Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02585-y
Pan-Yu Hou, Jenny J. Wu, Stephen D. Erickson, Daniel C. Cole, Giorgio Zarantonello, Adam D. Brandt, Shawn Geller, Alex Kwiatkowski, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Andrew C. Wilson, Daniel H. Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried
{"title":"Coherent coupling and non-destructive measurement of trapped-ion mechanical oscillators","authors":"Pan-Yu Hou, Jenny J. Wu, Stephen D. Erickson, Daniel C. Cole, Giorgio Zarantonello, Adam D. Brandt, Shawn Geller, Alex Kwiatkowski, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Andrew C. Wilson, Daniel H. Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02585-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02585-y","url":null,"abstract":"Precise quantum control and measurement of several harmonic oscillators, such as the modes of the electromagnetic field in a cavity or of mechanical motion, are key for their use as quantum platforms. The motional modes of trapped ions can be individually controlled and have good coherence properties. However, achieving high-fidelity two-mode operations and non-destructive measurements of the motional state has been challenging. Here we demonstrate the coherent exchange of single motional quanta between spectrally separated harmonic motional modes of a trapped-ion crystal. The timing, strength, and phase of the coupling are controlled through an oscillating electric potential with suitable spatial variation. Coupling rates that are much larger than decoherence rates enable demonstrations of high-fidelity quantum state transfer and beam-splitter operations, entanglement of motional modes, and Hong–Ou–Mandel-type interference. Additionally, we use the motional coupling to enable repeated non-destructive projective measurement of a trapped-ion motional state. Our work enhances the suitability of trapped-ion motion for continuous-variable quantum computing and error correction and may provide opportunities to improve the performance of motional cooling and motion-mediated entangling interactions. A lack of non-destructive measurements and difficulty in tuning direct coupling between motional modes limits quantum information processing with trapped ions. Both features have now been achieved in an ion crystal using oscillating electric fields.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02591-0
Feng Ling, Tara Essock-Burns, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Kakani Katija, Janna C. Nawroth, Eva Kanso
{"title":"Flow physics guides morphology of ciliated organs","authors":"Feng Ling, Tara Essock-Burns, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Kakani Katija, Janna C. Nawroth, Eva Kanso","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02591-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02591-0","url":null,"abstract":"Organs that pump luminal fluids by the coordinated beat of motile cilia are integral to animal physiology. Such organs include the human airways, brain ventricles and reproductive tracts. Although cilia organization and duct morphology vary drastically in the animal kingdom, ducts are typically classified as carpet or flame designs. The reason behind the appearance of these two different designs and how they relate to fluid pumping remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that two structural parameters—lumen diameter and cilia-to-lumen ratio—organize the observed duct diversity into a continuous spectrum that connects carpets to flames across all animal phyla. Using a unified fluid model, we show that carpets and flames represent trade-offs between flow rate and pressure generation. We propose that the convergence of ciliated organ designs follows functional constraints rather than phylogenetic distance and offer guiding design principles for synthetic ciliary pumps. The ducts of many fluid-pumping organs feature cilia. Two structural parameters organize the different types of ducts into a continuous spectrum between ciliary carpet and flame designs depending on the fluid-pumping requirements.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02586-x
Yoonah Chung, Minsu Kim, Yeryn Kim, Seyeong Cha, Joon Woo Park, Jeehong Park, Yeonjin Yi, Dongjoon Song, Jung Hyun Ryu, Kimoon Lee, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Jonathan Denlinger, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Keun Su Kim
{"title":"Dark states of electrons in a quantum system with two pairs of sublattices","authors":"Yoonah Chung, Minsu Kim, Yeryn Kim, Seyeong Cha, Joon Woo Park, Jeehong Park, Yeonjin Yi, Dongjoon Song, Jung Hyun Ryu, Kimoon Lee, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Jonathan Denlinger, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Keun Su Kim","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02586-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02586-x","url":null,"abstract":"A quantum state of matter that is forbidden to interact with photons and is therefore undetectable by spectroscopic means is called a dark state. This basic concept can be applied to condensed matter where it suggests that a whole band of quantum states could be undetectable across a full Brillouin zone. Here we report the discovery of such condensed-matter dark states in palladium diselenide as a model system that has two pairs of sublattices in the primitive cell. By using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we find valence bands that are practically unobservable over the whole Brillouin zone at any photon energy, polarization and scattering plane. Our model shows that two pairs of sublattices located at half-translation positions and related by multiple glide-mirror symmetries make their relative quantum phases polarized into only four kinds, three of which become dark due to double destructive interference. This mechanism is generic to other systems with two pairs of sublattices, and we show how the phenomena observed in cuprates, lead halide perovskites and density wave systems can be resolved by the mechanism of dark states. Our results suggest that the sublattice degree of freedom, which has been overlooked so far, should be considered in the study of correlated phenomena and optoelectronic characteristics. The identification of dark states—quantum states that do not interact with photons—in real materials may help to address many unsolved issues in condensed-matter physics. Now, they have been identified in palladium diselenide.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02607-9
{"title":"Undetectable electrons in solids with two pairs of sublattices","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02607-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02607-9","url":null,"abstract":"Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements identify dark electron states in palladium diselenide, cuprate superconductors, and lead halide perovskites. These dark states are attributed to the two pairs of sublattices in each of the solids, which leads to a double two-level quantum system in which double destructive interference can occur.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02588-9
Jayadev Vijayan
{"title":"Non-reciprocity forces nanoparticles into lockstep","authors":"Jayadev Vijayan","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02588-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02588-9","url":null,"abstract":"Tuneable optical control enables the investigation of collective phases of motion in a pair of coupled levitated mechanical oscillators.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141764014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02593-y
