Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033515
Ryan Hogan, Giulia Marcucci, Akbar Safari, A. Nicholas Black, Boris Braverman, Jeremy Upham, Robert W. Boyd
{"title":"Modeling beam propagation in a moving nonlinear medium","authors":"Ryan Hogan, Giulia Marcucci, Akbar Safari, A. Nicholas Black, Boris Braverman, Jeremy Upham, Robert W. Boyd","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033515","url":null,"abstract":"Fully describing light propagation in a rotating, anisotropic medium with thermal nonlinearity requires modeling the interplay between nonlinear refraction, birefringence, and the nonlinear group index. Incorporating these factors into a generalized coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation and fitting them to recent experimental results reveals two key relationships: the photon drag effect can have a nonlinear component that is dependent on the motion of the medium, and the temporal dynamics of the moving birefringent nonlinear medium create distorted figure-eight-like transverse trajectories at the output. The beam trajectory can be accurately modeled with a full understanding of the propagation effects. Efficiently modeling these effects and accurately predicting the beam's output position has implications for optimizing applications in velocimetry and beam steering. Understanding the roles of competitive nonlinearities gives insight into the creation or suppression of nonlinear phenomena like self-action effects.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205867","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.l031703
Gavin Crowder, Lora Ramunno, Stephen Hughes
{"title":"Improving on-demand single-photon-source coherence and indistinguishability through a time-delayed coherent feedback","authors":"Gavin Crowder, Lora Ramunno, Stephen Hughes","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.l031703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.l031703","url":null,"abstract":"Single-photon sources (SPSs) are an essential resource for many quantum information technologies. We demonstrate how the inclusion of time-delayed coherent feedback in a scalable waveguide system can significantly improve the two key SPS figures of merit: coherence and indistinguishability. Our feedback protocol is simulated using a quantum trajectory discretized waveguide model which can be used to directly model Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) and Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometers. With the proper choice of the round trip phase, the non-Markovian dynamics from the time-delayed feedback improves the indistinguishability of the SPS by up to <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mn>57</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>. We also show how this mechanism suppresses the detrimental effects of off-chip decay and pure dephasing.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205911","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032807
Tim Ratajczyk, Kristian König, Philipp Bollinger, Tim Lellinger, Victor Varentsov, Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Julien Spahn
{"title":"Transition frequencies, isotope shifts, and hyperfine structure in 4s→4p transitions of stable Ti+ ions","authors":"Tim Ratajczyk, Kristian König, Philipp Bollinger, Tim Lellinger, Victor Varentsov, Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Julien Spahn","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032807","url":null,"abstract":"We have measured transition frequencies, isotope shifts, and hyperfine-structure splittings in the <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mn>3</mn><msup><mi>d</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mrow><msup><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn></msup><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mn>4</mn><mi>s</mi><mspace width=\"0.16em\"></mspace><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>4</mn></msup><msub><mi>F</mi><mi>J</mi></msub><mo>→</mo><mn>3</mn><msup><mi>d</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mrow><msup><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn></msup><mi>F</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mn>4</mn><mi>p</mi><msup><mspace width=\"0.16em\"></mspace><mn>4</mn></msup><msubsup><mi>G</mi><mrow><mi>J</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><mi>o</mi></msubsup></mrow></math> transitions in stable <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><msup><mrow><mi>Ti</mi></mrow><mo>+</mo></msup></math> ions for <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mi>J</mi><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mn>3</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>,</mo><mfrac><mn>5</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>,</mo><mfrac><mn>7</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac></mrow></math> using collinear laser spectroscopy. Ions were generated by laser ablation in a buffer-gas atmosphere and extracted into vacuum through a nozzle and a pair of radio-frequency funnels. The results obtained are of interest as reference values for on-line measurements of short-lived titanium isotopes and for astrophysical searches for temporal or spatial variations of the fine-structure constant <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>α</mi></math> using quasar absorption spectra.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205921","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032808
