{"title":"Topological logical elements based on defect-mediated sound-wave manipulation","authors":"Shi-Feng Li, Jie-Yu Lu, Cui-Yu-Yang Zhou, Xin-Ye Zou, Jian-Chun Cheng","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034025","url":null,"abstract":"Growing interest in acoustic topological insulators arises from their robust edge states, which are resistant to defects and backscattering. Traditionally, the edge states of topological insulators are believed to be nearly immune to subwavelength-sized defects. As a result, there have been few studies focusing on utilizing defects to enhance wave control. Here, we investigate the impact of introducing periodic defects into acoustic pseudospin systems on the band structures and extend our analysis to nonperiodic structures. We discover that even a single subwavelength defect can significantly affect the topological boundary states, providing a platform for controlling and switching pseudospin edge states using defects. Expanding on this discovery, we develop a broadband topological sound switch (TSS) that achieves a high transmission ratio before and after switching by simply rotating a single scatterer. Additionally, we design three topological logic gates based on this TSS and experimentally verify their functionality. Our theory and experiments demonstrate that the spatial arrangement of defects can serve as a means of manipulating sound waves, potentially advancing acoustic computing and information processing.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185207","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}
Yabin Jin, Wenjun Li, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Daniel Torrent, Yanxun Xiang, Fu-Zhen Xuan
{"title":"Exceptional points in time-varying oscillators with enhanced sensing sensitivity","authors":"Yabin Jin, Wenjun Li, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Daniel Torrent, Yanxun Xiang, Fu-Zhen Xuan","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034026","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the exceptional points (EPs) in mass-spring oscillators with time-varying stiffness. The second-order EPs result from the coalescences of the fundamental and harmonic eigenmodes that can be achieved by a time modulation of the spring stiffness. The occurrence of EPs is first demonstrated in a theoretical model by solving the eigenvalue problem with the state-space method. The signature of the EP can be seen in the response spectrum when the system is subjected to an external excitation. The undamped and damped cases are both considered in this mass-spring oscillator, and the impact of the damping ratio and modulation amplitude on the EPs is systematically investigated. Based on an analogy of the equation of motion with the Mathieu differential equation, we discuss the stability of the undamped time-varying system under different modulation parameters and explore its connection to the EP phenomenon. As a typical property of a second-order EP, the square-root dependence of the frequency splitting response to a perturbation is studied by introducing an added mass. In a second part, the above theoretical concepts are established by simulation methods in an elastic solid mass-spring model and an equivalent time-varying stiffness is realized by shunting a piezoelectric patch with switch-controlled external negative capacitance circuits. This work should pave the way for applications of crack or perturbation detection in elastic media and inspire other elastic wave modulation functions in time-varying systems.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185206","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":"Asymmetric transmission of electrons in ballistic graphene","authors":"Xin Tong, Ling Zhou, Ruihuang Zhao, Jiaxin Wang, Jinhu Luo, Junjie Du","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.l031003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.l031003","url":null,"abstract":"Semiconductor <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>p</mi></math>-<math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>n</mi></math> junctions with depletion zones have gained widespread use as a conventional way to give rise to electron asymmetric transmission. However, the approach is not applicable to monolayer graphene due to its characteristic feature of zero band gap. Asymmetric transmission in ballistic graphene therefore remains elusive to date. Here a simple approach based on the engineering of a four-layer array of quantum dots is proposed. Despite the array having few layers, it has the combined functionality of electron metasurfaces and band-gap materials with the symmetry breaking of spatial inversion, the extraordinary properties enabling electron asymmetric transmission. Our results open up the possibility of realizing electronic units dependent on the one-way effect and show great application potential with nearly perfect efficiency and simple design.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224192","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}
Johann Ostmeyer, Tahereh Nematiaram, Alessandro Troisi, Pavel Buividovich
