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Investigation of quantum contextuality in a harmonic oscillator using an NMR quantum simulator

Hemant Katiyar, C. S. Sudheer Kumar, T. S. Mahesh

Published Mar 19, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

Often physical potentials are approximated to a harmonic potential so as to analytically solve the system dynamics. For example, the quantized electromagnetic field used to manipulate a qubit in cavity quantum electrodynamics, can be described using quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO). Hence it is important to know when a QHO behaves quantum mechanically and when classically. In this work, we encode the four lower-most eigenstates of the one dimensional-QHO(1D-QHO) onto the four Zeeman product states of a pair of spin-1/2 nuclei. Using the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processing (QIP), we then demonstrate the strong violation of noncontextual hidden variable (NCHV) inequality, under specific experimental arrangements. We also experimentally investigate the weak violation of NCHV inequality by thermal equilibrium states in nuclear spins, thereby assessing their quantumness.

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Often physical potentials are approximated to a harmonic potential so as to analytically solve the system dynamics. For example, the quantized electromagnetic field used to manipulate a qubit in cavity quantum electrodynamics, can be described using quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO). Hence it is important to know when a QHO behaves quantum mechanically and when classically. In this work, we encode the four lower-most eigenstates of the one dimensional-QHO(1D-QHO) onto the four Zeeman product states of a pair of spin-1/2 nuclei. Using the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processing (QIP), we then demonstrate the strong violation of noncontextual hidden variable (NCHV) inequality, under specific experimental arrangements. We also experimentally investigate the weak violation of NCHV inequality by thermal equilibrium states in nuclear spins, thereby assessing their quantumness.
Physical potentials are routinely approximated to harmonic potentials. Hence it is important to know when a quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) behaves quantum mechanically and when classically. Recently Su et al. ( Phys. Rev. A , 85 (2012) 052126) have theoretically shown that QHO exhibits quantum contextuality (QC) for a certain set of pseudospin observables. Here we encode the four eigenstates of a QHO onto four Zeeman product states of a pair of spin-(1/2) nuclei. Using the techniques of NMR quantum information processing, we then demonstrate the violation of both state-dependent and state-independent inequalities arising from the noncontextual hidden variable model.
In this paper, we present an analog of Bell's inequalities violation test for N qubits to be performed in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum computer. This can be used to simulate or predict the results for different Bell's inequality tests, with distinct configurations and a larger number of qubits. To demonstrate our scheme, we implemented a simulation of the violation of the Clauser, Horne, Shimony and Holt (CHSH) inequality using a two-qubit NMR system and compared the results to those of a photon experiment. The experimental results are well described by the quantum mechanics theory and a local realistic hidden variables model (LRHVM) that was specifically developed for NMR. That is why we refer to this experiment as a simulation of Bell's inequality violation. Our result shows explicitly how the two theories can be compatible with each other due to the detection loophole. In the last part of this work, we discuss the possibility of testing some fundamental features of quantum mechanics using NMR with highly polarized spins, where a strong discrepancy between quantum mechanics and hidden variables models can be expected.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a direct macroscopic manifestation of the quantum mechanics of the intrinsic angular momentum of atomic nuclei. It is best known for its extraordinary range of applications, which include molecular structure determination, medical imaging, and measurements of flow and diffusion rates. Most recently, liquid-state NMR spectroscopy has been found to provide a powerful experimental tool for the development and evaluation of the coherent control techniques needed for quantum information processing. This burgeoning new interdisciplinary field has the potential to achieve cryptographic, communications, and computational feats far beyond what is possible with known classical physics. Indeed, NMR has made the demonstration of many of these feats sufficiently simple to be carried out by high school summer interns working in our laboratory (see the last two authors). In this paper the basic principles of quantum information processing by NMR spectroscopy are described, along with several illustrative experiments suitable for incorporation into the undergraduate physics curriculum. These experiments are spin–spin interferometry, an implementation of the quantum Fourier transform, and the quantum simulation of a harmonic oscillator.