In this Letter we study the nonlocal properties of permutation symmetric states of n qubits. We show that all these states are nonlocal, via an extended version of the Hardy paradox and associated inequalities. Natural extensions of both the paradoxes and the inequalities are developed which relate different entanglement classes to different nonlocal features. Belonging to a given entanglement class will guarantee the violation of associated Bell inequalities which see the persistence of correlations to subsets of players, whereas there are states outside that class which do not violate.
We consider the problem of detecting entanglement and nonlocality in one-dimensional (1D) infinite, translation-invariant (TI) systems when just near-neighbor information is available. This issue is deeper than one might think a priori, since, as we show, there exist instances of local separable states (classical boxes) which only admit entangled (non-classical) TI extensions. We provide a simple characterization of the set of local states of multi-separable TI spin chains and construct a family of linear witnesses which can detect entanglement in infinite TI states from the nearest-neighbor reduced density matrix. Similarly, we prove that the set of classical TI boxes forms a polytope and devise a general procedure to generate all Bell inequalities which characterize it. Using an algorithm based on matrix product states, we show how some of them can be violated by distant parties conducting identical measurements on an infinite TI quantum state. All our results can be easily adapted to detect entanglement and nonlocality in large (finite, not TI) 1D condensed matter systems.
We give a one-dimensional quantum cellular automaton (QCA) capable of simulating all others. By this we mean that the initial configuration and the local transition rule of any onedimensional QCA can be encoded within the initial configuration of the universal QCA. Several steps of the universal QCA will then correspond to one step of the simulated QCA. The simulation preserves the topology in the sense that each cell of the simulated QCA is encoded as a group of adjacent cells in the universal QCA. The encoding is linear and hence does not carry any of the cost of the computation. We do this in two flavours: a weak one which requires an infinite but periodic initial configuration and a strong one which needs only a finite initial configuration.
We study the properties of the set of marginal distributions of infinite translation-invariant systems in the two-dimensional square lattice. In cases where the local variables can only take a small number d of possible values, we completely solve the marginal or membership problem for nearest-neighbours distributions (d = 2, 3) and nearest and next-to-nearest neighbours distributions (d = 2). Remarkably, all these sets form convex polytopes in probability space. This allows us to devise an algorithm to compute the minimum energy per site of any TI Hamiltonian in these scenarios exactly. We also devise a simple algorithm to approximate the minimum energy per site up to arbitrary accuracy for the cases not covered above. For variables of a higher (but finite) dimensionality, we prove two no-go results. To begin, the exact computation of the energy per site of arbitrary TI Hamiltonians with only nearest-neighbour interactions is an undecidable problem. In addition, in scenarios with d≥2947, the boundary of the set of nearest-neighbour marginal distributions contains both flat and smoothly curved surfaces and the set itself is not semi-algebraic. This implies, in particular, that it cannot be characterized via semidefinite programming, even if we allow the input of the programme to include polynomials of nearest-neighbour probabilities.
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Bimetallic
nanocatalysts, with efficient and controllable catalytic
performance, have a promising application in chemical production.
In this study, surface Pt-rich bimetallic AuPt nanoparticles with
different Pt/Au ratios were prepared and tested in selective hydrogenation
reactions of substituted nitroaromatics. Au nanoparticles were first
prepared with n-butyllithium as a rapid reducer,
which were further used as seeds in the slow growth process of Pt
atoms. Because of the employed sequential reduction method and the
following atom diffusion, surface Pt-rich bimetallic AuPt nanoparticles
were obtained. Compared with the uniform AuPt alloy nanocatalysts
synthesized by the co-reduction method with n-butyllithium
as the reducer and monometallic Pt nanocatalysts, the obtained surface
Pt-rich AuPt bimetallic nanocatalysts presented an enhanced catalytic
selectivity or activity. The performance enhancement is assigned to
the optimized Au/Pt interaction in the surface Pt-rich bimetallic
nanostructures. This work demonstrates that the optimization of the
stoichiometry and construction of bimetallic materials is a feasible
method to synthesize controllable and efficient nanocatalysts.
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