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## Quantum confinement in an asymmetric double-well potential through energy analysis and information entropic measure. (arXiv:1904.06076v1 [quant-ph])

Localization of a particle in the wells of an asymmetric double-well (DW)
potential is investigated here. Information entropy-based uncertainty measures,
such as Shannon entropy, Fisher information, Onicescu energy, etc., and
phasespace area, are utilized to explain the contrasting effect of
localization-delocalization and role of asymmetric term in such two-well
potentials. In asymmetric situation, two wells behaves like two different
potentials. A general rule has been proposed for arrangement of

## Recovering the homogeneous absorption of inhomogeneous media. (arXiv:1904.06233v1 [quant-ph])

The resonant absorption of light by an ensemble of absorbers decreases when
the resonance is inhomogeneously broadened, as only a fraction of the ensemble
contributes to the absorption at any given optical frequency. Recovering the
lost absorption cross-section is of great importance for various applications
of light-matter interactions, particularly in quantum optics and for few-photon
nonlinearities. However, no recovery mechanism has yet been identified and

## Tracking the precession of single nuclear spins by weak measurements. (arXiv:1806.08243v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for
analyzing the structure and function of molecules, and for performing
three-dimensional imaging of the spin density. At the heart of NMR
spectrometers is the detection of electromagnetic radiation, in the form of a
free induction decay (FID) signal, generated by nuclei precessing around an
applied magnetic field. While conventional NMR requires signals from 1e12 or
more nuclei, recent advances in sensitive magnetometry have dramatically

## Thermal Quantum Machine. (arXiv:1904.06081v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall])

We study nanomachines whose relevant (effective) degrees of freedom N >> 1
but smaller than N of proteins. In these machines, both the entropic effect and
the quantum effect over the whole system play the essential roles in producing
nontrivial functions. We therefore call them thermal quantum machines (TQMs).
We propose a systematic protocol for designing the TQMs, which enables the
rough sketch, accurate design of equilibrium states, and accurate estimate of

## Minimal energy cost of entanglement extraction. (arXiv:1904.06246v1 [quant-ph])

We compute the minimal energy cost for extracting entanglement from the
ground state of a bosonic or fermionic quadratic system. Specifically, we find
the minimal energy increase in the system resulting from replacing an entangled
pair of modes, sharing entanglement entropy $\Delta S$, by a product state, and
we show how to construct modes achieving this minimal energy cost. Thus, we
obtain a protocol independent lower bound on the extraction of pure state

## Characterizing irreversibility in open quantum systems. (arXiv:1806.08441v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

Irreversibility is a fundamental concept with important implications at many
levels. It pinpoints the fundamental difference between the intrinsically
reversible microscopic equations of motion and the unidirectional arrow of time
that emerges at the macroscopic level. More pragmatically, a full
quantification of the degree of irreversibility of a given process can help in
the characterisation of the performance of thermo-machines operating at the
quantum level. Here, we review the concept of entropy production, which is

## Uncertainty from Heisenberg to Today. (arXiv:1904.06139v1 [physics.hist-ph])

We explore the different meanings of "quantum uncertainty" contained in
Heisenberg's seminal paper from 1927, and also some of the precise definitions
that were explored later. We recount the controversy about "Anschaulichkeit",
visualizability of the theory, which Heisenberg claims to resolve. Moreover, we
consider Heisenberg's programme of operational analysis of concepts, in which
he sees himself as following Einstein. Heisenberg's work is marked by the
tensions between semiclassical arguments and the emerging modern quantum

## Multi-agent paradoxes beyond quantum theory. (arXiv:1904.06247v1 [quant-ph])

and modelling observers' memories as physical systems? Frauchiger and Renner
have shown that this is the case for quantum theory, with a thought experiment
that leads to a multi-agent paradox. Here we generalize the conditions of the
Frauchiger-Renner result so that they can be applied to arbitrary physical
theories, and in particular to those expressed as generalized probabilistic

## Approximate recovery with locality and symmetry constraints. (arXiv:1806.10324v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

Numerous quantum many-body systems are characterized by either fundamental or
emergent constraints---such as gauge symmetries or parity superselection for
fermions---which effectively limit the accessible observables and realizable
operations. Moreover, these constraints combine non-trivially with the
potential requirement that operations be performed locally. The combination of
symmetry and locality constraints influence our ability to perform quantum

## Adaptive Bayesian phase estimation for quantum error correcting codes. (arXiv:1904.06166v1 [quant-ph])

Realisation of experiments even on small and medium-scale quantum computers
requires an optimisation of several parameters to achieve high-fidelity
operations. As the size of the quantum register increases, the characterisation
of quantum states becomes more difficult since the number of parameters to be
measured grows as well and finding efficient observables in order to estimate
the parameters of the model becomes a crucial task. Here we propose a method