Thomas A. Gomez, Mark C. Zammit, Christopher J. Fontes, Igor Bray, Jackson White
{"title":"Motional Stark effect on bound-free spectra","authors":"Thomas A. Gomez, Mark C. Zammit, Christopher J. Fontes, Igor Bray, Jackson White","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032808","url":null,"abstract":"The motion of atoms through a magnetic field (due to a change in reference frame) will result in an additional electric field felt by the electrons in that atom. The motional Stark effect is a well-established effect that has been approximately included in calculations of spectra of magnetized plasmas, usually through diagonalizing the Hamiltonian. The motional Stark effect for continuum states is poorly defined due to an overlap integral that results in a Dirac delta function. This paper presents a workaround by evaluating the motional Stark effect in the Green's function within the scattering formalism. We report on some results pertaining to bound-free spectra for white dwarf and neutron star magnetic field strengths. In most cases, resonances in the continuum are shifted and broadened. This behavior has the effect of raising the Rosseland mean opacity in white dwarfs and neutron star atmospheres.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205912","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":"Geometric phase of a two-level atom near a dielectric nanosphere out of thermal equilibrium","authors":"Ehsan Amooghorban, Sareh Shahidani, Somaye Mohamadi Abdhvand","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033710","url":null,"abstract":"We study the geometric phase (GP) of a two-level atom coupled to an environment composed of free space and a dielectric nanosphere in thermal and out of thermal equilibrium. We analytically and numerically analyze the optical properties and loss of the dielectric medium, along with the nonequilibrium effects of the environment on the GP. In the weak coupling limit, we find that the correction to the GP depends on the partial local density of photonic states at the atom position, and an effective parameter that emerges out of the nonequilibrium configuration of the system. The GP exhibits a significant enhancement due to the excitation of evanescent surface waves at its resonance frequency. It is shown that the GP acquired by the atomic system out of thermal equilibrium is always bounded between the thermal-equilibrium counterparts. Furthermore, the temperature difference between the nanosphere and free space can play an important role in the GP only at moderate atomic distances from the nanosphere. Our results elegantly demonstrate properties of the GP near material media that can support phononic modes and pave the way for further research of GP as a resource for quantum computation.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205917","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032609
Debora Ramacciotti, Andreea I. Lefterovici, Antonio F. Rotundo
{"title":"Simple quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare sparse states","authors":"Debora Ramacciotti, Andreea I. Lefterovici, Antonio F. Rotundo","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032609","url":null,"abstract":"State preparation is a fundamental routine in quantum computation, for which many algorithms have been proposed. Among them, perhaps the simplest one is the Grover-Rudolph algorithm. In this paper we analyze the performance of this algorithm when the state to prepare is sparse. We show that the gate complexity is linear in the number of nonzero amplitudes in the state and quadratic in the number of qubits. We then introduce a simple modification of the algorithm, which makes the dependence on the number of qubits also linear. This is competitive with the best known algorithms for sparse state preparation.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205872","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032806
M. X. Ma, T. Meng, B. Tu, P. Ma, Y. W. Zhang, L. Liu, J. Xiao, K. Yao, Y. Zou, Y. Wu, J. G. Wang, B. Wei
{"title":"Double electron capture in O6++He collisions","authors":"M. X. Ma, T. Meng, B. Tu, P. Ma, Y. W. Zhang, L. Liu, J. Xiao, K. Yao, Y. Zou, Y. Wu, J. G. Wang, B. Wei","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032806","url":null,"abstract":"As one kind of ubiquitous collision system, <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"normal\">O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>He</mi></mrow></math> deserves attentive study due to its theoretical significance in fundamental physics and applied value in fields like astrophysics or plasma physics. Specifically, in the case of the electron capture process, while a considerable number of measurements and calculations have focused on single electron capture, research is still inadequate on the double electron capture which contributes nearly 10% to the overall electron capture. In this work, a two-active-electron semiclassical asymptotic-state close-coupling method is used to calculate the total and <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mi>l</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>resolved</mi></mrow></math> state-selective