{"title":"Discrete-time quantum walk with time-correlated noise","authors":"Y. Peng, W. Wang, X. Yi","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.032205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.032205","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the dynamics of discrete-time quantum walk subject to time correlated noise. Noise is described as an unitary coin-type operator before each step, and attention is focused on the noise generated by a Gaussian Ornstein Uhlenbeck process, going beyond the usual telegraph noise, where the random variables are consist of only -1 and 1. Under the first-order approximation of BCH formula, the master equation of noisy discrete-time quantum walk is derived. The dynamics given by the master equation are in good agreement with those given by numerical simulations within a certain period of steps, which is controlled by noise parameters. Two remarker behaviors of long time noisy dynamics are observed in numerical simulations, corresponding to two opposite noise regimes: in slow noise regime, with the increase of the noise amplitude, the quantum coherence is suppressed, and the dynamics of noisy discrete-time quantum walk gradually transits to that of classical random walk. In fast noise regime, the walker is confined into few lattice sites, and the width of wave packet is much narrower compared with that in slow noise regime.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85650519","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}
B. Buča, Archak Purkayastha, G. Guarnieri, M. Mitchison, D. Jaksch, J. Goold
{"title":"Quantum many-body attractors","authors":"B. Buča, Archak Purkayastha, G. Guarnieri, M. Mitchison, D. Jaksch, J. Goold","doi":"10.21203/RS.3.RS-106008/V1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/RS.3.RS-106008/V1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Real-world complex systems often show robust, persistent oscillatory dynamics, e.g.~non-trivial attractors. On the quantum level this behaviour has only been found in semi-classical or weakly correlated systems under restrictive assumptions. However, strongly interacting systems without classical limits, e.g.~electrons on a lattice or spins, typically relax quickly to a stationary state (trivial attractors). This raises the puzzling question of how non-trivial attractors can arise from the quantum laws. Here, we introduce strictly local dynamical symmetries that lead to extremely robust and persistent oscillations in quantum many-body systems without a classical limit. Observables that do not have overlap with the symmetry operators can relax, losing memory of their initial conditions. The remaining observables enter complex dynamical cycles, signalling the emergence of a quantum many-body attractor. We provide a recipe for constructing Hamiltonians featuring local dynamical symmetries. As an example, we introduce the spin lace – a model of a quasi-1D quantum magnet.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90189634","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":"Photon-recoil and laser-focusing limits to Rydberg gate fidelity","authors":"F. Robicheaux, T. Graham, M. Saffman","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.022424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.103.022424","url":null,"abstract":"Limits to Rydberg gate fidelity that arise from the entanglement of internal states of neutral atoms with the motional degrees of freedom due to the momentum kick from photon absorption and re-emission is quantified. This occurs when the atom is in a superposition of internal states but only one of these states is manipulated by visible or UV photons. The Schrodinger equation that describes this situation is presented and two cases are explored. In the first case, the entanglement arises because the spatial wave function shifts due to the separation in time between excitation and stimulated emission. For neutral atoms in a harmonic trap, the decoherence can be expressed within a sudden approximation when the duration of the laser pulses are shorter than the harmonic oscillator period. In this limit, the decoherence is given by simple analytic formulas that account for the momentum of the photon, the temperature of the atoms, the harmonic oscillator frequency, and atomic mass. In the second case, there is a reduction in gate fidelity because the photons causing absorption and stimulated emission are in focused beam modes. This leads to a dependence of the optically induced changes in the internal states on the center of mass atomic position. In the limit where the time between pulses is short, the decoherence can be expressed as a simple analytic formula involving the laser waist, temperature of the atoms, the trap frequency and the atomic mass. These limits on gate fidelity are studied for the standard $pi-2pi-pi$ Rydberg gate and a new protocol based on a single adiabatic pulse with Gaussian envelope.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83979838","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}
J. D. S. Barbosa, Myoung-Jae Lee, P. Campagne-Ibarcq, P. Jamonneau, Y. Kubo, S. Pezzagna, J. Meijer, T. Teraji, D. Vion, D. Estève, R. Heeres, P. Bertet
