Vojtěch Kala, Jiří Fadrný, Michal Neset, Jan Bílek, Petr Marek, Miroslav Ježek
{"title":"Genuine continuous quantumness","authors":"Vojtěch Kala, Jiří Fadrný, Michal Neset, Jan Bílek, Petr Marek, Miroslav Ježek","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01389-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01389-7","url":null,"abstract":"Randomness is a key feature of quantum physics. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle reveals the existence of an intrinsic noise, usually explored through Gaussian squeezed states. Due to their insufficiency for quantum advantage, the focus is currently shifting towards genuinely quantum non-Gaussian states. However, while genuine quantum behavior comes naturally to discrete variable systems, its preparation and verification are difficult in continuous ones. Simultaneously, a unifying theoretical framework based on the continuous nature is missing. Here, we introduce nonlinear squeezing as a general framework to describe and verify genuine quantumness in the noise of continuous quantum states. Using this approach, we certify the non-Gaussianity of experimentally prepared multi-photon-added coherent states of light for the first time. Chiefly, we demonstrated the nonlinear squeezing corresponding to third- and fifth-order quantum nonlinearities, going significantly beyond the current state-of-the-art in quantum technology. This framework enables uncovering intricate quantum properties in cutting-edge experiments and provides an efficient tool for further development of quantum technologies.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218133","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}
Oliver F. Wolff,Harshvardhan Mantry,Rahim Raja,Wei-Hsiang Peng,Kaushik Singirikonda,Seungkyun Lee,Shishir Sudhaman,Rafael Gonçalves,Pinshane Y. Huang,Angela Kou,Wolfgang Pfaff
{"title":"Structural control of two-level defect density revealed by high-throughput correlative measurements of Josephson junctions","authors":"Oliver F. Wolff,Harshvardhan Mantry,Rahim Raja,Wei-Hsiang Peng,Kaushik Singirikonda,Seungkyun Lee,Shishir Sudhaman,Rafael Gonçalves,Pinshane Y. Huang,Angela Kou,Wolfgang Pfaff","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01395-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01395-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"230 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208779","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}
{"title":"A quantitative model for embedding quantum-secure communications and evaluating communication autonomy in industrial control systems","authors":"Konstantinos Gkouliaras,Vasileios Theos,True Miller,Brian Jowers,George Kennedy,Andy Grant,Terry Cronin,Philip G. Evans,Stylianos Chatzidakis","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01396-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01396-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208782","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}
Kang-Min Hu,Myung-Hyun Sohn,Yong-Su Kim,Kwang Jo Lee,Hyun Woo Kim,Hyang-Tag Lim
{"title":"Demonstration of subspace-search variational quantum eigensolver using photonic orbital angular momentum qudits","authors":"Kang-Min Hu,Myung-Hyun Sohn,Yong-Su Kim,Kwang Jo Lee,Hyun Woo Kim,Hyang-Tag Lim","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01380-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01380-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Accurate excited-state energies are essential for interpreting fluorescence and photochemical processes, yet variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware have largely been confined to ground states. Subspace-search VQE (SSVQE) offers a NISQ-friendly route to excited states without ancilla-based overlap measurements, however it has lacked an experimental demonstration since it requires the coherent preparation and manipulation of multiple orthogonal basis states under a shared variational unitary. Here we realize SSVQE on a photonic platform by encoding orthogonal qudit states in the orbital angular momentum of single photons and optimizing a shared variational circuit. We estimate excited-state energies for a four-dimensional HeH + molecule and an eight-dimensional Heisenberg chain, thereby demonstrating scalable excited state eigensolving in a high-dimensional Hilbert space. Our results establish photonic qudits as a resource-efficient pathway to excited-state quantum simulation.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149089778","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}
Hao Wu, Grant D. Mitts, Clayton Z. C. Ho, Joshua A. Rabinowitz, Eric R. Hudson
{"title":"Breaking Rayleigh’s curse: broadband frequency super-resolution via a quantum harmonic oscillator","authors":"Hao Wu, Grant D. Mitts, Clayton Z. C. Ho, Joshua A. Rabinowitz, Eric R. Hudson","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01388-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01388-8","url":null,"abstract":"Non-orthogonal quantum states cannot be distinguished with complete certainty, making their underlying physical parameters difficult to resolve. In frequency spectroscopy of two closely spaced electromagnetic fields, this challenge has traditionally been associated with the Fourier-transform-limited linewidth, implying that the measurement time required to resolve a frequency difference Δω diverges as Δω → 0. Here, we show that this linewidth does not fundamentally limit the resolution of two closely spaced frequencies when each signal has sufficient amplitude for efficient detection. We propose and experimentally demonstrate a broadband quantum harmonic oscillator protocol for super-resolution spectroscopy in the radio-frequency and microwave domains. A Quantum Fluctuation Suppression (QFS) sequence encodes Δω into the oscillator state while suppressing parameter-independent shot noise. We resolve two randomly chosen electric fields near 100 MHz separated by 5 Hz, measuring 5.0(1.6) Hz with a 1ms probe time, 200 × beyond the conventional spectral-resolution limit. The method reduces acquisition time by more than five orders of magnitude and, through the motional Raman framework, is applicable across a broad frequency range.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149087822","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}
{"title":"The equivalence of quantum deletion and insertion errors on permutation-invariant codes","authors":"Lewis Bulled, Yingkai Ouyang","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01371-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01371-3","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum synchronisation errors are a class of errors that change the number of qubits in a quantum system. The classical error correction of synchronisation errors has been well-studied, including an insertion-deletion equivalence more than a half-century ago, but little progress has been made towards the quantum counterpart since the birth of quantum error correction. We address the longstanding problem of a quantum insertion-deletion equivalence on permutation-invariant codes, detailing the conditions under which such codes are t-insertion error-correctable. We extend these conditions to quantum insertion-deletion errors, formulating a more restrictive set of conditions under which permutation-invariant codes are (t, s)-insdel error-correctable. For completeness, we extend our approach to qudit errors on qudit permutation-invariant codes. Our work resolves many of the outstanding questions regarding the quantum error correction of synchronisation errors.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149087850","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}