Physics, Mathematics, and All that Quantum Jazz

Proceedings of the Summer Workshop

This book is a collection of contributions from a Summer Workshop on “Physics, Mathematics, and All That Quantum Jazz”. Subjects of the symposium include quantum information theory, quantum annealing, Bose gases, and thermodynamics from a viewpoint of quantum physics. Contributions to this book are prepared in a self-contained manner so that readers with a modest background may understand the subjects.

Contents:

• My Life as a Quantum Physicist (M Nakahara)
• A Review on Operator Quantum Error Correction — Dedicated to Professor Mikio Nakahara on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (C-K Li, Y-T Poon and N-S Sze)
• Implementing Measurement Operators in Linear Optical and Solid-State Qubits (Y Ota, S Ashhab and F Nori)
• Fast and Accurate Simulation of Quantum Computing by Multi-Precision MPS: Recent Development (A Saitoh)
• Entanglement Properties of a Quantum Lattice-Gas Model on Square and Triangular Ladders (S Tanaka, R Tamura and H Katsura)
• On Signal Amplification from Weak-Value Amplification (Y Shikano)
• Topological Protection of Quantum Information (K Fujii)
• Quantum Annealing with Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations for Mean-Field Models (Y Seki and H Nishimori)
• A Method to Change Phase Transition Nature — Toward Annealing Methods (R Tamura and S Tanaka)
• Computational Analysis of the First Stage of the Photosynthetic System, the Light-Dependent Reaction, by Quantum Chemical Simulation Method (M Tada-Umezaki)
• Two-Qubit Gate Operation on Selected Nearest Neighboring Qubits in a Neutral Atom Quantum Computer (E Hosseini Lapasar, K Kasamatsu, S Nic Chormaic, T Takui, Y Kondo, M Nakahara and T Ohmi)
• A Simple Operator Quantum Error Correction Scheme Avoiding Fully Correlated Errors (C Bagnasco, Y Kondo and M Nakahara)
• Black Hole Predictability, Classical and Quantum (A Ishibashi)
• Classical Field Simulation of Finite-Temperature Bose Gases (T Sato)
• Atomic Quantum Simulations of Lattice Gauge Theory: Effect of Gauge Symmetry Breaking (K Kasamatsu, I Ichinose and T Matsui)
• Recursive Construction of Noiseless Subsystem for Qudits (U Güngördü, C-K Li, M Nakahara, Y-T Poon and N-S Sze)
• Composite Quantum Gates for Precise Quantum Control (M Bando, T Ichikawa, Y Kondo and M Nakahara)
• New Formulation of Statistical Mechanics Using Thermal Pure Quantum States (S Sugiura and A Shimizu)
• Thermodynamics in Unitary Time Evolution (T N Ikeda)
• Second Law of Thermodynamics with QC-Mutual Information (T Sagawa)

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics, mathematics, informatics and computer science. Accessible to advanced undergraduate students.
Key Features:

• This book includes wide-ranging areas of quantum physics, e.g., quantum annealing, topological quantum computation, quantum error correction, and foundation of thermodynamics
• Some of the authors are PhD students. This book includes very recent topics relating to quantum physics
• Prominent authors: Professor Mikio Nakahara and Professor Chi-Kwong Li, Professor Akihiro Ishibashi, and Professor Kenichi Kasamatsu