We construct a model which provides maximal mixing between a pseudo-Dirac Vµ/VT pair, based on a local U(1)Lµ-LT symmetry. Its strengths, weaknesses and phenomenological consequences are examined. A new intermediate range force is predicted, mediated by the light gauge boson of U(1)Lµ-LT. Through the mixing of µ, T and e, this force couples to electrons and thus may be searched for in precision “gravity” experiments.The generation of relic neutrino asymmetries in the early universe via the mechanism of partially coherent active-sterile neutrino oscillations is considered. We study how an approximate evolution equation for the growth of the asymmetry can be extracted from the exact Quantum Kinetic Equations which describe the evolution of the neutrino ensemble, and examine the nature of some of the approximations employed.

There are several reasons why exotic and artificial atoms attract the interest of different scientific communities.In exotic atoms, matter and antimatter can coexist for surprisingly long times. Thus, they present a unique natural laboratory for high precision antimatter studies. In artificial atoms, electrons can be confined in an externally controlled way. This aspect is crucial, as it opens new possibilities for high precision measurements and also makes artificial atoms promising potential candidates for qubits, i.e. the essential bricks for quantum computation.The first part of the thesis presents theoretical studies of resonant states in antiprotonic atoms and spherical two-electron quantum dots, where well established techniques, frequently used for conventional atomic systems, can be applied after moderate modifications. In the framework of Markovian master equations, it is then demonstrated that systems containing resonant states can be approached as open systems in which the resonance width determines the environmental coupling. The second part of the thesis focuses on possible quantum computational aspects of two kinds of artificial atoms, quantum dots and Penning traps. Environmentally induced decoherence, the main obstacle for a practical realization of a quantum computer based on these devices, is studied within a simple phenomenological model. As a result, the dependence of the decoherence timescales on the temperature of the heat bath and environmental scattering rates is obtained.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22245号 / 理博第4559号 / 新制||理||1655(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 田中 貴浩, 教授 川合 光, 教授 向山 信治 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Nous présentons deux expériences de plasmonique quantique, c’est-à-dire des expériencesd’optique quantique ayant pour support des plasmons de surface. Dans la première expérience, nous montrons la dualité onde-corpuscule d’un plasmon de surface unique (1) en utilisant la démarche de l’article de Philippe Grangier, Gérard Roger et Alain Aspect (2) sur les interférences à un photon unique. Dans la deuxième expérience, nous mettons en évidence les propriétés d’intrication entre un photon et un plasmon de surface. Nous produisons des photons intriqués en polarisation et les séparons spatialement. / We present two quantum plasmonics experiments, namely quantum optics on surface plasmons. In the first experiment, we show the wave-particle duality of a single surface plasmon along the same lines as the single-photon interferences experiment of Philippe Grangier, Gérard Roger and Alain Aspect (2). In the second experiment, we bring out between a photon and a surface plasmon. We generate paires of polarization entangled photons and separate the pair photons spatially. A former photon is send to a semi-plasmonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer whose first beam splitter is a polarization beam splitter whose output are converted to plasmons and on a plasmonic beamsplitter.

In a strongly correlated material the localized electrons, typically the electrons in the 3d-orbitals, become entangled with each other through the Coulomb interaction. However, these electrons also interact with more mobile (itinerant) electrons in the s- and p-orbitals. The latter process called screening as it effectively reduces the strength of the interaction between the 3d-electrons. A less studied and often neglected effect of the screening is that it also entangles the 3d-electrons with the itinerant electrons, which is equivalent to a leakage of quantum information from the 3delectrons to the environment. This process leads to decoherence since it causes the 3d-electrons to effectively lose some of their quantum mechanical properties. But what does this mean for our understanding of strongly correlated materials and can this decoherence effect be of such magnitude that neglecting it may qualitatively affect the calculated material properties? This is the question this report tries to answer, but for a minimal impurity model consisting of an atom and a few surrounding bath orbitals. / I korrelerade atomer kan lokaliserade elektroner, som elektroner i 3d orbitaler, bli kvantmekaniskt sammanflätade med varandra genom coulomb-växelverkan. Dessa elektroner kan även växelverka med mer mobila elektroner, som elektroner i s- och p-orbitaler. Denna process kallas för skärmning eftersom den effektivt sätt reducerar styrkan på repulsionen mellan elektronerna i 3d-orbitalerna. En mindre känd och ofta ignorerad effekt från skärmningen är att elektronerna i 3d-orbitalerna blir kvantmekaniskt sammanflätade med de mobila elektronerna på ett irreversibelt sätt. Detta är ekvivalent med att information om d-elektronernas position läcker ut till omgivningen. Denna informationsläcka kallas för dekoherens eftersom den ledertill att d-elektronerna förlorar en del av sina kvantmekaniska egenskaper. Frågan blir således vad dekoherens kan ha för betydelse för starkt korrelerade materials egenskaper. Kan denna effekt vara av sådan magnitud att det ger oss en helt felaktig bild om den negligeras? Detta är vad denna rapport syftar till att svara på.

Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή μελετούμε αλληλεπιδρώντα ανοικτά κβαντικά συστήματα δύο καταστάσεων και μελετούμε τη συμπεριφορά των κβαντικών τους χαρακτηριστικών παρουσία κλασικού θορύβου. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, μελετούμε το χρόνο αποσύμπλεξης δύο qubits του σιδηρομαγνήτη XY του Heisenberg συναρτήσει της ισχύος κλασικού Gaussian λευκού θορύβου, με δεδομένες όλες τις υπόλοιπες παραμέτρους των συστημάτων. Το βασικό μας αποτέλεσμα είναι ότι όλα τα ενδιαφέροντα φαινόμενα που επάγονται απ’ το θόρυβο, δηλαδή ο στοχαστικός συντονισμός, ο στοχαστικός αντι-συντονισμός και το φαινόμενο της θωράκισης (noise shield), εξαρτώνται άμεσα από την αρχική προετοιμασία του συστήματος των δύο qubits είτε αυτό είναι μόνο του είτε είναι υποσύστημα μιας μεγαλύτερης δομής (αλυσίδας qubits). Επίσης παρατηρούμε ότι η θερμοκρασία του περιβάλλοντος μπορεί να αποτελέσει παράγοντα ελέγχου των ανωτέρω φαινομένων. Παρέχουμε ισχυρές ενδείξεις για την ανάγκη χαρτογράφησης του πίνακα πυκνότητας ενός κβαντικού ανοικτού συστήματος με βάση τα φαινόμενα του θορύβου που μπορεί να επιδείξει / In the current Ph.D. thesis we study interacting open quantum two state systems and study the behavior of their quantum features in the presence of classical noise. More specifically, we study the disentanglement time of two Heisenberg's XY ferromagnetic qubits against the strength of classical Gaussian white noise, with all of the other parameters of the system fixed. Our main result is that all of the interesting noise induced effects, i.e. stochastic resonance, stochastic anti-resonance and the noise shield effect, are directly related to the initial preparation of the system of two qubits whether this is alone, or a subsystem of a larger structure (chain qubits). We also notice that the environmental temperature may be used as a control factor of the above effects. We provide strong evidence for the necessity of mapping the density matrix of a quantum open system according to the noise effects it can present.

Qubits (quantum bits) are what runs quantum computers, like a bit in classical computers. Quantum gates are used to operate on qubits in order to change their states. As such they are what ”programmes” a quantum computer. An unfortunate side effect of quantum physics is that coupling a quantum system (like our qubits) to an outside environment will lead to a certain loss of information. Reducing this decoherence effect is thus vital for the function of a quantum computer. Geometric quantum computation is a method for creating error robust quantum gates by using so called geometric phases which are solely reliant on the geometry of the evolution of the system. The purpose of this project has been to develop physical schemes of geometric entangling two-qubit gates along the Schmidt sphere, a geometric construct appearing in two-qubit systems. Essentially the overall aim has been to develop new schemes for implementing robust entangling quantum gates solely by means of interactions intrinsic to the computational systems. In order to create this gate four mutually orthogonal states were defined which together spanned the two-qubit state space. Two of the states were given time dependent variables containing a total of two angles,which were used to parameterize the Schmidt sphere. By designing an evolution for these angles that traced out a cyclical evolution along geodesic lines a quantum gate with exclusively geometric phases could be created. This gate was dubbed the ”Schmidt gate” and could be shown to be entangling by analyzing a change in the concurrence of a two qubit system. Two Hamiltonians were also defined which when acted upon the predefined system of states would give rise to the aforementioned evolution on the Schmidt sphere. The project was successful in creating an entangling quantum gate which could be shown by looking at difference in the concurrence of the input and output state of a two-qubit system passing through the gate.

