Building all time evolutions with rotationally invariant Hamiltonians
Abstract
All elementary Hamiltonians in nature are expected to be invariant under rotation. Despite this restriction, we usually assume that any arbitrary measurement or unitary time evolution can be implemented on a physical system, an assumption whose validity is not obvious. We introduce two different schemes by which any arbitrary time evolution and measurement can be implemented with desired accuracy by using rotationally invariant Hamiltonians that act on the given system and two ancillary systems serving as reference frames. These frames specify the z and x directions and are independent of the desired time evolution. We also investigate the effects of quantum fluctuations that inevitably arise due to usage of a finite system as a reference frame and estimate how fast these fluctuations tend to zero when the size of the reference frame tends to infinity. Moreover, we prove that for a general symmetry any symmetric quantum operation can be implemented just by using symmetric interactions and ancillas in the symmetric states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022304
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0802.0870
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvA..78b2304M
- Keywords:
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- 03.67.Ac;
- 03.65.Ta;
- Quantum algorithms protocols and simulations;
- Foundations of quantum mechanics;
- measurement theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, 5 figures