach. The mathematical peculiarities of QP stem from the pertinent ones in probabilistics itself. Having been constructed as a particular domain of probabilistic physics, QP needs no artificial interpretation. Many quantum-related issues and paradoxes are thereby easily settled.     

Erzwingt die Quantenmechanik eine drastische Änderung unseres Weltbilds? Gedanken und Experimente nach Einstein,Podolsky und Rosen

Do Quantum Mechanics Force us to Drastically Change our View of the World? Thoughts and Experiments after Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen Since the advent of quantum mechanics there have been attempts of its interpretation in terms of statistical theory concerning individual ‘classical’ systems. The very conditions necessary to consider hidden variable theories describing these individual systems as ‘classical’ had been pointed out by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in 1935: 1. Physical systems are in principle separable. 2. If it is possible to predict with certainty the value of a physical quantity without disturbing the system under consideration, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding to this physical quantity. Together they are, as was shown by Bell in 1964, incompatible in principle with quantum mechanics and no more tenable in view of recent experiments. These experiments once more corroborate quantum theory. In order to understand their results we are forced either to drop the assumption of separability of physical systems (taken for self-evident in classical physics) or to change our concept of physical reality. After investigating the notion of separability and connecting the ‘EPR-correlations’ to the measurement problem we, conclude that a change of the concept of physical reality is indispensable. The revised concept should be compatible with both classical and quantum physics in order to allow a uniform view of the physical world.     

State space as projective space. The case of massless particles

The fact that the space of states of a quantum mechanical system is a projective space (as opposed to a linear manifold) has many consequences. We develop some of these here. First, the space is nearly contractible, namely all the finite homotopy groups (except the second) vanish (i.e., it is the Eilenberg-MacLane space K(, 2)). Moreover, there is strictly speaking no superposition principle in quantum mechanics as one cannot add rays; instead, there is adecomposition principle by which a given ray has well-defined projections in other rays. When the evolution of a system is cyclic, any representativevector traces out an open curve, defining an element of the holonomy group, which is essentially the (geometrical) Berry phase. Finally, for the massless case of the representations of the Poincaré group (the so-called Wigner program), there could be in principle arbitrarily multivalued representations coming from the Lie algebra of the Euclidean plane group. In fact they are at most bivalued (as commonly admitted).Presented at the International Symposium on Space-Time Symmetries, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1988.     

Nonholonomic Mapping Principle for Classical and Quantum Mechanics in Spaces with Curvature and Torsion

I explain the geometric basis for the recently-discovered nonholonomic mapping principle which permits deriving laws of nature in spacetimes with curvature and torsion from those in flat spacetime, thus replacing and extending Einstein's equivalence principle. As an important consequence, it yields a new action principle for determining the equation of motion of a free spinless point particle in such spacetimes. Surprisingly, this equation contains a torsion force, although the action involves only the metric. This force makes trajectories autoparallel rather than geodesic, as a manifestation of inertia. A generalization of the mapping principle transforms path integrals from flat spacetimes to those with curvature and torsion, thus playing the role of a quantum equivalence principle. This generalization yields consistent results only for completely antisymmetric or for gradient torsion.     

Review and suggested resolution of the problem of Schrodinger’s cat

This paper reviews and suggests a resolution of the problem of definite outcomes of measurement. This problem, also known as ‘Schrodinger’s cat’, has long posed an apparent paradox because the state resulting from a measurement appears to be a quantum superposition in which the detector is in two macroscopically distinct states (alive and dead in the case of the cat) simultaneously. Many alternative interpretations of the quantum mathematical formalism, and several alternative modifications of the theory, have been proposed to resolve this problem, but no consensus has formed supporting any one of them. Applying standard quantum theory to the measurement state, together with the analysis and results of decades of nonlocality experiments with pairs of entangled systems, this paper shows the entangled measurement state is not a paradoxical macroscopic superposition of states. It is instead a phase-dependent superposition of correlations between states of the subsystems. Thus Schrodinger’s cat is a non-paradoxical ‘macroscopic correlation’ in which one of the two correlated systems happens to be a detector. This insight resolves the problem of definite outcomes but it does not entirely resolve the measurement problem because the entangled state is still reversible.     

Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, Perturbation Theory, and the Loop Expansion

The perturbative treatment of quantum field theory is formulated within the framework of algebraic quantum field theory. We show that the algebra of interacting fields is additive, i.e. fully determined by its subalgebras associated to arbitrary small subregions of Minkowski space. We also give an algebraic formulation of the loop expansion by introducing a projective system ?^{( n )} of observables “up to n loops”, where ?⁽⁰⁾ is the Poisson algebra of the classical field theory. Finally we give a local algebraic formulation for two cases of the quantum action principle and compare it with the usual formulation in terms of Green's functions. Received: 9 February 2000 / Accepted: 21 March 2000     

Uncertainty and complementarity in axiomatic quantum mechanics

In this work an investigation of the uncertainty principle and the complementarity principle is carried through. A study of the physical content of these principles and their representation in the conventional Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics forms a natural starting point for this analysis. Thereafter is presented more general axiomatic framework for quantum mechanics, namely, a probability function formulation of the theory. In this general framework two extra axioms are stated, reflecting the ideas of the uncertainty principle and the complementarity principle, respectively. The quantal features of these axioms are explicated. The sufficiency of the state system guarantees that the observables satisfying the uncertainty principle are unbounded and noncompatible. The complementarity principle implies a non-Boolean proposition structure for the theory. Moreover, nonconstant complementary observables are always noncompatible. The uncertainty principle and the complementarity principle, as formulated in this work, are mutually independent. Some order is thus brought into the confused discussion about the interrelations of these two important principles. A comparison of the present formulations of the uncertainty principle and the complementarity principle with the Jauch formulation of the superposition principle is also given. The mutual independence of the three fundamental principles of the quantum theory is hereby revealed.     

Nature's natural numbers: relativistic quantum theory over the ring of complex quaternions

The 2×2 complex matrix formulation of relativity and the two-component spin-1/2 formalism are merged with the complex quaternion algebra to yield a concise, manifestly covariant formalism of relativistic quantum mechanics. Along with reproducing all the old results of quantum theory, this complex quaternion formulation extends naturally the concept of scalar mass by adding to it orientation- and velocity-dependent parts giving a hyper-mass. The hyper-mass spin-1/2 equation, with the scalar part of the mass set equal to zero, gives a subtle variation on the two-component neutrino theory with very unsubtle consequences, such as an invariant mass parameter which could distinguishv _eandv and elimination of the superposition principle.     

Relativistic Gamow Vectors

Whereas in Dirac quantum mechanics and relativistic quantum field theory one uses Schwartz space distributions, the extensions of the Hilbert space that we propose uses Hardy spaces. The in- and out-Lippmann-Schwinger kets of scattering theory are functionals in two rigged Hilbert space extensions of the same Hilbert space. This hypothesis also allows to introduce generalized vectors corresponding to unstable states, the Gamow kets. Here the relativistic formulation of the theory of unstable states is presented. It is shown that the relativistic Gamow vectors of the unstable states, defined by a resonance pole of the S-matrix, are classified according to the irreducible representations of the semigroup of the Poincaré transformations (into the forward light cone). As an application the problem of the mass definition of the intermediate vector boson Z is discussed and it is argued that only one mass definition leads to the exponential decay law, and that is not the standard definition of the on-the-mass-shell renormalization scheme.     

Geometric and analytical aspects of anyons

We consider quantum systems ofn indistinguishable spinless particles, constrained to closed compact surfaces and satisfying fractional statistics (anyons). We question the traditional choice of a configuration space, and show that a theory maintaining the diagonal is possible. Such a theory leads naturally to questions in algebraic geometry involving desingularizations of certain algebraic varieties. The desingularizations induce the possibility of an exotic exclusion principle for anyons, wherein multiple occupancy is not excluded in general.     

