The progess in NMRQIP can be outlined in to four parts.1) Implementation of theoretical protocols on small number of qubits. 2) Demonstration of QIP on various NMR systems. 3) Designing and implementing the algorithms for mixed initial states. 4) Developing the techniques for coherent and decoherent control on higher number(up to 15) of qubits. This thesis contains some efforts in the direction of first three points. Quantum-state discrimination has important applications in the context of quantum communication and quantum cryptography. One of the characteristic features of quantum mechanics is that it is impossible to devise a measurement that can distinguish nonorthogonal states perfectly. However, one can distinguish them with a finite probability by an appropriate measurement strategy. In Chapter 2, we describe the implementation of a theoretical protocol of programmable quantum-state discriminator, on a two-qubit NMR System. The projective measurement is simulated by adding two experiments. This device does the unambiguous discrimination of a pair of states of the data qubit that are symmetrically located about a fixed state. The device is used to discriminate both linearly polarized states and eillipitically polarized states. The maximum probability of successful discrimination is achieved by suitably preparing the ancilla quubit. The last step of any QIP protocol is the readout. In NMR-QIP the readout is done by using density matrix tomography. It was first proposed by Ernst and co-workers that a two-dimensional method can be used to correlate input and output states. This method uses an extra (aniclla) qubit, whose transitions indicate the quantum states of the remaining qubits. The 2D spectrum of ancilla qubit represent the input and output states along F1 and F2 dimensions respectively. However the 2D method requires several t1 increments to achieve the required spectral width and resolution in the indirect dimension, hence leads to large experimental time. In chapter 3, the conventional 2D NMRQIP method is speeded-up by using Hadamard spectroscopy. The Hadamard method is used to implement various two-, three-qubit gates and qutrit gates. We also use Hadamard spectroscopy for information storage under spatial encoding and to implement a parallel search algorithm. Various slices of water sample can be spatially encoded by using a multi-frequency pulse under the field gradient. Thus the information of each slice is projected to the frequency space. Each slice represents a classical bit, where excitation and no excitation corresponds to the binary values 0 and 1 respectively. However one has to do the experiment for each binary information, by synthesizing a suitable multi-frequency pulse. In this work we show that by recording the data obtained by various Hadamard encoded multi-frequency pulses, one can suitably decode it to obtain any birnary information, without doing further experiments. Geometric phases depend only on the geometry of the path executed in the projective Hilbert space, and are therefore resilient to certain types of errors. This leads to the possibility of an intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computation. In liquid state NMRQIP. Controlled phase shift gates are achieved by using qubit selective pulses and J evolutions, and also by using geometir phases. In order to achieve higher number of qubits in NMR, one explores dipolar couplings which are larger in magnitude, yielding strongly coupled spectra. In such systems since the Hamiltonian consists of terms, it is difficult to apply qubit selective pulses. However such systems have been used for NMRQIP by considering 2n eigen states as basis states of an n-qubit system. In chapter 4, it is shown that non-adiabatic geometric phases can be used to implement controlled phase shift gates in strongly dipolar coupled systems. A detailed theoretical explanation of non-adiabatic geometric phases in NMR is given, by using single transition operators. Using such controlled phase shift gates, the implementation of Deutsch-Jozsa and parity algorithms are demonstrated. Search algorithms play an important role in the filed of information processing. Grovers quantum search algorithm achieves polynomial speed-up over the classical search algorithm. Bruschweiler proposed a Liouville space search algorithm which achieve polymonial speed-up. This algorithm requires a weakly coupled system with a mixed initial state. In chapter 5 we modified the Bruschweiler’s algorithm, so that it can be implemented on a weakly as well as strongly coupled system. The experiments are performed on a strongly dipolar coupled four-qubit system. The experiments from four spin-1/2 nuclei of a molecule oriented in a liquid crystal matrix. Chapter 6 describes the implementation of controlled phase shift gates on a quadrupolar spin-7/2 nucleus, using non-adiabatic geometric phases. The eight energy levels of spin-7/2 nucleus, form a three qubit system. A general procedure is given, for implementing a controlled phase shift gate on a system consisting of any number of energy levels. Finally Collin’s version of three-qubit DJ algorithm using multi-frequency pulses, is implemented in the spin-7/2 system.

