Quasi-isometric embedding Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A quasi-isometric embedding satisfies the two-sided coarse distance inequality in the definition of quasi-isometry, without requiring its image to be coarsely dense.
Three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For constant buoyancy frequency on a beta plane, three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity can be written
Quasi-geostrophic streamfunction Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
The quasi-geostrophic streamfunction defines horizontal velocity by and . For a one-layer free-surface model, geostrophic balance gives .
Fall to the centre for a supercritical inverse-power potential Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For an attractive potential with , dilations make the negative potential energy grow faster than kinetic energy, sending the Rayleigh quotient to minus infinity.
Finite square barrier transmission at half barrier height Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
For a square potential barrier of width and height , put
The oscillatory wavenumber outside and decay constant inside are both . Matching the wavefunction and its derivative at both faces gives transmission amplitude
and transmission probability .
Marked-state phase oracle Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
If marks only , phase kickback realizes on the search register.
Bernstein-Vazirani phase kickback Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For , phase kickback followed by a Walsh-Hadamard transform maps the uniform phase state to
The hidden linear string is therefore recovered with certainty.
Exact period recovery from a Fourier sample Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For the exact sample , reducing
recovers denominator . Thus one sample reveals the full period exactly when is coprime to ; otherwise it reveals only a proper divisor and the algorithm must obtain more information.
Continued-fraction recovery in quantum order finding Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a measured ratio approximates a reduced within , continued-fraction convergents recover the candidate denominator .
Fourier transform of a finite periodic comb Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Fourier amplitude of equally spaced basis states is a finite geometric sum with peaks where the Fourier phase increment is nearly one.
Photon propagator Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
In a covariant gauge, the photon propagator is the inverse of the gauge-fixed Maxwell kinetic operator.
Ward identity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For an on-shell amplitude with an external photon, gauge invariance implies .
Photon vacuum polarization Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Photon vacuum polarization is the one-particle-irreducible photon two-point function generated by charged-particle loops.
Lindblad equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
A Markovian continuous-time quantum channel obeys
Stinespring dilation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A Stinespring dilation represents a quantum channel by an isometry followed by tracing out the environment.
Primitive quantum channel Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A finite-dimensional quantum channel is primitive when some power maps every nonzero positive operator to a positive-definite operator. Equivalently, eigenvalue one is simple and no other eigenvalue lies on the unit circle.
Strictly contractive quantum channel Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A quantum channel is strictly contractive in trace distance when it reduces the distance between every pair of distinct density operators by a uniform factor smaller than one.
Unital quantum channel Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A quantum channel is unital when . Every random unitary channel is unital, while the converse fails in dimension at least three.
Random unitary channel Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A random unitary channel has . Its Choi matrix is a convex combination of maximally entangled pure states.
Choi matrix Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
For normalized maximally entangled , the Choi matrix of is . Choi's theorem says is completely positive exactly when .

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