{"title":"Optoacoustic entanglement in a continuous Brillouin-active solid state system","authors":"Changlong Zhu, Claudiu Genes, Birgit Stiller","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.203602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.203602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Entanglement in hybrid quantum systems comprised of fundamentally different degrees of freedom, such as light and mechanics, is of interest for a wide range of applications in quantum technologies. Here, we propose to engineer bipartite entanglement between traveling acoustic phonons in a Brillouin active solid state system and the accompanying light wave. The effect is achieved by applying optical pump pulses to state-of-the-art waveguides, exciting a Brillouin Stokes process. This pulsed approach, in a system operating in a regime orthogonal to standard optomechanical setups, allows for the generation of entangled photon-phonon pairs, resilient to thermal fluctuations. We propose an experimental platform where readout of the optoacoustics entanglement is done by the simultaneous detection of Stokes and anti-Stokes photons in a two-pump configuration. The proposed mechanism presents an important feature in that it does not require initial preparation of the quantum ground state of the phonon mode.</p>","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610717","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}
Xiaolin Zhang, Rui Qu, Zehong Chang, Yunlong Wang, Zhenyu Guo, Min An, Hong Gao, Fuli Li, Pei Zhang
{"title":"Witnessing Quantum Incompatibility Structures in High-Dimensional Multimeasurement Systems","authors":"Xiaolin Zhang, Rui Qu, Zehong Chang, Yunlong Wang, Zhenyu Guo, Min An, Hong Gao, Fuli Li, Pei Zhang","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.190202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.190202","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum incompatibility, referred as the phenomenon that some quantum measurements cannot be performed simultaneously, is necessary for various quantum information processing tasks, such as nonlocality and steering. When these applications come to high-dimensional multimeasurement scenarios, it is crucial and challenging to witness the incompatibility of measurements with complex structures. To address this problem, we propose a modified quantum state discrimination protocol that decomposes complex compatibility structures into pairwise ones and employs noise robustness to bound incompatibility structures. We then derive arithmetic bounds for arbitrary measurements and analytical bounds for mutually unbiased bases, and capture some quantum incompatibility structures where measurements are partly compatible and partly incompatible. Finally, we experimentally demonstrate our results and connect them with quantum steering, quantum simulability and quantum communications.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597182","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":"Conversion-Driven Leptogenesis: A Testable Theory of Dark Matter and Baryogenesis at the Electroweak Scale","authors":"Jan Heisig","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.191803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.191803","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomena of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry pose two of the most pressing questions in today’s fundamental physics. Conversion-driven freeze-out has emerged as a successful mechanism to generate the observed dark matter relic density. It supports thermalization of dark matter despite its very weak couplings, aligning with the null results from direct and indirect detection experiments. In this Letter, we demonstrate that the departure from equilibrium of dark matter, induced by semi-efficient conversions, satisfies Sakharov’s conditions, providing a novel explanation for both dark matter and the baryon asymmetry. Specifically, for a leptophilic model, we establish the mechanism of conversion-driven leptogenesis. The scenario predicts dark matter masses close to the electroweak scale offering testable predictions, such as soft displaced leptons at the LHC and future colliders.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597180","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":"Spinning Black Binaries in de Sitter Space","authors":"Óscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.191401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.191401","url":null,"abstract":"We numerically construct stationary, rotating black binaries in general relativity with a positive cosmological constant. We consider identical black holes with either aligned or anti-aligned spins. Both cases have less entropy than the corresponding single Kerr–Schwarzschild–de Sitter black hole with the same total angular momentum and cosmological horizon entropy. Our solutions establish continuous nonuniqueness in general relativity without matter. They also provide initial data for the spinning binary merger problem (when orbital angular momentum is added).","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598149","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}
Carlos Fernandes, Rafael Wagner, Leonardo Novo, Ernesto F. Galvão
{"title":"Unitary-Invariant Witnesses of Quantum Imaginarity","authors":"Carlos Fernandes, Rafael Wagner, Leonardo Novo, Ernesto F. Galvão","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.190201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.190201","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum theory is traditionally formulated using complex numbers. This imaginarity of quantum theory has been quantified as a resource with applications in discrimination tasks, pseudorandomness generation, and quantum metrology. In the standard formulation, a quantum state is said to have “imaginarity” if the associated density matrix is not real-valued in a given, fixed basis. If instead we consider a set of states, it is possible to devise tests that guarantee imaginarity of some state in the set, independently of the basis chosen. Here we propose such basis-independent witnesses for imaginarity that rely on measurements of unitary-invariant properties of sets of states. For three pure states, we completely characterize the invariant values attainable by quantum theory, and give a partial characterization for four pure states. We show that simple pairwise overlap measurements suffice to witness imaginarity of sets of four states, but not for sets of three. Our witnesses are experimentally friendly, opening up a new path for measuring and using imaginarity as a resource.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598148","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}
Giuliano Giudici, Federica Maria Surace, Hannes Pichler
