{"title":"Coulomb effect in hybrid double quantum dot-metal nanoparticle systems considering the wetting layer","authors":"Nour A. Nasser, Amin H. Al-Khursan","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00233-1","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00233-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many body effects in the wetting layer (WL)-double quantum dot (DQD)-metal nanoparticle (MNP) structure have been studied by modeling the Coulomb scattering rates in this structure. The strong coupling between WL-DQD-MNPs was considered. An orthogonalized plane wave (OPW) is assumed between WL-QD transitions. The transition momenta are calculated accordingly to specify the normalized Rabi frequency on this structure, considering the strong coupling between the WL-DQD-MNP structures. This approach is important for realizing scattering rates, including in-and-out capture and relaxation rates, which are essential for specifying the type of structure used depending on the optimum value of the scattering time required to fit the application. The QD hole capture rate is the highest, and the hole capture times are the shortest. The relaxation times are less than the electron capture times by one order, while they are half of the hole capture times. The capture rates increase with increasing distance <i>R</i> between the DQDs and the MNP. High tunneling increases hole-capture rates and changes the relaxation rates, showing the importance of tunneling in controlling the scattering rates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00233-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140297158","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}
Michael Fromm, Owe Philipsen, Wolfgang Unger, Christopher Winterowd
{"title":"Quantum gate sets for lattice QCD in the strong-coupling limit: (N_{f}=1)","authors":"Michael Fromm, Owe Philipsen, Wolfgang Unger, Christopher Winterowd","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00236-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00236-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We derive the primitive quantum gate sets to simulate lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) in the strong-coupling limit with one flavor of massless staggered quarks. This theory is of interest for studies at non-zero density as the sign problem can be overcome using Monte Carlo methods. In this work, we use it as a testing ground for quantum simulations. The key point is that no truncation of the bosonic Hilbert space is necessary as the theory is formulated in terms of color-singlet degrees of freedom (“baryons” and “mesons”). The baryons become static in the limit of continuous time and decouple, whereas the dynamics of the mesonic theory involves two qubits per lattice site. Lending dynamics also to the “baryons” simply requires to use the derived gate set in its controlled version.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00236-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140209576","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}
{"title":"Cryptanalysis and improvement of efficient multiparty quantum secret sharing based on a novel structure and single qubits","authors":"Gan Gao","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00235-z","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00235-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the paper (EPJ Quant. Technol. 10:29, 2023), Kuo <i>et al.</i> proposed a multiparty quantum secret sharing protocol based on a novel structure and single qubits. Owing to the absence of an entanglement state, the proposed protocol is more practical than other quantum secret sharing protocols which use entanglement properties. Therefore, we study the security of the proposed protocol and find there exists a security loophole in the <i>n</i>-party (<span>(ngeq 4)</span>) secret sharing case in it, that is, two dishonest agents can collude to obtain (part of) Alice’s secret without the help of the other agents. In order to overcome the security loophole, we give an improved protocol and make a security analysis for it. By calculating, the qubit efficiency of the three-party case in it is equal to <span>(frac{1}{8})</span>, which is higher than that in Hillery <i>et al.</i>’s protocol (Phys. Rev. A 59:1829, 1999).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00235-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140209577","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}
Bo Wu, Dunwei Liao, Zhenke Ding, Kai Yang, Yi Liu, Di Sang, Qiang An, Yunqi Fu
{"title":"Local oscillator port integrated resonator for Rydberg atom-based electric field measurement enhancement","authors":"Bo Wu, Dunwei Liao, Zhenke Ding, Kai Yang, Yi Liu, Di Sang, Qiang An, Yunqi Fu","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00231-3","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00231-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rydberg atom-based superheterodyne with additional local oscillator (LO) signal is a novel approach to detect electric field with high measured sensitivity. However, the LO signal is often supplied to the atomic vapor cell by free-space illumination, which lacks mobility and integration for practical applications. Here, we present a LO port integrated split-ring resonator for realizing high sensitivity-enhanced electric field measurements. The LO signal is sent directly to the resonator through a parallel-plate waveguide, which is shown to achieve a sensitivity enhancement of 32 dB. The integrated resonator has an electrical size of 0.088<i>λ</i> and the feed port S11 reaches −38.2 dB.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00231-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140192073","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}
Tomasz Białecki, Tomasz Rybotycki, Josep Batle, Jakub Tworzydło, Adam Bednorz
{"title":"Precise certification of a qubit space","authors":"Tomasz Białecki, Tomasz Rybotycki, Josep Batle, Jakub Tworzydło, Adam Bednorz","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00230-4","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00230-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We demonstrate an implementation of the precise test of dimension on the qubit, using the public IBM quantum computer, using the determinant dimension witness. The accuracy is below 10<sup>−3</sup> comparing to maximal possible value of the witness in higher dimension. The test involving minimal independent sets of preparation and measurement operations (gates) is applied both for specific configurations and parametric ones. The test is robust against nonidealities such as incoherent leakage and erroneous gate execution. Two of the IBM devices failed the test by more than 5 standard deviations, which has no simple explanation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00230-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164221","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}
Michael Fromm, Owe Philipsen, Michael Spannowsky, Christopher Winterowd
