We study the quantum dynamics of a time reparametrization invariant system with a vanishing Hamiltonian. The evolution of the physical degrees of freedom of the system is described, both at the classical and at the quantum level, in relational terms by the construction of an internal time parameter. We use the Pegg-Barnett phase operator formalism in finite dimensional Hilbert space as an essential ingredient.
In a seminal paper (Page and Wootters 1983) Page and Wootters suggest time evolution could be described solely in terms of correlations between systems and clocks, as a means of dealing with the "problem of time" stemming from vanishing Hamiltonian dynamics in many theories of quantum gravity. Their approach to relational time centres around the existence of a Hamiltonian and the subsequent constraint on physical states. In this paper we present a "state-centric" reformulation of the Page and Wootters model better suited to theories which intrinsically lack Hamiltonian dynamics, such as Chern-…
The evolution speed in projective Hilbert space is considered for Hermitian Hamiltonians and for non-Hermitian (NH) ones. Based on the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and the spectral norm of a Hamiltonian, resource-related upper bounds on the evolution speed are constructed. These bounds are valid also for NH Hamiltonians and they are illustrated for an optical NH Hamiltonian and for a non-Hermitian $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetric matrix Hamiltonian. Furthermore, the concept of quantum speed efficiency is introduced as measure of the system resources directly spent on the motion in the projective Hilbert space…
Evolutions of local Hamiltonians in short times are expected to remain local and thus limited. In this paper, we validate this intuition by proving some limitations on short-time evolutions of local time-dependent Hamiltonians. We show that the distribution of the measurement output of short-time (at most logarithmic) evolutions of local Hamiltonians are \emph{concentrated} and satisfy an \emph{isoperimetric inequality}. To showcase explicit applications of our results, we study the \textsc{MaxCut} problem and conclude that quantum annealing needs at least a run-time that scales logarithmicall…
In this work we construct an approximate time evolution operator for a system composed by two coupled Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonians. We express the full time evolution operator as a product of exponentials and we analyze the validity of our approximations contrasting our analytical results with those obtained by purely numerical methods.
Quantum measurement and quantum operation theory is developed here by taking the relational properties among quantum systems, instead of the independent properties of a quantum system, as the most fundamental elements. By studying how the relational probability amplitude matrix is transformed and how mutual information is exchanged during measurement, we derive the formulation that is mathematically equivalent to the traditional quantum measurement theory. More importantly, the formulation results in significant conceptual consequences. We show that for a given quantum system, it is possible t…
Simulating physical systems has been an important application of classical and quantum computers. In this article we present an efficient classical algorithm for simulating time-dependent quantum mechanical Hamiltonians over constant periods of time. The algorithm presented here computes the mean value of an observable over the output state of such short-time Hamiltonian evolutions. In proving the performance of this algorithm we use Lieb-Robinson type bounds to limit the evolution of local operators within a lightcone. This allows us to divide the task of simulating a large quantum system int…
In this work we present an effective Hamiltonian description of the quantum dynamics of a generalized Lambda system undergoing adiabatic evolution. We assume the system to be initialized in the dark subspace and show that its holonomic evolution can be viewed as a conventional Hamiltonian dynamics in an appropriately chosen extended Hilbert space. In contrast to the existing approaches, our method does not require the calculation of the non-Abelian Berry connection and can be applied without any parametrization of the dark subspace, which becomes a challenging problem with increasing system si…
In this work we start from a phenomenological Hamiltonian built from two known systems: the Hamiltonian of a pumped optomechanical system and the Jaynes Cummings Hamiltonian. Using algebraic techniques we construct an approximate time evolution operator $\hat U_{opt}$ for the forced optomechanical system (as a product of exponentials) and take the JC Hamiltonian as an interaction. We transform the later with $\hat U_{opt}$ to obtain a generalized interaction picture Hamiltonian which can be linearized and whose time evolution operator is written in a product form. The analytic results are comp…
Efficient Quantum Circuit Construction of Controlled Time-Evolution for Arbitrary Pauli-Sum Hamiltonians
Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University（横滨国立大学工学部）；Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University（庆应义塾大学应用物理·物理信息系）
Comment on "Reply to Comment on Time-dependent Quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonians and the Unitary Quantum Evolution"
