How quantum are non-negative wave functions?

DOI10.1063/1.4936216MaRDI QIDQ2786615zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. B. Hastings

Publication date 15 February 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08883

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltoniansnon-negative amplitudesteleportationwavefunctions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum computation (81P68) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We consider wavefunctions which are non-negative in some tensor product basis. We study what possible teleportation can occur in such wavefunctions, giving a complete answer in some cases (when one system is a qubit) and partial answers elsewhere. We use this to show that a one-dimensional wavefunction which is non-negative and has zero correlation length can be written in a "coherent Gibbs state" form, as explained later. We conjecture that such holds in higher dimensions. Additionally, some results are provided on possible teleportation in general wavefunctions, explaining how Schmidt coefficients before measurement limit the possible Schmidt coefficients after measurement, and on the absence of a "generalized area law"cite{genarealaw} even for Hamiltonians with no sign problem. One of the motivations for this work is an attempt to prove a conjecture about ground state wavefunctions which have an "intrinsic" sign problem that cannot be removed by any quantum circuit. We show a weaker version of this, showing that the sign problem is intrinsic for commuting Hamiltonians in the same phase as the double semion model under the technical assumption that TQO-2 holdscite{tqo2}.

Review text

The phenomenon of interference relies on a cancellation between amplitudes of opposite sign. States, for which all amplitudes are non-negative in the computational basis from the perspective of quantum information theory, are investigated. It seems that the difficulty of estimating the ground state energy for Hamiltonians with no sign-problem becomes smaller. For such Hamiltonians it is quite possible that by some local quantum circuit, one might be able to bring the Hamiltonian to a form with no sign problem, simplifying the simulation. It is shown that a one-dimensional non-negative wavefunction with zero correlation length can be written in form of a ``coherent Gibbs state. Possible teleportation of such wavefunctions are described and some results are presented for general wavefunction teleportation.

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