Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Information - Administrative Units - Bridge of Knowledge

Search

Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Information

Filters

total: 402

  • Category
  • Year
  • Options

clear Chosen catalog filters disabled

Catalog Publications

Year 2013
Year 2011
  • Multimode systems of nonlinear equations: derivation, integrability, and numerical solutions

    We consider the propagation of electromagnetic pulses in isotropic media taking a third-order nonlinearityinto account. We develop a method for transforming Maxwell's equations based on a complete set ofprojection operators corresponding to wave-dispersion branches (in a waveguide or in matter) with thepropagation direction taken into account. The most important result of applying the method is a systemof equations describing the...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Non-Wave Variations in Temperature Caused by Sound in a Chemically Reacting Gas

    A weakly nonlinear generation of non-acoustic modes in the field of sound in a gas is considered. An exotericchemical reaction of A->B type, which takes place in a gas, may be reversible or not. Two types of sound areconsidered, low-frequency and high-frequency as compared with the characteristic time of a chemical reaction.For both these cases, the governing equations of non-acoustic modes are derived and conclusions of the efficiencyof...

    Full text available to download

  • On structural physical approximations and entanglement breaking maps
    Publication

    - JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL - Year 2011

    Very recently, a conjecture saying that the so-called structural physical approximations (SPAs) to optimal positive maps (optimal entanglement witnesses) give entanglement breaking (EB) maps (separable states) has been posed (Korbicz et al 2008 Phys. Rev. A 78 062105). The main purpose of this contribution is to explore this subject. First, we extend the set of entanglement witnesses supporting the conjecture. Then, we ask whether...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Postulates for measures of genuine multipartite correlations
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2011

    A lot of research has been done on multipartite correlations. However, it seems strange thatthere is no denition of so called genuine multipartite correlations. In this paper we propose threereasonable postulates which each measure or indicator of genuine multipartite correlations (or gen-uine multipartite entanglement) should satisfy. We also introduce degree of correlations which givespartial characterization of multipartite...

    Full text available to download

  • Propagation of acoustic pulses in some fluids with yield stress
    Publication

    This study is devoted to the derivation of approximate equations governing acoustic pulses in flows with yieldstress, including some time-dependent flows with a slow dependence on time of yield stress and apparent viscosity. Themodeling of yield stress and apparent viscosity in the vicinity of a zero deformation rate allows us to consider a thixotropicfluid as a Bingham plastic with coefficients that are dependent on time. The...

    Full text to download in external service

Year 2009
Year 2007
Year 2003
Year 2014
  • Necessary and Sufficient Condition for State-Independent Contextual Measurement Scenarios
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2014

    The problem of identifying measurement scenarios capable of revealing state-independent contextuality in a given Hilbert space dimension is considered. We begin by showing that for any given dimension d and any measurement scenario consisting of projective measurements, (i) the measure of contextuality of a quantum state is entirely determined by its spectrum, so that pure and maximally mixed states represent the two extremes...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Objectivity in a Noisy Photonic Environment through Quantum State Information Broadcasting
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2014

    Recently, the emergence of classical objectivity as a property of a quantum state has been explicitly derived for a small object embedded in a photonic environment in terms of a spectrum broadcast form—a specific classically correlated state, redundantly encoding information about the preferred states of the object in the environment. However, the environment was in a pure state and the fundamental problem was how generic and robust...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Parallel Implementation of the Discrete Green's Function Formulation of the FDTD Method on a Multicore Central Processing Unit

    Parallel implementation of the discrete Green's function formulation of the finite-difference time-domain (DGF-FDTD) method was developed on a multicore central processing unit. DGF-FDTD avoids computations of the electromagnetic field in free-space cells and does not require domain termination by absorbing boundary conditions. Computed DGF-FDTD solutions are compatible with the FDTD grid enabling the perfect hybridization of FDTD...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantifying Contextuality
    Publication
    • A. Grudka
    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • R. Horodecki
    • P. Joshi
    • W. Kłobus
    • A. Wójcik

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2014

    Contextuality is central to both the foundations of quantum theory and to the novel information processing tasks. Despite some recent proposals, it still faces a fundamental problem: how to quantify its presence? In this work, we provide a universal framework for quantifying contextuality. We conduct two complementary approaches: (i) the bottom-up approach, where we introduce a communication game, which grasps the phenomenon of...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Quantum structure in competing lizard communities
    Publication

