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V. P. Belavkin

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arXiv2005

On Stochastic Generators of Completely Positive Cocycles

A characterisation of the generators of quantum stochastic cocycles of completely positive (CP) maps is given in terms of the complete dissipativity (CD) of its form-generator. The pseudo-Hilbert dilation of the stochastic form-generator and the pre-Hilbert dilation of the corresponding dissipator is found. The general form of the linear continuous structural maps for the algebra of all bounded operators is derived and the quantum stochastic flow for the corresponding cocycle is outlined. It is proved that any w*-analytical bounded CD form-generator give rise to a quantum stochastic CP cocycle over a von Neumann algebra.

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arXiv2005

Quantum Stochastic Positive Evolutions: Characterization, Construction, Dilation

A characterization of the unbounded stochastic generators of quantum completely positive flows is given. This suggests the general form of quantum stochastic adapted evolutions with respect to the Wiener (diffusion), Poisson (jumps), or general Quantum Noise. The corresponding irreversible Heisenberg evolution in terms of stochastic completely positive (CP) maps is constructed. The general form and the dilation of the stochastic completely dissipative (CD) equation over the algebra L(H) is discovered, as well as the unitary quantum stochastic dilation of the subfiltering and contractive flows with unbounded generators. A unitary quantum stochastic cocycle, dilating the subfiltering CP flows over L(H), is reconstructed.

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arXiv2005

Optimization of Quantum Information Processing Maximizing Mutual Information

A model of quantum noisy channel with input encoding by a classical random vector is described. An equation of optimality is derived to determine a complete set of wave functions describing quantum decodings based on quasi-measurements maximizing the classical amount of transmitted information. A solution of this equation is found for the Gaussian multimode case with input Gaussian distribution. It is described by the overcomplete family of coherent vectors describing an optimal quasimeasurement of the canonical annihilation amplitudes in the output Hilbert space. It is found that the optimal decoding in this case realizes the maximum amount I=Spln[1+S/(N+1)] of the classical information as transmitted via the classical Gaussian channel with the effective noise covariance matrix N+I. A physical realization of optimal quasi-measurement based on an indirect (heterodyne) observation of the canonical operators is suggested.

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arXiv2005

On the Sufficient Optimality Condition for Quantum Information Processing

The necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality of the decoding of quantum signals minimizing the Bayesian risk are generalized for the Shannon mutual information criteria. It is shown that for a linear channel with Gaussian boson noise these conditions are satisfied by coherent quasi-measurement of the canonical annihilation amplitudes in the received superposition.

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arXiv2005

Quantum Trajectories, State Diffusion and Time Asymmetric Eventum Mechanics

We show that the quantum stochastic unitary dynamics Langevin model for continuous in time measurements provides an exact formulation of the Heisenberg uncertainty error-disturbance principle. Moreover, as it was shown in the 80's, this Markov model induces all stochastic linear and non-linear equations of the phenomenological "quantum trajectories" such as quantum state diffusion and spontaneous localization by a simple quantum filtering method. Here we prove that the quantum Langevin equation is equivalent to a Dirac type boundary-value problem for the second-quantized input "offer waves from future" in one extra dimension, and to a reduction of the algebra of the consistent histories of past events to an Abelian subalgebra for the "trajectories of the output particles". This result supports the wave-particle duality in the form of the thesis of Eventum Mechanics that everything in the future is constituted by quantized waves, everything in the past by trajectories of the recorded particles. We demonstrate how this time arrow can be derived from the principle of quantum causality for nondemolition continuous in time measurements.

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arXiv2005

Quantum Diffusion, Measurement and Filtering

A brief presentation of the basic concepts in quantum probability theory is given in comparison to the classical one. The notion of quantum white noise, its explicit representation in Fock space, and necessary results of noncommutative stochastic analysis and integration are outlined. Algebraic differential equations that unify the quantum non Markovian diffusion with continuous non demolition observation are derived. A stochastic equation of quantum diffusion filtering generalising the classical Markov filtering equation to the quantum flows over arbitrary *-algebra is obtained. A Gaussian quantum diffusion with one dimensional continuous observation is considered.The a posteriori quantum state difusion in this case is reduced to a linear quantum stochastic filter equation of Kalman-Bucy type and to the operator Riccati equation for quantum correlations. An example of continuous nondemolition observation of the coordinate of a free quantum particle is considered, describing a continuous collase to the stationary solution of the linear quantum filtering problem found in the paper.