{"title":"Determining the position of a single spin relative to a metallic nanowire","authors":"J. D. S. Barbosa, Myoung-Jae Lee, P. Campagne-Ibarcq, P. Jamonneau, Y. Kubo, S. Pezzagna, J. Meijer, T. Teraji, D. Vion, D. Estève, R. Heeres, P. Bertet","doi":"10.1063/5.0042987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0042987","url":null,"abstract":"The nanoscale localization of individual paramagnetic defects near an electrical circuit is an important step for realizing hybrid quantum devices with strong spin-microwave photon coupling. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of an array of individual NV centers in diamond near a metallic nanowire deposited on top of the substrate. We determine the relative position of each NV center with $sim$10,nm accuracy, using it as a vector magnetometer to measure the field generated by passing a dc current through the wire.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83211193","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}
K. Nesterov, Q. Ficheux, V. Manucharyan, M. Vavilov
{"title":"Proposal for Entangling Gates on Fluxonium Qubits via a Two-Photon Transition","authors":"K. Nesterov, Q. Ficheux, V. Manucharyan, M. Vavilov","doi":"10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.020345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.020345","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a family of microwave-activated entangling gates on two capacitively coupled fluxonium qubits. A microwave pulse applied to either qubit at a frequency near the half-frequency of the $|00rangle - |11rangle$ transition induces two-photon Rabi oscillations with a negligible leakage outside the computational subspace, owing to the strong anharmonicity of fluxoniums. By adjusting the drive frequency, amplitude, and duration, we obtain the gate family that is locally equivalent to the fermionic-simulation gates such as $sqrt{rm SWAP}$-like and controlled-phase gates. The gate error can be tuned below $10^{-4}$ for a pulse duration under 100 ns without excessive circuit parameter matching. Given that the fluxonium coherence time can exceed 1 ms, our gate scheme is promising for large-scale quantum processors.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88808790","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":"Probability, preclusion and biological evolution in Heisenberg-picture Everett quantum mechanics","authors":"M. Rubin","doi":"10.1142/S0217751X21501177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X21501177","url":null,"abstract":"The fact that certain \"extraordinary\" probabilistic phenomena--in particular, macroscopic violations of the second law of thermodynamics--have never been observed to occur can be accounted for by taking hard preclusion as a basic physical law; i.e. precluding from existence events corresponding to very small but nonzero values of quantum-mechanical weight. This approach is not consistent with the usual ontology of the Everett interpretation, in which outcomes correspond to branches of the state vector, but can be successfully implemented using a Heisenberg-picture-based ontology in which outcomes are encoded in transformations of operators. Hard preclusion can provide an explanation for biological evolution, which can in turn explain our subjective experiences of, and reactions to, \"ordinary\" probabilistic phenomena, and the compatibility of those experiences and reactions with what we conventionally take to be objective probabilities arising from physical laws.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76638926","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}
H.-S. Chang, K. Satzinger, Y. Zhong, A. Bienfait, M. Chou, C. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. Peairs, R. Povey, A. Cleland
{"title":"A fast and large bandwidth superconducting variable coupler","authors":"H.-S. Chang, K. Satzinger, Y. Zhong, A. Bienfait, M. Chou, C. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. Peairs, R. Povey, A. Cleland","doi":"10.1063/5.0028840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028840","url":null,"abstract":"Variable microwave-frequency couplers are highly useful components in classical communication systems, and likely will play an important role in quantum communication applications. Conventional semiconductor-based microwave couplers have been used with superconducting quantum circuits, enabling for example the in situ measurements of multiple devices via a common readout chain. However, the semiconducting elements are lossy, and furthermore dissipate energy when switched, making them unsuitable for cryogenic applications requiring rapid, repeated switching. Superconducting Josephson junction-based couplers can be designed for dissipation-free operation with fast switching and are easily integrated with superconducting quantum circuits. These enable on-chip, quantum-coherent routing of microwave photons, providing an appealing alternative to semiconductor switches. Here, we present and characterize a chip-based broadband microwave variable coupler, tunable over 4-8 GHz with over 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth, based on the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with two parallel Josephson junctions. The coupler is dissipation-free, features large on-off ratios in excess of 40 dB, and the coupling can be changed in about 10 ns. The simple design presented here can be readily integrated with superconducting qubit circuits, and can be easily generalized to realize a four- or more port device.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81274999","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}
