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On the randomness of time ordered quantum measurements 论时间有序量子测量的随机性

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00288-0

Jonas Almlöf, Thomas Lettner, Samuel Gyger, Gemma Vall Llosera, Tigge Nilsson, Val Zwiller

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A new quantum solution to blind millionaires’ problem without an honest third party 解决盲人百万富翁问题的新量子解决方案，无需诚实的第三方

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00293-3

Gang Du, Yu Zhang, Xinyue Mao, Hongwei Sun, Lei Wang

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An investigation of errors in ellipse-fitting for cold-atom interferometers 冷原子干涉仪椭圆拟合误差研究

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00292-4

Kevin Ridley, Anthony Rodgers

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Numerical model of N-level cascade systems for atomic Radio Frequency sensing applications 用于原子射频传感应用的 N 级级联系统数值模型

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00291-5

Liam W. Bussey, Yogeshwar B. Kale, Samuel Winter, Fraser A. Burton, Yu-Hung Lien, Kai Bongs, Costas Constantinou

{"title":"Numerical model of N-level cascade systems for atomic Radio Frequency sensing applications","authors":"Liam W. Bussey, Yogeshwar B. Kale, Samuel Winter, Fraser A. Burton, Yu-Hung Lien, Kai Bongs, Costas Constantinou","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00291-5","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00291-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A ready-to-use numerical model has been developed for the atomic ladder (cascade) systems which are widely exploited in Rydberg Radio Frequency (RF) sensors. The model has been explicitly designed for user convenience and to be extensible to arbitrary N-level non-thermal systems. The versatility and adaptability of the model is validated up to 4-level atomic systems by direct comparison with experimental results from the prior art. The numerical model provides a good approximation to the experimental results and provides experimentalists with a convenient ready-to-use model to optimise the operation of an N-level Rydberg RF sensor. Current sensors exploit the 4-level atomic systems based on alkali metal atoms which require visible frequency lasers and these can be expensive and also suffer from high attenuation within optical fiber. The ability to quickly and simply explore more complex N-level systems offers the potential to use cheaper and lower-loss near-infrared lasers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00291-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664472","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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Electromagnetic side-channel attack risk assessment on a practical quantum-key-distribution receiver based on multi-class classification 基于多类分类的实用量子密钥分发接收器电磁侧信道攻击风险评估

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00290-6

John J. Pantoja, Victor A. Bucheli, Ross Donaldson

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KANQAS: Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Quantum Architecture Search KANQAS：用于量子架构搜索的柯尔莫哥洛夫-阿诺德网络

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00289-z

Akash Kundu, Aritra Sarkar, Abhishek Sadhu

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Teaching quantum information science to secondary school students with photon polarization and which-path encoding 用光子偏振和路径编码向中学生教授量子信息科学

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00287-1

Giacomo Zuccarini, Claudio Sutrini, Maria Bondani, Chiara Macchiavello, Massimiliano Malgieri

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Generation of phonon quantum states and quantum correlations among single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride 六方氮化硼中声子量子态的产生和单光子发射器之间的量子相关性

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00286-2

Hugo Molinares, Fernanda Pinilla, Enrique Muñoz, Francisco Muñoz, Vitalie Eremeev

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A computational study and analysis of Variational Quantum Eigensolver over multiple parameters for molecules and ions 分子和离子多参数变量量子求解器的计算研究与分析

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00280-8

Ashwin Sivakumar, Harishankar K Nair, Aurum Joshi, Kenson Wesley R, Akash P Videsh, Reena Monica P

{"title":"A computational study and analysis of Variational Quantum Eigensolver over multiple parameters for molecules and ions","authors":"Ashwin Sivakumar, Harishankar K Nair, Aurum Joshi, Kenson Wesley R, Akash P Videsh, Reena Monica P","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00280-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00280-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Material discovery is a phenomenon practiced since the evolution of the world. The discovery of materials has led to significant development in varied fields such as Science, Engineering and Technology. Computationally simulating molecules has been an area of interest in the industry as well as academia. However, simulating large molecules can be computationally expensive in terms of computing power and complexity. Quantum computing is a recent development that can improve the efficiency in predicting properties of atoms and molecules which will be useful for material design. The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one such quantum algorithm used to calculate the ground state energy of molecules or ions. In this study, we have done a comparative analysis of the parameters that constitute the VQE algorithm. This includes components such as basis, qubit mapping, ansatz, and optimizers used. We have also developed a database consisting of 79 single atoms and their variations of oxidation states and 33 molecules with the data of their Hamiltonian and ground state energy and dipole moment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00280-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524502","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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Quantum data encoding: a comparative analysis of classical-to-quantum mapping techniques and their impact on machine learning accuracy 量子数据编码：经典到量子映射技术的比较分析及其对机器学习准确性的影响

IF 5.8 2区物理与天体物理

EPJ Quantum Technology Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00285-3

Minati Rath, Hema Date

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