Valentin Wössner, Oliver M Drozdowski, Falko Ziebert and Ulrich S Schwarz
{"title":"Active gel model for one-dimensional cell migration coupling actin flow and adhesion dynamics","authors":"Valentin Wössner, Oliver M Drozdowski, Falko Ziebert and Ulrich S Schwarz","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad63c5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad63c5","url":null,"abstract":"Migration of animal cells is based on the interplay between actin polymerization at the front, adhesion along the cell-substrate interface, and actomyosin contractility at the back. Active gel theory has been used before to demonstrate that actomyosin contractility is sufficient for polarization and self-sustained cell migration in the absence of external cues, but did not consider the dynamics of adhesion. Likewise, migration models based on the mechanosensitive dynamics of adhesion receptors usually do not include the global dynamics of intracellular flow. Here we show that both aspects can be combined in a minimal active gel model for one-dimensional cell migration with dynamic adhesion. This model demonstrates that load sharing between the adhesion receptors leads to symmetry breaking, with stronger adhesion at the front, and that bistability of migration arises for intermediate adhesiveness. Local variations in adhesiveness are sufficient to switch between sessile and motile states, in qualitative agreement with experiments.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"303 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Zheng Qin, Xiufan Li, Yang Zhou, Shikun Zhang, Rui Li, Chunxiao Du and Zhisong Xiao
{"title":"Applicability of measurement-based quantum computation towards physically-driven variational quantum eigensolver","authors":"Zheng Qin, Xiufan Li, Yang Zhou, Shikun Zhang, Rui Li, Chunxiao Du and Zhisong Xiao","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad634a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad634a","url":null,"abstract":"Variational quantum algorithms are considered one of the most promising methods for obtaining near-term quantum advantages; however, most of these algorithms are only expressed in the conventional quantum circuit scheme. The roadblock to developing quantum algorithms with the measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) scheme is resource cost. Recently, we discovered that the realization of multi-qubit rotation operations only requires a constant number of single-qubit measurements with the MBQC scheme, providing a potential advantage in terms of resource cost. The structure of the Hamiltonian variational ansatz aligns well with this characteristic. Thus, we propose an efficient measurement-based quantum algorithm for quantum many-body system simulation tasks, called measurement-based Hamiltonian variational ansatz (MBHVA). We then demonstrate its effectiveness, efficiency, and advantages with the two-dimensional Heisenberg model and the Fermi–Hubbard chain. Numerical experiments show that MBHVA can have similar performance as circuit-based ansatz, and is expected to reduce operation counts during execution compared to quantum circuits, bringing the advantage of running time. We conclude that the MBQC scheme is potentially feasible for achieving near-term quantum advantages in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, especially in the presence of large multi-qubit rotation operations.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Yu-Hui Wang, Li-Hang Ren, Ming-Liang Hu and Yan-Kui Bai
{"title":"Interconversion between block coherence and multipartite entanglement in many-body systems","authors":"Yu-Hui Wang, Li-Hang Ren, Ming-Liang Hu and Yan-Kui Bai","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad602b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad602b","url":null,"abstract":"Coherence is intrinsically related to projective measurement. When the fixed projective measurement involves higher-rank projectors, the coherence resource is referred to as block coherence, which comes from the superposition of orthogonal subspaces. Here, we establish a set of quantitative relations for the interconversion between block coherence and multipartite entanglement under the framework of the block-incoherent operations. It is found that the converted multipartite entanglement is upper bounded by the initial block coherence of single-party system. Moreover, the generated multipartite entanglement can be transferred to its subsystems and restored to block coherence of the initial single-party system by means of local block-incoherent operations and classical communication. In addition, when only the coarse-grained quantum operations are accessible for the ancillary subsystems, we further demonstrate that a lossless resource interconversion is still realizable, and give a concrete example in three four-level systems. Our results provide a versatile approach to utilize different quantum resources in a cyclic fashion.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Shovan Kanti Barik, Silpa B S, M Venkat Ramana, Shovan Dutta and Sanjukta Roy
