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Adaptive estimation of a time-varying phase with coherent states: smoothing can give an unbounded improvement over filtering

Kiarn T. Laverick, Howard M. Wiseman, Hossien T. Dinani et al. · 2017 · arXiv

The problem of measuring a time-varying phase, even when the statistics of the variation is known, is considerably harder than that of measuring a constant phase. In particular, the usual bounds on accuracy - such as the $1/(4\bar{n})$ standard quantum limit with coherent states - do not apply. Here, restricting to coherent states, we are able to analytically obtain the achievable accuracy - the equivalent of the standard quantum limit - for a wide class of phase variation. In particular, we consider the case where the phase has Gaussian statistics and a power-law spectrum equal to $κ^{p-1}/|ω

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Active Learning with Selective Time-Step Acquisition for PDEs

Yegon Kim, Hyunsu Kim, Gyeonghoon Ko et al. · 2025 · arXiv

Accurately solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is critical to understanding complex scientific and engineering phenomena, yet traditional numerical solvers are computationally expensive. Surrogate models offer a more efficient alternative, but their development is hindered by the cost of generating sufficient training data from numerical solvers. In this paper, we present a novel framework for active learning in PDE surrogate modeling that reduces this cost. Unlike the existing AL methods for PDEs that always acquire entire PDE trajectories, our approach, STAP (**S**elective **T**ime

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Exchanging identical particles and topological quantum computing

S. J. van Enk · 2018 · arXiv

The phase factor $(-1)^{2s}$ that features in the exchange symmetry for identical spin-$s$ fermions or bosons is not simply and automatically equal to the phase factor one can observe in an interference experiment that involves physically exchanging two such particles. The observable phase contains, in general, single-particle geometric and dynamical phases as well, induced by both spin and spatial exchange transformations. By extending the analysis to (non-abelian) anyons it is argued that, similarly, there are single-anyon geometric and dynamical contributions in addition to purely topologic

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