Les travaux de ma thèse s'articulent en trois parties distinctes.Dans la première partie j'étudie les mesures de Malliavin-Shavguldize sur les difféomorphismes du cercle et de l'intervalle. Il s'agit de mesures de type " Haar " pour ces groupes de dimension infinie : elles furent introduites il a une vingtaine d'années pour permettre une étude de leur théorie des représentations. Un premier chapitre est dédié à recueillir les résultats présents dans la littérature et et les représenter dans une forme plus étendue, avec un regard particulier sur les propriétés de quasi-invariance de ces mesures. Ensuite j'étudie de problèmes de nature plus dynamique : quelle est la dynamique qu'on doit s'attendre d'un difféomorphisme choisi uniformément par rapport à une mesure de Malliavin-Shavguldize ? Je démontre en particulier qu'il y a une forte présence des difféomorphismes de type Morse-Smale.La partie suivante vient de mon premier travail publié, obtenu en collaboration avec Andrés Navas. Inspirés d'un théorème récent de Avila et Kocsard sur l'unicité des distributions invariantes par un difféomorphisme lisse minimal du cercle, nous analysons le même problème en régularité faible, avec des argument plus géométriques.La dernière partie est constituée des résultats récemment obtenus avec Mikhail Khristoforov et Victor Kleptsyn. Nous abordons les problèmes reliés à la gravité quantique de Liouville en étudiant des espaces auto-similaires qui sont la limite de graphes finis. Nous démontrons qu'il est possible de trouver des distances aléatoires non-triviales sur ces espaces qui sont compatibles avec la structure auto-similaire.

_I The theory of impulsive di&reg / erential equations has become an important area of research in recent years. Linear equations, meanwhile, are fundamental in most branches of applied mathematics, science, and technology. The theory of higher order linear impulsive equations, however, has not been studied as much as the cor- responding theory of ordinary di&reg / erential equations. In this work, higher order linear impulsive equations at &macr / xed moments of impulses together with certain boundary conditions are investigated by making use of a Green&#039 / s formula, constructed for piecewise di&reg / erentiable functions. Existence and uniqueness of solutions of such boundary value problems are also addressed. Properties of Green&#039 / s functions for higher order impulsive boundary value prob- lems are introduced, showing a striking di&reg / erence when compared to classical bound- ary value problems of ordinary di&reg / erential equations. Necessarily, instead of an or- dinary Green&#039 / s function there corresponds a sequence of Green&#039 / s functions due to impulses. Finally, as a by-product of boundary value problems, eigenvalue problems for higher order linear impulsive di&reg / erential equations are studied. The conditions for the existence of eigenvalues of linear impulsive operators are presented. Basic properties of eigensolutions of self-adjoint operators are also investigated. In particular, a necessary and su&plusmn / cient condition for the self-adjointness of Sturm-Liouville opera- tors is given. The corresponding integral equations for boundary value and eigenvalue problems are also demonstrated in the present work.

