Nesta tese, estudamos o comportamento de sistema quânticos cujo limite clássico pode tanto apresentar um comportamento regular como caótico. Nosso estudo se baseou na caracterização dinâmica do comportamento, caótico ou regular, destes sistemas quânticos no limite clássico através da análise da estrutura de distribuições no espaço de fases. Particularmente, aplicamos estas ferramentas ao estudo da transição quântico-clássica para uma classe de sistemas, que denominamos genericamente como sistemas com propensão coletiva, os quais possuem a importante propriedade de admitir, em um certo limite análogo ao limite termodinâmico, uma descrição de sua dinâmica em termos de um número reduzido de variáveis de natureza coletiva. Esta propriedade além de nos permitir reduzir a dinâmica de sistemas com,plicados à dinâmica de sistema com poucos graus de liberdade, também nos permite, através de um escalonamento apropriado das variáveis coletivas, estudar o limite clássico destes sistemas concomitantemente com o limite termodinâmico, evitando assim lidar diretamente com procedimentos formais usualmente associados ao limite clássico da forma h 0. Diferentemente das abordagens usuais, a abordagem que utilizamos nesta tese, baseada na propensão coletiva dos sistemas, permite a implementação de uma descrição em termos do comportamento de distribuições no espaço de fases para sistemas com espectro puramente discreto num espaço de dimensão finita. / In this thesis, we studied the behavior of quantum systems which in the classical limit may exhibit either regular or chaotic behavior. Our study was based on the dynamical characterization of the, chaotic or regular, behavior of these systems in the classical limit through the analysis of the structure of phase-space distributions functions. Particularly, we have applied this characterization tools to the study of the quantum-to-classical transition in a class quantum systems, that we called generally as systems with collective propensity, which have the important property of admitting, in a certain limit analogous to the thermodynamical limit, a description of their dynamics in terms of a low number of variables of collective nature. This property allows us to describe the dynamics of very complicated systems in terms of the dynamics of systems with few degrees of freedom. Besides, this allows us to study the classical limit of these systems concomitantly with the thermodynamical limit, avoiding in this way to deal with formal procedures associated with the limit h 0. Differently from the usual approaches, the one we employ in this thesis, based on the systemscollective propensity, allows for an implementation of a description in terms of the behavior of phase-space distribution functions for systems endowed with a discrete spectrum in a finite-dimensional space.

Nesta tese estudamos a mecânica quântica não-comutativa na situação não-relativística. Nesse contexto, a expansão-1/N é introduzida e aplicada para alguns potenciais de interesse, como o do oscilador anarmônico e do potencial Coulombiano. A convergência da série é então discutida. Propomos uma versão modificada do potencial Coulombiano nãocomutativo, o qual fornece uma expansão 1/N bem comportada. A seguir, introduzimos um novo conjunto de relações de comutação no espaço-tempo não-comutativo satisfazendo uma álgebra de Heisenberg deformada. A equação de Pauli modificada é usada para o cálculo de correções para a energia, com o uso de teoria da perturbação, no contexto da não-comutatividade dependente do spin. / In this thesis we study non-commutative quantum mechanics in nonrelativistic situation. In this context, the 1/N-expansion is introduced and applied to some potentials of interest as the anharmonic oscillator and the Coulomb potential. The convergence of the serie is discussed. We proposed a modied version of the noncommutative Coulombian potential which provides a well-behaved 1/N expansion. Subsequently, we introduce a new set of noncommutative space-time commutation relations which satisfy a spin dependent nonstandard Heisenberg algebra. Modied Pauli equation is used to calculate corrections to the energy by the use of perturbation theory in the noncommutativity spin-dependent context.

Neste trabalho estudamos as propriedades de emaranhamento dos estados de dois quasifótons de frequências diferentes, fazendo a aproximação de que o vácuo de quasifótons é igual ao vácuo de fótons, no caso em que não temos campo externo algum e no caso da presença de um campo magnético externo, constante e homogêneo. Estudamos também as propriedades de emaranhamento do próprio vácuo de quasifótons e dos estados de dois quasifótons no caso monocromático, sem campo externo e com o vácuo de quasifótons levado em conta exatamente. / In this work we study the properties of entanglement of the states of two quasi-photons of different frequencies, considering the approximation that the quasi-photon\'s vacuum is equal the photon\'s vacuum, in the case where we have no external field and in the case where we have an external, constant and homogeneous magnetic field. We study also the properties of entanglement of the quasi-photon\'s vacuum and of the states of two quasi-photons in the monochromatic case, without external field and with the quasi-photon\'s vacuum considered exactly.