    - ECOLOGICAL MODELLING - Year 2014

    Almost two decades of research on applications of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory as a modeling tool in domains different from the micro-world has given rise to many successful applications in situations related to human behavior and thought, more specifically in cognitive processes of decision-making and the ways concepts are combined into sentences. In this article, we extend this approach to animal behavior, showing...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum-state transfer in spin chains via isolated resonance of terminal spins
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2014

    We propose a quantum-state transfer protocol in a spin chain that requires only the control of the spins at the ends of the quantum wire. The protocol is to a large extent insensitive to inhomogeneity caused by local magnetic fields and perturbation of exchange couplings. Moreover, apart from the free evolution regime, it allows one to induce an adiabatic spin transfer, which provides the possibility of performing the transfer...

    Full text available to download

Year 2016
Year 2008
  • No-local-broadcasting theorem for multipartite quantum correlations
    Publication

    We prove that the correlations present in a multipartite quantum state have an operational quantum character even if the state is unentangled, as long as it does not simply encode a multipartite classical probability distribution. Said quantumness is revealed by the new task of local broadcasting, i.e., of locally sharing preestablished correlations, which is feasible if and only if correlations are stricly classical. Our operational...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Nonradiative long range energy transfer in donor-acceptor systems with excluded volume
    Publication

    - CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS - Year 2008

    W pracy analizowano bezpromienisty długozasięgowy transfer energii w układach donor-akceptor z uwzględnieniem objętości wyłączonej. Stwierdzono, że zanik fluorescencji pierwotnie wzbudzonych donorów jest wolniejszy, jeżeli uwzględnia się objętość wyłączoną. Ten efekt jest znacznie wzmocniony, gdy akceptory znajdują się w pewnej objętości niedostępnej dla donorów. Analizę numeryczną przeprowadzono stosując metodę symulacji Monte...

    Full text to download in external service

  • On the distillation of cryptographic key from multipartie entangled quantum states
    Publication

    - Year 2008

    Celem pracy było uzupełnienie ogólnego paradygmatu destylacji bezpiecznego klucza kryptograficznego z dwucząstkowych stanów splątanych, a w szczegolności znalezienie nowych konstrukcji stanów kwantowych o splątaniu związanym z niezerowym destylowanym kluczem kryptograficznym. Kolejnym celem pracy było uogólnienie powyższego paradygmatu dwucząstkowego na przypadek wielu cząstek. W szczególności sformułowanie definicji wielocząstkowych...

  • Polarized light pulses propagation and coupling in optical waveguides
    Publication

    - Year 2008

    Głównym celem tej pracy było zbudowanie modelu teoretycznego, na bazie równań Maxwella, który pozwoliłby na opis transmisji wielomodowej w falowodach dielektrycznych (światłowodach) z uwzględnieniem efektu nieliniowego typu Kerra. W pracy wyniki teoretyczne zostały porównane z wynikami doświadczalnymi. Do symulacji propagacji światła z uwzględnieniem efektu Kerra niezbędne było rozwiązanie sprzężonych nieliniowych równań Schrödingera...

  • Quantum key distribution based on private states: Unconditional security over untrusted channels with zero quantum capacity
    Publication
    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • D. Leung
    • J. Oppenheim

    - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY - Year 2008

    In this paper, we prove unconditional security for a quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol based on distilling pbits (twisted ebits) from an arbitrary untrusted state that is claimed to contain distillable key. Our main result is that we can verify security using only public communication-via parameter estimation of the given untrusted state. The technique applies even to bound-entangled states, thus extending QKD to the regime...

Year 2010
Year 2022
Year 2020
  • Non-Diophantine Arithmetics in Mathematics, Physics and Psychology
    Publication

    - Year 2020

    For a long time, all thought there was only one geometry — Euclidean geometry. Nevertheless, in the 19th century, many non-Euclidean geometries were discovered. It took almost two millennia to do this. This was the major mathematical discovery and advancement of the 19th century, which changed understanding of mathematics and the work of mathematicians providing innovative insights and tools for mathematical research and applications...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Non-Linear Interaction of Harmonic Waves in a Quasi-Isentropic Flow of Magnetic Gas
    Publication

    The diversity of wave modes in the magnetic gas gives rise to a wide variety of nonlinear phenomenaassociated with these modes. We focus on the planar fast and slow magnetosound waves in the geometryof a flow where the wave vector forms an arbitrary angleθwith the equilibrium straight magnetic field.Nonlinear distortions of a modulated signal in the magnetic gas are considered and compared to thatin unmagnetised gas. The case of...

