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Paper 1
Quantum d-separation and quantum belief propagation
Robert R. Tucci
- Year
- 2020
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:2012.09635
- arXiv
- 2012.09635
The goal of this paper is to generalize classical d-separation and classical Belief Propagation (BP) to the quantum realm. Classical d-separation is an essential ingredient of most of Judea Pearl's work. It is crucial to all 3 rungs of what Pearl calls the 3 rungs of Causation. So having a quantum version of d-separation and BP probably implies that most of Pearl's Bayesian networks work, including his theory of causality, can be translated in a straightforward manner to the quantum realm.
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Non-Hermitian spectral flows and Berry-Chern monopoles
Lucien Jezequel, Pierre Delplace
- Year
- 2022
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:2209.03876
- arXiv
- 2209.03876
We propose a non-Hermitian generalization of the correspondence between the spectral flow and the topological charges of band crossing points (Berry-Chern monopoles). A class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians that display a complex-valued spectral flow is built by deforming an Hermitian model while preserving its analytical index. We relate those spectral flows to a generalized Chern number that we show to be equal to that of the Hermitian case, provided a line gap exists. We demonstrate the homotopic invariance of both the non-Hermitian Chern number and the spectral flow index, making explicit their topological nature. In the absence of a line gap, our system still displays a spectral flow whose topology can be captured by exploiting an emergent pseudo-Hermitian symmetry.
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