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arXiv2005

The world of quantum noise and the fundamental output process

A stationary theory of quantum stochastic processes of second order is outlined. It includes KMS processes in wide sense like the equilibrium finite temperature quantum noise given by the Planck's spectral formula. It is shown that for each stationary noise there exists a natural output process output process which is identical to the noise in the infinite temperature limit, and flipping with the noise if the time is reversed at finite temperature. A canonical Hilbert space representation of the quantum noise and the fundamental output process is established and a decomposition of their spectra is found. A brief explanation of quantum stochastic integration with respect to the input-output processes is given using only correlation functions. This provides a mathematical foundation for linear stationary filtering transformations of quantum stochastic processes. It is proved that the colored quantum stationary noise and its time-reversed version can be obtained in the second order theory by a linear nonadapted filtering of the standard vacuum noise uniquely defined by the canonical creation and annihilation operators on the spectrum of the input-output pair.

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arXiv2005

Continuous Non-Demolition Observation, Quantum Filtering and Optimal Estimation

A quantum stochastic model for an open dynamical system (quantum receiver) and output multi-channel of observation with an additive nonvacuum quantum noise is given. A quantum stochastic Master equation for the corresponding instrument is derived and quantum stochastic filtering equations both for the Heisenberg operators and the reduced density matrix of the system under the nondemolition observation are found. Thus the dynamical problem of quantum filtering is generalized for a noncommutative output process, and a quantum stochastic model and optimal filtering equation for the dynamical estimation of an input Markovian process is found. The results are illustrated on an example of optimal estimation of an input Gaussian diffusion signal, an unknown gravitational force say in a quantum optical or Weber's antenna for detection and filtering a gravitational waves.

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arXiv2005

Optimal Quantum Filtering and Quantum Feedback Control

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement. Using a quantum noise model to describe the stochastic evolution of the open quantum system and working in parallel with classical indeterministic control theory, we present the theory of nonlinear optimal quantum feedback control. The resulting quantum Bellman equation is then applied to the explicitly solvable quantum linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) problem which emphasizes many similarities with the corresponding classical control problem.

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arXiv2005

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for Quantum Filtering and Control

We exploit the separation of the filtering and control aspects of quantum feedback control to consider the optimal control as a classical stochastic problem on the space of quantum states. We derive the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations using the elementary arguments of classical control theory and show that this is equivalent, in the Stratonovich calculus, to a stochastic Hamilton-Pontryagin setup. We show that, for cost functionals that are linear in the state, the theory yields the traditional Bellman equations treated so far in quantum feedback.

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arXiv2004

Generalized uncertainty relations and efficient measurements in quantum systems

We consider two variants of a quantum-statistical generalization of the Cramer-Rao inequality that establishes an invariant lower bound on the mean square error of a generalized quantum measurement. The proposed complex variant of this inequality leads to a precise formulation of a generalized uncertainty principle for arbitrary states, in contrast to Helstrom's symmetric variant in which these relations are obtained only for pure states. A notion of canonical states is introduced and the lower mean square error bound is found for estimating of the parameters of canonical states, in particular, the canonical parameters of a Lie group. It is shown that these bounds are globally attainable only for canonical states for which there exist efficient measurements or quasimeasurements.

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arXiv2004

Design of Optimal Dynamic Analyzers: Mathematical Aspects of Wave Pattern Recognition

We give a review of the most important results on optimal tomography as mathematical wave-pattern recognition theory emerged in the 70's in connection with the problems of optimal estimation and hypothesis testing in quantum theory. In quantum theory such problems are sometimes referred as the problem of optimal measurement of an unknown quantum state, and are the main subject of the emerging mathematical theory of quantum statistics. We develop the results of quantum pattern recognition theory, most of which belong to VPB, further into the direction of wave, rather than particle statistical estimation and hypothesis testing theory, with the aim to include not only quantum matter waves but also classical wave patterns like optical and acoustic waves. We conclude that Hilbert space and operator methods developed in quantum theory are equally useful in the classical wave theory, as soon as the possible observations are restricted to only intensity distributions of waves, i.e. when the wave states are not the allowed observables, as they are not the observables of individual particles in the quantum theory. We show that all characteristic attributes of quantum theory such as complementarity, entanglement or Heisenberg uncertainty relations are also attributes of the generalized wave pattern recognition theory.

