{"title":"Kerr-Effect-Based High-Dimensional Entanglement Generation for Qudit Systems","authors":"Ming Ma, Qiang Zhu, Fang-Fang Du","doi":"10.1002/qute.202500010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202500010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Employing high-dimensional photonic encodings (qudits) instead of the traditional 2D encodings (qubits) can significantly enhance loss tolerance and reduce computational resources in photon-based quantum information technology (QIT). To tap into this potential, effective schemes for the high-dimensional generation of entangled states are essential. In this study, two arbitrary 4D entanglement generation protocols based on cross-Kerr effect are developed, including two-qudit entangled states with two photon pairs and three-qudit entangled states with three photon pairs. These 4D entangled states require neither auxiliary photons (or entangled states) nor complicated quantum circuits. The success probabilities of high-dimensional entangled states are close to 1 and their fidelities are robust against the photon loss with the current technology. The 4D entangled states depend on only simple linear-optics elements, available four-dimensional single-qudit operations, and mature measurement methods, making our proposed protocols feasible and efficient in practical QIT.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhi-guo Nie, Ruo-xing Guo, Chen-rui Fan, Xing-yu Wu, Bo Lu, Cong Cao, Yong-pan Gao
{"title":"Sliding Mode Control-Like Accelerated Coherent Ising Machine","authors":"Zhi-guo Nie, Ruo-xing Guo, Chen-rui Fan, Xing-yu Wu, Bo Lu, Cong Cao, Yong-pan Gao","doi":"10.1002/qute.202500057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202500057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coherent Ising Machine (CIM) emerge as powerful tools for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems by mapping them to the ground state search of the Ising model. Traditional CIM models face two major challenges when addressing large-scale problems: slowness in convergence and susceptibility to local minima. To address these limitations, the Sliding Mode Control-Like Coherent Ising Machine (SMCL-CIM) integrates sliding mode control principles into the feedback mechanism of the CIM, inspired by classical dynamic control methods. Experimental results on random graphs and G-set benchmarks demonstrate that for the max-cut problem, SMCL-CIM achieves an approximately 79. 93% reduction in solution time while improving solution accuracy by 11.4%–15.3% under the same simulation conditions. This scheme provides an efficient and scalable approach to combinatorial optimization, thereby facilitating the broader application of CIM.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Whitefield, Milos Toth, Igor Aharonovich, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Mehran Kianinia
{"title":"Magnetic Field Sensitivity Optimization of Negatively Charged Boron Vacancy Defects in hBN (Adv. Quantum Technol. 4/2025)","authors":"Benjamin Whitefield, Milos Toth, Igor Aharonovich, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Mehran Kianinia","doi":"10.1002/qute.202570008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202570008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The image depicts the optical excitation of negatively charged boron vacancies in a hexagonal boron nitride lattice. The lattice is positioned on top of a gold stripe which applies a radio frequency used for optically detected magnetic resonance. The magnet placed on the lattice represents the capability of precise magnetic field sensing available with this spin control technique. More in article number 2300118, Igor Aharonovich and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/qute.202570008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheng-Zhi Gao, Guo-Qing Liu, Nan Wang, Lin Yu, Ai-Dong Zhu
{"title":"Nonreciprocal Entanglement in Spinning Cavity Magnomechanical System with Coherent Feedback Loop","authors":"Cheng-Zhi Gao, Guo-Qing Liu, Nan Wang, Lin Yu, Ai-Dong Zhu","doi":"10.1002/qute.202500063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202500063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A scheme is proposed for generating and enhancing stable nonreciprocal entanglement in a spinning cavity magnomechanical system. The key components of this scheme include a ferromagnetic yttrium iron garnet sphere and a whispering gallery mode resonator supporting two counter-propagating modes. To further optimize the performance of the system, a coherent feedback loop is introduced to reinject the dissipated energy back into the system. This not only provides an additional coupling path for the system but also effectively avoids introducing additional noise caused by measurement. The design significantly enhances both bipartite entanglement and genuine tripartite entanglement. Meanwhile, by spinning the resonator, the cavity modes experience Fizeau drag due to the optical Sagnac effect, thereby achieving nonreciprocal entanglement, which is crucial for applications such as unidirectional quantum communication channels. Additionally, the research demonstrates that even in the presence of backscattering, the entangled state can still recover significantly, highlighting the robustness of entanglement under photon backscattering. This work provides an effective method to enhance and protect quantum resources and holds important application potential for applications in quantum information processing based on magnonics.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Taoufik Said, Muhammad Shafique, Mohamed Bennai
{"title":"Designing Robust Quantum Neural Networks via Optimized Circuit Metrics","authors":"Walid El Maouaki, Alberto Marchisio, Taoufik Said, Muhammad Shafique, Mohamed Bennai","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202400601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, the robustness of Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs) is investigated in comparison to their classical counterparts, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), against two adversarial attacks: the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and the Projected Gradient Descent (PGD), for the image classification task on both the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) and Fashion-MNIST (FMNIST) datasets. To enhance the robustness of QuNNs, a novel methodology is developed that utilizes three quantum circuit metrics: expressibility, entanglement capability, and controlled rotation gate selection. This analysis shows that these metrics significantly influence data representation within the Hilbert space, thereby directly affecting QuNN robustness. It is rigorously established that circuits with higher expressibility and lower entanglement capability generally exhibit enhanced robustness under adversarial conditions, particularly at low-spectrum perturbation strengths where most attacks occur. Furthermore, these findings challenge the prevailing assumption that expressibility alone dictates circuit robustness; instead, it is demonstrated that the inclusion of controlled rotation gates around the Z-axis generally enhances the resilience of QuNNs. These results demonstrate that QuNNs exhibit up to 60% greater robustness on the MNIST dataset and 40% on the Fashion-MNIST dataset compared to CNNs. Collectively, this work elucidates the relationship between quantum circuit metrics and robust data feature extraction, advancing the field by improving the adversarial robustness of QuNNs.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PT\u0000 $mathcal {PT}$\u0000 -Symmetric Quantum Rabi Model: Solutions and Exceptional Points","authors":"Jiong Li, Yi-Cheng Wang, Li-Wei Duan, Qing-Hu Chen","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.202400609","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mi>PT</mi>\u0000 <annotation>$mathcal {PT}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-symmetric non-Hermitian quantum Rabi model (QRM) with imaginary coupling is solved using the Bogoliubov operators approach. A transcendental function responsible for the exact solutions is derived, with its zeros yielding the regular spectrum. Two types of intersections: the exceptional points (EPs), which are well-studied in the non-Hermitian system; and another arising from doubly degenerate states due to the conserved QRM parity, which is well-known in the Hermitian QRM, are found. These intersections are identified through this transcendental function. EPs emerge between pairs of adjacent excited energy levels, shifting toward lower coupling strengths as energy levels increase, and can also be predicted by a generalized rotating-wave approximation approach. The fidelity susceptibility diverges to negative infinity at the EPs, consistent with recent findings in non-Hermitian systems, while it diverges to positive infinity at the doubly degenerate points. The EPs are further confirmed by the vanishing c-product in the biorthogonal basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"8 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}