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Hauptverfasser: Wagner, Elisabeth, Nigmatullin, Ramil, Gilchrist, Alexei, Brennen, Gavin K.
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09922
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author Wagner, Elisabeth
Nigmatullin, Ramil
Gilchrist, Alexei
Brennen, Gavin K.
author_facet Wagner, Elisabeth
Nigmatullin, Ramil
Gilchrist, Alexei
Brennen, Gavin K.
contents The information flow in a quantum system is a fundamental feature of its dynamics. An important class of dynamics are quantum cellular automata (QCA), systems with discrete updates invariant in time and space, for which an index theory has been proposed for the quantification of the net flow of quantum information across a boundary. While the index is rigid in the sense of begin invariant under finite-depth local circuits, it is not defined when the system is coupled to an environment, i.e. for non-unitary time evolution of open quantum systems. We propose a new measure of information flow for non-unitary QCA denoted the information current which is not rigid, but can be computed locally based on the matrix-product operator representation of the map.
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spellingShingle Information Flow in Non-Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata
Wagner, Elisabeth
Nigmatullin, Ramil
Gilchrist, Alexei
Brennen, Gavin K.
Quantum Physics
The information flow in a quantum system is a fundamental feature of its dynamics. An important class of dynamics are quantum cellular automata (QCA), systems with discrete updates invariant in time and space, for which an index theory has been proposed for the quantification of the net flow of quantum information across a boundary. While the index is rigid in the sense of begin invariant under finite-depth local circuits, it is not defined when the system is coupled to an environment, i.e. for non-unitary time evolution of open quantum systems. We propose a new measure of information flow for non-unitary QCA denoted the information current which is not rigid, but can be computed locally based on the matrix-product operator representation of the map.
title Information Flow in Non-Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09922