Classical and quantum L-matrices

Philip Feinsilver, Jerzy Kocik

Krawtchouk's polynomials occur classically as orthogonal polynomials with respect to the binomial distribution. They may be also expressed in the form of matrices, that emerge as arrays of the values that the polynomials take. The algebraic properties of these matrices provide a very interesting and accessible example in the approach to probability theory known as quantum probability. First it is noted how the Krawtchouk matrices are connected to the classical symmetric Bernoulli random walk. And we show how to derive Krawtchouk matrices in the quantum probability context via tensor powers of the elementary Hadamard matrix. Then connections with the classical situation are shown by calculating expectation values in the quantum case.

Teiko Heinosaari, Oskari Kerppo

A prepare-and-measure scenario is naturally described by a communication matrix that collects all conditional outcome probabilities of the scenario into a row-stochastic matrix. The set of all possible communication matrices is partially ordered via the possibility to transform one matrix to another by pre- and post-processings. By considering maximal elements in this preorder for a subset of matrices implementable in a given theory, it becomes possible to identify communication matrices of maximum utility, i.e., matrices that are not majorized by any other matrices in the theory. The identity matrix of an appropriate size is the greatest element in classical theories, while the maximal elements in quantum theory have remained unknown. We completely characterize the maximal elements in quantum theory, thereby revealing the essential structure of the set of quantum communication matrices. In particular, we show that the identity matrix is the only maximal element in quantum theory but, as opposed to a classical theory, it is not the greatest element. Quantum theory can hence be seen to be distinct from classical theory by the existence of incompatible communication matrices.

Moritz Weber

Jan Jerzy Sławianowski

T. Skrypnyk

We consider quantum integrable systems associated with reductive Lie algebra g l ( n ) and Cartan-invariant non-skew-symmetric classical r -matrices. We show that under certain restrictions on the form of classical r -matrices “nested” or “hierarchical” Bethe ansatz usually based on a chain of subalgebras g l ( n ) ⊃ g l ( n − 1 ) ⊃ . . . ⊃ g l ( 1 ) is generalized onto the other chains or “hierarchies” of subalgebras. We show that among the r -matrices satisfying such the restrictions there are “twisted” or Z p -graded non-skew-symmetric classical r -matrices. We consider in detail example of the generalized Gaudin models with and without external magnetic field associated with Z p -graded non-skew-symmetric classical r -matrices and find the spectrum of the corresponding Gaudin-type hamiltonians using nested Bethe ansatz scheme and a chain of subalgebras g l ( n ) ⊃ g l ( n − n 1 ) ⊃ g l ( n − n 1 − n 2 ) ⊃ g l ( n − ( n 1 + . . . + n p − 1 ) ) , where n 1 + n 2 + . . . + n p = n .