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We investigate the time evolutions of purity, coherence and entanglement in two superconducting qubits coupled through Josephson junctions. The system is modeled by coupling strength, energy, Josephson energy and phase difference. Meanwhile, the structure is under the action of thermal field and classical Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) noise. According to our findings, quantum correlations are notably developed governed by the system parameters. Purity and entanglement generally increase for the energetic qubit regimes. The state’s entanglement and purity degrade with increased coupling strength and temperature. On the other hand, the optimal preservation of quantum correlations reqires the adjustment to intermediate Josephson energies ($E_j=0.5$) and phase differences ($\varphi =\pi ∕4$). The coherence measurement shows completely opposite traits compared to the entanglement and purity in the system. These results reveal that quantum states need proper parametrization for the considered state while providing optimization for the higher performance of superconducting qubits in quantum information processing.

Based on the general unitary operations of two-qubit system, we investigate the dynamics of information swapping between two qubits. We briefly describe the general behavior of entanglement entropy and the purity taking into account two classes of initially states, either product state or entangled state. Using the phenomenon of information swapping, we suggest a theoretical protocol to transform the coded information from sender to the receiver.

Characterizing and quantifying quantum entanglement in states of open quantum systems are at the heart of quantum information theory. In this work, we study the mixedness and entanglement of a two-mode symmetrical Gaussian state evolving in a thermal Markovian environment. The considered state is that of two movable end-mirrors of two distant Fabry–Pérot cavities coupled via a two-mode squeezed light and driven by coherent lasers. We use the logarithmic negativity to consistently quantify the degree of entanglement between the two mechanical modes. The purity is employed as a witness of mixedness and characterize of entanglement in the two-mode mechanical bi-partition. By comparing the behavior of the logarithmic negativity with that of the purity under the effect of various parameters and based on the entanglement classification established in [G. Adesso, A. Serafini and F. Illuminati, Phys. Rev. Lett.92, 087901 (2004)], we found that the purity can be used as a characterize and measure of entanglement in the two-mode symmetrical state when the squeezing parameter is fixed. The effects of thermal noise, squeezing and optomechanical coupling are also discussed in detail.

The dynamics of two spins-1/2 interacting with a spin-bath via the quantum Heisenberg x–y coupling is studied. The purity, z-component summation and the concurrence of the central subsystem are determined by the Laguerre polynomial scheme. It is found that (i) at a low temperature, the uncoupled subsystem in a product state can be entangled by the bath, which is tested by the Peres–Horodecki separability; (ii) the resistance of the subsystem in Bell states to the destroy effect from the bath increases with its inner-coupling strength.

Anti-elementarity is a strong way of ensuring that a class of structures, in a given first-order language, is not closed under elementary equivalence with respect to any infinitary language of the form ${ℒ}_{\infty \lambda }$. We prove that many naturally defined classes are anti-elementary, including the following:

• the class of all lattices of finitely generated convex $\ell$-subgroups of members of any class of $\ell$-groups containing all Archimedean $\ell$-groups;
• the class of all semilattices of finitely generated $\ell$-ideals of members of any nontrivial quasivariety of $\ell$-groups;
• the class of all Stone duals of spectra of MV-algebras — this yields a negative solution to the MV-spectrum Problem;
• the class of all semilattices of finitely generated two-sided ideals of rings;
• the class of all semilattices of finitely generated submodules of modules;
• the class of all monoids encoding the nonstable K₀-theory of von Neumann regular rings, respectively, C*-algebras of real rank zero;
• (assuming arbitrarily large Erdős cardinals) the class of all coordinatizable sectionally complemented modular lattices with a large $4$-frame.

The main underlying principle is that under quite general conditions, for a functor $\mathrm{\Phi }:{𝒜}\to {ℬ}$, if there exists a noncommutative diagram $\overrightarrow{D}$ of ${𝒜}$, indexed by a common sort of poset called an almost join-semilattice, such that

• $\mathrm{\Phi }{\overrightarrow{D}}^I$ is a commutative diagram for every set $I$,
• $\mathrm{\Phi }\overrightarrow{D}\ncong \mathrm{\Phi }\overrightarrow{X}$ for any commutative diagram $\overrightarrow{X}$ in ${𝒜}$,

then the range of $\mathrm{\Phi }$ is anti-elementary.

We investigate purities determined by classes of finitely presented modules including the correspondence between purities for left and right modules. We show some cases where purities determined by matrices of given sizes are different. Then we consider purities over finite-dimensional algebras, giving a general description of the relative pure-injectives which we make completely explicit in the case of tame hereditary algebras.

Two famous matrix factorization techniques, the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), are popularly used by recommender system applications. Recommender system data matrices have many missing entries, and to make them suitable for factorization, the missing entries need to be filled. For matrix completion, we use mean, median and mode as three different cases of imputation. The natural clusters produced after factorization are used to formulate simple out-of-sample extension algorithms and methods to generate recommendation for a new user. Two cluster evaluation measures, Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) and Purity are used to evaluate the quality of clusters.

