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An elementary excitation in an aggregate of coupled particles generates a collective excited state. We show that the dynamics of these excitations can be controlled by applying a transient external potential which modifies the phase of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Ping Xiang , Marina Litinskaya , Evgeny A. Shapiro , Roman V. Krems

A central task towards building a practical quantum computer is to protect individual qubits from decoherence while retaining the ability to perform high-fidelity entangling gates involving arbitrary two qubits. Here we propose and…

It is shown that magnetic states and field-driven reorientation transitions in synthetic antiferromagnets crucially depend on contributions of higher-order anisotropies. A phenomenological macrospin model is derived to describe the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Bogdanov , U. K. Roessler

The principle of microscopic reversibility lies at the core of fluctuation theorems, which have extended our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics to the statistical level. In the quantum regime, however, this elementary…

Phase change memory has been developed into a mature technology capable of storing information in a fast and non-volatile way, with potential for neuromorphic computing applications. However, its future impact in electronics depends…

Internal states of polar molecules can be controlled by microwave-frequency electric dipole transitions. If the applied microwave electric field has a spatial gradient, these transitions also affect the motion of these dipolar particles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Eric R. Hudson , Wesley C. Campbell

Nascent quantum computers motivate the exploration of quantum many-body systems in nontraditional scenarios. For example, it has become natural to explore the dynamics of systems evolving under both unitary evolution and measurement. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Nicholas O'Dea , Alan Morningstar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Vedika Khemani

Quantum information science has the potential to revolutionize modern technology by providing resource-efficient approaches to computing, communication, and sensing. Although the physical qubits in a realistic quantum device will inevitably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Yadav P. Kandel , Haifeng Qiao , Saeed Fallahi , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra , John M. Nichol

We present a new perspective on thermal and quantum phase transitions (QPT) in $(2+1)$-dimensional quantum chromodynamics based on symmetries, topology, and quantum dynamical structure of the baryon ground state in the large $N_c$ limit for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-25 Laith H. Haddad

To use quantum systems for technological applications we first need to preserve their coherence for macroscopic timescales, even at finite temperature. Quantum error correction has made it possible to actively correct errors that affect a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Benjamin J. Brown , Daniel Loss , Jiannis K. Pachos , Chris N. Self , James R. Wootton

We propose a quantum computer architecture which is robust against decoherence and scalable. As a qubit, we adopt rotational states of a nonpolar ionic molecule trapped in an ion-trap. It is revealed that the rotational-state qubits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sang Jae Yun , Chang Hee Nam

Despite the fact that a complete theoretical description of critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions has been well-established through the renormalization group theory, the microscopic nature of the phase transitions remains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yun-Tong Yang , Fu-Zhou Chen , Hong-Gang Luo

Quantum nonclassicality is the basic building stone for the vast majority of quantum information applications and methods of its generation are at the forefront of research. One of the obstacles any method needs to clear is the looming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Petr Marek , Lukas Lachman , Lukas Slodicka , Radim Filip

Transferring the state of an information carrier from a sender to a receiver is an essential primitive in both classical and quantum communication and information processing. In a quantum process known as teleportation the unknown state of…

A perfect quantum state transfer(QST) has been shown in an engineered spin chain with "always-on interaction". Here, we consider a more realistic problem for such a protocol, the quantum decoherence induced by a spatially distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lan Zhou , Jing Lu , Tao Shi , C. P. Sun

The decay of metastable states is dominated by quantum tunneling at low temperatures and by thermal activation at high temperatures. The escape rate of a particle out of a square well is calculated within a semi-classical approximation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis A. Gorokhov , Rava A. da Silveira

By utilizing the nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier, the quantum state transfer from a pump state with high frequency to a signal state of lower frequency is studied theoretically. The noiseless state transfer is characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Yunfei Bai , Junxiang Zhang , Shi-Yao Zhu

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel protocol for transferring quantum states between superconducting cavities using only continuous two-mode squeezing interactions, without exchange of photonic excitations between cavities.…

The transfer of quantum entanglement (or quantum coherence) is not only fundamental in quantum mechanics but also important in quantum information processing. We here propose a way to achieve the coherent transfer of $W$-class entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Qi-Ping Su , Tong Liu , Chui-Ping Yang

The building blocks of Nature, namely atoms and elementary particles, are described by quantum mechanics. This fundamental theory is the ground on which physicists have built their major mathematical models [1]. Today, the unique features…