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Introducing quantum information and computation to a broader audience with MOOCs at OpenHPI 通过 OpenHPI 的 MOOC 向更广泛的受众介绍量子信息和计算

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00270-w

Gerhard Hellstern, Jörg Hettel, Bettina Just

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From computing to quantum mechanics: accessible and hands-on quantum computing education for high school students 从计算到量子力学：面向高中生的无障碍量子计算实践教育

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00271-9

Qihong Sun, Shuangxiang Zhou, Ronghang Chen, Guanru Feng, King Tai Cheung, Jensen Li, Shi-Yao Hou, Bei Zeng

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Efficient quantum secure multi-party greatest common divisor protocol and its applications in private set operations 高效量子安全多方最大公约数协议及其在私有集合运算中的应用

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00268-4

Zi-Xian Li, Wen-Jie Liu, Bing-Mei Su

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Superconducting surface trap chips for microwave-driven trapped ions 用于微波驱动被俘离子的超导表面阱芯片

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00269-3

Yuta Tsuchimoto, Ippei Nakamura, Shotaro Shirai, Atsushi Noguchi

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Continuous evolution for efficient quantum architecture search 高效量子架构搜索的持续演化

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00265-7

QuanGong Ma, ChaoLong Hao, XuKui Yang, LongLong Qian, Hao Zhang, NianWen Si, MinChen Xu, Dan Qu

{"title":"Continuous evolution for efficient quantum architecture search","authors":"QuanGong Ma, ChaoLong Hao, XuKui Yang, LongLong Qian, Hao Zhang, NianWen Si, MinChen Xu, Dan Qu","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00265-7","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00265-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have been successfully applied to quantum approximate optimization algorithms, variational quantum compiling, and quantum machine learning models. The performance of VQAs is significantly influenced by the architecture of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). Quantum architecture search aims to automatically discover high-performance quantum circuits for specific VQA tasks. Quantum architecture search algorithms that utilize both SuperCircuit training and a parameter-sharing approach can save computational resources. If we directly follow the parameter-sharing approach, the SuperCircuit has to be trained to compensate for the worse search space. To address the challenges posed by the worse search space, we introduce an optimization strategy known as the efficient continuous evolutionary approach using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II). Then, we leverage prior information (symmetric property) designing Structure Symmetric Pruning for removing redundant gates of the searched ansatz. Experiments show that the efficient continuous evolutionary approach can search for more quantum architectures with better performance; the number of high-performance ansatzes obtained by our method is 10% higher than that in the literature (Du et al. in npj Quantum Inf. 8:62, 2022). The application of Structure Symmetric Pruning effectively reduces the number of parameters in quantum circuits without compromising their performance significantly. In binary classification tasks, the pruned quantum circuits exhibit an average accuracy reduction of 0.044 compared to their unpruned counterparts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00265-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142143864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prior entanglement exponentially improves one-server quantum private information retrieval for quantum messages 先验纠缠可指数级提高量子信息的单服务器量子私人信息检索能力

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00266-6

Seunghoan Song, François Le Gall, Masahito Hayashi

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Fully controllable time-bin entangled states distributed over 100-km single-mode fibers 分布在 100 千米单模光纤上的完全可控的时间束纠缠态

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00267-5

Jinwoo Kim, Jiho Park, Hong-Seok Kim, Guhwan Kim, Jin Tae Kim, Jaegyu Park, Kiwon Moon, Seung-Chan Kwak, Min-su Kim, Jung Jin Ju