Quantized De Sitter space,the connection to the Pauli principle and an application to Feynman's relativistic quark theory II

A continuation of a previous paper, in which a model of a quantized space-time theory has been investigated, considers further problems of a quantized De Sitter space. There will be shown that a De Sitter space is a very useful starting point to a non-local relativistic quantum field theory, containing the Pauli principle, for the theory of elementary particles, as a connection to Feynman's relativistic quark theory, where the groupSU(3) has a particular importance, will be discussed. This method offers the possibility of treating weak local differences from a space with De Sitter metric as a perturbation. Therefore the problem of a fundamental elementary lengthl _o must be considered in connection with the general theory of relativity.     

一种双模叠加态光场的两种非线性高阶压缩效应

本文在发展现有理论的基础上提出了双模及多模辐射场的两种非线性高阶压缩(即N次方Y压缩和N次方H压缩)的定义,根据量子力学中的线性叠加原理构造了一美双模叠加志光场|ψ>,对|ψ>的N次方Y压缩及N次方H压缩效应进行了详细研究.结果表明:双模叠加态光场|ψ>是一种典型的非经典光场,它可具有任意阶的N次方Y压缩及N次方H压缩效应;并且,在一定的条件下,这两种非线性高阶压缩效应均可呈现出周期性变化的特性.文献7的单模辐射场振幅N次方压缩的定义,仅仅是本文所提出的N次方Y压缩和N次方H压缩这两种非线性高阶压缩的一般定义在k=1条件下的特例.     

Transformation theory ofq-quantum mechanics

Although there is no empirical motivation for replacing the commutators of dynamically conjugate operators in quantum mechanics byq-commutators, it appears possible to construct a consistent mathematical formulism based on this idea. To examine such a possibility further, we have studied the relation of this proposal to the Schwinger action principle, since the entire quantum mechanical formulism may be inferred from this principle. In particular, we have discussed the quantum transformation theory within this framework.To Julian Schwinger, 1918–1994, one of the creators of quantum field theory, and a giant of twentieth-century physics     

Pregeometric modelling of the spacetime phenomenology

At present we have only the very successful but phenomenological Einstein geometrical modelling of the spacetime phenomenon. This geometrical model provides a “container” for other theories. We introduce a Heraclitean quantum system; a pregeometric theory for space and time in which no classical or geometric structures are assumed, but rather the emergence of such phenomena is sought.     

Superposition Quantification

The principle of superposition is universal and lies at the heart of quantum theory. Although ever since the inception of quantum mechanics a century ago, superposition has occupied a central and pivotal place, rigorous and systematic studies of the quantification issue have attracted significant interests only in recent years, and many related problems remain to be investigated. In this work we introduce a figure of merit which quantifies superposition from an intuitive and direct perspective, investigate its fundamental properties, connect it to some coherence measures, illustrate it through several examples, and apply it to analyze wave-particle duality.     

Quantum Circuits and Schr?dinger’s Cat States

Quantum systems that are confined to circuit geometries are called quantum circuits. Macroscopic superconducting circuits are quantum circuits which can be modelled using a Quantisation by Parts scheme based on the macroscopic wave function approach of Feynman. This paper studies the circuit composed of an input wire and an output plate. We find that in order to achieve a consistent theory of supercurrent flow we have to generalize the quantisation by parts scheme to quantise in a path space. The generalized theory predicts a current flow down the wire into the plane. In addition to a current flowing radially outwards in the plane, the theory allows a circulating current round the origin. Strikingly, the circulating current can flow clockwise or anti-clockwise in such a way as to generate a magnetic moment of magnitude half of a Bohr magneton for an orbiting electron in an atom and a magnetic flux half that of the magnetic flux quantum of a superconducting ring. There is also the possibility of a macroscopic superposition of the two states of opposing circulating currents resembling a Schr?dinger’s cat situation. Furthermore, we outline a setup involving an external magnetic field that may allow experimental tests of the theory.