double electron capture cross sections of <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"normal\">O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>He</mi></mrow></math> collisions in the energy range 0.5–100 keV/u, accompanied by experimental measurements in the energy range 2.63–37.5 keV/u with an uncertainty of 16%, in good consistency. These theoretical and experimental data can fill gaps in the database of double electron capture in <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant=\"normal\">O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>6</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>He</mi></mrow></math> collisions and provide insights for improving theoretical models in further research.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205870","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033310
Yeyang Zhang
{"title":"Lattice-induced wave-function effects on trapped superfluids","authors":"Yeyang Zhang","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033310","url":null,"abstract":"Wave-function effects in uncorrelated systems are characterized by the Berry curvature and quantum metric. Beyond those, we propose gauge-independent tensors describing Bloch wave-function effects on local interaction between correlated particles. We derive an effective hydrodynamic theory for ultracold bosons in optical lattices. Ground states and collective modes of superfluids in isotropic harmonic traps are solved for highly symmetric lattices. In a dynamic process, the wave-function effects are featured by the eigenfrequency, amplitude, and phase shift of an excited breathing mode and can be observed in experiments. We also give a tight-binding model of a bipartite square lattice with nontrivial wave-function effects, where results are estimated with typical experimental parameters. Our discovery advances the connections between the modern band theory and quantum many-body physics.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205915","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033105
Shiming Song, Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Ze Wu, Haowen Su, Ren-bao Liu, Dieter Suter, Xinhua Peng
{"title":"Spin-noise-induced synchronization between non-overlapping laser beams","authors":"Shiming Song, Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Ze Wu, Haowen Su, Ren-bao Liu, Dieter Suter, Xinhua Peng","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033105","url":null,"abstract":"Noise-induced synchronizations have led to diverse phenomena and applications. Here, we propose and demonstrate an approach towards inducing synchronizations between non-overlapping laser beams by intrinsic spin noise. Two linearly polarized and non-overlapping laser beams propagate through a vapor of flying unpolarized alkali atoms and capture their correlated noise properties by the atom-light interaction, resulting in synchronization between the two laser beams. Using correlation spectra, we demonstrate the nearly in phase synchronization at the atomic Larmor frequency between the two laser beams, which can easily be varied across a wide frequency range by the magnetic-field strength. Moreover, we show that the degree of synchronization increases with the atomic density, and the synchronization remains effective when the Larmor frequencies in the regions of the two laser beams are different. Our method may be useful for applications like secure key distribution and secure communication.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205913","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}
Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032410
Elena R. Loubenets, Louis Hanotel
{"title":"Geometric quantum discord of an arbitrary two-qudit state: Exact value and general upper bounds","authors":"Elena R. Loubenets, Louis Hanotel","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032410","url":null,"abstract":"The geometric quantum discord of a two-qudit state has been studied in many papers; however, its exact analytical value in the explicit form is known only for a general two-qubit state, a general qubit-qudit state, and some special families of two-qudit states. Based on the general Bloch vectors formalism [E. R. Loubenets <i>et al.</i>, <span>J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.</span> <b>54</b>, 195301 (2021)], we find the explicit exact analytical value of the geometric quantum discord for an arbitrary two-qudit state of any dimension via the parameters of its correlation matrix and the Bloch vectors of its reduced states. This general analytical result includes all the known exact results on the geometric quantum discord only as particular cases and proves rigorously that the lower bound on the geometric discord presented in [S. Rana <i>et al.</i>, <span>Phys. Rev. A</span> <b>85</b>, 024102 (2012)] constitutes its exact value for each two-qudit state. Moreover, our general result allows us to find for an arbitrary two-qudit state, pure or mixed, the upper and lower bounds on its geometric quantum discord, expressed via the Hilbert space characteristics of this state.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205963","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}