dc.contributor.author | Raeisi, Sadegh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-24 14:12:25 (GMT) | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-24 14:12:25 (GMT) | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-02-24 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2014-11-17 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9195 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent advances in quantum technologies enabled us to make large quantum states
and pushed towards examining quantum theory at the macroscopic level. However observation
of quantum e ects at a macroscopic level still remains a demanding task. In this
thesis we try to address one of the challenges and propose and explore some new solutions.
One of the obstacles for observation of macroscopic quantum e ects is the sensitivity
to the measurement resolution. For many di erent cases, it has been observed that the
precision requirement for measuring quantum e ects increases with the system size. We
formalize this as a conjecture that for observation of macroscopic quantum e ects, either
the outcome precision or the control precision of the measurements has to increase with
system size. This indicates that the complexity of macroscopic quantum measurement
increases with the system size and sheds some lights on the quantum-to-classical transition
at the macroscopic level.
We also introduce a technique to go around the sensitivity problem for observation
of micro-macro entanglement. We propose that using a unitary deampli cation process,
one can bring the system back to the microscopic level where the measurements are less
demanding and quantum e ects are easier to verify. As the unitary processes do not change
the entanglement, this serves as a veri cation tool for micro-macro entanglement.
We also explored the connection between quantum e ects and thermodynamics of
macroscopic quantum systems for two speci c cases. For one, we investigated the e ect of
entanglement in composite bosons and Bose-Einstein condensation. We showed that as the
state of the composite boson approaches a maximally entangled state, the condensation
rate also approaches one.
The other case we considered was heat-bath algorithmic cooling. We found the cooling
limit of this class of thermodynamic transformations and showed that it decreases
exponentially with the number of qubits.
We also developed an entropic version of Mermin's inequality. Here the idea is to
develop a tool to reveal the entanglement in many-body quantum systems based on the
entropy of the measurement outcomes. We introduce a new inequality that holds for locally
realistic models, yet can be violated with quantum measurements. One of the nice features
of this inequality is that it can be violated maximally with quantum measurements. This
resembles the GHZ paradox but for entropies of the measurement outcomes. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
dc.subject | Quantum Information | en |
dc.subject | Quantum mechanics | en |
dc.subject | Quantum Computation | en |
dc.subject | Classical-to-Quantum transition | en |
dc.subject | Quantum thermodynamics | en |
dc.subject | Heat-bath algorithmic cooling | en |
dc.subject | Quantum cloning | en |
dc.subject | macroscopic quantum effect | en |
dc.title | Topics on the information theoretic limits of quantum information processing and its implementation | en |
dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
dc.pending | false | |
dc.subject.program | Physics (Quantum Information) | en |
uws-etd.degree.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |
uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |