Analytic expressions of discord and geometric discord in Werner derivatives

Werner derivatives are a special kind of mixing states transformed from Werner states by unitary operations (Hiroshima and Ishizaka in Phys Rev A 62:044302, 2000). In this paper, the inherent quantum correlations in Werner derivatives are quantified by two different quantifiers, i.e., quantum discord and geometric discord. Different analytic expressions of the two discords in Werner derivatives are derived out. Some distinct features of the discords and their underlying physics are exposed via discussions and analyses. Moreover, it is found that the amount of quantum correlations quantified by either quantifier in each derivative cannot exceed that in the original Werner state. In other words, no unitary operation can increase quantum correlation in a Werner state as far as the two quantifiers are concerned.     

Quantum correlations in Gaussian states via Gaussian channels: steering,entanglement, and discord

Here we study the quantum steering, quantum entanglement, and quantum discord for Gaussian Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen states via Gaussian channels. And the sudden death phenomena for Gaussian steering and Gaussian entanglement are theoretically observed. We find that some Gaussian states have only one-way steering, which confirms the asymmetry of quantum steering. Also we investigate that the entangled Gaussian states without Gaussian steering and correlated Gaussian states own no Gaussian entanglement. Meanwhile, our results support the assumption that quantum entanglement is intermediate between quantum discord and quantum steering. Furthermore, we give experimental recipes for preparing quantum states with desired types of quantum correlations.     

SLOCC orbit of rank-deficient two-qubit states: quantum entanglement,quantum discord and EPR steering

We study selected aspects of non-classical correlations of arbitrary states from the stochastic local operations and classical communication orbit of rank-deficient two-qubit states. In particular, we find explicitly entanglement of formation and quantum discord for these states. Moreover, we determine and analyze the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen steering ellipsoids corresponding to these states.     

Axioms for classical, intuitionistic, and paraconsistent hybrid logic

In this paper we give axiom systems for classical and intuitionistic hybrid logic. Our axiom systems can be extended with additional rules corresponding to conditions on the accessibility relation expressed by so-called geometric theories. In the classical case other axiomatisations than ours can be found in the literature but in the intuitionistic case no axiomatisations have been published. We consider plain intuitionistic hybrid logic as well as a hybridized version of the constructive and paraconsistent logic N4.     

Quantum state control, entanglement, and readout of the Josephson persistent-current qubit

Quantum state control including entanglement, and readout of the Josephson persistent-current qubit, flux qubit, are reviewed. First, we mention our single-shot readout of quantum superposition state of a flux qubit by a current biased dc-SQUID. Second, we mention entangled state and vacuum Rabi oscillations of a flux-qubit LC-resonator system where qubit-resonator coupled state are controlled by a combination of microwave and DC-shift pulses, resulting in a controlling and measuring sequence analogous to atomic cavity QED. Third, we report our recent progress in high fidelity readout of a flux qubit state via Josephson bifurcation amplifier (JBA).     

Thermal entanglement and lower bound of the geometric discord for a two-qutrit system with linear coupling and nonuniform external magnetic field

The effects of temperature and linear coupling constant on the lower bound of the geometric discord and negativity of a qutrit–qutrit system in Heisenberg model with (and without) parallel and antiparallel external magnetic fields have been investigated. We show that the lower bound of the geometric discord and negativity are about zero for negative linear coupling constant in parallel magnetic fields, while they are nonzero in the finite antiparallel magnetic fields. For negative linear coupling constant, as temperature increases, both measures become zero faster than in the case of positive linear coupling constant in antiparallel magnetic fields.     

Chance measure for hybrid events with fuzziness and randomness

In many cases, fuzziness and randomness simultaneously appear in a system. Hybrid variable is a tool to describe this phenomena. Fuzzy random variable and random fuzzy variable are instances of hybrid variable. In order to measure hybrid event, a concept of chance measure is proposed in this paper. Furthermore, several useful properties about this measure are proved such as self-duality, subadditivity and semicontinuity. Some concepts are also presented such as chance distribution, expected value, variance, moments, critical values, entropy, distance and sequence convergences.     

