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Jeffrey Yepez

Publications and source records attributed to Jeffrey Yepez.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

arXiv2026

Towards imaging Earth's large-scale structures by directional geoneutrino detection with Ocean Bottom Detector

Geoneutrinos, electron antineutrinos produced by radioactive decays of heat-producing elements (HPEs) within the Earth, provide unique insights into Earth's interior and heat budget since their first detection in 2005 by KamLAND. Conventional geoneutrino detectors currently provide integrated global information and lack the capability to spatially resolve structures deep within the Earth. Here, we evaluate the ability of angular-sensitive geoneutrino detectors to distinguish between homogeneous and heterogeneous mantle models, focusing on Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs). Our results show that LLSVPs enriched in Th and U yield a distinct flux of geoneutrinos with distinctive angular patterns. An oceanic site above the Pacific LLSVP is considered a particularly favorable detector location. The Ocean Bottom Detector (OBD) project aims to leverage this spatial resolving advantage by deploying a kiloton-scale liquid scintillator detector directly on the ocean floor, enabling unprecedented sensitivity for mantle geoneutrino detection. These findings demonstrate the critical role of combining geophysical and geochemical data to guide detector site selection, ultimately improving constraints on Earth's internal heat and the HPE distribution.

physics.geo-ph↗

arXiv2019

Higgs boson mass from maximally nonlinear superconductive quantum gravity

Presented is a quantum gravity theory that is a quantum mechanical generalization of Einstein's vierbein field-based approach, where the classical metric tensor field is promoted to a quantum mechanical metric tensor field operator. The quantum gravity theory derives from quantum information dynamics intrinsic to quantized space, which is taken to be a tensor product space on a qubit array. Hence, the metric tensor field operator is expressed as a product of two frame 4-vectors, which are anticommuting operators and naturally represented by Dirac matrices. The quantum gravity theory reduces to an effective nonlinear theory for a superconductive Fermi condensate. The asymmetric part of the metric tensor field operator encodes a fermion's intrinsic spin and mass in the torsion of space. A lower bound on the Fermi condensate's pair mass is found and the pair's mass estimated.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2019

Spin-2 BEC spinor superfluid soliton-soliton scattering in one and two space dimensions

Presented is a study of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by unitary quantum simulations of time-dependent soliton-soliton scattering. The quantum simulation method is based on a quantum lattice algorithm which is designed for implementation on a future digital quantum computer but is tested today using a parallel computing architecture based on graphical processing units (GPUs). We analytically solve the spin-2 BEC equations of motion, a nonlinear system of 5 coupled Gross-Pitiaevskii (GP) equations, in one- and two-spatial dimensions. In 1D there are 16 bright soliton and 16 dark soliton solutions. In 2D there are 3 dark soliton solutions Pade approximation solutions, for m_f=+/-2, m_f=+/-1 and m_f=0, corresponding to quantum vortices. We report on the implementation the unitary quantum lattice gas algorithm for spinor superfluid and establish its efficacy by validating the stability of the 1D and 2D energy eigenstate solutions of the spin-2 BEC Hamiltonian. Using the calibrated quantum lattice gas algorithm, the highly nonlinear physics in the nonintegrable regime of the spin-2 BEC is studied by performing soliton-soliton scattering experiments. The scattering of topological solitons produces breathers and complex quantum vortices characterized by local entanglement across multiple m_f-hyperfine states of the Zeeman manifold.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2018

Quantum computational representation of gauge field theory

Presented is a quantum computing model of a quantum field theory for a system of fermions interacting via a massive gauge field. The model describes a relativistic superconducting fluid and uses a metric tensor field to both encode the fermion's intrinsic spin in the torsion of curved space and encode the coupling of fermions via a massive 4-potential field. The quantum computing model is a lattice model whose cell size is a deformation parameter: the equivalent lattice and curved-space gauge field theory models both reduce to quantum field theory in flat Minkowski space at zero cell size. The low-energy expansions of the lattice model and Euler-Lagrange equations of the curved-space gauge field theory are the same equations of motion. The fermion and gauge fields obey the Dirac and Proca equations, and the gauge field strength is determined by the fermion field.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2017

