Quantum Physics

Authors and titles for February 2018

[1] arXiv:1802.00010 [pdf, other]

Title: Lindbladians with multiple steady states: theory and applications

Victor V. Albert

Comments: 134 pages. (1) intro; (2) conserved quantities [arXiv:1310.1523], infinite-time limit [arXiv:1512.08079], symmetries, and extensions; (3) few/many-body examples; (4-6) perturbation theory, geometric phases, and quantum geometry, respectively [arXiv:1512.08079]; (7) extended study of a cat code [arXiv:1312.2017, arXiv:1503.00194]; (8) multimode cat codes [arXiv:1801.05897]

Journal-ref: Ph.D. thesis, Yale University (2017)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[2] arXiv:1802.00068 [pdf, other]

Title: The Supersymmetric WKB Formalism is Not Exact for All Additive Shape Invariant Potentials

Jonathan Bougie, Asim Gangopadhyaya, Constantin Rasinariu

Comments: This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aad3db

Journal-ref: Final version published at Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 375202 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[3] arXiv:1802.00069 [pdf, other]

Title: Leveraging Adiabatic Quantum Computation for Election Forecasting

Maxwell Henderson, John Novak, Tristan Cook

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[4] arXiv:1802.00110 [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement Swapping for Generation of Heralded Time-Frequency-Entangled Photon Pairs

Dashiell L. P. Vitullo (1), M. G. Raymer (1), B. J. Smith (1), Michał Karpiński (2), L. Mejling (3), K. Rottwitt (3) ((1) Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science, University of Oregon, (2) Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, (3) Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark)

Comments: 17 pages and 9 figures. Version 3 corrects an error in the count rate theory and calculations, fixes a few grammatical and typographical errors, improves formatting, and adds the journal reference

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 98, 023836 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[5] arXiv:1802.00111 [pdf, other]

Title: Faithful entanglement purification for high-capacity quantum communication with two-photon four-qubit systems

Guan-Yu Wang, Tao Li, Qing Ai, Ahmed Alsaedi, Tasawar Hayat, Fu-Guo Deng

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Applied 10, 054058 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[6] arXiv:1802.00113 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-error-corrected hyperparallel photonic quantum computation working with both the polarization and the spatial-mode degrees of freedom

Guan-Yu Wang, Tao Li, Qing Ai, Fu-Guo Deng

Comments: One column, 11 pages, 3 figures. Compared with V2, we give a major revision on this paper in the present version

Journal-ref: Optics Express 26, 23333--23346 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[7] arXiv:1802.00115 [pdf, other]

Title: Universal single-qubit non-adiabatic holonomic quantum gates in optomechanical system

Shan-Shan Chen, Hao Zhang, Xue-Ke Song, Fu-Guo Deng, Ahmed Alsaedi, Tasawar Hayat, Haibo Wang, Guo-Jian Yang

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[8] arXiv:1802.00126 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of Discrete-Time-Crystal Signatures in an Ordered Dipolar Many-Body System

Jared Rovny, Robert L. Blum, Sean E. Barrett

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures; V3 includes a few more changes to match the as-published version as closely as possible, including title

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 180603 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[9] arXiv:1802.00140 [pdf, other]

Title: Minimal Determination of a Pure State through Adaptive Tomography

Sun Liang-Liang, Mao Yingqiu, Xiong Fei-Lei, Yu Sixia, Chen Zeng-Bing

Comments: there are drawbacks in the proof of second theorem

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[10] arXiv:1802.00160 [pdf, other]

Title: Bipartite discrimination of independently prepared quantum states as a counterexample to a parallel repetition conjecture

Seiseki Akibue, Go Kato

Comments: In this version, we improve a proof of appendix B

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 042309 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Computational Complexity (cs.CC)

[11] arXiv:1802.00171 [pdf, other]

Title: Accelerated Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Daochen Wang, Oscar Higgott, Stephen Brierley

Comments: 11 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 140504 (2019)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[12] arXiv:1802.00190 [pdf, other]

Title: Relations between the single-pass and double-pass transition probabilities in quantum systems with two and three states

Nikolay V. Vitanov

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 053409 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[13] arXiv:1802.00210 [pdf, other]

Title: Generation of single and two-mode multiphoton states in waveguide QED

V. Paulisch, H. J. Kimble, J. I. Cirac, A. González-Tudela

Comments: 16 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 053831 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[14] arXiv:1802.00214 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical construction of non local operator for n-qubit Dicke state