In this article, we investigate the purity dynamics of entangled 2 two-level atoms interacting with a single quantized electromagnetic field. We show that the purity of the qubit pairs depends on the initial state of the atomic system. It is found that the superposition case is the best choice to generate entangled states with high purity and hence high entanglement. It is clear that the purity of one qubit can be purified at the expense of the other pair through the phenomena of purity swapping. The mean photon number plays an important role in increasing the purity. The robustness of the quantum channel is investigated in the presence of individual attacks, where we study the separability of these channels and evaluate its fidelity. Finally, we use the partial entangled states as quantum channels to perform the original coding protocol. We find that Bob can obtain the coded information with reasonable percentage. The inequality of security is tested, where we determine the interval of times in which Alice and Bob can communicate securely. These intervals depend on the type of error and the structure of the initial atomic system.

In this paper, we consider the entanglement dynamics of two cavities interacting with independent reservoirs. When the cavity entanglement suddenly disappeared, the reservoir entanglement suddenly and necessarily appears. We study the effect of purity of initial entangled state of two cavities on the entanglement evolution, and acquire that the purity of initial entangled state of two cavities can control the apparition time of the entanglement sudden death and the entanglement sudden birth. Also, we find that the conditions on the apparition of the entanglement sudden death and the entanglement sudden birth can be generalized when the initial entangled state of cavities is not pure, which is a complement to the result in the paper [Phys. Rev. Lett.101 (2008) 080503] for the pure case.

We use the Clauser–Horne–Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality to investigate the relationship among entanglement, purity and violation of the Bell inequality. On the one hand, we show numerically that all two-dimensional (qubit) states, whose entanglement of formation (EOF) is larger than , violate the CHSH inequality. On the other hand, any state with purity smaller than 0.5562 may not violate it.

Many experiments in quantum information aim at creating graph states. Quantifying the purity of an experimentally achieved graph state could in principle be accomplished using full-state tomography. This method requires a number of measurement settings growing exponentially with the number of constituents involved. Thus, full-state tomography becomes experimentally infeasible even for a moderate number of qubits.

In this paper, we present a method to estimate the purity of experimentally achieved graph states with simple measurements. The observables we consider are the stabilizers of the underlying graph. Then, we formulate the problem as: "What is the state with the least purity that is compatible with the measurement data?" We solve this problem analytically and compare the obtained bounds with results from full-state tomography for simulated data.

We discuss some applications of various versions of uncertainty relations for both discrete and continuous variables in the context of quantum information theory. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation enables demonstration of the Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) paradox. Entropic uncertainty relations (EURs) are used to reveal quantum steering for non-Gaussian continuous variable states. EURs for discrete variables are studied in the context of quantum memory where fine-graining yields the optimum lower bound of uncertainty. The fine-grained uncertainty relation is used to obtain connections between uncertainty and the nonlocality of retrieval games for bipartite and tripartite systems. The Robertson-Schrödinger (RS) uncertainty relation is applied for distinguishing pure and mixed states of discrete variables.

Knowledge of the relationships among different features of quantumness, like entanglement and state purity, is important from both fundamental and practical viewpoints. Yet, this issue remains little explored in dynamical contexts for open quantum systems. We address this problem by studying the dynamics of entanglement and purity for two-qubit systems using paradigmatic models of radiation-matter interaction, with a qubit being isolated from the environment (spectator configuration). We show the effects of the corresponding local quantum channels on an initial two-qubit pure entangled state in the concurrence–purity diagram and find the conditions which enable dynamical closed formulas of concurrence, used to quantify entanglement, as a function of purity. We finally discuss the usefulness of these relations in assessing entanglement and purity thresholds which allow noisy quantum teleportation. Our results provide new insights about how different properties of composite open quantum systems behave and relate each other during quantum evolutions.

Purity and coherence of a quantum state are recognized as useful resources for various information processing tasks. In this paper, we propose fidelity-based valid measure of purity and coherence monotone, and establish a relationship between them. This formulation of coherence is extended to quantum correlation relative to measurement. It is shown that under the measurement process, purity decreases and reaches a saturation.

Albumin is the most versatile carrier protein in plasma, possessing multiple functions; a reduced amount of albumin in the body is associated with different kinds of diseases such as hypovolemia and hypoproteinemia. The demand for albumin increased for various indications in shocks, burns, cardiopulmonary bypass, acute liver failure and research applications. Several potential problems associated with the preparation and administration of this substance arise from purity, sterilization process and vascular membrane permeability. The present review discusses the potential of metallic, quantum dots and carbon-based nanocarriers to improve the quality of blood products and the effect of these nanoparticles on albumin products. The effects of these nanoparticles on albumin products with a focus on toxicity aspects, structural alteration, stressing conditions, stabilizing agents and unwanted leakage are highlighted. Our literature review indicated the enhanced efficiency of AuNPs in metallic nanoparticles and better performance of negatively charged QDs on albumin products, which provided important information for possible safe use in medical applications. Moreover, among carbon-based nanoparticles, GO had relatively improved effects on albumin unwanted leakage and fibrillation. This review suggests an agenda for scientists to use and design nanoparticles to improve albumin products for various applications.

