{"title":"Unconventional Photon Blockade in a Hybrid Optomechanical System with an Embedded Spin-Triplet","authors":"Yao Dong, Jing-jing Wang, Guo-Feng Zhang","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400232","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qute.202400232","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research investigates the unconventional photon blockade in a hybrid optomechanical system with an embedded spin-triplet state. The self-homodyning interference between squeezed quantum fluctuations produced by the emitter and the coherent fraction from the driving laser results in two-photon suppression. Analytical solutions of the correlator equation and numerical simulations of the master equation reveal that modulated mechanical dissipation plays a crucial role in achieving strong single-photon blockade. In contrast to conventional cavity optomechanical systems, a second-order correlation function of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>g</mi>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mn>0</mn>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mo>≃</mo>\u0000 <mn>0</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$g^{(2)}(0)simeq 0$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> can be achieved with weak single-photon optomechanical coupling. By combining unconventional and conventional antibunching, the hybrid system achieves the convergence of maximal photon population, two-photon interference, and suppression of higher-order correlations. Additionally, the influence of the thermal noise on photon blockade is investigated, demonstrating greater robustness of the second-order correlation under weaker phonon-spin coupling.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142227429","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":"Selective Temperature Sensing in Nanodiamonds Using Dressed States","authors":"Nathaniel M. Beaver, Paul Stevenson","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400271","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qute.202400271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Temperature sensing at the nanoscale is a significant experimental challenge. Here, an approach using dressed states is reported to make a leading quantum sensor – the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond – selectively sensitive to temperature, even in the presence of normally confounding magnetic fields. Using an experimentally straightforward approach, the magnetic sensitivity of the NV center is suppressed by a factor of seven, while retaining full temperature sensitivity and narrowing the NV center linewidth. These results demonstrate the power of engineering the sensor Hamiltonian using external control fields to enable sensing with improved specificity to target signals.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/qute.202400271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218912","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}
Tian-Ren Jin, Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-An Wang, Tian-Ming Li, Kai Xu, Heng Fan
{"title":"Purity-Assisted Zero-Noise Extrapolation for Quantum Error Mitigation","authors":"Tian-Ren Jin, Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-An Wang, Tian-Ming Li, Kai Xu, Heng Fan","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400150","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qute.202400150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum error mitigation aims to reduce errors in quantum systems and improve accuracy. Zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) is a commonly used method, where noise is amplified, and the target expectation is extrapolated to a noise-free point. However, ZNE relies on assumptions about error rates based on the error model. In this study, a purity-assisted zero-noise extrapolation (pZNE) method is utilized to address limitations in error rate assumptions and enhance the extrapolation process. The pZNE is based on the Pauli diagonal error model implemented using the Pauli twirling technique. Although this method does not significantly reduce the bias of routine ZNE, it extends its effectiveness to a wider range of error rates where routine ZNE may face limitations. In addition, the practicality of the pZNE method is verified through numerical simulations and experiments on the online quantum computation platform, <i>Quafu</i>. Comparisons with routine ZNE and virtual distillation methods show that biases in extrapolation methods increase with error rates and may become divergent at high error rates. The bias of pZNE is slightly lower than routine ZNE, while its error rate threshold surpasses that of routine ZNE. Furthermore, for full density matrix information, the pZNE method is more efficient than the routine ZNE.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218909","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}
Siyu Xiong, Bangying Tang, Hui Han, Jinquan Huang, Mingqiang Bai, Fangzhao Li, Wanrong Yu, Zhiwen Mo, Bo Liu
{"title":"Efficient Arbitrated Quantum Digital Signature with Multi-Receiver Verification","authors":"Siyu Xiong, Bangying Tang, Hui Han, Jinquan Huang, Mingqiang Bai, Fangzhao Li, Wanrong Yu, Zhiwen Mo, Bo Liu","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400110","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qute.202400110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum digital signature is used to authenticate the identity of the signer with information theoretical security while providing non-forgery and non-repudiation services. In traditional multi-receiver quantum digital signature schemes without an arbitrator, the transferability of one-to-one signature is always required to achieve unforgeability, with complicated implementation and heavy key consumption. In this article, an arbitrated quantum digital signature scheme is proposed, in which the signature can be verified by multiple receivers simultaneously, and meanwhile, the transferability of the signature is still kept. This scheme can be simplified performed to various quantum secure networks, due to the proposed efficient signature calculation procedure with low secure key consumption and low computation complexity, by employing one-time universal hashing algorithm and a one-time pad encryption scheme. The evaluation results show that this scheme uses at least two orders of magnitude less key than existing signature schemes with transferability when signing files of the same length with the same number of receivers and security parameter settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"7 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218913","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":"Purity and Construction of Arbitrary Dimensional \u0000 \u0000 k\u0000 $k$\u0000 -Uniform Mixed States","authors":"Xiao Zhang, Shanqi Pang, Shao-Ming Fei, Zhu-Jun Zheng","doi":"10.1002/qute.202400245","DOIUrl":"10.1002/qute.202400245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>k</i>-uniform mixed states are a significant class of states characterized by all <i>k</i>-party reduced states being maximally mixed.Novel methodologies are constructed for constructing <i>k</i>-uniform mixed states with the highest possible purity. By using the orthogonal partition of orthogonal arrays, a series of new <i>k</i>-uniform mixed states is derived. Consequently, an infinite number of higher-dimensional <i>k</i>-uniform mixed states, including those with highest purity, can be generated.</p>","PeriodicalId":72073,"journal":{"name":"Advanced quantum technologies","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218914","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}