The noncommutative harmonic oscillator in arbitrary dimension is examined. It is shown that the ⋆-genvalue problem can be decomposed into separate harmonic oscillator equations for each dimension. The noncommutative plane is investigated in greater detail. The constraints for rotationally symmetric solutions and the corresponding twodimensional harmonic oscillator are solved. The angular momentum operator is derived and its ⋆-genvalue problem is shown to be equivalent to the usual eigenvalue problem. The ⋆-genvalues for the angular momentum are found to depend on the energy difference of the oscillations in each dimension. Furthermore two examples of assymetric noncommutative harmonic oscillator are analysed. The first is the noncommutative two-dimensional Landau problem and the second is the three-dimensional harmonic oscillator with symmetrically noncommuting coordinates and momenta. †
It is known that any positive-energy state of a free Dirac particle that is initially highly localized evolves in time by spreading at speeds close to the speed of light. As recently indicated by Strauch, this general phenomenon, and the resulting "two-horned" distributions of position probability along any axis through the point of initial localization, can be interpreted in terms of a quantum random walk, in which the roles of "coin" and "walker" are naturally associated with the spin and translational degrees of freedom in a discretized version of Dirac's equation. We investigate the relationship between these two evolutions analytically and show how the evolved probability density on the x axis for the Dirac particle at any time t can be obtained from the asymptotic form of the probability distribution for the position of a "quantum walker." The case of a highly localized initial state is discussed as an example.
Rules for quantizing the walker+coin parts of a classical random walk are provided by treating them as interacting quantum systems. A quantum optical random walk (QORW), is introduced by means of a new rule that treats quantum or classical noise affecting the coin's state, as sources of quantization. The long term asymptotic statistics of QORW walker's position that shows enhanced diffusion rates as compared to classical case, is exactly solved. A quantum optical cavity implementation of the walk provides the framework for quantum simulation of its asymptotic statistics.The simulation utilizes interacting two-level atoms and/or laser randomly pulsating fields with fluctuating parameters.
We investigate a novel quantum random walk (QRW) model, possibly useful in quantum algorithm implementation, that achieves a quadratically faster diffusion rate compared to its classical counterpart.We evaluate its asymptotic behavior expressed in the form of a limit probability distribution of a double horn shape. Questions of robustness and control of that limit distribution are addressed by introducing a quantum optical cavity in which a resonant Jaynes-Cummings type of interaction between the quantum walk coin system realized in the form of a two-level atom and a laser field is taking place. Driving the optical cavity by means of the coin-field interaction time and the initial quantum coin state, we determine two types of modification of the asymptotic behavior of the QRW. In the first one the limit distribution is robustly reproduced up to a scaling, while in the second one the quantum features of the walk, exemplified by enhanced diffusion rate, are washed out and Gaussian asymptotics prevail.Verification of these findings in an experimental setup that involves two quantum optical cavities that implement the driven QRW and its quantum to classical transition is discussed.
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