    Full text available to download

  • On description of periodic magnetosonic perturbations in a quasi-isentropic plasma with mechanical and thermal losses and electrical resistivity
    Publication

    Magnetosonic periodic perturbations in a uniform and infinite plasma model are considered. Damping due to compressional viscosity, electrical resistivity, and thermal conduction are taken into account, as well as some heating–cooling function, which may destroy the isentropicity of wave perturbations. The wave vector forms arbitrary angle h with the equilibrium straight magnetic field, and all perturbations are functions...

    Full text available to download

  • Positron Scattering and Annihilation in Organic Molecules
    Publication

    - ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B - Year 2020

    In this paper, we address the problem of connecting positron lifetimes in liquids with collision cross sections in gases. We present the analyses of annihilation lifetime spectra of positrons in the liquid benzene, c-hexane, n-hexane, methanol and ethanol and calculations of scattering cross sections of positrons with benzene and c-hexane in the gas phase.

    Full text available to download

Year 2006
Year 2018
Year 2012
  • Nonlinear increase in bubbles radii caused by sound in a bubbly liquid

    The nonlinear interaction of acoustic and entropy modes in a bubbly liquid is considered. The reasons for interaction are both nonlinearity and dispersion. In the field of intense sound, a decrease in the mixture density is predicted. That corresponds to the well-established growth of bubbles volumes due to rectified diffusion. The nonlinear interaction of modes as a reason for a bubble to grow due to sound, is discovered. The...

    Full text available to download

  • Nonlinear Influence of Sound on the Vibrational Energy of Molecules in a Relaxing Gas
    Publication

    Dynamics of a weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive flow of a gas where molecular vibrational relaxation takes place is studied. Variations in the vibrational energy in the field of intense sound is considered. These variations are caused by a nonlinear transfer of the acoustic energy into energy of vibrational degrees of freedom in a relaxing gas. The final dynamic equation which describes this is instantaneous, it includes a...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum privacy witness
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2012

    While it is usually known that the mean value of a single observable is enough to detect entanglement or its distillability, the counterpart of such an approach in the case of quantum privacy has been missing. Here we develop the concept of a privacy witness, i.e., a single observable that may detect the presence of the secure key even in the case of bound entanglement. Then we develop the notion of secret-key estimation based...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum-correlation breaking channels, broadcasting scenarios, and finite Markov chains
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2012

    One of the classical results concerning quantum channels is the characterization of entanglementbreakingchannels [M. Horodecki et al., Rev. Math. Phys 15, 629 (2003)]. We address the questionwhether there exists a similar characterization on the level of quantum correlations which may gobeyond entanglement. The answer is fully affirmative in the case of breaking quantum correlationsdown to the, so called, QC (Quantum-Classical)...

    Full text available to download

Year 2019
  • Nonlinear Interaction of Modes in a Planar Flow of a Gas with Viscous and Thermal Attenuation
    Publication

    The nonlinear interaction of wave and non-wave modes in a gas planar flow are considered. Attention is mainly paid to the case when one sound mode is dominant and excites the counter-propagating sound mode and the entropy mode. The modes are determined by links between perturbations of pressure, density, and fluid velocity. This definition follows from the linear conservation equations in the differential form and thermodynamic...

    Full text available to download

  • Propagation of initially sawtooth periodic and impulsive signals in a quasi-isentropic magnetic gas
    Publication

    The characteristics of propagation of sawtooth periodic and impulsive signals at a transducer are analytically studied in this work. A plasma under consideration is motionless and uniform at equilibrium, and its perturbations are described by a system of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Some generic heating/cooling function, which in turn depends on equilibrium thermodynamic parameters, may destroy adiabaticity of a flow and...

    Full text available to download

  • Pupil detection supported by Haar feature based cascade classifier for two-photon vision examinations
    Publication

    - Year 2019

    The aim of this paper is to present a novel method, called Adaptive Edge Detection (AED), of extraction of precise pupil edge coordinates from eye image characterized by reflections of external illuminators and laser beams. The method is used for monitoring of pupil size and position during psychophysical tests of two-photon vision performed by dedicated optical set-up. Two-photon vision is a new phenomenon of perception of short-pulsed...

