The calculation of off-diagonal matrix elements has various applications in fields such as nuclear physics and quantum chemistry. In this paper, we present a noisy intermediate scale quantum algorithm for estimating the diagonal and off-diagonal matrix elements of a generic observable in the energy eigenbasis of a given Hamiltonian without explicitly preparing its eigenstates. By means of numerical simulations we show that this approach finds many of the matrix elements for the one and two qubits cases. Specifically, while in the first case, one can initialize the ansatz parameters over a broad interval, in the latter the optimization landscape can significantly slow down the speed of convergence and one should therefore be careful to restrict the initialization to a smaller range of parameters.
High Order Coherence Functions and Spectral Distributions as Given by the Scully-Lamb Quantum Theory of the Laser
We propose and demonstrate a method for measuring the time evolution of the off-diagonal elements ρ n,n + k ( t ) of the reduced density matrix obtained from the quantum theory of the laser. The decay rates of the off-diagonal matrix element ρ n,n + k ( t ) (k = 2,3) are measured for the first time and compared with that of ρ n,n +1 ( t ), which corresponds to the linewidth of the laser. The experimental results agree with the Scully-Lamb quantum theory of the laser.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2013771
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10284474
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Physics
- Volume:
- 9
- ISSN:
- 2296-424X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.657333
