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Quantum Many-Body Systems Under Imperfect Observation: Framework, Geometry, and Dynamics

Real measurement devices are never perfect — they misidentify particles and resolve only a fraction of the system. I present a unified picture of what happens to a many-body quantum system when probed through such imperfect detectors.

Montag 29.06.2026 03:06 Uhr
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I introduce a quantum map formalism modeling two sources of measurement imperfection — particle-indexing errors and limited detector resolution — giving rise to fuzzy and coarse-grained quantum maps linked by a partial trace. A key result is that the volume of tomographically accessible states shrinks at a double-exponential rate in the number of particles. I then present a geometric and probabilistic characterization of the coarse-graining channel: the probability density over coarse-grained states concentrates sharply around the maximally mixed state as system size grows, making nearly pure coarse-grained states exponentially rare. Finally, using a maximum-entropy assignment map to invert the coarse-graining, I examine the effective dynamics induced by unitary microscopic evolution. The resulting dynamics are strikingly non-standard: nonlinear, non-Markovian, and initial-state dependent.

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Speaker: Carlos Pineda (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Time: 15:00