我指出，如果像M那样定义算子$U_R(t)$，Znojil在他对我的评论[arXiv：0711.0137v1]的答复[arXiv：0711.0514v1]中也接受了他的论文[arXiv：0710.5653v1]中给出的$U_R(t)$的定义关系的有效性，人们发现相关量子系统的时间演化不是由哈密顿算符$H$的薛定谔方程决定的，而是一个与$H$不同的算符$H'$，如果度规算符是时间依赖的。在后一种情况下，该有效哈密顿量$H'$是不可观测的。这与我的论文[Phys. Lett. B 650，208（2007），arXiv：0706.1872v2]，其允许由不可观测的哈密顿量生成的酉时间演化。
We simulate the evolution of three-node spin chain on the quantum processor of IBM Quantum Experience using the diagonalization of $XX$-Hamiltonian and representing the evolution operator in terms of CNOT operations and one-qubit rotations. We study the single excitation transfer from the first to the third node and show the significant difference between calculated and theoretical values of state transfer probability. Then we propose a method reducing this difference by applying the two-parameter transformation including the shift and scale of the calculated probabilities. { We demonstrate th…
Here we present an strategy for the derivation of a time-dependent Dyson map which ensures simultaneously the unitarity of the time evolution and the observability of a quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonian. The time-dependent Dyson map is derived through a constructed Schrödinger-like equation governed by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian itself; despite its time-dependence our scheme ensures the time-independence of the metric operator, a necessary condition for the observability of the quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonian. As an illustrative example we consider a driven Harmonic oscillator described by a time-dep…
We have previously shown (arXiv:1912.00033) that three approaches to relational quantum dynamics -- relational Dirac observables, the Page-Wootters formalism and quantum deparametrizations -- are equivalent. Here we show that this `trinity' of relational quantum dynamics holds in relativistic settings per frequency superselection sector. We ascribe the time according to the clock subsystem to a POVM which is covariant with respect to its (quadratic) Hamiltonian. This differs from the usual choice of a self-adjoint clock observable conjugate to the clock momentum. It also resolves Kuchař's crit…
Parity-time (PT) symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians bring about many novel features and interesting applications such as quantum gates faster than those in Hermitian systems, and topological state transfer. The performance of evolutions under $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians is degraded by the inevitable noise and errors due to system-environment interaction and experimental imperfections. In contrast to Hermitian Hamiltonians, the fluctuations in dissipative beams that are utilized to generate non-Hermitian contributions in the PT-symmetric Hamiltonians cause additional errors. Here we…
Given a quantum Hamiltonian and its evolution time, the corresponding unitary evolution operator can be constructed in many different ways, corresponding to different trajectories between the desired end-points and different series expansions. A choice among these possibilities can then be made to obtain the best computational complexity and control over errors. It is shown how a construction based on Grover's algorithm scales linearly in time and logarithmically in the error bound, and is exponentially superior in error complexity to the scheme based on the straightforward application of the …
We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial control setup, remaining close to the true adiabatic path at all times. The strategy is based on the introduction of an effective counterdiabatic scheme: a correcting Hamiltonian is constructed which approximatively cancels nonadiabatic effects, inducing an evolution tracking the adiabatic states closely. This can be absorbed into the initial Hamiltonian by adding a fast oscillation in the control parameters. We show …
We present analytical compact solution for the density matrix and correlation functions of two collective-macroscopic spins evolving via Ising-like Hamiltonian in the presence of particle losses. The losses introduce non-local phase noise which destroys highly entangled states arising in the evolution. On the other hand, the states appearing at relatively short timescales, possessing EPR-like entanglement will survive. Applying our solutions to the recently proposed scheme to entangle two Bose-Einstein condensates, we estimate the optimal number of atoms for EPR correlations.
We provide a protocol for Hamiltonian parameter estimation which relies only on the Zeeman effect. No time-dependent quantities need to be measured, it fully suffices to observe spectral shifts induced by fields applied to local `markers'. We demonstrate the idea with a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian and numerically show stability with respect to Gaussian noise on the spectral measurements. Then we generalize the result to show applicability to a wide range of systems, including quantum spin chains, networks of qubits, and coupled harmonic oscillators, and suggest potential experimental impl…
This work concerns a study of the quantum mechanical extension of the work of Horwitz et al. [1] on the stability of classical Hamiltonian systems by geometrical methods. Simulations are carried out for several important examples, these show that the quantum mechanical extension of the classical method, for which trajectories are plotted as expectation values of the corresponding quantum operators, appears to work well, providing results consistent with the corresponding classical problems. The results appear to provide a new contribution to the subject of quantum chaos.