{"title":"Simulating (Z_{2}) lattice gauge theory with the variational quantum thermalizer","authors":"Michael Fromm, Owe Philipsen, Michael Spannowsky, Christopher Winterowd","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00232-2","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00232-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The properties of strongly-coupled lattice gauge theories at finite density as well as in real time have largely eluded first-principles studies on the lattice. This is due to the failure of importance sampling for systems with a complex action. An alternative to evade the sign problem is quantum simulation. Although still in its infancy, a lot of progress has been made in devising algorithms to address these problems. In particular, recent efforts have addressed the question of how to produce thermal Gibbs states on a quantum computer. In this study, we apply a variational quantum algorithm to a low-dimensional model which has a local abelian gauge symmetry. We demonstrate how this approach can be applied to obtain information regarding the phase diagram as well as unequal-time correlation functions at non-zero temperature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00232-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140139230","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}
{"title":"Coherent interface between optical and microwave photons on an integrated superconducting atom chip","authors":"David Petrosyan, József Fortágh, Gershon Kurizki","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00229-x","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00229-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sub-wavelength arrays of atoms exhibit remarkable optical properties, analogous to those of phased array antennas, such as collimated directional emission or nearly perfect reflection of light near the collective resonance frequency. We propose to use a single-sheet sub-wavelength array of atoms as a switchable mirror to achieve a coherent interface between propagating optical photons and microwave photons in a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator. In the proposed setup, the atomic array is located near the surface of the integrated superconducting chip containing the microwave cavity and optical waveguide. A driving laser couples the excited atomic state to Rydberg states with strong microwave transition. Then the presence or absence of a microwave photon in the superconducting cavity makes the atomic array transparent or reflective to the incoming optical pulses of proper frequency and finite bandwidth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00229-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114119","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}
{"title":"On the optimality of quantum circuit initial mapping using reinforcement learning","authors":"Norhan Elsayed Amer, Walid Gomaa, Keiji Kimura, Kazunori Ueda, Ahmed El-Mahdy","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00225-1","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00225-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantum circuit optimization is an inevitable task with the current noisy quantum backends. This task is considered non-trivial due to the varying circuits’ complexities in addition to hardware-specific noise, topology, and limited connectivity. The currently available methods either rely on heuristics for circuit optimization tasks or reinforcement learning with complex unscalable neural networks such as transformers. In this paper, we are concerned with optimizing the initial logical-to-physical mapping selection. Specifically, we investigate whether a reinforcement learning agent with simple scalable neural network is capable of finding a near-optimal logical-to-physical mapping, that would decrease as much as possible additional CNOT gates, only from a fixed-length feature vector. To answer this question, we train a Maskable Proximal Policy Optimization agent to progressively take steps towards a near-optimal logical-to-physical mapping on a 20-qubit hardware architecture. Our results show that our agent coupled with a simple routing evaluation is capable of outperforming other available reinforcement learning and heuristics approaches on 12 out of 19 test benchmarks, achieving geometric mean improvements of 2.2% and 15% over the best available related work and two heuristics approaches, respectively. Additionally, our neural network model scales linearly as the number of qubits increases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00225-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114118","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}
{"title":"Hybrid protocols for multi-party semiquantum private comparison, multiplication and summation without a pre-shared key based on d-dimensional single-particle states","authors":"Jiang-Yuan Lian, Tian-Yu Ye","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00228-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00228-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, by utilizing <i>d</i>-dimensional single-particle states, three semiquantum cryptography protocols, i.e., the multi-party semiquantum private comparison (MSQPC) protocol, the multi-party semiquantum multiplication (MSQM) protocol and the multi-party semiquantum summation (MSQS) protocol, can be achieved simultaneously under the assistance of two semi-honest quantum third parties (TPs). Here, the proposed MSQPC scheme is the only protocol which is devoted to judging the size relationship of secret integers from more than two semiquantum participants without a pre-shared key. And the proposed MSQM protocol absorbs the innovative concept of semiquantumness into quantum multiplication for the first time, which can calculate the modulo <i>d</i> multiplication of private inputs from more than two semiquantum users. As for the proposed MSQS protocol, it is the only semiquantum summation protocol which aims to accomplish the modulo <i>d</i> addition of more than three semiquantum users’ private integers. Neither quantum entanglement swapping nor unitary operations are necessary in the three proposed protocols. The security analysis verifies in detail that both the external attacks and the internal attacks can be resisted in the three proposed protocols.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00228-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140114117","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}
Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox
{"title":"Introductory quantum information science coursework at US institutions: content coverage","authors":"Josephine C. Meyer, Gina Passante, Steven J. Pollock, Bethany R. Wilcox","doi":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00226-0","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00226-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite rapid growth of quantum information science (QIS) workforce development initiatives, perceived lack of agreement among faculty on core content has made prior research-based curriculum and assessment development initiatives difficult to scale. To identify areas of consensus on content coverage, we report findings from a survey of N=63 instructors teaching introductory QIS courses at US institutions of higher learning. We identify a subset of content items common across a large fraction (≥ 80%) of introductory QIS courses that are potentially amenable to research-based curriculum development, with an emphasis on foundational skills in mathematics, physics, and engineering. As a further guide for curriculum development, we also examine differences in content coverage by level (undergraduate/graduate) and discipline. Finally, we briefly discuss the implications of our findings for the development of a research-based QIS assessment at the postsecondary level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":547,"journal":{"name":"EPJ Quantum Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://epjquantumtechnology.springeropen.com/counter/pdf/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-024-00226-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140055023","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}