{"title":"Unraveling PXP Many-Body Scars through Floquet Dynamics","authors":"Giuliano Giudici, Federica Maria Surace, Hannes Pichler","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.190404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.190404","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum scars are special eigenstates of many-body systems that evade thermalization. They were first discovered in the PXP model, a well-known effective description of Rydberg atom arrays. Despite significant theoretical efforts, the fundamental origin of PXP scars remains elusive. By investigating the discretized dynamics of the PXP model as a function of the Trotter step <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"35\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"0\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"italic\" data-semantic- data-semantic-role=\"greekletter\" data-semantic-speech=\"tau\" data-semantic-type=\"identifier\"><mjx-c>𝜏</mjx-c></mjx-mi></mjx-math></mjx-container>, we uncover a remarkable correspondence between the zero- and two-particle eigenstates of the integrable Floquet-PXP cellular automaton at <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"36\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"(6 0 1 (5 2 3 4))\"><mjx-mrow data-semantic-children=\"0,5\" data-semantic-content=\"1\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 1 5\" data-semantic-role=\"equality\" data-semantic-speech=\"tau equals pi divided by 2\" data-semantic-type=\"relseq\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"italic\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"6\" data-semantic-role=\"greekletter\" data-semantic-type=\"identifier\"><mjx-c>𝜏</mjx-c></mjx-mi><mjx-mo data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"relseq,=\" data-semantic-parent=\"6\" data-semantic-role=\"equality\" data-semantic-type=\"relation\" space=\"4\"><mjx-c>=</mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mrow data-semantic-added=\"true\" data-semantic-children=\"2,4\" data-semantic-content=\"3\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"2 3 4\" data-semantic-parent=\"6\" data-semantic-role=\"division\" data-semantic-type=\"infixop\" space=\"4\"><mjx-mi data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"italic\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"5\" data-semantic-role=\"greekletter\" data-semantic-type=\"identifier\"><mjx-c>𝜋</mjx-c></mjx-mi><mjx-mo data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"infixop,/\" data-semantic-parent=\"5\" data-semantic-role=\"division\" data-semantic-type=\"operator\"><mjx-c>/</mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"5\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c>2</mjx-c></mjx-mn></mjx-mrow></mjx-mrow></mjx-math></mjx-container> and the PXP many-body scars of the time-continuous limit. Specifically, we demonstrate that PXP scars are adiabatically connected to the eigenstates of the <mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"37\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math breakable=\"true\" data-semantic-child","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597179","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}
Alexander P. Antonov, Lorenzo Caprini, Anton Ldov, Christian Scholz, Hartmut Löwen
{"title":"Inertial Active Matter with Coulomb Friction","authors":"Alexander P. Antonov, Lorenzo Caprini, Anton Ldov, Christian Scholz, Hartmut Löwen","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.198301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.198301","url":null,"abstract":"Friction is central to the motion of active (self-propelled) objects such as bacteria, animals, and robots. While in a viscous fluid friction is described by Stokes’s law, objects in contact with other solid bodies are often governed by more complex empirical friction laws. Here, we study active particles subject to Coulomb friction using a combination of active granular experiments and simulations, supported by theoretical predictions. The interplay of friction and activity forces induces a rich behavior resulting in three distinct dynamical regimes. While for low activity Brownian motion is recovered, for large activity we observe a dynamical stop and go regime that continuously switches from diffusion and accelerated motion. For greater activity, we observe a supermobile dynamical regime characterized by a fully accelerated motion which is described by an anomalous scaling of the diffusion coefficient with the activity. These findings cannot be observed with Stokes viscous forces typical of active swimmers but are central in dry active objects.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598153","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}
Adith Sai Aramthottil, Piotr Sierant, Maciej Lewenstein, Jakub Zakrzewski
{"title":"Phenomenology of Many-Body Localization in Bond-Disordered Spin Chains","authors":"Adith Sai Aramthottil, Piotr Sierant, Maciej Lewenstein, Jakub Zakrzewski","doi":"10.1103/physrevlett.133.196302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.196302","url":null,"abstract":"Many-body localization (MBL) hinders the thermalization of quantum many-body systems in the presence of strong disorder. In this Letter, we study the MBL regime in bond-disordered spin-<mjx-container ctxtmenu_counter=\"32\" ctxtmenu_oldtabindex=\"1\" jax=\"CHTML\" overflow=\"linebreak\" role=\"tree\" sre-explorer- style=\"font-size: 100.7%;\" tabindex=\"0\"><mjx-math data-semantic-structure=\"(3 0 1 2)\"><mjx-mrow data-semantic-children=\"0,2\" data-semantic-content=\"1\" data-semantic- data-semantic-owns=\"0 1 2\" data-semantic-role=\"division\" data-semantic-speech=\"1 divided by 2\" data-semantic-type=\"infixop\"><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c>1</mjx-c></mjx-mn><mjx-mo data-semantic- data-semantic-operator=\"infixop,/\" data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"division\" data-semantic-type=\"operator\"><mjx-c>/</mjx-c></mjx-mo><mjx-mn data-semantic-annotation=\"clearspeak:simple\" data-semantic-font=\"normal\" data-semantic- data-semantic-parent=\"3\" data-semantic-role=\"integer\" data-semantic-type=\"number\"><mjx-c>2</mjx-c></mjx-mn></mjx-mrow></mjx-math></mjx-container> XXZ spin chain, finding the multimodal distribution of entanglement entropy in eigenstates, sub-Poissonian level statistics, and revealing a relation between operators and initial states required for examining the breakdown of thermalization in the time evolution of the system. We employ a real space renormalization group scheme to identify these phenomenological features of the MBL regime that extend beyond the standard picture of local integrals of motion relevant for systems with disorder coupled to on-site operators. Our results pave the way for experimental probing of MBL in bond-disordered spin chains.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597181","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}