Cette thèse est divisée en deux parties. Dans la première partie, on considère le système de réaction-diffusion-advection (Pε), qui est un modèle d'haptotaxie, mécanisme lié à la dissémination de tumeurs cancéreuses. Le résultat principal concerne la convergence de la solution du systeme (Pε) vers la solution d'un problème à frontière libre (P0) qui est bien défini. Dans la seconde partie, on considère une classe générale d'équations elliptiques du type Hénon:−∆u = |x|^{α} f(u) dans Ω ⊂ R^N avec α > -2. On examine deux cas classiques : f(u) = e^u, |u|^{p−1} u et deux autres cas : f(u) = u^{p}_{+} puis f(u) nonlinéarité générale. En étudiant les solutions stables en dehors d'un ensemble compact (en particulier, solutions stables et solutions avec indice de Morse fini) avec différentes méthodes, on obtient des résultats de classification. / This thesis is divided into two main parts. In the first part, we consider an example of reaction-diffusion-taxis system (Pε), which is a haptotaxis model - a mechanism about the spread of cancer cells. The main result concerns the convergence of the solution of System (Pε) to the solution of a free boundary problem (P0), where system (P0) is well-posed. In the second part, we consider a general class of Hénon type elliptic equations : −∆u = |x|^{α} f(u) in Ω ⊂ R^Nwith α > −2. We investigate two classical cases f(u) = e^u, |u|^{p−1} u and two others cases f(u) = u^{p}_{+} , f(u) is a general function. By studying the solutions which are stable outside a compact set (in particular, stable solutions and finite Morse index solutions) with different methods, we establish some classification results.

Mankind has come a long way since the invention of wheel to accessing information in the quintillionth of a second. At the heart of every invention ever made, there has been only one objective, to ease the way of living. The progeny of this philosophy automatically came to be known as technology. It was technology that led to the design of the wheel for fast human transportation and the same motivation let him design more sophisticated machines. In mankind’s journey to improve technology, it began to learn efficient or correct ways to utilize and understand resources around it, creating a whole new philosophy called science. Ingeniously, it was science that let humans understand what they were made of: matter, to discovering what matter itself was composed of: atoms and what puts these together: forces. Science and technology has been of tremendous comfort for mankind and has helped it evolve throughout history. However, it is not always that science and technology go hand in hand. Technology has always helped man design devices and instruments which often bring physical comfort. Science on the other hand has made sure that loss in manual labor is compensated by increased inquisitiveness. There were times when technology was more developed than science. This was the time when machines were taking mankind by fire, resulting in the first and second industrial revolutions. During that same time, science was develop-ing slowly by increasing human curiosity to learn the way nature functioned at finer details. This led to the discovery of the electron by Joseph John Thomson, who proved the electron to be a negatively charged particle. Consequently, he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electricity conduction in gases. Later, his son, George Paget Thomson, counter-proved that electrons are actually waves. He was also awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Clinton Joseph Davisson for their discovery of electron diffraction caused by crystals. Despite the ambiguity, mankind today accepts electrons to have dual properties. It is both a wave and a particle. This duality is not limited to electrons but is applicable to all matter, as proposed by Louis de Broglie and is one of the fundamental principles in science. With the help of well-developed technology, mankind can now design machines that allow controlled flow of electrons establishing the world of electronics, allowing faster human communication. The study of electronic properties and its usage in designing efficient devices is what electronics is all about. Electrons are the protagonist of mankind today. The presence of electrons is unanimously accepted by everyone. All physical and chemical processes are a result of electrons getting transported. Electron transfer processes are ubiquitous in nature, be it in photosynthesis or energy production in mitochondria . It is the fundamental process in all chemical reactions and all physical processes related to electricity. Every piece of hi-tech gadget practically uses the electron, and the whole of humanity is being serviced by it. In fact, a life without utilizing the electrons is abysmally mundane. Electronics has evolved from designing the first millimeter sized point contact transistor to silicon chip processors that contain billions of nanosized transistors. Studying electron transport has also led to the discovery of light emission during conduction popularly known as LED, an abbreviation for light emitting diode. Heating up of devices during electron transport forced mankind to study heat transport and design materials that have highly efficient electron transfer processes. Electron transfer is also the basic principle behind the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) which replaced the conventional idea of using light (photons) as a source to observe matter at the nanolevel. However, mankind