Quantum Fisher information,quantum entanglement and correlation close to quantum critical phenomena

In this paper, we investigate the quantum Fisher information (QFI), quantum entanglement, quantum correlation and quantum phase transition (QPT) within the one-dimensional transverse Ising model by exploiting quantum renormalization-group method. The results show that quantum Fisher information, quantum entanglement, quantum correlation can evolve to two saturated values which exhibit QPT at the critical point after several iterations of the renormalization. Meanwhile, we find quantum entanglement or correlation can be detected perfectly by means of quantum Fisher information. Besides, it cannot capture any information about the system in the paramagnetic phase in view of quantum entanglement and correlation. Contrarily, it is evident the QFI is always nonzero even if the system is in the paramagnetic phase, i.e., the QFI can also be utilized as a highly favorable measure of quantum information in a broad of quantum spin systems. Furthermore, we disclose the nonanalytic and scaling behaviors of quantum Fisher information, which can be taken as a representation of quantum critical characterism.     

Robustness of combined state and state-estimate feedback control schemes

The good robustness properties of the LQP-state feedback optimal controller are shown to apply in the LQG-state-estimate feedback situation if input subsystem states are directly measurable.     

Secure quantum report with authentication based on six-particle cluster state and entanglement swapping

A novel high-efficient secure quantum report with authentication based on six-particle cluster state and entanglement swapping is proposed.In our protocol,using N groups of six-particle cluster state,the legitimate users Bob and Charlie send their secret reports to their boss(Alice),who operates sixteen kinds of unitary operations after receiving the reports.Here,entanglement swapping of cluster states and maximum entanglement state measurement are employed by the communicators.It has been proved that our protocol has high level guarantees and honesty,and the scheme is secure not only against the intercept-and-resend attack but also against disturbance attack.     

Robustness analysis of a hybrid ground coupled heat pump system with model predictive control

MPC of thermal systems usually results in robust operation with respect to uncertainties thanks to some key characteristics of the controller. However, the true limit until which these systems will actually be robust is rarely known explicitly. In this study a Hybrid Ground Coupled Heat Pump (HyGCHP) system with MPC is investigated, for which state estimation and disturbance prediction are highly uncertain, moreover, the system performance is highly sensitive to errors at these points. It has become popular to design control systems which perform explicit computations to assure robustness (e.g. min–max Robust MPC) but this framework is computationally demanding, therefore, not widely applied. An alternative is to perform robustness analysis of an MPC controlled system which is though generally avoided due to complicated theoretical formulations, implicitness and conservativeness of the approach. To tackle these issues an existing framework for robustness analysis is extended and applied to the case of a HyGCHP system with MPC to analyze robustness with respect to state estimation uncertainty. This paper presents an approach to use the original formulation, suggested for regulation/stabilization in order to analyze robustness for the case of set point tracking. The results show that the maximum allowed state estimation uncertainty found by robustness analysis of the regulation problem is confirmed by the simulated HyGCHP system with MPC, which performs set point tracking. In conclusion, the method gives a reliable guarantee for the degree of state estimation uncertainty, up to which the HyGCHP system investigated remains robust. Future research can extend the robustness analysis method towards disturbance prediction uncertainty.     

A hybrid approach to modelling,control and state estimation of mechanical systems with backlash

Control of mechanical systems with backlash is a topic well studied by many control practitioners. This interest has been motivated by the fact that backlash in mechanical systems can cause severe performance degradation and lead to instability of the control system. Furthermore, high impact-forces in backlash-systems can lead to a lower durability of the components and to strokes and peaks in the output. In this paper a mechanical benchmark system is presented to provide facilities for testing the identification and control of systems with backlash. For controller design a hybrid model of the system was derived and used in a model predictive control (MPC) scheme. Observer-based state-estimation was used to recover unmeasured states, particularly the backlash angle. Explicit solutions of a tracking controller were computed to control the mechanical benchmark system in real-time. Simulation as well as experimental results are presented to show the applicability of this hybrid control approach.     