{"title":"Doppler-enhanced quantum magnetometry with thermal Rydberg atoms","authors":"Shovan Kanti Barik, Silpa B S, M Venkat Ramana, Shovan Dutta and Sanjukta Roy","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad6179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad6179","url":null,"abstract":"We report experimental measurements showing how one can combine quantum interference and thermal Doppler shifts at room temperature to detect weak magnetic fields. We pump Rb atoms to a highly-excited, Rydberg level using a probe and a coupling laser, leading to narrow transmission peaks of the probe due to destructive interference of transition amplitudes, known as Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. While it is customary in such setups to use counterpropagating lasers to minimize the effect of Doppler shifts, here we show, on the contrary, that one can harness Doppler shifts in a copropagating arrangement to produce an enhanced response to a magnetic field. In particular, we demonstrate an order-of-magnitude bigger splitting in the transmission spectrum as compared to the counterpropagating case. We explain and generalize our findings with theoretical modeling and simulations based on a Lindblad master equation. Our results pave the way to using quantum effects for magnetometry in readily deployable room-temperature platforms.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141754001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Quasiparticles-mediated thermal diode effect in Weyl Josephson junctions","authors":"Pritam Chatterjee and Paramita Dutta","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad617a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad617a","url":null,"abstract":"We theoretically show quasiparticles-driven thermal diode effect (TDE) in an inversion symmetry-broken Weyl superconductor (WSC)-Weyl semimetal (WSM)-WSC Josephson junction. A Zeeman field perpendicular to the WSM region of the thermally-biased Weyl Josephson junction (WJJ) induces an asymmetry between the forward and reverse thermal currents, which is responsible for the TDE. Most interestingly, we show that the sign and magnitude of the thermal diode rectification coefficient is highly tunable by the superconducting phase difference and external Zeeman field, and also strongly depends on the junction length. The tunability of the rectification, particularly, the sign changing behavior associated with higher rectification enhances the potential of our WJJ thermal diode to use as functional switching components in thermal devices.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141754009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"Quantum optimization algorithm based on multistep quantum computation","authors":"Hefeng Wang and Hua Xiang","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad60ed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad60ed","url":null,"abstract":"We present a quantum algorithm for finding the minimum of a function based on multistep quantum computation, and apply the algorithm for solving optimization problems with continuous variables. We construct the state space of the problem by discretizing the variables of the problem, and divide the state space according to the function values of the vectors of the state space. By comparing the function values of the vectors with a series of threshold values in decreasing order, we construct a sequence of Hamiltonians where the search space of a Hamiltonian is nested in that of the previous one. By applying a multistep quantum computation process for finding the ground state of the last Hamiltonian, the optimal vector of the state space of the problem is located in a small search space and can be determined efficiently. One of the most difficult problems in optimization algorithms is that a trial vector is trapped in a deep local minimum while the global minimum is missed, this problem can be alleviated in our algorithm and the run time is proportional to the number of the steps of the algorithm, provided that the reduction rate of the search spaces is polynomial large. We discuss the implementation of the algorithm and test the algorithm for some test functions.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Zuzanna Kostera, Jerzy Antonowicz and Przemysław Dzięgielewski
{"title":"Atomic and electronic structures of Ni64Zr36 metallic glass under high pressure","authors":"Zuzanna Kostera, Jerzy Antonowicz and Przemysław Dzięgielewski","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad602c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad602c","url":null,"abstract":"Amorphous metallic alloys, also known as metallic glasses (MGs), are materials with unique physical properties resulting from their disordered yet densely packed atomic structure. The packing density of MGs can be further enhanced by external pressure, forcing the decrease of interatomic distances and modifying both the atomic and electronic structure of an alloy. This work reports on classical molecular dynamics (MD) and density functional theory (DFT) studies of Ni64Zr36 MG in a hydrostatic pressure range of 0–120 GPa. The MD simulations revealed that compression leads to enhanced short-range ordering by increasing the contribution of efficiently packed icosahedral-like clusters. According to the DFT calculations, for pressure above 50 GPa, Zr atoms show a significant change in electronic configuration, with a dominant charge transfer from their s and p to d-states and charge redistribution between Ni and Zr atoms. This variation is correlated with the appearance of pairs with significantly shortened interatomic distances, as detected by the MD. We conclude that the enhanced icosahedral ordering in Ni64Zr36 MG is induced not only by the pressure-driven densification of an alloy but also by a variation of its electronic structure.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"663 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