Sutapa Saha, Some Sankar Bhattacharya, Arup Roy, Amit Mukherjee, Ramij Rahaman

Comments: Single Column

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[15] arXiv:1802.00250 [pdf, other]

Title: Risk-sensitive performance criteria and robustness of quantum systems with a relative entropy description of state uncertainty

Igor G. Vladimirov, Ian R. Petersen, Matthew R. James

Comments: 8 pages, submitted to MTNS 2018

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[16] arXiv:1802.00260 [pdf, other]

Title: When quantum games can be played classically: in support of van Enk-Pike's assertion

Berry Groisman

Comments: 2 pages, no figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[17] arXiv:1802.00267 [pdf, other]

Title: Relaxation in Quantum Systems

R. Tsekov

Comments: The paper is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of B.V. Toshev

Journal-ref: C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. 72 (2019) 62-69

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[18] arXiv:1802.00280 [pdf, other]

Title: Online optimal exact identification of a quantum change point

Gael Sentís, Esteban Martínez-Vargas, Ramon Muñoz-Tapia

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 98, 052305 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[19] arXiv:1802.00336 [pdf, other]

Title: Weighted polygamy inequalities of multiparty entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems

Jeong San Kim

Comments: 6 pages, no figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1801.09882

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 042332 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[20] arXiv:1802.00367 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconstructing quantum theory from diagrammatic postulates

John H. Selby, Carlo Maria Scandolo, Bob Coecke

Comments: 45 pages, many diagrams

Journal-ref: Quantum 5, 445 (2021)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[21] arXiv:1802.00379 [pdf, other]

Title: Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators

Maike Ostmann, Matteo Marcuzzi, Jiri Minar, Igor Lesanovsky

Comments: 5 figures, 5 pages + appendix

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[22] arXiv:1802.00401 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Inference for Randomized Benchmarking Protocols

Ian Hincks, Joel J. Wallman, Chris Ferrie, Chris Granade, David G. Cory

Comments: 21 pages, 8 figures, plus 10 page appendix

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[23] arXiv:1802.00410 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum-Enhanced Plasmonic Sensing

Mohammadjavad Dowran, Ashok Kumar, Benjamin J. Lawrie, Raphael C. Pooser, Alberto M. Marino

Journal-ref: Optica 5, 628-633 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[24] arXiv:1802.00415 [pdf, other]

Title: The Logos Categorical Approach to QM: II. Quantum Superpositions

Christian de Ronde, César Massri

Comments: 21 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[25] arXiv:1802.00423 [pdf, other]

Title: An improved lower bound for superluminal quantum communications

Bruno Cocciaro, Sandro Faetti, Leone Fronzoni

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures; v2:typos corrected; v3:more detailed version, 9 pages, 7 figures, added references

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 052124 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[26] arXiv:1802.00457 [pdf, other]

Title: $^{31}$P NMR study of discrete time-crystalline signatures in an ordered crystal of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate

Jared Rovny, Robert L. Blum, Sean E. Barrett

Comments: 17 pages, 16 figures; V3 includes changes required to match the as-published version as closely as possible

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 97, 184301 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

[27] arXiv:1802.00471 [pdf, other]

Title: Multipartite monogamous relations for Entanglement and Discord

J. S. S. Ferreira, D. Filenga, M. F. Cornelio, F. F. Fanchini

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 012328 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[28] arXiv:1802.00480 [pdf, other]

Title: Manifestation of Superposition and Coherence in $\cal PT$-symmetry through the $\eta$-inner Product

Minyi Huang, Ray-Kuang Lee, Junde Wu

Comments: Add an author Ray-Kuang Lee

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 (2018), 414004-414012

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[29] arXiv:1802.00576 [pdf, other]

Title: Real single-loop cyclic three-level configuration of chiral molecules

Chong Ye, Quansheng Zhang, Yong Li

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 98, 063401 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[30] arXiv:1802.00646 [pdf, other]

Title: Lower and upper bounds on nonunital qubit channel capacities

Sergey N. Filippov

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Rep. Math. Phys. 82, 149-159 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[31] arXiv:1802.00648 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy transfer and correlations in cavity-embedded donor-acceptor configurations

Michael Reitz, Francesca Mineo, Claudiu Genes

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports, volume 8, Article number: 9050 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[32] arXiv:1802.00736 [pdf, other]

Title: From Quantum Foundations to Applications and Back

Nicolas Gisin, Florian Fröwis

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures. Opinion paper. More visions are welcome. Special issue of Philosophical Transaction A