Quantum computational path summation for relativistic quantum mechanics and a time dilation relation for a Dirac Hamiltonian generator on a qubit array

Dirac particle dynamics is encoded as a unitary path summation rule and implemented on a qubit array, where the qubit array represents both spacetime and the fermions contained therein. The unitary path summation rule gives a quantum algorithm to model a many-body system of Dirac particles in a gauge field with Lorentz invariance down to the grid scale (Planck scale)--the lattice-based model neither suffers the Fermi-sign problem nor breaks Lorentz invariance. Yet, for the Dirac Hamiltonian to generate the unitary evolution of the 4-spinor field at the Planck scale, there is time dilation between the shortest observable time near a single space point and that time measured at long-wavelength scales. We find gravitational time dilation where the model space around each point (with an even number of qubits) is curved like the space around a Schwarzschild black hole.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2017

Quantum lattice gas model of spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates and closed-form analytical continuation of nonlinear interactions in spin-2 superfluids

Presented is an unitary operator splitting method for handling the spin-density interaction in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. The zero temperature behavior of a spinor BEC is given by mean field theory, where the Hamiltonian includes a nonlinear hyperfine spin interaction. This hyperfine interaction has a diagonal probability-density term (leading to the usual Gross-Pitaevskii type equation of motion) but also has a nondiagonal spin-density term. Since the F=2 spinor BEC (spin-2 BEC) has a non-Abelian superfluid phase (nonperturbative cyclic phase in the strong spin-density coupling regime), an infinite-order expansion of the quantum evolution operator is needed for quantum simulation applications. An infinite-order expansion, obtained by analytical continuation and expressed in analytically closed form, for the spin-2 BEC is presented.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2016

Quantum lattice gas algorithmic representation of gauge field theory

Presented is a quantum lattice gas algorithm to efficiently model a system of Dirac particles interacting through an intermediary gauge field. The algorithm uses a fixed qubit array to represent both the spacetime and the particles contained in the spacetime. Despite being a lattice based algorithm, Lorentz invariance is preserved down to the grid scale, with the continuum Dirac Hamiltonian generating the local unitary evolution even at that scale: there is nonlinear scaling between the smallest observable time and that time measured in the quantum field theory limit, a kind of time dilation effect that emerges on small scales but has no effect on large scales. The quantum lattice gas algorithm correctly accounts for the anticommutative braiding of indistinguishable fermions---it does not suffer the Fermi-sign problem. It provides a highly convergent numerical simulation for strongly-correlated fermions equal to a covariant path integral, presented here for the case when a Dirac particle's Compton wavelength is large compared to the grid scale of the qubit array.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2013

Quantum lattice gas model of Fermi systems with relativistic energy relations

Presented are several example quantum computing representations of quantum systems with a relativistic energy relation. Basic unitary representations of free Dirac particles and BCS superconductivity are given. Then, these are combined into a novel unitary representation of a Fermi condensate superfluid. The modeling approach employs an operator splitting method that is an analytically closed-form product decomposition of the unitary evolution operator, applied in the high-energy limit. This allows the relativistic wave equations to be cast as unitary finite-difference equations. The split evolution operators (comprising separate kinetic and interaction energy evolution terms) serve as quantum lattice gas models useful for efficient quantum simulation.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2013

Quantum lattice gas model of Dirac particles in 1+1 dimensions

Presented is a quantum computing representation of Dirac particle dynamics. The approach employs an operator splitting method that is an analytically closed-form product decomposition of the unitary evolution operator. This allows the Dirac equation to be cast as a unitary finite-difference equation in a high-energy limit. The split evolution operator (with separate kinetic and interaction terms) is useful for efficient quantum simulation. For pedagogical purposes, here we restrict the treatment to Dirac particle dynamics in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. Independent derivations of the quantum algorithm are presented and the model's validity is tested in several quantum simulations by comparing the numerical results against analytical predictions. Using the relativistic quantum algorithm in the case when mc^2 >> pc, quantum simulations of a nonrelativistic particle in an external scalar square well and parabolic potential is presented.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2011

Poincare recurrence and intermittent loss of quantum Kelvin wave cascades in quantum turbulence

