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Explicit Lieb-Robinson Velocity Bounds

Lieb-Robinson bounds describe how effects are propagated through a system due to a local Hamiltonian. They are often described in the form $$\left|[A,B(t)]\right|\leq Ce^{vt-l},$$ where $A$ and $B$ ...
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Why is the efficiency of Ekert 91 Protocol 25%?

In Cabello's paper Quantum key distribution without alternative measurements, the author said "the number of useful random bits shared by Alice and Bob by transmitted qubit, before checking for ...
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Does the quantum coherence in the FMO complex have any significance to quantum computing (on a biological substrate)?

The quantum effects of the FMO complex (photosynthetic light harvesting complex found in green sulfur bacteria) have been well studied as well as the quantum effects in other photosynthetic systems. ...
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Quantum walk with binary tree

I’m trying to grok quantum walks, and would like to create an example that walks a perfect binary tree to find the one and only marked leaf node. Is this possible? If so, suppose the depth of the tree ...
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Time Entangled Quantum Blockchain

This answer cites a paper[$\dagger$] which purposes a quantum blockchain using entanglement in time. "The weakness is that the research only presents a conceptual design." - QComp2018 How could a ...
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Quantum Walk: Why the need of adding “tail” nodes to the root?

As stated in the question, I have found in several papers (e.g. 1, 2) that in order to perform a quantum walk on a given tree it is necessary to add some nodes to the root $r$, say $r^{'}$ and $r^{"}$....
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Estimate/determine Bures separability probabilities making use of corresponding Hilbert-Schmidt probabilities

For two-qubit states, represented by a $4\times 4$ density matrix, the generic state is described by 15 real parameters. For ease of calculation, it can help to consider restricted families of states, ...
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Entanglement transfer of spin-entangled triplet-pair states between flying qubits and stationary qubits

The context: We are in the solid state. After a photon absortion by a system with a singlet ground state, the system undergoes the spin-conserving fission of one spin singlet exciton into two spin ...
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What is the difference between quantum control and quantum optimal control?

In the context of quantum control theory, it is common to see references to both quantum control and quantum optimal control (e.g. 0910.2350 or the guide on qutip quantrum control functions). ...
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Resources for quantum biology

Are there any books, courses, tutorials, etc. for studying quantum biology? Preferably they provide some introduction/primer on the relevant quantum aspects of the quantum biological systems being ...
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Gradient boosting akin to XGBoost using a quantum device

I am currently trying to implement a boosting algorithm akin to XGBoost with a quantum device. The reason is that I want to make use of a quantum device to train weak classifiers. However, as far as I ...
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Devising “structured initial guesses” for random parametrized quantum circuits to avoid getting stuck in a flat plateau

The recent McClean et al. paper Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes shows that for a wide class of reasonable parameterized quantum circuits, the probability that the ...
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Threshold and practical requirements for initial state preparation?

At the beginning of a quantum computational process we generally want to start in a perfectly known initial state, and evolve from there. This cannot be done perfectly, for fundamental reasons, but I ...