This chapter presents an introduction to crystallization of organic fine chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds, written for newcomers to the field. The coverage includes the fundamental concepts of solubility, supersaturation, nucleation, growth, and polymorphism. We will also discuss the control of crystal size distribution, crystal shape and purity, and specifically address cooling crystallization and reaction crystallization processes.

The effects of purity of source material on fabrication of Al micro/nanowires via stress migration were investigated. Al source materials of 99.99% or 99% purity were used to deposit a thin Al film covered with a native oxide layer; annealing then formed Al micro/nanowires on the surface of each sample. The diameters and volumes of the formed wires were larger in the sample made using 99% Al, because of a decrease in the activation energy for grain boundary diffusion, and a corresponding increase in the atomic flux. Al micro/nanowires with controlled diameters and lengths can be formed by stress migration.

This is a survey of recent advances in commutative algebra, especially in mixed characteristic, obtained by using the theory of perfectoid spaces. An explanation of these techniques and a short account of the author’s proof of the direct summand conjecture are included. One then portrays the progresses made with these (and related) techniques on the so-called homological conjectures.

The extraordinary complexity of classical trajectories of typical nonlinear systems that manifest stochastic behavior is intimately connected with exponential sensitivity to small variations of initial conditions and/or weak external perturbations. In rigorous terms, such classical systems are characterized by positive algorithmic complexity described by the Lyapunov exponent or, alternatively, by the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy. The said implies that, in spite of the fact that, formally, any however complex trajectory of a perfectly isolated (closed) system is unique and differentiable for any certain initial conditions and the motion is perfectly reversible, it is impractical to treat that sort of classical systems as closed ones. Inevitably, arbitrary weak influence of an environment crucially impacts the dynamics. This influence, that can be considered as a noise, rapidly effaces the memory of initial conditions and turns the motion into an irreversible random process.

In striking contrast, the quantum mechanics of the classically chaotic systems exhibit much weaker sensitivity and strong memory of the initial state. Qualitatively, this crucial difference could be expected in view of a much simpler structure of quantum states as compared to the extraordinary complexity of random and unpredictable classical trajectories. However the very notion of trajectories is absent in quantum mechanics so that the concept of exponential instability seems to be irrelevant in this case. The problem of a quantitative measure of complexity of a quantum state of motion, that is a very important and nontrivial issue of the theory of quantum dynamical chaos, is the one of our concern. With such a measure in hand, we quantitatively analyze the stability and reversibility of quantum dynamics in the presence of external noise.

To solve this problem we point out that individual classical trajectories are of minor interest if the motion is chaotic. Properties of all of them are alike in this case and rather the behavior of their manifolds carries really valuable information. Therefore the phase-space methods and, correspondingly, the Liouville form of the classical mechanics become the most adequate. It is very important that, opposite to the classical trajectories, the classical phase space distribution and the Liouville equation have direct quantum analogs. Hence, the analogy and difference of classical and quantum dynamics can be traced by comparing the classical (W^(c)(I,θ;t)) and quantum (Wigner function W(I,θ;t)) phase space distributions both expressed in identical phase-space variables but ruled by different(!) linear equations.

The paramount property of the classical dynamical chaos is the exponentially fast structuring of the system's phase space on finer and finer scales. On the contrary, degree of structuring of the corresponding Wigner function is restricted by the quantization of the phase space. This makes Wigner function more coarse and relatively "simple" as compared to its classical counterpart. Fourier analysis affords quite suitable ground for analyzing complexity of a phase space distribution, that is equally valid in classical and quantum cases. We demonstrate that the typical number of Fourier harmonics is indeed a relevant measure of complexity of states of motion in both classical as well as quantum cases. This allowed us to investigate in detail and introduce a quantitative measure of sensitivity to an external noisy environment and formulate the conditions under which the quantum motion remains reversible. It turns out that while the mean number of harmonics of the classical phase-space distribution of a non-integrable system grows with time exponentially during the whole time of the motion, the time of exponential upgrowth of this number in the case of the corresponding quantum Wigner function is restricted only to the Ehrenfest interval 0 < t < t_E - just the interval within which the Wigner function still satisfies the classical Liouville equation. We showed that the number of harmonics increases beyond this interval algebraically. This fact gains a crucial importance when the Ehrenfest time is so short that the exponential regime has no time to show up. Under this condition the quantum motion turns out to be quite stable and reversible.