The evolution of the ground state wave function of a zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is well described by the Hamiltonian Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. Using a set of appropriately interleaved unitary collision-streaming operators, a quantum lattice gas algorithm is devised which on taking moments recovers the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation in diffusion ordering (time scales as square of length). Unexpectedly, there is a class of initial conditions in which their Poincare recurrence is extremely short. Further it is shown that the Poincare recurrence time scales with diffusion ordering as the the grid is increased. The spectral results of Yepez et.al. [1] for quantum turbulence are corrected and it is found that it is the compressible kinetic energy spectrum that exhibits the 3 cascade regions: a small k classical Kolmogorov k^(-5/3) spectrum, a steep semi-classical cascade region, and a large k quantum Kelvin wave cascade k^(-3) spectrum. The incompressible kinetic energy spectrum exhibits basically a single cascade power law of k^(-3). For winding number 1 linear vortices it is also shown that there is an intermittent loss of Kelvin wave cascade with its signature seen in the time evolution of the kinetic energy, the loss of the k^(-3) spectrum in the incompressible kinetic energy spectrum as well as the minimization of the vortex core isosurfaces that inhibits the Kelvin wave cascade.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2011

Einstein's vierbein field theory of curved space

General Relativity theory is reviewed following the vierbein field theory approach proposed in 1928 by Einstein. It is based on the vierbein field taken as the "square root" of the metric tensor field. Einstein's vierbein theory is a gauge field theory for gravity; the vierbein field playing the role of a gauge field but not exactly like the vector potential field does in Yang-Mills theory--the correction to the derivative (the covariant derivative) is not proportional to the vierbein field as it would be if gravity were strictly a Yang-Mills theory. Einstein discovered the spin connection in terms of the vierbein fields to take the place of the conventional affine connection. To date, one of the most important applications of the vierbein representation is for the derivation of the correction to a 4-spinor quantum field transported in curved space, yielding the correct form of the covariant derivative. Thus, the vierbein field theory is the most natural way to represent a relativistic quantum field theory in curved space. Using the vierbein field theory, presented is a derivation of the the Einstein equation and then the Dirac equation in curved space. Einstein's original 1928 manuscripts translated into English are included.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2011

Highly covariant quantum lattice gas model of the Dirac equation

We revisit the quantum lattice gas model of a spinor quantum field theory-the smallest scale particle dynamics is partitioned into unitary collide and stream operations. The construction is covariant (on all scales down to a small length {\ell} and small time τ = c {\ell}) with respect to Lorentz transformations. The mass m and momentum p of the modeled Dirac particle depend on {\ell} according to newfound relations m = mo cos (2π{\ell}/λ) and p = (h/2π{\ell}) sin(2π{\ell}/λ), respectively, where λ is the Compton wavelength of the modeled particle. These relations represent departures from a relativistically invariant mass and the de Broglie relation-when taken as quantifying numerical errors the model is physically accurate when {\ell} {\ll} λ. Calculating the vacuum energy in the special case of a massless spinor field, we find that it vanishes (or can have a small positive value) for a sufficiently large wave number cutoff. This is a marked departure from the usual behavior of such a massless field.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2010

k^-3 superfluid spectrum of highly curved interacting quantum vortices

Presented is a prediction, based on the Frenet-Serret differential geometry of space curves, that the wave number dependence of the average kinetic energy per unit length of two mutually interacting highly curved quantum vortex scales as k^-3. The interacting quantum vortices are helical in shape, supporting circularly polarized counter-propagating waves, with arbitrary curvature and torsion. This power-law spectrum agrees with the high-k spectrum found in precise quantum simulations of turbulent superfluidity with tangle of highly curved and excited quantum vortices.