is still in the process of developing a technology which exploits both properties of the electron simultaneously. Today, science and technology work together to overcome this barrier. Indeed, science and technology today have come as far as controlling electron transport up to a single atomic level where quantum effects (discretization and interference of states that make up the system) are very pronounced. This branch can be referred to as quantum electronics or quantronics. It is one of the possible alternatives to conventional silicon based electronics, and is made of three separate fields. The first one that exploits the quantum nature of electron transport in nanoscopic systems, is usually called molecular electronics or moletronics. The second involves ex-ploiting the spin of the electron and is termed as spintronics. The third is the most challenging where neither science nor technology has been able to fully grasp the characteristics, i.e utilizing the heat quanta in designing thermal de-vices at the single atomic level. In general, for ultimate exploitation of both the wave and particle characteristics of the electron, a proper comprehension of the quantum effects during electron transport is necessary to design a quantronic device. Also, in any quantronic device, apart from quantum effects, fluctuations in temperature cause changes in the flow of electrons. Since electron flow is a random process, fluctuations need to be analyzed from a statistical point of view. Moreover, to address issues related to efficiency and power of these quantronic devices, a proper understanding of the thermodynamic aspects is required. The aim of the work in the thesis is to theoretically analyze the fluctuations, quantum effects and thermodynamics, that in principle, affect the basic physics and chemistry during electron and heat transport in a specific class of out of equilibrium quantum systems. This class of quantum systems are prototypes for designing quantronic devices, where both wave and particle nature of the electrons are pronounced. These are called molecular junctions or quantum junctions. It will in turn help the field of quantronics in the long run. However, in this thesis, it is the science that I address and not the technological aspects.

Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à l'étude de quatre équations d'évolution non-locales. Les solutions de ces quatre équations peuvent exploser en temps fini. Dans la théorie des équations d'évolution non-linéaires, une solution est qualifiée de globale si elle est définie pour tout temps positif. Au contraire, si une solution existe seulement sur un intervalle de temps [0; T) borné, elle est dite locale. Dans ce dernier cas et quand le temps maximal d'existence est relié à une alternative d'explosion, on dit aussi que la solution explose en temps fini. Dans un premier travail, nous considérons l'équation de Schrödinger non-linéaire avec une puissance fractionnaire du laplacien, et nous obtenons l'explosion de la solution en temps fini Tmax > 0 pour toute condition initiale positive et non-triviale dans le cas d'exposant sous-critique. Ensuite, nous étudions une équation des ondes amorties avec un potentiel d'espace-temps et un terme non-linéaire et non-local en temps. Nous obtenons un résultat d'existence locale d'une solution dans l'espace d'énergie sous des conditions restrictives sur les données initiales, la dimension de l'espace et la croissance du terme non-linéaire. De plus, nous obtenons l'explosion de la solution en temps fini pour toute condition initiale de moyenne strictement positive. De plus, nous étudions un problème de Cauchy pour l'équation d'évolution avec un p- Laplacien avec une non linéarité non-locale en temps. Dans ce cadre, nous nous intéressons à l'étude de l'existence locale d'une solution de cette équation ainsi qu'un résultat de non-existence de solution globale. Finalement, nous étudions l'intervalle maximal d'existence des solutions de l'équation des milieux poreux avec un terme non-linéaire non-local en temps. / In this thesis, we study four non-local evolution equations. The solutions of these four equations can blow up in finite time. In the theory of nonlinear evolution equations, a solution is qualified as global if it isdefined for any time. Otherwise, if a solution exists only on a bounded interval [0; T), it is called local solution. In this case and when the maximum time of existence is related to a blow up alternative, we say that the solution blows up in finite time. First, we consider the nonlinear Schröodinger equation with a fractional power of the Laplacien operator, and we get a blow up result in finite time Tmax > 0 for any non-trivial non-negative initial condition in the case of sub-critical exponent. Next, we study a damped wave equation with a space-time potential and a non-local in time non-linear term. We obtain a result of local existence of a solution in the energy space under some restrictions on the initial data, the dimension of the space and the growth of nonlinear term. Additionally, we get a blow up result of the solution in finite time for any initial condition positive on average. In addition, we study a Cauchy problem for the evolution p-Laplacien equation with nonlinear memory. We study the local existence of a solution of this equation as well as a result of non-existence of global solution. Finally, we study the maximum interval of existence of solutions of the porous medium equation with a nonlinear non-local in time term.