Descrevemos as propriedades dos chamados operadores desordem ou de criacao de excitacoes topologicas no contexto da teoria quantica de campos no continuo. No caso de excitacoes do tipo vortice, no modelo de higgs abeliano em 2+1d, obtemos explicitamente as funcoes de correlacao assim como o espectro de massa, em t=0 e tDIFERENTE0, dessa excitacao topologica. A generalizacao para campos nao-locais de monopolos em 3+1d e para solitons em dimensao arbitraria e discutida assim como aplicacoes do formalismo de operadores ordem-desordem em teorias de bosonizacao e chern-simons. / The properties of the disorder or topological excitations creation operators in the context of continuum quantum field theory are described. In the Abelian Higgs Model in 2+ 1D, explicit expressions to the vortex correlation function and to the vortex mass spectrum at T=0 and T0 are obtained. Generalizations to nonlocal monopoles fields in 3+1D, solitons in arbitrary dimensions and applications of the order-disorder formalism to bosonization and Chern-Simons Theories are discussed.

É efetuado o estudo de alguns modelos em TQC em 2 e 3 dimensões espaço-temporais. Em 2D são analisados os modelos de Thirring, Thirring SU (2) e Schiwinger, dando enfoque especial à dedução das equações de movimento através de suas soluções bosonizadas. É mostrado que a existência de um termo de massa explícito nas equações de movimento renormalizadas, em geral depende do valor da constante de acoplamento. Em 3 D, é utilizado o procedimento de Integração Funcional para obter equivalências entre modelos da TQC. Para a Lagrangiana de dois campos vetoriais - um Auto-dual e um de Maxwell-Simons - acoplados com férmions, é mostrado que o cálculo do determinante fermiônico, em regime de acoplamento fraco, leva a uma teoria não local de campos bosônicos. Por fim, é feita uma comparação entre os resultados obtidos em 2 e 3 dimensões / The study of some TQC models in 2 and 3 space-time dimensions is done. In 2D the models of Thirring, Thirring SU (2) and Schiwinger are analyzed, giving special focus to the deduction of the equations of movement through their bosonized solutions. It is shown that the existence of an explicit mass term in the renormalized equations of motion generally depends on the value of the coupling constant. In 3 D, the Functional Integration procedure is used to obtain equivalences between TQC models. For the Lagrangian of two vector fields - an Auto-dual and one of Maxwell-Simons - coupled with fermions, it is shown that the calculation of the fermionic determinant in a weak coupling regime leads to a non-local theory of bosonic fields. Finally, a comparison between the results obtained in 2 and 3 dimensions

Tratamos vários modelos que descrevem a interação entre dois subsistemas quânticos. Mostramos que dois deles são exatamente soluveis, achamos as soluções correspondentes e mostramos a relação das propriedades espectrais do banho com a decoerência. Fazemos uma análise crítica do uso de liouvillianos com forma de Lindblad e de liouvillianos obtidos através da aproximação de Born-Markov, empregando entre outras coisas os resultados dos modelos exatos. Propomos novos esquemas de aproximação que descrevem com exatidão o regime de tempos curtos e o acoplamento de dois sistemas \"pequenos\", e os testamos com os modelos exatamente solúveis antes discutidos. Fazemos aplicações aos sais orgânicos de transferência de carga, a um experimento de produção de gatos e da observação de sua decoerência subsequente e às zonas de Ramsey empregadas perifericamente nesta experiência. / Several models describing the interaction between two quantum systems are examined. The exact solution of two of them is found and the relation between the bath\'s spectral properties and decoherence is shown. Using these results and several others, we analyze the use of both Lindbland-form and Born-Markov liouvillians. New approximation schemes, appropriate for short times and small subsystems, are proposed and tested (using the above mentioned exact models). Applications are made to the treatment of organic salts, to the analysis of a recently reported experiment of production of cat states and observation of its subsequent decoherence, and to the understanding of the Ramsey zones, peripherically used in this experience.

