Higher-dimensional open quantum walk in environment of quantum Bernoulli noises

Open quantum walks (OQWs) (also known as open quantum random walks) are quantum analogs of classical Markov chains in probability theory, and have potential application in quantum information and quantum computation. Quantum Bernoulli noises (QBNs) are annihilation and creation operators acting on Bernoulli functionals, and can be used as the environment of an open quantum system. In this paper, by using QBNs as the environment, we introduce an OQW on a general higher-dimensional integer lattice. We obtain a quantum channel representation of the walk, which shows that the walk is indeed an OQW. We prove that all the states of the walk are separable provided its initial state is separable. We also prove that, for some initial states, the walk has a limit probability distribution of higher-dimensional Gauss type. Finally, we show links between the walk and a unitary quantum walk recently introduced in terms of QBNs.

On an alternative quantization of R-NS strings

We investigate an alternative quantization of R-NS string theory. In the alternative quantization, we define the distinct vacuum for the left-moving mode and the right-moving mode by exchanging the role of creation operators and annihilation operators in the left-moving sector. The resulting string theory has only a finite number of propagating degrees of freedom. We show that an appropriate choice of the GSO projection makes the theory tachyon free. The spectrum coincides with the massless sector of type IIA or type IIB superstring theory without any massive excitations.

Exterior Powers and Pointwise Creation Operators

We develop a theory of pointwise wedge products of vector-valued functions on the circle and the disc, and obtain results which give rise to a new approach to the analysis of the matricial Nehari problem. We investigate properties of pointwise creation operators and pointwise orthogonal complements in the context of operator theory and the study of vector-valued analytic functions on the unit disc.

Spin structures and baby universes

We extend a 2d topological model of the gravitational path integral to include sums over spin structure, corresponding to Neveu-Schwarz (NS) or Ramond (R) boundary conditions for fermions. This path integral corresponds to a correlator of boundary creation operators on a non-trivial baby universe Hilbert space, and vanishes when the number of R boundaries is odd. This vanishing implies a non-factorization of the correlator, which necessitates a dual interpretation of the bulk path integral in terms of a product of partition functions (associated to NS boundaries) and Witten indices (associated to R boundaries), averaged over an ensemble of theories with varying Hilbert space dimension and different numbers of bosonic and fermionic states. We also consider a model with End-of-the-World (EOW) branes, for which the dual ensemble then includes a sum over randomly chosen fermionic and bosonic states. We propose two modifications of the bulk path integral which restore an interpretation in a single dual theory: (i) a geometric prescription where we add extra boundaries with a sum over their spin structures, and (ii) an algebraic prescription involving “spacetime D-branes”. We extend our ideas to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, and propose a dual description of a single unitary theory with spin structure in a system with eigenbranes.

Quantum Feller semigroup in terms of quantum Bernoulli noises

Quantum Bernoulli noises (QBN) are the family of annihilation and creation operators acting on Bernoulli functionals, which satisfy a canonical anti-commutation relation in equal-time. In this paper, we aim to investigate quantum Feller semigroups in terms of QBN. We first investigate local structure of the algebra generated by identity operator and QBN. We then use our new results obtained here to construct a class of quantum Markov semigroups from QBN which enjoy Feller property. As an application of our results, we examine a special quantum Feller semigroup associated with QBN, when it reduced to a certain Abelian subalgebra, the semigroup gives rise to the semigroup generated by Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator. Finally, we find a sufficient condition for the existence of faithful invariant states that are diagonal for the semigroup.

Stationary states of weak coupling limit-type Markov generators and quantum transport models

We prove that every stationary state in the annihilator of all Kraus operators of a weak coupling limit-type Markov generator consists of two pieces, one of them supported on the interaction-free subspace and the second one on its orthogonal complement. In particular, we apply the previous result to describe in detail the structure of a slightly modified quantum transport model due to Arefeva et al. (modified AKV’s model) studied first in [J. C. García et al., Entangled and dark stationary states of excitation energy transport models in many-particles systems and photosynthesis, Infin. Dimens. Anal. Quantum Probab. Relat. Top. 21(3) (2018), Article ID: 1850018, p. 21, doi:10.1142/S0219025718500182], in terms of generalized annihilation and creation operators.

A Deformed Quon Algebra

The quon algebra is an approach to particle statistics in order to provide a theory in which the Pauli exclusion principle and Bose statistics are violated by a small amount. The quons are particles whose annihilation and creation operators obey the quon algebra which interpolates between fermions and bosons. In this paper we generalize these models by introducing a deformation of the quon algebra generated by a collection of operators ai,k, (i, k) ∈ ℕ* × [m], on an infinite dimensional vector space satisfying the deformed q-mutator relations {a_j}_{,l}a_{i,k}^\dagger = qa_{i,k}^\dagger{a_{j,l}} + {q^{{\beta _{k,l}}}}{\delta _{i,j}} We prove the realizability of our model by showing that, for suitable values of q, the vector space generated by the particle states obtained by applying combinations of ai,k’s and a_{i,k}^\dagger ‘s to a vacuum state |0〉 is a Hilbert space. The proof particularly needs the investigation of the new statistic cinv and representations of the colored permutation group.