Η Κβαντική Πληροφορία είναι μια ιδιότητα των κβαντικών συστημάτων που σχετίζεται με την κβαντομηχανική επαλληλία και την συσχέτιση των συστημάτων σε Ενδιαπλοκή. Λόγω της αλληλεπίδρασης με το κλασικό περιβάλλον η Ενδιαπλοκή χάνεται ταχύτατα με συνέπεια να περιορίζεται δραματικά η πρακτική της χρησιμότητα. Πραγματοποιήθηκε διερεύνηση διαφόρων διατάξεων κβαντικών συστημάτων είτε σε αλληλεπίδραση με άλλα συστήματα είτε μεμονωμένων, αλλά με την συνθήκη το αντίστοιχο κλασικό μη γραμμικό σύστημα να είναι χαοτικό ή ολοκληρώσιμο. Ερευνητικά αποτελέσματα: 1. Ο ρυθμός μεταβολής της Ενδιαπλοκής με την μεταβολή μιας παραμέτρου σύζευξης φράσσεται από την καμπυλότητα των ενεργειακών επιπέδων. Το αποτέλεσμα έχει γενική ισχύ, διότι βασίζεται σε γενικές ιδιότητες των τυχαίων πινάκων που κωδικοποιούν την χαοτική ή την κανονική συμπεριφορά των συστημάτων,2. Ο ρόλος της λεπτομερούς δομής του κλασικού χώρου των φάσεων. Ερευνήθηκε η εξάρτηση της Ενδιαπλοκής από την τιμή παραμέτρου σύζευξης σε σχέση με το διάγραμμα διακλαδώσεων του Βηματικού Στρόβου, καθώς και σε σχέση με την ύπαρξη Κβαντικών Ουλών, 3. Η μη γραμμικότητα συστημάτων σε συνδυασμό με την παρουσία εξωτερικών πεδίων μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε βέλτιστες τιμές ορισμένων παραμέτρων που ευνοούν την δημιουργία Ενδιαπλοκής θερμικά. Μελετήθηκε κατάλληλο μοντέλο, 4. Κβαντικός δίαυλος βρίσκεται σε αλληλεπίδραση με το τοπικό περιβάλλον. Οι ιδιότητες του τοπικού περιβάλλοντος (χάος ή κανονικότητα) μπορούν να επηρεάσουν τις δυνατότητες του διαύλου, 5. Ένα ανοικτό κβαντικό σύστημα αλληλεπιδρά με τοπικό κβαντικό περιβάλλον λίγων βαθμών ελευθερίας, καθώς και με ένα ολικό Μαρκοβιανό περιβάλλον και τελικά προκαλείται απώλεια κβαντικής συνάφειας. Διερευνήθηκε, αριθμητικά, ο τρόπος με τον οποίο, οι κλασικές ιδιότητες του τοπικού περιβάλλοντος επηρεάζουν τον ρυθμό απώλειας συνάφειας του συστήματος. / Quantum Information is a particular property of quantum systems which is associated with the quantum mechanical superposition principle and the correlation of the systems in the entangled states. Due to the interaction with the classical environment, this basic property of Entanglement is lost very quickly, with the result, its practical usefulness to be dramatically reduced. The present Thesis is concerned with the study of various arrangements of quantum systems either in interaction with other systems, or isolated, but with the condition that the corresponding classical non linear system is chaotic or integrable. Results presented in the thesis: 1. Τhe rate of change of entanglement of a quantum system with respect to the change of an interaction parameter is bounded by the curvature of the energy levels. This result has a general validity, because it is based on general properties of random matrices, which may encode the regular or chaotic behavior of physical systems, 2. The role of the detailed structure of the classical phase space. The dependence of entanglement on the position of a parameter of interaction in connection to the bifurcation diagram in the model of quantum kicked top was studied. An analysis was carried out for a possible impact of the existence of scars on the behavior of entanglement, 3. The non linearity of systems combined with the presence of external fields may lead to optimal values of certain parameters which favor the thermal creation of entanglement. A particular model was studied in which this behavior is observed, 4. A quantum channel is in interaction with its local environment. The question posed, is whether the properties of the local environment (chaos or integrability) may influence the capabilities of the channel, 5. An open quantum system interacts with a quantum local environment, which in general has few degrees of freedom, and a global infinite one. It was numerically investigated how the classical properties of the local environment Influence the decoherence rate of the system.

Integrated quantum photonics show monolithic waveguide chips to be a promising platform for realizing the next generation of quantum optical circuits. This work proposes the implementation of quantum page Rank algorithm on a photonic waveguide lattice. Our contributions are as follows: Continuous-time quantum stochastic walk(QSW)-an alternate paradigm of quantum computing, is a hybrid quantum walk that incorporates both unitary and non-unitary effects. We propose the use of QSW which necessitates the hopping of the quantum crawler on a directed graph, for the quantum page Rank problem. We propose the implementation of quantum page Rank on a photonic waveguide lattice, where we allow the density matrix to evolve according to the Lindblad-Kossakowski master equation, the diagonal of which gives the quantum page Rank. We have also shown the use of the metric of positional Kolmogorov Complexity as an efficient tool for determining whether or not the quantum channel has been compromised. We appositionally encode multi-photon decoy pulses within the stream of single photon pulses. This positional encoding is chosen in such a way as to have low Kolmogorov complexity. The PNS attack on the multi-photon decoy pulses causes a dip in the ratio of the transmittance of the decoy pulses to the signal pulses in the conventional analysis.