cond-mat.other↗

arXiv2009

Quantum logic as superbraids of entangled qubit world lines

Presented is a topological representation of quantum logic that views entangled qubit spacetime histories (or qubit world lines) as a generalized braid, referred to as a superbraid. The crossing of world lines is purely quantum in nature, most conveniently expressed analytically with ladder-operator-based quantum gates. At a crossing, independent world lines can become entangled. Complicated superbraids are systematically reduced by recursively applying novel quantum skein relations. If the superbraid is closed (e.g. representing quantum circuits with closed-loop feedback, quantum lattice gas algorithms, loop or vacuum diagrams in quantum field theory), then one can decompose the resulting superlink into an entangled superposition of classical links. In turn, for each member link, one can compute a link invariant, e.g. the Jones polynomial. Thus, a superlink possesses a unique link invariant expressed as an entangled superposition of classical link invariants.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2009

Quantum algorithm for Bose-Einstein condensate quantum fluid dynamics

The dynamics of vortex solitons in a BEC superfluid is studied. A quantum lattice-gas algorithm (localization-based quantum computation) is employed to examine the dynamical behavior of vortex soliton solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (phi^4 interaction nonlinear Schroedinger equation). Quantum turbulence is studied in large grid numerical simulations: Kolmogorov spectrum associated with a Richardson energy cascade occurs on large flow scales. At intermediate scales a k^{-6} power law emerges, in a classical-quantum transition from vortex filament reconnections to Kelvin wave-acoustic wave coupling. The spontaneous exchange of intermediate vortex rings is observed. Finally, at very small spatial scales a k^{-3} power law emerges, characterizing fluid dynamics occurring within the scale size of the vortex cores themselves, a characteristic Kelvin wave cascade region. Poincare recurrence is studied: in the free non-interacting system, a fast Poincare recurrence occurs for regular arrays of line vortices. The recurrence period is used to demarcate dynamics driving the nonlinear quantum fluid towards turbulence, since fast recurrence is an approximate symmetry of the nonlinear quantum fluid at early times. This class of quantum algorithms is useful for studying BEC superfluid dynamics over a broad range of wave numbers, from quantum flow to a pseudo-classical inviscid flow regime to a Kolmogorov inertial subrange.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2009

Superfluid turbulence from quantum Kelvin wave to classical Kolmogorov cascades

A novel unitary quantum lattice gas algorithm is used to simulate quantum turbulence of a BEC described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on grids up to 5760^3. For the first time, an accurate power law scaling for the quantum Kelvin wave cascade is determined: k^{-3}. The incompressible kinetic energy spectrum exhibits very distinct power law spectra in 3 ranges of k-space: a classical Kolmogorov k^{-5/3} spectrum at scales much greater than the individual quantum vortex cores, and a quantum Kelvin wave cascade spectrum k^{-3} on scales of order the vortex cores. In the semiclassical regime between these two spectra there is a pronounced steeper spectral decay, with non-universal exponent. The Kelvin k^{-3} spectrum is very robust, even on small grids, while the Kolmogorov k^{-5/3} spectrum becomes more and more apparent as the grids increase from 2048^3 grids to 5760^3.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2004

Simulation of the Burgers equation by NMR quantum information processing

We report on the implementation of Burgers equation as a type-II quantum computation on an NMR quantum information processor. Since the flow field evolving under the Burgers equation develops sharp features over time, this is a better test of liquid state NMR implementations of type-II quantum computers than the previous examples using the diffusion equation. In particular, we show that Fourier approximations used in the encoding step are not the dominant error. Small systematic errors in the collision operator accumulate and swamp all other errors. We propose, and demonstrate, that the accumulation of this error can be avoided to a large extent by replacing the single collision operator with a set of operators with random errors and similar fidelities. Experiments have been implemented on 16 two-qubit sites for eight successive time steps for the Burgers equation.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2003

Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Lattice Gas Computation

We report an ensemble nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) implementation of a quantum lattice gas algorithm for the diffusion equation. The algorithm employs an array of quantum information processors sharing classical information, a novel architecture referred to as a type-II quantum computer. This concrete implementation provides a test example from which to probe the strengths and limitations of this new computation paradigm. The NMR experiment consists of encoding a mass density onto an array of 16 two-qubit quantum information processors and then following the computation through 7 time steps of the algorithm. The results show good agreement with the analytic solution for diffusive dynamics. We also describe numerical simulations of the NMR implementation. The simulations aid in determining sources of experimental errors, and they help define the limits of the implementation.

quant-ph↗