Learning the unknown Hamiltonian governing the dynamics of a quantum many-body system is a challenging task. In this manuscript, we propose a possible strategy based on repeated measurements on a single time-dependent state. We prove that the accuracy of the learning process is maximized for states that are delocalized in the Hamiltonian eigenbasis. This implies that delocalization is a quantum resource for Hamiltonian learning, that can be exploited to select optimal initial states for learning algorithms. We investigate the error scaling of our reconstruction with respect to the number of me…
We present a classical Monte Carlo (MC) scheme which efficiently estimates an imaginary-time, decaying signal for stoquastic (i.e. sign-problem-free) local Hamiltonians. The decay rates in this signal correspond to Hamiltonian eigenvalues (with associated eigenstates present in an input state) and can be classically extracted using a classical signal processing method like ESPRIT. We compare the efficiency of this MC scheme to its quantum counterpart in which one extracts eigenvalues of a general local Hamiltonian from a real-time, oscillatory signal obtained through quantum phase estimation c…
Comment on ``Time-dependent quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonians and the unitary quantum evolution''
在arXiv中：0710.5653v1 M。Znojil声称他发现并纠正了我论文中的一个错误：[Phys. Lett. B \textbf{650}，208（2007），arXiv：0706.1872v2]，并且有可能逃避其主要结论，即时间演化的么正性和哈密顿量的可观测性意味着度量算子的时间无关性。本文给出一个很短的计算，说明M. Znojil也导致了同样的结论，我上述的文件。这实际上是对后一篇论文结果有效性的再确认。
Quantum state on Bloch sphere for superconducting charge qubit, phase qubit and flux qubit for all time in absence of external drive is stable to initial state. By driving the qubits, approximation of charge and flux Hamiltonian lead to quantum state rotation in Bloch sphere around an axis completely differ from rotation vector of exact Hamiltonian. The trajectory of quantum state for phase qubit for approximated and exact Hamiltonian is the same but the expectation of quantum observable has considerable errors as two other qubits. microwave drive control is designed for approximated Hamiltoni…
Quantum chemistry has been viewed as one of the potential early applications of quantum computing. Two techniques have been proposed for electronic structure calculations: (i) the variational quantum eigensolver and (ii) the phase-estimation algorithm. In both cases, the complexity of the problem increases for basis sets where either the Hamiltonian is not sparse, or it is sparse, but many orbitals are required to accurately describe the molecule of interest. In this work, we explore the possibility of mapping the molecular problem onto a sparse Hubbard-like Hamiltonian, which allows a Green's…
We study the time evolution of quantum systems with a time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian given by a linear combination of SU(1,1) and SU(2) generators.With a time-dependent metric, the pseudo-Hermitian invariant operator is constructed in the same manner as for both the SU(1,1) and SU(2) systems. The exact common solutions of the Schrödinger equations for both the SU(1,1) and SU(2) systems are obtained in terms of eigenstates of the pseudo-Hermitian invariant operator.
A fundamental description of time can be consistent not only with the usual monotonic behavior but also with a periodic physical clock variable, coupled to the degrees of freedom of a system evolving in time. Generically, one would in fact expect some kind of oscillating motion of a system that is dynamical and interacts with its surroundings, as required for a fundamental clock that can be noticed by any other system. Unitary evolution does not require a monotonic clock variable and can be achieved more generally by formally unwinding the periodic clock movement, keeping track not only of the…
We study the problem of simulating the time evolution of a lattice Hamiltonian, where the qubits are laid out on a lattice and the Hamiltonian only includes geometrically local interactions (i.e., a qubit may only interact with qubits in its vicinity). This class of Hamiltonians is very general and is believed to capture fundamental interactions of physics. Our algorithm simulates the time evolution of such a Hamiltonian on $n$ qubits for time $T$ up to error $ε$ using $\mathcal O( nT \mathrm{polylog} (nT/ε))$ gates with depth $\mathcal O(T \mathrm{polylog} (nT/ε))$. Our algorithm is the first…
We present a quantum algorithm for the dynamical simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians. Our method involves expanding the interaction-picture Hamiltonian as a sum of generalized permutations, which leads to an integral-free Dyson series of the time-evolution operator. Under this representation, we perform a quantum simulation for the time-evolution operator by means of the linear combination of unitaries technique. We optimize the time steps of the evolution based on the Hamiltonian's dynamical characteristics, leading to a gate count that scales with an $L^1$-norm-like scaling with respec…
The approximation of nearest neighbor interaction (NNI) is widely used in short-time spin dynamics with dipole-dipole interactions (DDI) when the intensity of spin-spin interaction is $\sim 1/r^3$, where $r$ is a distance between those spins. However, NNI can not approximate the long time evolution in such systems. We consider the system with the intensity of the spin-spin interaction $\sim 1/r^α$, $α\ge 3$, and find the low boundary $α_c$ of applicability of the NNI to the evolution of an arbitrary one-excitation initial quantum state in the homogeneous spin chain governed by the $XX$-Hamilto…
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas（巴西物理研究中心）；University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU（巴斯克公立大学）；Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University（冲绳科学技术大学院大学）；Atominstitut, TU Wien（维也纳工业大学原子研究所）；Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences（奥地利科学院量子光学与量子信息研究所）；Louisiana State University（路易斯安那州立大学）；Western University（韦仕敦大学）