{"title":"First-principles quantum Monte Carlo study of charge-carrier mobility in organic molecular semiconductors","authors":"Johann Ostmeyer, Tahereh Nematiaram, Alessandro Troisi, Pavel Buividovich","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.l031004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.l031004","url":null,"abstract":"We present a first-principles numerical study of charge transport in a realistic two-dimensional tight-binding model of organic molecular semiconductors. We use the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm to simulate the full quantum dynamics of phonons and either single or multiple charge carriers without any tunable parameters. We introduce a number of algorithmic improvements, including efficient Metropolis updates for phonon fields based on analytical insights, which lead to negligible autocorrelation times and allow sub-per-mille precisions to be reached at a low computational cost of <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"script\">O</mi></mrow></mrow><mo></mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math> CPU hours. Our simulations produce charge-mobility estimates that are in good agreement with experiments and that also justify the phenomenological transient localization approach.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185208","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}
Lin Cheng, Sheng-Chen Liu, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong
{"title":"Crosstalk suppression of parallel gates for fault-tolerant quantum computation with trapped ions via optical tweezers","authors":"Lin Cheng, Sheng-Chen Liu, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034021","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to perform entangling operations in parallel with a low error is essential for a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. However, for trapped-ion systems, it is a challenging task due to the crosstalk resulting from the collective motional modes. Here, we develop a highly paralleled quantum circuit demonstrating a logical qubit based on the Steane code and study the impact of the crosstalk error on the performance of the fault-tolerant protocol. We show that the crosstalk indeed greatly destroys the fault-tolerant property of the quantum error correction. To achieve the break-even point with encoded qubits, we identify the suppression requirement of the crosstalk error to be less than <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></math> for the Steane code. Furthermore, to mitigate the crosstalk below the fault-tolerant threshold, we propose a highly efficient optimization scheme by utilizing the programmable optical tweezer array. Overall, we make an elegant combination of the pulse-control optimization of parallel gate operations with the fault-tolerant protocol on the error-protected universal quantum computer.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224224","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":"High-energy electron radiography system with low chromatic aberrations based on active plasma lenses","authors":"Jie-Jie Lan, Quan-Tang Zhao, Zhang-Hu Hu, Zhao-Hui Ran, Wang-Wen Xu, Hao-Yuan Li, Jia Li, Shu-Chun Cao, Rui Cheng, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zi-Min Zhang, You-Nian Wang","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034022","url":null,"abstract":"A novel high-energy electron radiography system combined with an active plasma lens (APL) has been designed for the first time and validated by simulation studies. The system consists of a 50-MeV electron linear accelerator followed by a 3-cm-long capillary with a discharge current up to hundreds of amperes. With the APL, the distance from the object plane to the imaging plane can be reduced from 5 m to 45 cm with a magnification factor (MF) of 20, and pictures with 1.1-<math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mtext fontfamily=\"times\">μ</mtext><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"normal\">m</mi></mrow></math> spatial resolution can be obtained. The effects of lens chromatic aberrations, imaging blurring, and the uniformity of the plasma discharge current are shown to be significant in obtaining a high-spatial-resolution radiograph, which have been discussed in this work. Such a plasma-based imaging lens has a high tolerance for chromatic aberrations, is suitable for imaging thick target materials, and has radial symmetric focusing and adjustable focusing gradients. Furthermore, a cascaded high-MF radiography system based on APLs has been proposed to improve spatial resolution.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185209","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}
Thomas Larsen, Jesper de C. Christiansen, John R. Royer, Fraser H.J. Laidlaw, Wilson C.K. Poon, Tom Larsen, Søren J. Andreasen
{"title":"Decoupling elasticity and electrical conductivity of carbon-black gels filled with insulating non-Brownian grains","authors":"Thomas Larsen, Jesper de C. Christiansen, John R. Royer, Fraser H.J. Laidlaw, Wilson C.K. Poon, Tom Larsen, Søren J. Andreasen","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034023","url":null,"abstract":"A unique bistable transition has been identified in granular-colloidal gel composites, resulting from shear-induced phase separation of the gel phase into dense blobs. In energy applications, it is critical to understand how this transition influences electrical performance. Mixing conductive colloids with conductive inclusions, we find that the conductivity and elasticity move in concert, both decreasing in the collapsed phase-separated state. Surprisingly, with insulating inclusions, these properties can become decoupled, with the conductivity instead increasing despite the collapse of the gel structure.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224193","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}
Sheng-Chen Liu, Lin Cheng, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong
{"title":"Logical quantum circuits protected by the Steane code for specific noises in trapped ions","authors":"Sheng-Chen Liu, Lin Cheng, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034020","url":null,"abstract":"In the presence of physical noise of all platforms for quantum computation, quantum error correction (QEC) becomes a critical way to realize quantum algorithms with large quantum volumes. In order to understand the influence of quantum noise on QEC codes and further improve the performance of logical circuits, the noises should be accurately analyzed with proper models. Here we focus on the trapped-ion system. Fundamentally, we start from the laser pulses of the quantum gates in the circuits and extract the noise components from the complete evolution of the quantum states, beyond the standard depolarizing model and other simplified models. Our simulations indicate that the logical performance under real noises is significantly better than that predicted by previous models. Meanwhile, the advantage of QEC is shown in the levels of one, two, and more logical qubits. Moreover, we can increase the logical fidelity by the method of ion mapping, which is based on knowledge of the specific noise distribution of different ions. Some powerful evidence from the numerical results demonstrates the possibility to access fault-tolerant quantum computation with the trapped-ion system.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224232","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}
Jiacheng Liu, Yuzan Xiong, Jingming Liang, Xuezhao Wu, Chen Liu, Shun Kong Cheung, Zheyu Ren, Ruizi Liu, Andrew Christy, Zehan Chen, Yifan Liu, Ferris Prima Nugraha, Xi-Xiang Zhang, Dennis Chi Wah Leung, Wei Zhang, Qiming Shao
{"title":"Strong magnon-magnon coupling and low dissipation rate in an all-magnetic-insulator heterostructure","authors":"Jiacheng Liu, Yuzan Xiong, Jingming Liang, Xuezhao Wu, Chen Liu, Shun Kong Cheung, Zheyu Ren, Ruizi Liu, Andrew Christy, Zehan Chen, Yifan Liu, Ferris Prima Nugraha, Xi-Xiang Zhang, Dennis Chi Wah Leung, Wei Zhang, Qiming Shao","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034017","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic insulators, such as yttrium iron garnets (YIGs), are important for spin-wave or magnonic devices as their low damping enables low-power dissipation. Magnetic insulator heterostructures can offer larger design space for realizing exotic magnonic quantum states, provided that individual layers have low damping and their exchange coupling is strong and engineerable. Here, we show that, in a high-quality all-insulator thulium iron garnet (TmIG)/YIG bilayer system, TmIG exhibits an ultralow dissipation rate thanks to its low-damping, low-saturation magnetization and strong orbital momentum. The low dissipation rates in both YIG and TmIG, along with their significant coupling strength due to interfacial exchange coupling, enable strong and coherent magnon-magnon coupling. The coupling strength can be tuned by varying the magnetic insulator layer thickness and magnon modes, which is consistent with analytical calculations and micromagnetic simulations. Our results demonstrate TmIG/YIG as a novel platform for investigating hybrid magnonic phenomena and open opportunities for magnon devices comprising all-insulator heterostructures.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224196","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":"Beyond quantum Shannon decomposition: Circuit construction for n-qubit gates based on block-ZXZ decomposition","authors":"Anna M. Krol, Zaid Al-Ars","doi":"10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.22.034019","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an optimized quantum block-<math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>Z</mi><mi>X</mi><mi>Z</mi></math> decomposition method that results in more optimal quantum circuits than the quantum Shannon decomposition, which was presented in 2005 by M. Möttönen, and J. J. Vartiainen [in <i>Trends in quantum computing research</i>, edited by S. Shannon (Nova Science Publishers, 2006) Chap. 7, p. 149, arXiv:quant-ph/0504100]. The decomposition is applied recursively to generic quantum gates, and can take advantage of existing and future small-circuit optimizations. Because our method uses only single-qubit gates and uniformly controlled rotation-Z gates, it can easily be adapted to use other types of multi-qubit gates. With the proposed decomposition, a general three-qubit gate can be decomposed using 19 <span>cnot</span> gates (rather than 20). For general <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>n</mi></math>-qubit gates, the proposed decomposition generates circuits that have <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mstyle displaystyle=\"false\" scriptlevel=\"0\"><mfrac><mn>22</mn><mn>48</mn></mfrac></mstyle><msup><mn>4</mn><mi>n</mi></msup><mo>−</mo><mstyle displaystyle=\"false\" scriptlevel=\"0\"><mfrac><mn>3</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac></mstyle><msup><mn>2</mn><mi>n</mi></msup><mo>+</mo><mstyle displaystyle=\"false\" scriptlevel=\"0\"><mfrac><mn>5</mn><mn>3</mn></mfrac></mstyle></math> <span>cnot</span> gates, which is less than the best-known exact decomposition algorithm by <math display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mo stretchy=\"false\">(</mo><msup><mn>4</mn><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo stretchy=\"false\">)</mo><mo>/</mo><mn>3</mn></math> <span>cnot</span> gates.","PeriodicalId":20109,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Applied","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185210","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}