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Στην παρούσα διατριβή μελετήσαμε την ολοκληρωσιμότητα του ανισοτροπικού προβλήματος Størmer (ASP) και του ισοσκελούς προβλημάτος τριών σωμάτων (IP), με εφαρμογή της θεωρίας Morales-Ramis-Simó. Τα αποτελέσματα της μελέτης δημοσιεύθηκαν στο περιοδικό Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. Ένα σύστημα Hamilton SH, Ν βαθμών ελευθερίας, είναι ολοκληρώσιμο (κατά Liouville) όταν επιδέχεται Ν συναρτησιακώς ανεξάρτητα και σε ενέλιξη πρώτα ολοκληρώματα. Οι J.J. Morales-Ruiz, J.P. Ramis και C. Simó απέδειξαν ότι αν ένα SH είναι ολοκληρώσιμο, τότε η ταυτοτική συνιστώσα G0k της διαφορικής ομάδας Galois των εξισώσεων μεταβολών VE¬k τάξης k , που αντιστοιχούν σε μια ολοκληρωτική καμπύλη του SH, είναι αβελιανή. Το ASP μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι είναι ένα σύστημα Hamilton δυο βαθμών ελευθερίας που περιέχει τις παραμέτρους pφ και ν2>0, το οποίο περιγράφει την κίνηση ενός φορτισμένου σωματιδίου υπό την επίδραση του μαγνητικού πεδίου ενός διπόλου. Οι Α. Almeida, T. Stuchi είχαν αποδείξει ότι το ASP είναι μη-ολοκληρώσιμο για pφ≠0 και ν2>0, ενω για pφ=0 είχαν αποδείξει τη μη-ολοκληρωσιμότητα των περιπτώσεων που αντιστοιχούν στις τιμές ν2≠5/12, 2/3. Η δική μας διερεύνηση απέδειξε ότι το ASP με pφ=0 (ASP0) είναι, επίσης, μη-ολοκληρώσιμο για ν2=5/12, 2/3. Αρχικά, με χρήση της μεθόδου Yoshida, αναλύσαμε τις G01 των VE¬1, που αντιστοιχούν σε δύο ολοκληρωτικές καμπύλες του ASP0, καταλήγοντας ότι οι G01 είναι μη-αβελιανές για ν2≠2/3. Στη συνέχεια, ορίσαμε τις VE3 κατά μήκος μιας τρίτης ολοκληρωτικής καμπύλης του ASP0 και δείξαμε ότι η αντίστοιχη G03 είναι μη-αβελιανή για ν2=2/3. Σύμφωνα με τη θεωρία Morales-Ramis-Simó, τα προαναφερόμενα αποδεικνύουν τη μη-ολοκληρωσιμότητα του ASΡ για pφ=0 και ν2>0. Το ΙΡ είναι μια υποπερίπτωση του προβλήματος τριών σωμάτων και μπορεί να μελετηθεί ως ένα σύστημα Hamilton δύο βαθμών ελευθερίας με παραμέτρους pφ και m, m3>0. Η προγενέστερη ανάλυση του ΙΡ υπεδείκνυε τη μη-ολοκληρωσιμότητα του συστήματος, όμως είχε πραγματοποιηθεί με χρήση αριθμητικών μεθόδων. Βρίσκοντας από μια ολοκληρωτική καμπύλη για κάθε μια απο τις περιπτώσεις pφ=0, pφ≠0, ορίσαμε τις αντίστοιχες VE1 και αποδείξαμε τη μη-ολοκληρωσιμότητα του ΙΡ. Για pφ=0 χρησιμοποιήσαμε τη μέθοδο Yoshida για να μελετήσουμε την G01, ενώ για pφ≠0 εφαρμόσαμε τον αλγόριθμο Kovacic και ερευνητικά αποτελέσματα των D. Boucher, J.A. Weil για να διερευνήσουμε την αντίστοιχη G01. Οι G01 και στις δυο προαναφερόμενες περιπτώσεις είναι μη-αβελιανές, οπότε το ΙΡ είναι μη-ολοκληρώσιμο, σύμφωνα με τη θεωρία Morales-Ramis-Simó. / In the present dissertation we studied the integrability of the anisotropic Stormer problem (ASP) and the isosceles three-body problem (IP), applying the Morales-Ramis-Simo theory. The results of our study were published by the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. A Hamiltonian system SH, of N degrees of freedom, is integrable (in the Liouville sense) if it admits an involutive set of N functionally independent first integrals. J.J. Morales-Ruiz, J.P. Ramis and C. Simó proved that if an SH is integrable, then the identity component G0k of the differential Galois group of the variational equations VE¬k of order k that correspond to an integral curve of the SH, is abelian. The ASP can be considered as a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom that contains the parameters pφ and ν2>0, which describes the motion of a charged particle under the influence of the magnetic field of a dipole. Α. Almeida, T. Stuchi had proved that the ASP is non-integrable for