The evolution equations of quantum observables are derived from the classical Hamiltonian equations of motion with the only additional assumption that the phase space is non-commutative. The demonstration of the quantum evolution laws is quite general; it does not rely on any assumption on the operator nature of x and p and is independent of the quantum mechanical formalism.
Quantum computing can efficiently simulate Hamiltonian dynamics of many-body quantum physics, a task that is generally intractable with classical computers. The hardness lies at the ubiquitous anti-commutative relations of quantum operators, in corresponding with the notorious negative sign problem in classical simulation. Intuitively, Hamiltonians with more commutative terms are also easier to simulate on a quantum computer, and anti-commutative relations generally cause more errors, such as in the product formula method. Here, we theoretically explore the role of anti-commutative relation in…
It is well known that an (in general, non-commutative) set of non-Hermitian operators $Λ_j$ with real eigenvalues need not necessarily represent observables. We describe a specific class of quantum models in which these operators plus the underlying physical Hilbert-space metric $Θ$ are all represented in terms of an auxiliary operator $(N+1)-$plet $Z_k$, $k=0,1,\ldots,N$. Our formalism degenerates to the ${\cal PT}-$symmetric quantum mechanics at $N=2$, with metric $Θ=Z_2Z_1$, parity ${\cal P}=Z_2$, charge ${\cal C}=Z_1$ and Hamiltonian $H=Z_0$.
A fundamental aspect of the quantum-to-classical limit is the transition from a non-commutative algebra of observables to commutative one. However, this transition is not possible if we only consider unitary evolutions. One way to describe this transition is to consider the Gamow vectors, which introduce exponential decays in the evolution. In this paper, we give two mathematical models in which this transition happens in the infite time limit. In the first one, we consider operators acting on the space of the Gamow vectors, which represent quantum resonances. In the second one, we use an alge…
In this article we study two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians with non-commutativity both in coordinates and momenta from an algebraic perspective. In order to do so, we consider the graded Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}(2|1)$ generated by Hermitian bilinear forms in the non-commutative dynamical variables and the Dirac matrices in $2+1$ dimensions. By further defining a total angular momentum operator, we are able to express a class of Dirac Hamiltonians completely in terms of these operators. In this way, we analyze the energy spectrum of some simple models by constructing and studying the represe…
We consider the effective Gibbs state for averaged observables. In particular, we perturbatively calculate the correspondent effective Hamiltonian. We show that there are a lot of similarities between this effective Hamiltonian and the mean force Hamiltonian. We also discuss a thermodynamic role of the information loss due to restriction of our measurement capabilities to such averaged observables.
在最近的工作[D. K. Burgarth等人，国家通信5，5173（2014）]表明，一系列频繁的测量可以将量子系统的动力学投影到动力学可能更复杂的子空间上。在这个子空间中，甚至可以实现完全的可控性，尽管在投影之前系统的可控性非常差，因为控制哈密顿量彼此交换。我们也可以考虑相反的情况：量子系统的任何哈密顿算符，一般来说彼此之间是不可交换的，可以通过将它们嵌入到扩展的希尔伯特空间中而使它们成为可交换的，因此扩展空间中的动力学变得平凡而简单。这种使非对易的哈密尔顿算子成为对易的思想叫做“哈密尔顿纯化"。“通过频繁的测量将系统投影回原始希尔伯特空间，恢复了原始的非对易哈密顿算子。在这里，我们将这个想法推广到开放系统动力学，提出了一个简单的结构，使Lindbladian，以及哈密顿，交换的一个更大的空间与辅助系统。我们表明，原来的动态可以恢复通过经常测量辅助系统在一个非选择性的方式。此外，我们还提供了一个通用的Lindbladian对，它描述了一个“可访问的”开放量子系统的通用系统大小。这使我们能够得出结论，通过一系列频繁的非选择性测量，一个不可访问的开放量子系统通常变得可访问。这进一步阐明了测量反作用对量子系统控制的作用。
Noise mitigation of quantum observables via learning from Hamiltonian symmetry decays
Tecnun - University of Navarra（纳瓦拉理工大学）；Donostia International Physics Center（圣塞巴斯蒂安国际物理中心）；IBM Quantum, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center（IBM量子，IBM托马斯·J·沃森研究中心）；IBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe – Dublin（IBM量子，IBM欧洲研究院都柏林分部）；IBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe – UK（IBM量子，IBM欧洲研究院英国分部）
Estimation of expectation values of incompatible observables is an essential practical task in quantum computing, especially for approximating energies of chemical and other many-body quantum systems. In this work we introduce a method for this purpose based on performing a single joint measurement that can be implemented locally and whose marginals yield noisy (unsharp) versions of the target set of non-commuting Pauli observables. We derive bounds on the number of experimental repetitions required to estimate energies up to a certain precision. We compare this strategy to the classical shado…
Quantum optimal control has numerous important applications ranging from pulse shaping in magnetic-resonance imagining to laser control of chemical reactions and quantum computing. Our objective is to address two major challenges that have limited the success of applications of quantum optimal control so far: non-commutativity inherent in quantum systems and non-convexity of quantum optimal control problems involving more than three quantum levels. Methodologically, we address the non-commutativity of the control Hamiltonian at different times by the use of Magnus expansion. To tackle the non-…
We propose a quantum algorithm to compute low-energy expectation values of a quantum Hamiltonian by sampling a partition function associated with the average energy of that Hamiltonian. For any given quantum circuit-Hamiltonian pair, there is an associated average energy. The sampling is done through an accept/reject Metropolis-style algorithm on the quantum gates of the circuit itself. Observables calculated under the canonical ensemble from these samples of circuits are extrapolated from higher-energies to the ground state.