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arXiv2002

On Entangled Information and Quantum Capacity

The pure quantum entanglement is generalized to the case of mixed compound states on an operator algebra to include the classical and quantum encodings as particular cases. The true quantum entanglements are characterized by quantum couplings which are described as transpose-CP, but not Completely Positive (CP), trace-normalized linear positive maps of the algebra. The entangled (total) information is defined in this paper as a relative entropy of the conditional (the derivative of the compound state with respect to the input) and the unconditional output states. Thus defined the total information of the entangled states leads to two different types of the entropy for a given quantum state: the von Neumann entropy, or c-entropy, which is achieved as the supremum of the information over all c-entanglements and thus is semi-classical, and the true quantum entropy, or q-entropy, which is achieved at the standard entanglement. The q-capacity, defined as the supremum over all entanglements, coincides with the topological entropy. In the case of the simple algebra it doubles the c-capacity, coinciding with the rank-entropy. The conditional q-entropy based on the q-entropy, is positive, unlike the von Neumann conditional entropy, and the q-information of a quantum channel is proved to be additive.

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arXiv2002

Measurement, Filtering and Control in Quantum Open Dynamical Systems

A Markovian model for a quantum automata, i.e. an open quantum dynamical discrete-time system with input and output channels and a feedback, is described. A dynamical theory of quantum discrete-time adaptive measurements and multi-stage quantum statistical decisions is developed and applied to the optimal feedback control problem for the quantum dynamical objects. Quantum analogies of Stratonovich non-stationary filtering, and Bellman quantum dynamical programming in the discrete time are derived. A Gaussian Langevin model of the quantum one-dimensional linear Markovian dynamical system matched with a quantum linear transmission line as an input-output quantum noisy channel is studied. The optimal quantum multi-stage decision rule consisting of a classical linear optimal control strategy and the quantum optimal filtering of the noise is found. The latter contains the optimal quantum coherent measurement on the output of the line and the recursive processing by the Kalman filter. A time-continuous limit of the above model is considered, and the quantum nondemolition measurement, time-continuous filtering and the optimal dynamical programming are found in this limit. All the results are illustrated by an example of the optimal control problem for a quantum open oscillator matched to a quantum transmission line.

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arXiv2002

Entanglement, Quantum Entropy and Mutual Information

The operational structure of quantum couplings and entanglements is studied and classified for semifinite von Neumann algebras. We show that the classical-quantum correspondences such as quantum encodings can be treated as diagonal semi-classical (d-) couplings, and the entanglements characterized by truly quantum (q-) couplings, can be regarded as truly quantum encodings. The relative entropy of the d-compound and entangled states leads to two different types of entropy for a given quantum state: the von Neumann entropy, which is achieved as the maximum of mutual information over all d-entanglements, and the dimensional entropy, which is achieved at the standard entanglement -- true quantum entanglement, coinciding with a d-entanglement only in the case of pure marginal states. The d- and q- information of a quantum noisy channel are respectively defined via the input d- and q- encodings, and the q-capacity of a quantum noiseless channel is found as the logarithm of the dimensionality of the input algebra. The quantum capacity may double the classical capacity, achieved as the supremum over all d-couplings, or encodings, bounded by the logarithm of the dimensionality of a maximal Abelian subalgebra.

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arXiv2002

Quantum Causality, Stochastics, Trajectories and Information

A history of the discovery of quantum mechanics and paradoxes of its interpretation is reconsidered from the modern point of view of quantum stochastics and information. It is argued that in the orthodox quantum mechanics there is no place for quantum phenomenology such as events. The development of quantum measurement theory, initiated by von Neumann, and Bell's conceptual critics of hidden variable theories indicated a possibility for resolution of this crisis. This can be done by divorcing the algebra of the dynamical generators and an extended algebra of the potential (quantum) and the actual (classical) observables. The latter, called beables, form the center of the algebra of all observables, as the only visible (macroscopic) observables must be compatible with any hidden (microscopic) observable. It is shown that within this approach quantum causality can be rehabilitated within event enhanced quantum mechanics (eventum mechanics) in the form of a superselection rule for compatibility of the consistent histories with the statistically predictable future. The application of this rule in the form of the nondemolition principle leads to the statistical inference of the von Neumann projection postulate, and also to the more general quantum information dynamics for instantaneous events, spontaneous localizations (i.e. quantum jumps), and state diffusions (i.e. continuous trajectories). This gives a dynamical solution, in the form of a Dirac boundary value problem and reduced filtering equations, of the notorious decoherence and measurement problems which was tackled unsuccessfully by many famous mathematicians and physicists starting with von Neumann, Schroedinger and Bohr.

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