Apresentamos neste trabalho a primeira verificação experimental de emaranhamento entre os feixes, sinal, complementar e bombeio refletido, produzidos pelo Oscilador Paramétrico Ótico (OPO) acima do limiar. Utilizando o critério de soma de variâncias de van Loock e Furusawa, obtivemos resultados que apontam a existência de emaranhamento tripartite em nosso sistema, evidenciado através da aplicação do critério de Positividade sob Transposição Parcial de Peres-Simon (PPT). A observação desse efeito, previsto em 2006, encontrou dificuldades relacionadas a existência de um ruído clássico espúrio, inserido pelo cristal não-linear. Apresentamos, um modelo teórico para esse ruído que leva em consideração pequenas flutuações na permissividade dielétrica do cristal, associadas às vibrações da rede. Em seguida, mostramos como conseguimos controlar e reduzir o excesso de ruído de modo a obter condições que permitiram à observação do emaranhamento tripartite. / We present in this work the first experimental verification of entanglement between the, signal, idler and reflected pump beams, generated by an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) above the threshold. Using the criterion of sum of variances, proposed by van Loock and Furusawa, we obtained results that indicate the existence of tripartite entanglement in our system. That is confirmed by applying the criterion of positivity under partial transposition by Peres-Simon (PPT). The observation of this effect, predicted in 2006, faced difficulties related to the existence of a spurious classical noise, introduced by the nonlinear crystal. We have also presented a theoretical model for this that takes into account small fluctuations in the dielectric permittivity of the crystal, associated with vibrations of its lattice. We show how to control and reduce the excess noise in order to achieve conditions for the observation of tripartite entanglement.

Orientador: Jairo José da Silva / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T11:23:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Grande_RicardoMendes_D.pdf: 2389053 bytes, checksum: 519561587ae902b0a9bdb5b7d30d69f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O propósito deste trabalho é mostrar o porquê de conceitos matemáticos serem úteis à descrição de fenômenos da nossa realidade empírica sem termos de nos comprometer com a existência de objetos abstratos. Por meio da análise do desenvolvimento da mecânica quântica não-relativística de Werner Heisenberg, procuramos mostrar como se dá relação entre os conceitos da matemática pura e os conceitos da mecânica quântica. Após a análise da tese de Mark Steiner a respeito da aplicabilidade da matemática à física, expomos nosso ponto de vista com base em algumas das idéias estruturalistas elaboradas por Jairo José da Silva / Abstract: The purpose of this work is to show why mathematical concepts are useful to describe phenomena of our empirical reality without having to commit ourselves to the existence of abstract objects. By analyzing the development of Heisenberg's non-relativistic quantum mechanics, we show how mathematical and quantum mechanical concepts are related to each other. After the analysis of Mark Steiner's thesis on the applicability of mathematics, we expose our own point of view, which was based on some ideas on structuralism due to Jairo José da Silva / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

The work described in this thesis investigates the effects of bandstructure modifications, brought about by Landau confinement, hydrostatic pressure and uniaxial stress, on recombination processes in narrow-gap materials and laser diodes. The effects of Landau confinement on the characteristics of InSb-based emission devices operating at a wavelength of ~5mum at 77K were studied. The change in performance due to the magnetic field applied along both the cavity and the growth direction and thereby simulating quasi-quantum wire and quasi-quantum dot structures clearly demonstrated the benefits, such as reduced threshold and temperature sensitivity, gained by the reduced dimensionality. On the other hand, suppression of LO-phonon emission due to the discrete nature of the density of states was observed, for the first time, in an interband laser device. Interband recombination dynamics were studied in In1-xGaxSb and PbSe over a range of excited carrier densities and temperatures down to 30K. Detailed analysis of the results found that the Auger-1 mechanism is reduced in In1-xGaxSb as a function of Ga-fraction due to the increased bandgap energy, in good agreement with theoretical predictions. In PbSe, the Auger-1 rate was observed to dominate at low excited carrier concentrations in spite of near-mirror bands, and was found to be approximately constant between 300K and 70K and was seen to be quenched in the low temperature regime. Stimulated emission was seen to be the most efficient recombination mechanism at high excited carrier densities at low temperatures. The Auger coefficient in PbSe was found to be one to two orders of magnitude lower than for materials with a Kane band structure (Hg1-xCdxTe) with comparable bandgap. An experimental technique was developed which enables measurements at high hydrostatic pressures and high magnetic fields at low temperatures. Hydrostatic pressures were applied to a 1.5mum laser diode at different temperatures revealing the effects of pressure on the band structure and hence the laser characteristics. A visible laser diode was measured under the simultaneous application of hydrostatic pressure and uniaxial stress. The change in performance was satisfactorily explained in terms of leakage of carriers into the X-minimum in the cladding region, the process that has been suspected of being one of the major loss mechanisms in visible laser diodes. This copy of the thesis has been supplied on the condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that the copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author or the University (as may be appropriate).

The generation of random number sequences, that is, of unpredictable sequences free from any structure, has found numerous applications in the field of information technologies. One of the most sensitive applications is cryptography, whose modern practice makes use of secret keys that must indeed be unpredictable for any potential adversary. This type of application demands highly secure randomness generators.This thesis contributes to the device-independent approach to quantum random number generation (DIRNG, for Device-Independent Random Number Generation). Those methods of randomness generation exploit the fundamental unpredictability of the measurement of quantum systems. In particular, the security of device-independent methods does not appeal to a specific model of the device itself, which is treated as a black box. This approach therefore stands in contrast to more traditional methods whose security rests on a precise theoretical model of the device, which may lead to vulnerabilities caused by hardware malfunctions or tampering by an adversary.Our contributions are the following. We first introduce a family of robust self-testing criteria for a class of quantum systems that involve partially entangled qubit pairs. This powerful form of inference allows us to certify that the contents of a quantum black box conforms to one of those systems, on the sole basis of macroscopically observable statistical properties of the black box.That result leads us to introduce and prove the security of a protocol for randomness generation based on such partially entangled black boxes. The advantage of this method resides in its low shared entanglement cost, which allows to reduce the use of quantum resources (both entanglement and quantum communication) compared to existing DIRNG protocols.We also present a protocol for randomness generation based on an original estimation of the black-box correlations. Contrary to existing DIRNG methods, which summarize the accumulated measurement data into a single quantity---the violation of a unique Bell inequality---, our method exploits a complete, multidimensional description of the black-box correlations that allows it to certify more randomness from the same number of measurements. We illustrate our results on a numerical simulation of the protocol using partially entangled states. / La génération de suites de nombres aléatoires, c'est-à-dire de suites imprévisibles et dépourvues de toute structure, trouve de nombreuses applications dans le domaine des technologies de l'information. L'une des plus sensibles est la cryptographie, dont les pratiques modernes font en effet appel à des clés secrètes qui doivent précisément être imprévisibles du point de vue d'adversaires potentiels. Ce type d'application exige des générateurs d'aléa de haute sécurité.Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'approche indépendante des appareils des méthodes quantiques de génération de nombres aléatoires (en anglais, Device-Independent Random Number Generation ou DIRNG). Ces méthodes exploitent la nature fondamentalement imprévisible de la mesure des systèmes quantiques. En particulier, l'appellation "indépendante des appareils" implique que la sécurité de ces méthodes ne fait pas appel à un modèle théorique particulier de l'appareil lui-même, qui est traité comme une boîte noire. Cette approche se distingue donc de méthodes plus traditionnelles dont la sécurité repose sur un modèle théorique précis de l'appareil et peut donc être compromise par un dysfonctionnement matériel ou l'intervention d'un adversaire.Les contributions apportées sont les suivantes. Nous démontrons tout d'abord une famille de critères de "self-testing" robuste pour une classe de systèmes quantiques impliquant des paires de systèmes à deux niveaux (qubits) partiellement intriquées. Cette forme d'inférence particulièrement puissante permet de certifier que le contenu d'une boîte noire quantique est conforme à l'un de ces systèmes, sur base uniquement de propriétés statistiques de la boîte observables macroscopiquement.Ce résultat nous amène à introduire et à prouver la sécurité d'une méthode de génération d'aléa basée sur ces boîtes noires partiellement intriquées. L'intérêt de cette méthode réside dans son faible coût en intrication, qui permet de réduire l'usage de ressources quantiques (intrication ou communication quantique) par rapport aux méthodes de DIRNG existantes.Nous présentons par ailleurs une méthode de génération d'aléa basée sur une estimation statistique originale des corrélations des boîtes noires. Contrairement aux méthodes de DIRNG existantes, qui résument l'ensemble des mesures observées à une seule grandeur (la violation d'une inégalité de Bell unique), notre méthode exploite une description complète (et donc multidimensionnelle) des corrélations des boîtes noires qui lui permet de certifier une plus grande quantité d'aléa pour un même nombre de mesures. Nous illustrons ensuite cette méthode numériquement sur un système de qubits partiellement intriqués. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished