Physical Review APub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033314
Vaibhav Sharma, Erich J. Mueller
{"title":"One-dimensional Z2 lattice gauge theory in periodic Gauss-law sectors","authors":"Vaibhav Sharma, Erich J. Mueller","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033314","url":null,"abstract":"We calculate the properties of a one-dimensional <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><msub><mi>Z</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></math> lattice gauge theory in different <i>Gauss-law sectors</i>, corresponding to different configurations of static charges, set by the orientations of the gauge spins. Importantly, in quantum simulator experiments these sectors can be accessed without adding any additional physical particles or changing the Hamiltonian: the Gauss-law sectors are simply set by the initial conditions. We study the interplay between conservation laws and interactions when the static charges are chosen to form periodic patterns. We classify the different Gauss-law sectors and use the density matrix renormalization group to calculate the ground-state compressibility, density profiles, charge-density-wave order parameters, and single-particle correlation functions as a function of matter density. We find confined and deconfined phases, charge density waves, correlated insulators, and supersolids.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262614","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":"Enhanced high-order harmonic generation by spatially-structured-light–induced topological-edge-state dynamics","authors":"Jianghua Luo, Jiajun Xiao, Zhongwei Wu, Yang Li, Xiaosong Zhu, Yueming Zhou","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033111","url":null,"abstract":"We theoretically investigate the topological edge-state impact on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, with a focus on the modification of the topological edge-state dynamics by spatially structured (SS) light. Our findings reveal an underlying mechanism coupling the spatial inhomogeneity of light with the topological states, which leads to a notable but counterintuitive enhancement of HHG yields by SS light, even with a lower average field-intensity compared to the conventional spatially homogeneous light. We attribute this giant coupling effect to the dynamical modulation of the energy bands by the SS light in the HHG process, building an “electron lift” scenario of the topological edge states. Our study not only highlights the intricate interplay between spatial inhomogeneity of laser fields and topological condensed matter but also paves pathways for manipulating electron dynamics in solids using the unique properties of SS light.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262937","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033109
Janine C. Franz, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, A. Salam
{"title":"Local-field corrections of the Green's tensor in chiral media","authors":"Janine C. Franz, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, A. Salam","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033109","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we derive local-field corrections for interactions within chiral media using the Onsager real cavity model. The problem is not fully solvable analytically, so we introduce a matrix formalism to determine the correct local-field corrections. We find that left- and right-handed circularly polarized excitations yield different correction factors inside a chiral medium, analogous to their different propagation velocities. These chiral correction factors can significantly alter theoretical predictions for chiral effects within the medium. We validate our solution in various limits and special cases, particularly when the source and absorption points coincide, enabling analytical comparison for nonabsorbing media. For spontaneous emission in a chiral medium, we extend the local-field correction to absorbing media, revealing fundamentally different corrections analogous to the nonchiral case.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262935","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":"Dimensional advantage in secure information trading via the noisy dense-coding protocol","authors":"Ayan Patra, Rivu Gupta, Tamoghna Das, Aditi Sen(De)","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032419","url":null,"abstract":"The quantum dense-coding (DC) protocol, which has no security feature, deals with the transmission of classical information encoded in a quantum state by using shared entanglement between a single sender and a single receiver. Its appropriate variant has been established as a quantum key distribution (QKD) scheme for shared two-qubit maximally entangled states, with the security proof utilizing the uncertainty relation of complementary observables and the Shor-Preskill entanglement purification scheme. We present the DC-based QKD protocol for higher-dimensional systems and report the lower bounds on the secret key rate, when the shared state is a two-qudit maximally entangled state, and mixtures of maximally entangled states with different ranks. The analysis also includes the impact of noisy channels on the secure key rates, before and after encoding. In both the noiseless and the noisy scenarios, we demonstrate that the key rate as well as the robustness of the protocol against noise increases with the dimension. Further, we prove that the set of useless states in the DC-based QKD protocol is convex and compact.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262931","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033517
Y. C. Shi, C. J. Zhu, J. Y. Wu, J. Yang, Y. F. Zhang
{"title":"Microwave communication based on the cross-phase modulation in an inverted-Y-type Rydberg atomic system","authors":"Y. C. Shi, C. J. Zhu, J. Y. Wu, J. Yang, Y. F. Zhang","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033517","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the microwave-field-induced cross-phase modulation in a room-temperature coherently driven five-level inverted-Y-type system. By solving the optical Bloch equations via the Fourier transformation, we derive two nonlinearly coupled envelope equations governing the dynamics of left- and right-polarized components of a linearly polarized probe field. Under the weak probe field approximation, we show that the cross-phase modulation-induced phase difference between two components of the probe field is approximately proportional to the microwave field intensity. By choosing a specified probe field frequency, the group velocities for the left- and right-polarized components of the probe field match perfectly so that the phase difference can be detected at the end of the medium, enabling the undistorted detection of the microwave field. Considering the square-pulsed microwave field with a 50% duty cycle, we also demonstrate microwave communication by detecting the cross-phase modulation-induced phase difference.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262615","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033516
G. Alagappan, C. E. Png
{"title":"Dense and sharp resonance peaks in stretched Moiré waveguides","authors":"G. Alagappan, C. E. Png","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033516","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we demonstrate dense resonant peaks in the transmission spectra of a rectangular waveguide inscribed with a stretched moiré pattern. We investigated an array of silicon waveguides with sinusoidally modulated cladding of varying depth of modulation. The investigation reveals a critical depth of modulation that splits the geometries into weakly scattering and strongly scattering regimes. Geometries in the weakly scattering regime resemble Bragg waveguides with shallow cladding modulation, whereas in the strongly scattering regime, the geometries resemble chains of isolated dielectric particles. The guided mode photonic band gap for geometries in the strongly scattering regime is much larger than that of the weakly scattering regime. By inscribing stretched moiré patterns in the strongly scattering regime, we show that a large number of sharp peaks can be created in the transmission spectra of the waveguide. All periodic stretched moiré patterns can be identified with an <i>R</i> parameter. The <i>R</i> parameter indicates the ratio of the supercell period of the stretched system to the unstretched system. Our empirical study shows that the density of peaks linearly increases with <i>R</i>. The multiple resonance peaks evolve along well-defined trajectories with the quality factor defined by exponential functions of <i>R</i>.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262932","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033315
Nicolas Dupuis
{"title":"Superfluid–Bose-glass transition in a system of disordered bosons with long-range hopping in one dimension","authors":"Nicolas Dupuis","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033315","url":null,"abstract":"We study the superfluid–Bose-glass transition in a one-dimensional lattice boson model with power-law decaying hopping amplitude <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><msub><mi>t</mi><mrow><mi>i</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>j</mi></mrow></msub><mo>∼</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><msup><mrow><mo>|</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>j</mi><mo>|</mo></mrow><mi>α</mi></msup></mrow></math>, using bosonization and the nonperturbative functional renormalization group (FRG). When <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>α</mi></math> is smaller than a critical value <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><msub><mi>α</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo><</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></math>, the U(1) symmetry is spontaneously broken, which leads to a density mode with nonlinear dispersion and dynamical exponent <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>=</mo><mo>(</mo><mi>α</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math>; the superfluid phase is then stable for sufficiently weak disorder, contrary to the case of short-range hopping where disorder is a relevant perturbation when the Luttinger parameter is smaller than <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math>. In the presence of disorder, however, long-range hopping has no effect in the infrared limit and the FRG flow eventually becomes similar to that of a boson system with short-range hopping. This implies that the superfluid phase, when stable, exhibits a density mode with linear dispersion (<math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math>) and the superfluid–Bose-glass transition remains in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class, while the Bose-glass fixed point is insensitive to long-range hopping. We compare our findings with a recent numerical study.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262613","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.032615
Mayalakshmi Kolangatt, Anirudh Verma, Sujai Matta, Kanad Sengupta, C. M. Chandrashekar
{"title":"Four-qubit photonic system for publicly verifiable quantum random numbers and generation of public and private key","authors":"Mayalakshmi Kolangatt, Anirudh Verma, Sujai Matta, Kanad Sengupta, C. M. Chandrashekar","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.032615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.032615","url":null,"abstract":"We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate the use of a configurable four-qubit photonic system to generate publicly verifiable quantum random numbers, to perform entanglement verification, and to generate a secure public and private key. Quantum circuits, to generate the desired four-qubit states and its experimental realization in the photonic architecture, are carried out using photon pairs entangled in polarization and path degrees of freedom. By performing measurements on the four-qubit system and accessing partial information of the four-qubit state for public verification, we generate publicly verified and purely secured random bits at the rate of 185 kbps from collective data of 370 kbps. When the system is used for generating public and private keys, an equal number of public and private keys are generated simultaneously. We also record about 97.9% of sampled bits from four-qubit states passing entanglement verification and demonstrate the use of public and private key generated for image encryption-decryption. The theoretical model of noise on the four-qubit state and its effect on the generation rate of verified and secured bits are in perfect agreement with the experimental results. This demonstrates the practical use of the small-scale multiqubit photonic system for quantum-safe applications by providing the option for real-time verification of the security feature of the quantum system.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262934","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033316
Shao-Jun Li, Xiang Gao, Xue-Ting Fang, Lushuai Cao, Peter Schmelcher, Zhong-Kun Hu
{"title":"Anisotropy-induced Coulomb phase and quasiparticle zoo in the atomic monopole-spin hybrid system","authors":"Shao-Jun Li, Xiang Gao, Xue-Ting Fang, Lushuai Cao, Peter Schmelcher, Zhong-Kun Hu","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033316","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum simulation of a monopole-spin hybrid system is performed on the basis of a dipolar ultracold gas in a ladder lattice. The site-occupation states of the dipolar ladder lattice gas can spontaneously emulate both the monopole and spin excitations. The hopping of the atoms induces a particle conversion process between spin and monopole pairs, and the dipole-dipole interaction determines the spin-spin, spin-monopole, and monopole-monopole interactions. The anisotropic nature of the dipole-dipole interaction allows hereby for a flexible engineering of the designed hybrid system, and for a significant tunability of the interaction strengths. As a result, we encounter a rich phase diagram, and specifically a self-assembled Coulomb phase arises, in which monopoles and spins coexist and are orderly arranged according to the local Gauss's law. The Coulomb phase hosts a zoo of different types of quasiparticles and provides the possibility to simulate various phenomena in particle physics, such as a degenerate vacuum, particle decay, and conversion processes. Our work provides a significant extension of the scope of quantum simulations based on the anisotropy of dipolar interactions.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262616","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 : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.033713
A. G. da Costa Moura, C. H. Monken
{"title":"Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations in spontaneous parametric down-conversion: Beyond the Gaussian approximation","authors":"A. G. da Costa Moura, C. H. Monken","doi":"10.1103/physreva.110.033713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.033713","url":null,"abstract":"We present analytic expressions for the coincidence detection probability amplitudes of photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in both momentum and position spaces, without using the Gaussian approximation and taking into account the effects of birefringence in the nonlinear crystal. We also present experimental data supporting our theoretical predictions, using Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations as benchmarks, for eight different pump beam configurations.","PeriodicalId":20146,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review A","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142262617","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}