{"title":"An efficient quantum algorithm for independent component analysis","authors":"Xiao-Fan Xu, Xi-Ning Zhuang, Cheng Xue, Zhao-Yun Chen, Yu-Chun Wu and Guo-Ping Guo","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad5e16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad5e16","url":null,"abstract":"Independent component analysis (ICA) is a fundamental data processing technique to decompose the captured signals into as independent as possible components. Computing the contrast function, which serves as a measure of the independence of signals, is vital and costs major computing resources in ICA. This paper presents a quantum algorithm that focuses on computing a specified contrast function on a quantum computer. Using the quantum acceleration in matrix operations, we efficiently deal with Gram matrices and estimate the contrast function with the complexity of . This estimation subprogram, combined with the classical optimization framework, builds up our ICA algorithm, which exponentially reduces the complexity dependence on the data scale compared with algorithms using only classical computers. The outperformance is further supported by numerical experiments, while our algorithm is then applied for the separation of a transcriptomic dataset and for financial time series forecasting, to predict the Nikkei 225 opening index to show its potential application prospect.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Min Namkung, Dong-Hyun Kim, Seongjin Hong, Yong-Su Kim, Changhyoup Lee and Hyang-Tag Lim
{"title":"Optimal multiple-phase estimation with multi-mode NOON states against photon loss","authors":"Min Namkung, Dong-Hyun Kim, Seongjin Hong, Yong-Su Kim, Changhyoup Lee and Hyang-Tag Lim","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad5eaf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad5eaf","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-mode NOON states can quantum-enhance multiple-phase estimation in the absence of photon loss. However, a multi-mode NOON state is known to be vulnerable to photon loss, and its quantum-enhancement can be dissipated by lossy environment. In this work, we demonstrate that a quantum advantage in estimate precision can still be achieved in the presence of photon loss. This is accomplished by optimizing the weights of the multi-mode NOON states according to photon loss rates in the multiple modes, including the reference mode which defines the other phases. For practical relevance, we also show that photon-number counting via a multi-mode beam-splitter achieves the useful, albeit sub-optimal, quantum advantage. We expect this work to provide valuable guidance for developing quantum-enhanced multiple-phase estimation techniques in lossy environments.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Brahim Lemkalli, Muamer Kadic, Youssef El Badri, Sébastien Guenneau, Abdellah Mir and Younes Achaoui
{"title":"Longitudinal-twist wave converter based on chiral metamaterials","authors":"Brahim Lemkalli, Muamer Kadic, Youssef El Badri, Sébastien Guenneau, Abdellah Mir and Younes Achaoui","doi":"10.1088/1367-2630/ad617b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad617b","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in material architectures have enabled endowing materials with exotic attributes not commonly available in the conventional realm of mechanical engineering. Twisting, a mechanism whereby metamaterials are used to transform static axial load into twist motion, is of particular interest to this study. Herein, computations based on the finite element method, corroborated by a theoretical approach derived from applying Lagrange’s equations to a monoatomic spring-mass system, are employed to explore the longitudinal-twist (L-T) conversion exhibited by a chiral tetragonal-beam metamaterial. Firstly, we perform an eigenvalue analysis taking into account the polarization states to highlight the contribution of the longitudinal mode in the L-T conversion. We contrast the twisting behavior of the chiral cell with that of other homogeneous medium, octagonal-tube, and non-chiral cells. Moreover, we demonstrate the influence of the cell’s chirality on the L-T conversion using both time-domain and frequency-domain studies. The findings indicate that at least a portion of the longitudinally propagating wave is transformed into twist throughout a broad frequency range and even quasi-totally converted at distinct frequencies.","PeriodicalId":19181,"journal":{"name":"New Journal of Physics","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}