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The implementation of a tuning fork sensor in a scanning force microscope operational at 300 mK is described and the harmonic oscillator model of the sensor is motivated. These sensors exhibit very high quality factors at low temperatures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Ihn , T. Vancura , A. Baumgartner , P. Studerus , K. Ensslin

The denominated surface charge scraping mechanism was discovered in 2014 by using a new Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) based mode called Charge Gradient Microscopy. The measurements to probe such mechanism are achieved with the use of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 A. Gomez

We present an integrated scheme for dielectric drive and read-out of high-Q nanomechanical resonators which enables tuning of both the resonance frequency and quality factor with an applied DC voltage. A simple model for altering these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Johannes Rieger , Thomas Faust , Maximilian J. Seitner , Jörg P. Kotthaus , Eva M. Weig

In this letter we revisit the problem of optimal design of quantum tomographic experiments. In contrast to previous approaches where an optimal set of measurements is decided in advance of the experiment, we allow for measurements to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Ferenc Huszár , Neil M. T. Houlsby

Adaptive measurements were recently shown to significantly improve the performance of quantum state tomography. Utilizing information about the system for the on-line choice of optimal measurements allows to reach the ultimate bounds of…

Stressed nanomechanical resonators are known to have exceptionally high quality factors ($Q$) due to the dilution of intrinsic dissipation by stress. Typically, the amount of dissipation dilution and thus the resonator $Q$ is limited by the…

Quality factor plays a fundamental role in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy. We present a technique to modify the quality factor of an atomic force microscopy cantilever within a Fabry-P\'erot optical interferometer. The experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Noah Austin-Bingamon , Binod D. C. , Yoichi Miyahara

Using a single quantum probe to sense other quantum objects offers distinct advantages but suffers from some limitations that may degrade the sensing precision severely, especially when the probe-target coupling is weak. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Yi-Nan Fang , Xing Xiao , Chang-Pu Sun , Wen Yang , Nan Zhao

Atom interferometers require both high efficiency and robust performance in their mirror pulses under experimental inhomogeneities. In this work, we demonstrated that quantum optimal control designed mirror pulse significantly enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Xueting Fang , Doudou Wang , Kun Yuan , Jie Deng , Qin Luo , Xiaochun Duan , Minkang Zhou , Lushuai Cao , Zhongkun Hu

Amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) measures nanoscale surface structures by detecting changes in the cantilever oscillation amplitude, contributing to materials research. AM-AFM can non-destructively observe fragile…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Kenichi Umeda , Karen Kamoshita , Noriyuki Kodera

The aim of this article is to provide a complete analysis of the behavior of a noncontact atomic force microscope (NC-AFM). We start with a review of the equations of motion of a tip interacting with a surface in which the stability…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-08-16 Gérard Couturier , Rodolphe Boisgard , Laurent Nony , Jean-Pierre Aimé

Factor-adjusted multiple testing is used for handling strong correlated tests. Since most of previous works control the false discovery rate under sparse alternatives, we develop a two-step method, namely the AdaFAT, for any true false…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Mengkun Du , Lan Wu

Squeezed light enables quantum-enhanced phase estimation, with crucial applications in both fundamental physics and emerging technologies. To fully exploit the advantage provided by this approach, estimation protocols must remain optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giorgio Minati , Enrico Urbani , Nicolò Spagnolo , Valeria Cimini , Fabio Sciarrino

Atomic Force Microscopy with SideWall (AFM SW) is widely used for nano-scale surface measurements at side surfaces. In the current study, by taking into consideration the effects of sidewall beam and its probe, an analytical method is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Sina Eftekhar , Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi Janbeh Sarayi

Coping with noise in quantum computation poses significant challenges due to its unpredictable nature and the complexities of accurate modeling. This paper presents noise-adaptive folding, a technique that enhances zero-noise extrapolation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Kathrin F. Koenig , Finn Reinecke , Thomas Wellens

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) enables high-resolution imaging and quantitative force measurement, which is critical for understanding nanoscale mechanical, chemical, and biological interactions. In dynamic AFM modes, however, interaction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 Simon Laflamme , Bugrahan Guner , Omur E. Dagdeviren

The ever-growing computational complexity of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient deployment strategies. The current state-of-the-art approaches for Post-training Quantization (PTQ) often require calibration to achieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Alireza Ghaffari , Sharareh Younesian , Vahid Partovi Nia , Boxing Chen , Masoud Asgharian

Quantifying the tip-sample interaction at the nanoscale in Amplitude Modulation mode AFM is challenging, especially when measuring in liquids. Here, we derive formulas for the tip-sample conservative and dissipative interactions and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-24 Luca Costa , Mario S Rodrigues

An adaptive optimization technique to improve precision of quantum homodyne tomography is presented. The method is based on the existence of so-called null functions, which have zero average for arbitrary state of radiation. Addition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Matteo G. A. Paris

Adaptive tomography has been widely investigated to achieve faster state tomography processing of quantum systems. Infidelity of the nearly pure states in a quantum information process generally scales as O(1/sqrt(N) ), which requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Hyeok Hwang , JaeKyung Choi , Eunseong Kim