    Full text available to download

  • Reexamination of the decoherence of spin registers
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2019

    We revisit the decoherence process of a multiqubit register interacting with a thermal bosonic bath. We generalize the previous studies by considering not only the register’s behavior but also a part of its environment. In particular, we are interested in information flow from the register to the environment, which we describe using recently introduced multipartite quantum state structures called spectrum broadcast structures....

    Full text available to download

Year 2017
  • Nonlinear phenomena of small-scale sound in a gas with exponential stratification
    Publication

    The nonlinear dynamics of perturbations, quickly varying in space, with comparatively large characteristic wavenumbers k: k>1/H, is considered. H is the scale of density and pressure reduction in unperturbed gas, as the coordinate (H is the so-called height of the uniform equilibrium gas). Coupling nonlinear equations which govern the sound and the entropy mode in a weakly nonlinear flow are derived. They describe the dynamics...

    Full text available to download

  • Objectivity in the non-Markovian spin-boson model
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2017

    Objectivity constitutes one of the main features of the macroscopic classical world. An important aspect of the quantum-to-classical transition issue is to explain how such a property arises from the microscopic quantum theory. Recently, within the framework of open quantum systems, there has been proposed such a mechanism in terms of the so-called spectrum broadcast structures. These are multipartite quantum states of the system...

    Full text available to download

  • On symmetric extendibility of quantum states and its applications
    Publication

    - Year 2017

    This dissertation is focused on analysis of the symmetric extendibility of quantum states and its applications in the quantum information theory, with special attention paid to the area of quantum entanglement distillation, quantum channels theory, quantum security, and monogamy of quantum entanglement in time. We analyze geometry of the set of symmetric extendible states, i.e. such states that possess symmetric extensions and...

    Full text available to download

  • Photoelectron spectroscopy of a series of acetate and propionate esters
    Publication

    - JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER - Year 2017

    The electronic state and photoionization spectroscopy of a series of acetate esters: methyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, butyl acetate and pentyl acetate as well as two propionates: methyl propionate and ethyl propionate, have been determined using vacuum-ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. These experimental investigations are complemented by ab initio calculations. The measured first adiabatic and vertical ionization energies...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Positron-electron correlation-polarization potentials for the calculation of positron collisions with atoms and molecules
    Publication

    We present correlation-polarization potentials for the calculation of scattering cross sections of positrons with atoms and molecules. The potentials are constructed from a short-range correlation term and a long-range polarization term. For the short-range correlation term we present four different potentials that are derived from multi-component density functionals. For the long-range polarization term we employ a multi-term...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum Coherence as a Resource
    Publication
    • A. Streltsov
    • G. Adesso
    • M. B. Plenio

    - REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS - Year 2017

    The coherent superposition of states, in combination with the quantization of observables, represents one of the most fundamental features that mark the departure of quantum mechanics from the classical realm. Quantum coherence in many-body systems embodies the essence of entanglement and is an essential ingredient for a plethora of physical phenomena in quantum optics, quantum information, solid state physics, and nanoscale thermodynamics....

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum entanglement in time
    Publication

    In this paper we present a concept of quantum entanglement in time in a context of entangled consistent histories. These considerations are supported by presentation of necessary tools closely related to those acting on a space of spatial multipartite quantum states. We show that in similarity to monogamy of quantum entanglement in space, quantum entanglement in time is also endowed with this property for a particular history....

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum Steering Inequality with Tolerance for Measurement-Setting Errors: Experimentally Feasible Signature of Unbounded Violation
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2017

    uantum steering is a relatively simple test for proving that the values of quantum-mechanical measurement outcomes come into being only in the act of measurement. By exploiting quantum correlations, Alice can influence — steer — Bob ’ s physical system in a way that is impossible in classical mechanics, as shown by the violation of steering inequalities. Demonstrating this and similar quantum effects for systems of increasing size,...