pφ≠0 and ν2>0, while for pφ=0 they had proved the non-integrability of the cases that correspond to ν2≠5/12, 2/3. Our study proved that the ASP with pφ=0 (ASP0) is, also, non-integrable for ν2=5/12, 2/3. Initially, using the Yoshida method, we analysed the G01 of the VE¬1, that correspond to two integrals curves of the ASP0, concluding that they are non-abelian for ν2≠2/3. Then, we defined the VE3 along a third integral curve of the ASP0 and indicated that the corresponding G03 is non-abelian for ν2=2/3. According to the Morales-Ramis-Simó theory, the aforementioned considerations prove the non-integrability of the ASP for pφ=0 and ν2>0. The IP is a special case of the three-body problem and it can be treated as a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom that embodies the parameters pφ and m, m3>0. Previous analysis of the IP suggested the non-integrability of the system, but it was performed with the use of numerical methods. Finding an integral curve for each of the cases pφ=0, pφ≠0, we defined the corresponding VE1 and proved the non-integrability of the IP. For pφ=0 we used the Yoshida method to examine G01 , while for pφ≠0 we applied the Kovacic algorithm and some results of D. Boucher, J.A. Weil to investigate the corresponding G01 . In both of the aforementioned cases the G01 were non-abelian, yielding IP non-integrable, according to the Morales-Ramis-Simó theory.

The subject matter of this dissertation is the design, analysis and practical implementation of a new numerical method to approximate the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of regular Sturm–Liouville problems, given in Liouville’s normal form, defined on compact intervals, with self-adjoint separated boundary conditions. These are classical problems in computational mathematics which lie on the interface between numerical analysis and spectral theory, with important applications in physics and chemistry, not least in the approximation of energy levels and wave functions of quantum systems. Because of their great importance, many numerical algorithms have been proposed over the years which span a vast and diverse repertoire of techniques. When compared with previous approaches, the principal advantage of the numerical method proposed in this dissertation is that it is accompanied by error bounds which: (i) hold uniformly over the entire eigenvalue range, and, (ii) can attain arbitrary high-order. This dissertation is composed of two parts, aggregated according to the regularity of the potential function. First, in the main part of this thesis, this work considers the truncation, discretization, practical implementation and MATLAB software, of the new approach for the classical setting with continuous and piecewise analytic potentials (Ramos and Iserles, 2015; Ramos, 2015a,b,c). Later, towards the end, this work touches upon an extension of the new ideas that enabled the truncation of the new approach, but instead for the general setting with absolutely integrable potentials (Ramos, 2014).

This paper concentrates on the description of fractional order LTI SISO systems using generalized Laguerre functions. There are properties of generalized Laguerre functions described in the paper, and an orthogonal base of these functions is shown. Next the concept of fractional derivatives is explained. The last part of this paper deals with the representation of fractional order LTI SISO systems using generalized Laguerre functions. Several examples were solved to demonstrate the benefits of using these functions for the representation of LTI SISO systems.