{"title":"Fully controllable time-bin entangled states distributed over 100-km single-mode fibers","authors":"Jinwoo Kim, Jiho Park, Hong-Seok Kim, Guhwan Kim, Jin Tae Kim, Jaegyu Park, Kiwon Moon, Seung-Chan Kwak, Min-su Kim, Jung Jin Ju","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00267-5","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00267-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantum networks that can perform user-defined protocols beyond quantum key distribution will require fully controllable entangled quantum states. To expand the available space of generated time-bin entangled states, we demonstrate a time-bin entangled photon source that produces qubit states <span>(|{psi}rangle = alpha |{00}rangle + beta |{11}rangle )</span> with fully controllable phase and amplitudes. Eight different two-photon states have been selected and prepared from arbitrary states on the reduced two-qubit Bloch sphere. The photon pairs encoded in the time-bin scheme were generated at 2.4 MHz with a visibility of <span>(V = 0.9475 pm 0.0016)</span>, with a violation of the CHSH Bell’s inequality by 197 standard deviations. After entanglement distribution over 100 km of single-mode fibers, we obtained a visibility of <span>(V = 0.9541 pm 0.0113)</span> with a violation of the CHSH Bell’s inequality by 6 standard deviations. The prepared states had an average fidelity of <span>(0.9540 pm 0.0016)</span> at the source and an average fidelity of <span>(0.9353 ^{+0.0100}_{-0.0209})</span> after entanglement distribution, which shows that the quantum states generated by our time-bin entangled photon source can be fully controlled potentially to a level applicable to long-distance advanced quantum network systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00267-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exponential qubit reduction in optimization for financial transaction settlement 金融交易结算优化中的指数比特缩减

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00262-w

Elias X. Huber, Benjamin Y. L. Tan, Paul R. Griffin, Dimitris G. Angelakis

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Nonclassical light in a three-waveguide coupler with second-order nonlinearity 具有二阶非线性的三波导耦合器中的非经典光

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EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00263-9

Mohd Syafiq M. Hanapi, Abdel-Baset M. A. Ibrahim, Rafael Julius, Pankaj K. Choudhury, Hichem Eleuch

{"title":"Nonclassical light in a three-waveguide coupler with second-order nonlinearity","authors":"Mohd Syafiq M. Hanapi, Abdel-Baset M. A. Ibrahim, Rafael Julius, Pankaj K. Choudhury, Hichem Eleuch","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00263-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00263-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Possible squeezed states generated in a three-waveguide nonlinear coupler operating with second harmonic generation is discussed. This study is carried out using two well-known techniques; the phase space method (based on positive-P representation) and the Heisenberg-based analytical perturbative (AP) method. The effects of key design parameters were investigated under various conditions, including full frequency matching, symmetrical and asymmetrical waveguide initialization, and both codirectional and contr-adirectional propagation. The system consistently produced long-lasting oscillatory squeezed states across all three waveguides, even when only one waveguide was pumped with coherent light while the others were in a vacuum state. Also, the performance and capacities of both methods are critically evaluated. For low levels of key design parameters and in the early stages of evolution, a high level of agreement between the two methods is noticed. In the new era of quantum-based technology, the proposed system opens a new avenue for utilising nonlinear couplers in nonclassical light generation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00263-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Efficient quantum state estimation with low-rank matrix completion 利用低秩矩阵补全实现高效量子态估计

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00261-x

Shehbaz Tariq, Ahmad Farooq, Junaid Ur Rehman, Trung Q. Duong, Hyundong Shin

{"title":"Efficient quantum state estimation with low-rank matrix completion","authors":"Shehbaz Tariq, Ahmad Farooq, Junaid Ur Rehman, Trung Q. Duong, Hyundong Shin","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00261-x","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00261-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper introduces a novel and efficient technique for quantum state estimation, coined as low-rank matrix-completion quantum state tomography for characterizing pure quantum states, as it requires only non-entangling bases and <span>(2n + 1)</span> local Pauli operators. This significantly reduces the complexity of the process and increases the accuracy of the state estimation, as it eliminates the need for the entangling bases, which are experimentally difficult to implement on quantum devices. The required minimal post-processing, improved accuracy and efficacy of this matrix-completion-based method make it an ideal benchmarking tool for investigating the properties of quantum systems, enabling researchers to verify the accuracy of quantum devices, characterize their performance, and explore the underlying physics of quantum phenomena. Our numerical results demonstrate that this method outperforms contemporary techniques in its ability to accurately reconstruct multi-qubit quantum states on real quantum devices, making it an invaluable contribution to the field of quantum state characterization and an essential step toward the reliable deployment of intermediate- and large-scale quantum devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00261-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141942250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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