scholarly journals Can Closed Timelike Curves or Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics Improve Quantum State Discrimination or Help Solve Hard Problems?

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Bennett ◽  
Debbie Leung ◽  
Graeme Smith ◽  
John A. Smolin
Author(s):  
Carl M. Bender ◽  
Dorje C. Brody ◽  
João Caldeira ◽  
Uwe Günther ◽  
Bernhard K. Meister ◽  
...  

The objective of this paper is to explain and elucidate the formalism of quantum mechanics by applying it to a well-known problem in conventional Hermitian quantum mechanics, namely the problem of state discrimination. Suppose that a system is known to be in one of two quantum states, | ψ 1 〉 or | ψ 2 〉. If these states are not orthogonal, then the requirement of unitarity forbids the possibility of discriminating between these two states with one measurement; that is, determining with one measurement what state the system is in. In conventional quantum mechanics, there is a strategy in which successful state discrimination can be achieved with a single measurement but only with a success probability p that is less than unity. In this paper, the state-discrimination problem is examined in the context of quantum mechanics and the approach is based on the fact that a non-Hermitian -symmetric Hamiltonian determines the inner product that is appropriate for the Hilbert space of physical states. It is shown that it is always possible to choose this inner product so that the two states | ψ 1 〉 and | ψ 2 〉 are orthogonal. Using quantum mechanics, one cannot achieve a better state discrimination than in ordinary quantum mechanics, but one can instead perform a simulated quantum state discrimination, in which with a single measurement a perfect state discrimination is realized with probability  p .


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 871-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pang Xiao Feng

We establish the nonlinear quantum mechanics due to difficulties and problems of original quantum mechanics, in which microscopic particles have only a wave feature, not corpuscle feature, which are completely not consistent with experimental results and traditional concept of particle. In this theory the microscopic particles are no longer a wave, but localized and have a wave-corpuscle duality, which are represented by the following facts, the solutions of dynamic equation describing the particles have a wave-corpuscle duality, namely it consists of a mass center with constant size and carrier wave, is localized and stable and has a determinant mass, momentum and energy, which obey also generally conservation laws of motion, their motions meet both the Hamilton equation, Euler-Lagrange equation and Newton-type equation, their collision satisfies also the classical rule of collision of macroscopic particles, the uncertainty of their position and momentum is denoted by the minimum principle of uncertainty. Meanwhile the microscopic particles in this theory can both propagate in solitary wave with certain frequency and amplitude and generate reflection and transmission at the interfaces, thus they have also a wave feature, which but are different from linear and KdV solitary wave’s. Therefore the nonlinear quantum mechanics changes thoroughly the natures of microscopic particles due to the nonlinear interactions. In this investigation we gave systematically and completely the distinctions and variations between linear and nonlinear quantum mechanics, including the significances and representations of wave function and mechanical quantities, superposition principle of wave function, property of microscopic particle, eigenvalue problem, uncertainty relation and the methods solving the dynamic equations, from which we found nonlinear quantum mechanics is fully new and different from linear quantum mechanics. Finally, we verify further the correctness of properties of microscopic particles described by nonlinear quantum mechanics using the experimental results of light soliton in fiber and water soliton, which are described by same nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Thus we affirm that nonlinear quantum mechanics is correct and useful, it can be used to study the real properties of microscopic particles in physical systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 383 (23) ◽  
pp. 2729-2738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno G. da Costa ◽  
Ernesto P. Borges

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Plastino ◽  
A. M. C. Souza ◽  
F. D. Nobre ◽  
C. Tsallis

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Nikolić ◽  
Guillaume Adenier ◽  
Andrei Yu. Khrennikov ◽  
Pekka Lahti ◽  
Vladimir I. Man'ko ◽  
...  

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