Hudson Borja da Rocha, Tal Cohen
{"title":"Onwards and upwards","authors":"Hudson Borja da Rocha, Tal Cohen","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02593-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02593-y","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments show that the shape of a biofilm, not just its cell doubling time, significantly impacts its expansion rate. This insight could guide new strategies for controlling biofilm growth.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141764016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02590-1
Vojtěch Liška, Tereza Zemánková, Petr Jákl, Martin Šiler, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Oto Brzobohatý
{"title":"PT-like phase transition and limit cycle oscillations in non-reciprocally coupled optomechanical oscillators levitated in vacuum","authors":"Vojtěch Liška, Tereza Zemánková, Petr Jákl, Martin Šiler, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Oto Brzobohatý","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02590-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02590-1","url":null,"abstract":"Nanoparticles levitated in an optical trap provide a versatile platform to study mechanical oscillators in a controlled environment with tuneable parameters. Recently, it has become possible to couple two of these optomechanical oscillators. Here we demonstrate the collective non-Hermitian dynamics of such a pair of non-conservatively coupled oscillators. We take advantage of the tunability of the optical interactions between the particles in our system and set the optical interaction between the particles to be purely non-reciprocal. By continuously varying the relative power of the trapping beams, we take the system through a transition similar to a parity–time phase transition. A Hopf bifurcation at a critical point results in the formation of collective limit cycle oscillations, resembling those observed in phonon lasers. These coupled levitated oscillators provide a platform for exceptional point optomechanical sensing and can be extended to multi-particle systems, paving the way for the development of topological optomechanical media. Non-reciprocal interactions between two optically levitated nanoparticles allow the observation of non-Hermitian dynamics and a mechanical lasing transition, and suggest applications in optomechanical sensing.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141764020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02536-7
Yihui Quek, Daniel Stilck França, Sumeet Khatri, Johannes Jakob Meyer, Jens Eisert
{"title":"Exponentially tighter bounds on limitations of quantum error mitigation","authors":"Yihui Quek, Daniel Stilck França, Sumeet Khatri, Johannes Jakob Meyer, Jens Eisert","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02536-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02536-7","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum error mitigation has been proposed as a means to combat unwanted and unavoidable errors in near-term quantum computing without the heavy resource overheads required by fault-tolerant schemes. Recently, error mitigation has been successfully applied to reduce noise in near-term applications. In this work, however, we identify strong limitations to the degree to which quantum noise can be effectively ‘undone’ for larger system sizes. Our framework rigorously captures large classes of error-mitigation schemes in use today. By relating error mitigation to a statistical inference problem, we show that even at shallow circuit depths comparable to those of current experiments, a superpolynomial number of samples is needed in the worst case to estimate the expectation values of noiseless observables, the principal task of error mitigation. Notably, our construction implies that scrambling due to noise can kick in at exponentially smaller depths than previously thought. Noise also impacts other near-term applications by constraining kernel estimation in quantum machine learning, causing an earlier emergence of noise-induced barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms and ruling out exponential quantum speed-ups in estimating expectation values in the presence of noise or preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian. Error mitigation has helped improve the performance of current quantum computing devices. Now, a mathematical analysis of the technique suggests its benefits may not extend to larger systems.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02536-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141764019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02589-8
Manuel Reisenbauer, Henning Rudolph, Livia Egyed, Klaus Hornberger, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Murad Abuzarli, Benjamin A. Stickler, Uroš Delić
{"title":"Non-Hermitian dynamics and non-reciprocity of optically coupled nanoparticles","authors":"Manuel Reisenbauer, Henning Rudolph, Livia Egyed, Klaus Hornberger, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Murad Abuzarli, Benjamin A. Stickler, Uroš Delić","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02589-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02589-8","url":null,"abstract":"Non-Hermitian dynamics, as observed in photonic, atomic, electrical and optomechanical platforms, holds great potential for sensing applications and signal processing. Recently, fully tuneable non-reciprocal optical interaction has been demonstrated between levitated nanoparticles. Here we use this tunability to investigate the collective non-Hermitian dynamics of two non-reciprocally and nonlinearly interacting nanoparticles. We observe parity–time symmetry breaking and, for sufficiently strong coupling, a collective mechanical lasing transition in which the particles move along stable limit cycles. This work opens up a research avenue of non-equilibrium multi-particle collective effects, tailored by the dynamic control of individual sites in a tweezer array. The tuneable and nonlinear nature of the interactions between two optically levitated nanoparticles allows the observation of the system’s non-Hermitian dynamics and a mechanical lasing transition.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02589-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141764017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhysicsPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02553-6
{"title":"Collective motion of electrons captured at the atomic scale","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41567-024-02553-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41567-024-02553-6","url":null,"abstract":"Many 2D or 1D materials feature fascinating collective behaviour of electrons that competes with highly localized interactions at atomic defects. By combining terahertz spectroscopy with scanning tunnelling microscopy, the ultrafast motion of these collective states can be captured with atomic spatial resolution, enabling the observation of electron dynamics at their intrinsic length and time scale.","PeriodicalId":19100,"journal":{"name":"Nature Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":17.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141736892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}