We introduce a dynamical evolution operator for dealing with unstable physical process, such as scattering resonances, photon emission, decoherence and particle decay. With that aim, we use the formalism of rigged Hilbert space and represent the time evolution of quantum observables in the Heisenberg picture, in such a way that time evolution is non-unitary. This allows to describe observables that are initially non-commutative, but become commutative after time evolution. In other words, a non-abelian algebra of relevant observables becomes abelian when times goes to infinity. We finally pres…
We consider a quantum system with a time-independent Hamiltonian parametrized by a set of unknown parameters $α$. The system is prepared in a general quantum state by an evolution operator that depends on a set of unknown parameters $P$. After the preparation, the system evolves in time, and it is characterized by a time-dependent observable ${\cal O}(t)$. We show that it is possible to obtain closed-form expressions for the gradients of the distance between ${\cal O}(t)$ and a calculated observable with respect to $α$, $P$ and all elements of the system density matrix, whether for pure or mix…
We introduce an extended version of the Swanson model, defined on a two-dimensional non commutative space, which can be diagonalized exactly by making use of pseudo-bosonic operators. Its eigenvalues are explicitly computed and the biorthogonal sets of eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and of its adjoint are explicitly constructed. We also show that it is possible to construct two displacement-like operators from which a family of bi-coherent states can be obtained. These states are shown to be eigenstates of the deformed lowering operators, and their projector allows to produce a suitable resolu…
Recovering an unknown Hamiltonian from measurements is an increasingly important task for certification of noisy quantum devices and simulators. Recent works have succeeded in recovering the Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum system with local interactions from long-ranged correlators of a single eigenstate. Here, we show that such Hamiltonians can be recovered from local observables alone, using computational and measurement resources scaling linearly with the system size. In fact, to recover the Hamiltonian acting on each finite spatial domain, only observables within that domain are require…
The mathematical role of (commutative and noncommutative) infinitesimal random walks over (commutative and noncommutative) riemannian manifolds in Quantum Physics
We study the off-diagonal matrix elements of observables that break the translational symmetry of a spin-chain Hamiltonian, and as such connect energy eigenstates from different total quasimomentum sectors. We consider quantum-chaotic and interacting integrable points of the Hamiltonian, and focus on average energies at the center of the spectrum. In the quantum-chaotic model, we find that there is eigenstate thermalization; specifically, the matrix elements are Gaussian distributed with a variance that is a smooth function of $ω=E_α-E_β$ ({$E_α$} are the eigenenergies) and scales as $1/D$ ($D…
We study the matrix elements of local and nonlocal operators in the single-particle eigenstates of two paradigmatic quantum-chaotic quadratic Hamiltonians; the quadratic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK2) model and the three-dimensional Anderson model below the localization transition. We show that they display eigenstate thermalization for normalized observables. Specifically, we show that the diagonal matrix elements exhibit vanishing eigenstate-to-eigenstate fluctuations, and a variance proportional to the inverse Hilbert space dimension. We also demonstrate that the ratio between the variance of the…
We show that the computation of formation probabilities (FP) in the configuration basis and the full counting statistics (FCS) of observables in the quadratic fermionic Hamiltonians are equivalent to the calculation of emptiness formation probability (EFP) in the Hamiltonian with a defect. In particular, we first show that the FP of finding a particular configuration in the ground state is equivalent to the EFP of the ground state of the quadratic Hamiltonian with a defect. Then, we show that the probability of finding a particular value for any quadratic observable is equivalent to a FP probl…
Quasi-optimal sampling from Gibbs states via non-commutative optimal transport metrics
Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Tübingen（蒂宾根大学数学系）；Dep. of App. Mathematics and Theo. Physics, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理系）；Inria, Télécom Paris - LTCI, Institut Polytechnique de Paris（巴黎理工学院电信学院LTCI实验室法国国家信息与自动化研究所）
We revisit aspects of monitoring observables with continuous spectrum in a quantum system subject to dissipative (Lindbladian) or conservative (Hamiltonian) evolutions. After recalling some of the salient features of the case of pure monitoring, we deal with the case when monitoring is in competition with a Lindbladian evolution. We show that the strong measurement limit leads to a diffusion on the spectrum of the observable. For the case with competition between observation and Hamiltonian dynamics, we exhibit a scaling limit in which the crossover between the classical regime and a diffusive…