    Full text to download in external service

Year 2021
Year 2002
Year 2015
  • ON THE NON-LOCALITY OF TRIPARTITE NON-SINGALING BOXES EMERGING FROM WIRINGS
    Publication

    - QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION - Year 2015

    It has been recently shown, that some of the tripartite boxes admittin g bilocal decom- position, lead to non-locality under wiring operation applied to t wo of the subsystems [R. Gallego et al. Physical Review Letters 109 , 070401 (2012)]. In the following, we study this phenomenon quantitatively. Basing on the known classes of bo xes closed un- der wirings, we introduce multipartite monotones which are count erparts of bipartite ones...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Optimization of Hydrogen - Evolving Photochemical Molecular Devices
    Publication
    • M. Pfeffer
    • T. Kowacs
    • M. Wachtler
    • J. Guthmuller
    • B. Dietzek
    • J. Vos
    • S. Rau

    - ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION - Year 2015

    A molecular photocatalyst consisting of a RuII photocenter, a tetrapyridophenazine bridging ligand, and a PtX2 (X=Cl or I) moiety as the catalytic center functions as a stable system for light-driven hydrogen production. The catalytic activity of this photochemical molecular device (PMD) is significantly enhanced by exchanging the terminal chlorides at the Pt center for iodide ligands. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Palladium versus Platinum: The Metal in the Catalytic Center of a Molecular Photocatalyst Determines the Mechanism of the Hydrogen Production with Visible Light
    Publication
    • M. Pfeffer
    • B. Schaefer
    • G. Smolentsev
    • J. Uhlig
    • E. Nazarenko
    • J. Guthmuller
    • C. Kuhnt
    • M. Wachtler
    • B. Dietzek
    • V. Sundstrom
    • S. Rau

    - ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION - Year 2015

    To develop highly efficient molecular photocatalysts for visible light-driven hydrogen production, a thorough understanding of the photophysical and chemical processes in the photocatalyst is of vital importance. In this context, in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopic (XAS) investigations show that the nature of the catalytically active metal center in a (N^N)MCl2 (M=Pd or Pt) coordination sphere has a significant impact on the...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Photophysics of a Ruthenium 4H-Imidazole Panchromatic Dye in Interaction with Titanium Dioxide
    Publication
    • J. Schindler
    • S. Kupfer
    • M. WäCHTLER
    • J. Guthmuller
    • S. Rau
    • B. Dietzek

    - CHEMPHYSCHEM - Year 2015

    The photophysics of bis(4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bipyridine-κ2N,N′)[2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,5-bis(p-tolylimino-κN)imidazolato]ruthenium(II) hexafluorophosphate is investigated, both in solution and attached to a nanocrystalline TiO2 film. The studied substitution pattern of the 4H-imidazole ligand is observed to block a photoinduced structural reorganization pathway within the 4H-imidazole ligand that has been previously investigated....

    Full text to download in external service

  • Photophysics of Ru(II) Dyads Derived from Pyrenyl-Substitued Imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline Ligands.
    Publication
    • C. Reichardt
    • M. Pinto
    • M. Wachtler
    • M. Stephenson
    • S. Kupfer
    • T. Sainuddin
    • J. Guthmuller
    • S. A. Mcfarland
    • B. Dietzek

    - JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A - Year 2015

    The photophysics of a series of Ru(II) dyads based on the 2-(1-pyrenyl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]-phenanthroline ligand was investigated. The ability of these metal complexes to intercalate DNA and induce cell death upon photoactivation makes them attractive photosensitizers for a range of photobiological applications, including photodynamic therapy. In the present study, time-resolved transient absorption and emission spectroscopy...

    Full text to download in external service

  • Positron scattering on molecular hydrogen: Analysis of experimental and theoretical uncertainties
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    Experiments performed in recent years on positron scattering from molecular hydrogen indicated a rise of the total cross section in the limit of zero energy, but essentially disagree on the amplitude of this rise. Mitroy and collaborators [J.-Y. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 223202 (2009)] predicted a scattering length somewhat different from values deduced experimentally. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo modified effective...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum metrology: Heisenberg limit with bound entanglement
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    Quantum entanglement may provide a huge boost in the precision of parameter estimation. However, quantum metrology seems to be extremely sensitive to noise in the probe state. There is an important still open question: What type of entanglement is useful as a resource in quantum metrology? Here we raise this question in relation to entanglement distillation. We provide a counterintuitive example of a family of bound entangled states...

    Full text available to download

  • Quantum origins of objectivity
    Publication

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    In spite of all of its successes, quantum mechanics leaves us with a central problem: How does nature create a bridge from fragile quanta to the objective world of everyday experience? Here we find that a basic structure within quantum mechanics that leads to the perceived objectivity is a so-called spectrum broadcast structure. We uncover this based on minimal assumptions, without referring to any dynamical details or a concrete...

    Full text available to download

Year 2004