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L. Hanotel

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arXiv2026

Protecting Quantum States via the Super-Zeno Effect and Anticoherence

We consider a spin system coupled to a noisy environment via an interaction Hamiltonian $H$ which is a polynomial of degree $n$ in the spin operators $S_i$ ($n$-magnetic Hamiltonian), and show that the use of the quantum super-Zeno effect in conjunction with a spin-anticoherent subspace, is highly effective in protecting the spin from the noise. When $n=1$, as in the case of unwanted rotations induced by stray magnetic fields, our scheme provides a quantum gyroscope, a concept that generalizes naturally to higher $n$ values (a quantum $n$-gyroscope). The gist of the proposed protocol is to use the quantum super-Zeno effect to confine a state to the subspace, and then exploit anticoherence to freeze its evolution within it.

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arXiv2024

Speed excess and total acceleration: a kinematical approach to entanglement

We show that the concept of total variance of a spin state, defined as the average of the variances of spin projection measurements along three orthogonal axes, also gives the rotational speed of the state in projective space, averaged over all rotation axes. We compute the addition law, under system composition, for this quantity and find that, in the case of separable states, it is of simple pythagorean form. In the presence of entanglement, we find that the composite state "rotates faster than its parts", thus unveiling a kinematical origin for the correlation of total variance with entanglement. We analyze a similar definition for the acceleration of a state under rotations, for both pure and mixed states, and probe numerically its relation with a wide array of entanglement related measures.

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arXiv2023

Curves in quantum state space, geometric phases, and the brachistophase

Given a curve in quantum spin state space, we inquire what is the relation between its geometry and the geometric phase accumulated along it. Motivated by Mukunda and Simon's result that geodesics (in the standard Fubini-Study metric) do not accumulate geometric phase, we find a general expression for the derivatives (of various orders) of the geometric phase in terms of the covariant derivatives of the curve. As an application of our results, we put forward the brachistophase problem: given a quantum state, find the (appropriately normalized) hamiltonian that maximizes the accumulated geometric phase after time $\tau$ - we find an analytical solution for all spin values, valid for small $\tau$. For example, the optimal evolution of a spin coherent state consists of a single Majorana star separating from the rest and tracing out a circle on the Majorana sphere.

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arXiv2022

Toponomic Quantum Computation

Holonomic quantum computation makes use of non-abelian geometric phases, associated to the evolution of a subspace of quantum states, to encode logical gates. We identify a special class of subspaces, for which a sequence of rotations results in a non-abelian holonomy of a topological nature, so that it is invariant under any $SO(3)$-perturbation. Making use of a Majorana-like stellar representation for subspaces, we give explicit examples of topological-holonomic (or toponomic) NOT and CNOT gates.

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arXiv2019

Stellar Representation of Grassmannians

Pure quantum spin-$s$ states can be represented by $2s$ points on the sphere, as shown by Majorana in 1932 --- the description has proven particularly useful in the study of rotational symmetries of the states, and a host of other properties, as the points rotate rigidly on the sphere when the state undergoes an $SU(2)$ transformation in Hilbert space. At the same time, the Wilzcek-Zee effect, which involves the cyclic evolution of a degenerate $k$-dimensional linear subspace of the Hilbert space, and the associated holonomy dictated by Schroedinger's equation, have been proposed as a fault-tolerant mechanism for the implementation of logical gates, with applications in quantum computing. We show, in this paper, how to characterize such subspaces by Majorana-like sets of points on the sphere, that also rotate rigidly under $SU(2)$ transformations --- the construction is actually valid for arbitrary totally antisymmetric $k$-partite qudit states.

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