PPT-Direct Measurement of the Soft Mode Driving a Quantum Phase Transition

Daniel Silevitch Introduction The Quantum Ising model S12 Ising model Used to model wide variety of systems across physics and beyond Magnetism Lattice Gas models Trapped Ions Quantum annealing. and the monogamy of entanglement. Aram . Harrow (MIT). Brown SUMS. March 9, 2013. Quantum mechanics. QM has also explained:. the stability of atoms. the photoelectric effect. e. verything else we’ve looked at. Collection of two-state quantum systems (. qubits. ). Operations which manipulate isolated . qubits. or pairs of . qubits. Initialise. . qubit. to . single state. Detect . qubit. state. Large scale device:. “. Onset . of a Quantum Phase Transition with a Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator. ,” . . R. . . Islam, . E.E. . Edwards, . K. . Kim, . S. . Korenblit. , . C. . Noh, . H. . J. Carmichael, . G.-D. . Lin, . Ahmed M. Azab. , Peng Ning, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang. North Carolina State University. Xiaolan Zhang Nathan C. Skalsky. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center IBM Systems & Technology Group. P. PINCUS. PHYSICS AND MATERIALS DEPARTMENTS. UNIVERSITY OF . CALIFORNIA, . SANTA BARBARA. CMMRC. WASHINGTON, DC. SEPTEMBER, 2013. OUTLINE & SCOPE. Soft condensed matter physics is generally regarded as mainly classical (ħ=0) because it is typically concerned with objects at the nanoscale or larger. . Fang Song. IQC, University of Waterloo. -- “Quantum-Friendly” Reductions. 2. How do . quantum . attacks change classical cryptography?. Crypto-systems based on the hardness of factoring and discrete-log are . Stuart . Kauffman. 1) Descartes . Res . cogitans. and Res . extensa. substance dualism. .. 2) Newton’s . 3 laws, gravitation, differential equations, integration, entailment, determinism. .. 3. ) The . Light: . Quantumness. . of Correlations and their applications. Natalia . Korolkova. , . St Andrews, UK. C. . Croal. , N. Quinn, L. . Mista. *. University of St. Andrews, UK;. *. Palacky. University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. transiton. Spontaneous symmetry breaking. Mermin. -. Wagner:. no continuous symmetry breaking in models . with short ranged interactions in dimension . less than two. Homotopy. group. Vortex free energy:. Michael Freedman. April 23, 2009. Parsa Bonderson. Adrian Feiguin. Matthew Fisher. Michael Freedman. Matthew Hastings. Ribhu Kaul. Scott Morrison. Chetan Nayak. Simon Trebst. Kevin Walker. Zhenghan Wang. . of Correlations and their applications. Natalia . Korolkova. , . St Andrews, UK. C. . Croal. , N. Quinn, L. . Mista. *. University of St. Andrews, UK;. *. Palacky. University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Aram Harrow. . based on joint work with . Fernando G.S.L. Brandão. (ETHZ->Imperial). PCP theorem. Classical k-CSPs:. Given constraints . C={C. i. }. , choose an assignment . σ. mapping . n. variables to an alphabet . ” Workshop is to discuss theoretical and experimental hot issues related to quantum physics, from foundational issues (such as findings and ideas to investigate quantum effects in biological systems. The Workshop is supported by . Pancharatnam phase. The Indian physicist S. Pancharatnam in 1956 introduced the concept of . a geometrical phase.. Let . H(ξ ) be an Hamiltonian which depends from some . parameters, represented by .