Simon Milz, C. Spee, Zhen-Peng xu, F. A. Pollock, K. Modi, O. Guhne
{"title":"Genuine multipartite entanglement in time","authors":"Simon Milz, C. Spee, Zhen-Peng xu, F. A. Pollock, K. Modi, O. Guhne","doi":"10.21468/SciPostPhys.10.6.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.10.6.141","url":null,"abstract":"While spatial quantum correlations have been studied in great detail, much less is known about the genuine quantum correlations that can be exhibited by temporal processes. Employing the quantum comb formalism, processes in time can be mapped onto quantum states, with the crucial difference that temporal correlations have to satisfy causal ordering, while their spatial counterpart is not constrained in the same way. Here, we exploit this equivalence and use the tools of multipartite entanglement theory to provide a comprehensive picture of the structure of correlations that (causally ordered) temporal quantum processes can display. First, focusing on the case of a process that is probed at two points in time -- which can equivalently be described by a tripartite quantum state -- we provide necessary as well as sufficient conditions for the presence of bipartite entanglement in different splittings. Next, we connect these scenarios to the previously studied concepts of quantum memory, entanglement breaking superchannels, and quantum steering, thus providing both a physical interpretation for entanglement in temporal quantum processes, and a determination of the resources required for its creation. Additionally, we construct explicit examples of W-type and GHZ-type genuinely multipartite entangled two-time processes and prove that genuine multipartite entanglement in temporal processes can be an emergent phenomenon. Finally, we show that genuinely entangled processes across multiple times exist for any number of probing times.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80851583","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":"Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell's Inequality","authors":"D. Kaiser","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198844495.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198844495.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"Bell's inequality sets a strict threshold for how strongly correlated the outcomes of measurements on two or more particles can be, if the outcomes of each measurement are independent of actions undertaken at arbitrarily distant locations. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, predicts that measurements on particles in entangled states can be more strongly correlated than Bell's inequality would allow. Whereas experimental tests conducted over the past half-century have consistently measured violations of Bell's inequality---consistent with the predictions of quantum mechanics---the experiments have been subject to one or more \"loopholes,\" by means of which certain alternatives to quantum theory could remain consistent with the experimental results. This chapter reviews three of the most significant loopholes, often dubbed the \"locality,\" \"fair-sampling,\" and \"freedom-of-choice\" loopholes, and describes how recent experiments have addressed them.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75582545","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":"Ground-state cooling of mechanical resonators by hot thermal light","authors":"M. T. Naseem, Ozgur Esat Mustecapliouglu","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-111621/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-111621/v1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We propose a scheme to cool down a mechanical resonator to its quantum ground-state, which is interacting\u0000with a cavity mode via the optomechanical coupling. As opposed to standard laser cooling schemes where\u0000coherence renders the state of the resonator to its ground-state, here we use incoherent thermal light to achieve\u0000the same aim. We show that simultaneous cooling of two degenerate or near-degenerate mechanical resonators is\u0000possible in our scheme, which is otherwise a challenging goal to achieve in optomechanics. The generalization\u0000of this method to the simultaneous cooling of multiple resonators is straightforward. The underlying physical\u0000mechanism of cooling is explained by revealing a direct connection between the laser sideband cooling and\u0000“cooling by heating” in a standard optomechanical setting.","PeriodicalId":8484,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Quantum Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78860216","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}