Decoherence dynamics of geometric measure of quantum discord and measurement induced nonlocality for noninertial observers at finite temperature

Quantum discord quantifies the total non-classical correlations in mixed states. It is the difference between total correlation, measured by quantum mutual information, and the classical correlation. Another step forward towards the quantification of quantum discord was by Daki? et al. (Phys Rev Lett 105:190502, 2010) who introduced the geometric measure of quantum discord (GMQD) and derived an explicit formula for a two-qubit state. Recently, Luo and Fu (Phys Rev Lett 106:120401, 2011) introduced measurement-induced nonlocality (MIN) as a measure of nonlocality for a bipartite quantum system. The dynamics of GMQD is recently considered by Song et al. (arXiv: quant/ph.1203.3356) and Zhang et al. (Eur Phys J D 66:34, 2012) for inertial observers. However, the topic requires due attention in noninertial frames, particularly, from the perspective of MIN. Here I consider $X$ -structured bipartite quantum system in noninertial frames and analyze the decoherence dynamics of GMQD and MIN at finite temperature. The dynamics under the influence of amplitude damping, depolarizing and phase flip channels is discussed. It is worth-noting that initial state entanglement plays an important role in bipartite states. It is possible to distinguish the Bell, Werner and general type initial quantum states using GMQD. Sudden transition in the behaviour of GMQD and MIN occurs depending upon the mean photon number of the local environment. The transition behaviour disappears for larger values of $\bar{n},$ i.e. $\bar{n}>0.3.$ It becomes more prominent, when environmental noise is introduced in the system. In the presence of environmental noise, as we increase the value of acceleration $r$ , GMQD and MIN decay due to Unruh effect. The effect is prominent for the phase flip and amplitude damping channels. However, in case of depolarizing channel, no sudden change in the behaviour of GMQD and MIN is observed. The environmental noise has stronger affect on the dynamics of GMQD and MIN as compared to the Unruh effect. Furthermore, Werner like states are more robust than General type initial states at finite temperature.     

带有初态学习的可变增益迭代学习控制

针对一类非线性系统提出一种新的学习控制算法,该算法在可变学习增益的迭代学习控制律基础上,增加了系统初态的迭代学习律.利用算子理论证明了系统在存在初态偏移时经过迭代学习后,其输出能够完全跟踪期望轨迹,同时得到了该算法谱半径形式的收敛条件.将该算法与传统迭代学习控制相比较可以看出,前者的收敛速度得到了较大提高,而且解决了可变学习增益迭代学习控制的初态偏移问题.仿真结果验证了该算法的有效性.     

Simultaneous state and input estimation of hybrid systems with unknown inputs

This paper addresses the problem of the simultaneous state and input estimation for hybrid systems when subject to input disturbances. The proposed algorithm is based on the moving horizon estimation (MHE) method and uses mixed logical dynamical (MLD) systems as equivalent representations of piecewise affine (PWA) systems. So far the MHE method has been successfully applied for the state estimation of linear, hybrid, and nonlinear systems. The proposed extension of the MHE algorithm enables the estimation of unknown inputs, or disturbances, acting on the hybrid system. The new algorithm is shown to improve the convergence characteristics of the MHE method by reducing the delay of convergent estimates, while assuring convergence for every possible sequence of input disturbances. To ensure convergence the system is required to be incrementally input observable, which is an extension to the classical incremental observability property.     

Visual object tracking with discriminative correlation filtering and hybrid color feature

The technology of visual object tracking based on correlation filter has good accuracy and efficiency. However, it is still necessary to be study further on the appearance model of the target, the scale variation of the target and so on. This paper proposes a tracking algorithm based on discriminative correlation filtering and a hybrid color feature. The hybrid color feature is composed of two parts, which are compressed color name features and Histogram of Oriented Gradient features based on opponent color space. These two parts features above are extracted from the target patch, respectively. For the first part, color-name features are extracted from a target patch firstly, and then block-based compressed color-name features are extracted according to these color-name features. For the second part, opponent color features are extracted from the target patch firstly, and then HOG features are extracted from these opponent color features. At the basis of the hybrid color feature, two different discriminative correlation filters are used to estimate the translation and the scale of the target, respectively. Finally, extensive experiments show that the tracking algorithm with the hybrid color features of this paper outperforming several state-of-the-art tracking algorithms.

     

Entanglement generation and entanglement concentration of two-photon four-dimensional spatial modes partially entangled Dicke state

Two-photon four-dimensional spatial modes partially entangled Dicke state can be compactly generated from six concurrent spontaneous parametric down-conversion processes by cascading poling domain structures in 5% MgO-doped poled lithium niobate bulk crystal. Entanglement concentration of the two-photon four-dimensional spatial modes partially entangled Dicke state can be realized by using quantum nondestructive detection of nonlinear Kerr medium, optical beam splitter, and quantum gate operation.