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Casey Jao

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arXiv2022

Generalized quantum similarity learning

The similarity between objects is significant in a broad range of areas. While similarity can be measured using off-the-shelf distance functions, they may fail to capture the inherent meaning of similarity, which tends to depend on the underlying data and task. Moreover, conventional distance functions limit the space of similarity measures to be symmetric and do not directly allow comparing objects from different spaces. We propose using quantum networks (GQSim) for learning task-dependent (a)symmetric similarity between data that need not have the same dimensionality. We analyze the properties of such similarity function analytically (for a simple case) and numerically (for a complex case) and showthat these similarity measures can extract salient features of the data. We also demonstrate that the similarity measure derived using this technique is $(ε,γ,τ)$-good, resulting in theoretically guaranteed performance. Finally, we conclude by applying this technique for three relevant applications - Classification, Graph Completion, Generative modeling.

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arXiv2019

Refined mass-critical Strichartz estimates for Schrödinger operators

We develop refined Strichartz estimates at $L^2$ regularity for a class of time-dependent Schrödinger operators. Such refinements begin to characterize the near-optimizers of the Strichartz estimate, and play a pivotal part in the global theory of mass-critical NLS. On one hand, the harmonic analysis is quite subtle in the $L^2$-critical setting due to an enormous group of symmetries, while on the other hand, the spacetime Fourier analysis employed by the existing approaches to the constant-coefficient equation are not adapted to nontranslation-invariant situations, especially with potentials as large as those considered in this article. Using phase space techniques, we reduce to proving certain analogues of (adjoint) bilinear Fourier restriction estimates. Then we extend Tao's bilinear restriction estimate for paraboloids to more general Schrödinger operators. As a particular application, the resulting inverse Strichartz theorem and profile decompositions constitute a key harmonic analysis input for studying large data solutions to the $L^2$-critical NLS with a harmonic oscillator potential in dimensions $\ge 2$. This article builds on recent work of Killip, Visan, and the author in one space dimension.

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arXiv2019

Wave maps on (1+2)-dimensional curved spacetimes

In this article we initiate the study of 1+ 2 dimensional wave maps on a curved spacetime in the low regularity setting. Our main result asserts that in this context the wave maps equation is locally well-posed at almost critical regularity. As a key part of the proof of this result, we generalize the classical optimal bilinear L^2 estimates for the wave equation to variable coefficients, by means of wave packet decompositions and characteristic energy estimates. This allows us to iterate in a curved X^{s,b} space.

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arXiv2017

Energy-critical NLS with potentials of quadratic growth

Consider the global wellposedness problem for nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i\partial_t u = [-\tfrac{1}{2} Δ+ V(x)] u \pm |u|^{4/(d-2)} u, \ u(0) \in Σ(\mathbf{R}^d), \] where $Σ$ is the weighted Sobolev space $\dot{H}^1 \cap |x|^{-1} L^2$. The case $V(x) = \tfrac{1}{2}|x|^2$ was recently treated by the author. This note generalizes the results to a class of "approximately quadratic" potentials. We closely follow the previous concentration compactness arguments for the harmonic oscillator. A key technical difference is that in the absence of a concrete formula for the linear propagator, we apply more general tools from microlocal analysis, including a Fourier integral parametrix of Fujiwara.

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arXiv2017

Inverse Strichartz estimates for 1d Schrödinger operators with potentials of quadratic growth

We prove inverse Strichartz theorems at $L^2$ regularity for a family of Schrödinger evolutions in one space dimension. Prior results rely on spacetime Fourier analysis and are limited to the translation-invariant equation $i\partial_t u = -\tfrac{1}{2} Δu$. Motivated by applications to the mass-critical Schrödinger equation with external potentials (such as the harmonic oscillator) we use a physical space approach.

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arXiv2016

The quintic NLS on perturbations of $\mathbf{R}^3$

Consider the defocusing quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on $\mathbf{R}^3$ with initial data in the energy space. This problem is "energy-critical" in view of a certain scale-invariance, which is a main source of difficulty in the analysis of this equation. It is a nontrivial fact that all finite-energy solutions scatter to linear solutions. We show that this remains true under small compact deformations of the Euclidean metric. Our main new ingredient is a long-time microlocal weak dispersive estimate that accounts for the refocusing of geodesics.

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arXiv2014

The Energy-Critical Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

We consider the energy critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimensions $d \ge 3$ with a harmonic oscillator potential $V(x) = \tfrac{1}{2} |x|^2$. When the nonlinearity is defocusing, we prove global wellposedness for all initial data in the energy space $Σ$, consisting of all functions $u_0$ such that both $\nabla u_0$ and $x u_0$ belong to $L^2$. This result extends a theorem of Killip-Visan-Zhang \cite{kvz_quadratic_potentials}, which treats the radial case. For the focusing problem, we obtain global wellposedness for all data satisfying an analogue of the usual size restriction in terms of the ground state $W$. The proof uses the concentration compactness variant of the induction on energy paradigm. In particular, we develop a linear profile decomposition adapted to the propagator $\exp[ it(\tfrac{1}{2}Δ- \tfrac{1}{2}|x|^2)]$ for bounded sequences in $Σ$.

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