Journal-ref: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 376, 20170326 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[33] arXiv:1802.00783 [pdf, other]

Title: Some Ulam's reconstruction problems for quantum states

Felix Huber, Simone Severini

Comments: 22 pages, 3 figures, v2: significantly revised final version

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 435301 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Combinatorics (math.CO)

[34] arXiv:1802.00801 [pdf, other]

Title: Accessing scrambling using matrix product operators

Shenglong Xu, Brian Swingle

Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Nat. Phys. 16, 199-204 (2020)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[35] arXiv:1802.00806 [pdf, other]

Title: Unified approach to geometric and positive-map-based non-linear entanglement identifiers

Marcin Markiewicz, Adrian Kolodziejski, Zbigniew Puchala, Adam Rutkowski, Tomasz Tylec, Wieslaw Laskowski

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 042339 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[36] arXiv:1802.00819 [pdf, other]

Title: Controllable Non-Markovianity for a Spin Qubit in Diamond

Jan F. Haase, Philipp J. Vetter, Thomas Unden, Andrea Smirne, Joachim Rosskopf, Boris Naydenov, Alastair Stacey, Fedor Jelezko, Martin B. Plenio, Susana F. Huelga

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figure, including supplemental material

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 060401 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[37] arXiv:1802.00839 [pdf, other]

Title: Entropic bounds between two thermal equilibrium states

Julio A. López-Saldívar, Octavio Castaños, Margarita A. Man'ko, Vladimir I. Man'ko

Journal-ref: Physical Review E 97 , 022128 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[38] arXiv:1802.00854 [pdf, other]

Title: Raising the $\mathcal{PT}$ transition threshold by strong coupling to neutral chains

Kaustubh S. Agarwal, Rajeev K. Pathak, Yogesh N. Joglekar

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 042107 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[39] arXiv:1802.00901 [pdf, other]

Title: Nucleation of superfluid-light domains in a quenched dynamics

Joaquín Figueroa, José Rogan, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Miguel Kiwi, Guillermo Romero, Felipe Torres

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures and supplemental material. Accepted by Scientific Reports

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[40] arXiv:1802.00958 [pdf, other]

Title: Arbitrarily accurate twin composite $\pi$ pulse sequences

Boyan T. Torosov, Nikolay V. Vitanov

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 97, 043408 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[41] arXiv:1802.00995 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on "Energy-time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems" and "Quantum Speed Limit for Non-Markovian Dynamics"

Manaka Okuyama, Ryo Takahashi, Masayuki Ohzeki

Comments: 2 pages, 0 figure. Two divided versions submitted to each journals

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[42] arXiv:1802.01011 [pdf, other]

Title: Realizing an exact entangling gate using Fibonacci anyons

Stephen Bigelow, Claire Levaillant

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Geometric Topology (math.GT); Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

[43] arXiv:1802.01086 [pdf, other]

Title: All-optical Nanoscale Control of Photon Correlations: Dressed States Assisted Quantum Interference Effects

Dongxing Zhao

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 98, 033834 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[44] arXiv:1802.01157 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Approximate Optimization with Parallelizable Gates

Wolfgang Lechner

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[45] arXiv:1802.01162 [pdf, other]

Title: Information storing yields a point-asymmetry of state space in general probabilistic theories

Keiji Matsumoto, Gen Kimura

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[46] arXiv:1802.01265 [pdf, other]

Title: Convex and Sequential Effect Algebras

Stan Gudder

Comments: 27 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[47] arXiv:1802.01278 [pdf, other]

Title: Hierarchical environment-assisted dynamical speedup control

Kai Xu, Wei Han, Ying-Jie Zhang, Yun-Jie Xia, Heng Fan

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 98, 022114 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[48] arXiv:1802.01306 [pdf, other]

Title: Hybrid systems for the generation of non-classical mechanical states via quadratic interactions

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Antonio Lara, Jorge Puebla, Franco Nori

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123604 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[49] arXiv:1802.01317 [pdf, other]

Title: Convergence and completeness for square-well Stark resonant state expansions

David Juhasz, Miroslav Kolesik, Per K. Jakobsen

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[50] arXiv:1802.01323 [pdf, other]

Title: Using mixed many-body particle states to generate exact $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry in a time-dependent four-well system

Tina Mathea, Dennis Dast, Daniel Dizdarevic, Holger Cartarius, Jörg Main, Günter Wunner

Comments: 18 pages, 2 figures, modest revisions of text and figure 2

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A 51, 315303 (2018)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)