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We consider light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice into a cavity. The measurement of photons leaking out the cavity provides a quantum nondemolition (QND) access to various atomic variables. Depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

Quantum steering in a system consisting of a qubit coupled to a single-mode field is explored when classical-like measurements implemented by heterodyne detection schemes that collapse the state of the field on to a coherent state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 K. P. Athulya , Anil Shaji

We first use the quantum method to replicate the well-known results of a single atom relaxing, whilst demonstrating the intuitive picture it provides for dissipative dynamics. By use of individual "quantum trajectories", the method allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Charles A. McDermott

We consider the evolution of a spin 1/2 (qubit) under the simultaneous continuous measurement of three non-commuting qubit operators sigma_x, sigma_y, sigma_z. For identical ideal detectors the qubit state evolves by approaching a pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-20 Rusko Ruskov , Alexander N. Korotkov , Klaus Mølmer

Synthetic frequency dimension offers a powerful approach to simulate lattice models and control photon dynamics. However, extending this concept into the quantum regime, particularly at the single-photon level, has remained challenging in…

We propose a detection scheme for measuring the overlap of the quantum state of a weakly excited traveling-field mode with a desired reference quantum state, by successive mixing the signal mode with modes prepared in coherent states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 J. Clausen , M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

We discuss the statistics of emission of photons by a single atom or ion illuminated by a laser beam at the frequency of quasi-resonance between two energy levels, a situation that corresponds to real experiments. We extend this to the case…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yves Pomeau , Martine Le Berre , Jean Ginibre

The state vector evolution in the interaction of initial measured pure state with collective quantum system or the field with a very large number of degrees of freedom N is analysed in a nonperturbative QED formalism. As the example the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Mayburov

Quantum coherence, a basic feature of quantum mechanics residing in superpositions of quantum states, is a resource for quantum information processing. Coherence emerges in a fundamentally different way for nonidentical and identical…

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

Quantum mechanics postulates that measuring the qubit's wave function results in its collapse, with the recorded discrete outcome designating the particular eigenstate that the qubit collapsed into. We show that this picture breaks down…

Dispersive readout is widely used to perform high-fidelity measurement of superconducting qubits. Much work has been focused on the qubit readout fidelity, which depends on the achievable signal-to-noise ratio and the qubit relaxation time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Aayam Bista , Matthew Thibodeau , Ke Nie , Kaicheung Chow , Bryan K. Clark , Angela Kou

High fidelity single shot qubit state readout is essential for many quantum information processing protocols. In superconducting quantum circuit, the qubit state is usually determined by detecting the dispersive frequency shift of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Zhiling Wang , Zenghui Bao , Yukai Wu , Yan Li , Cheng Ma , Tianqi Cai , Yipu Song , Hongyi Zhang , Luming Duan

An atom in open space can be detected by means of resonant absorption and reemission of electromagnetic waves, known as resonance fluorescence, which is a fundamental phenomenon of quantum optics. We report on the observation of scattering…

The paper describes the means to reveal and characterize slow periodic modulation of qubit frequency. Such modulation can come from different sources and can impact qubit stability. We show that the modulation leads to very sharp peaks in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Filip Wudarski , Yaxing Zhang , Juan Atalaya , M. I. Dykman

In this work we study the first step in photosynthesis for the limiting case of a single photon interacting with photosystem II (PSII). We model our system using quantum trajectory theory, which allows us to consider not only the average…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Robert L. Cook , Liwen Ko , K. Birgitta Whaley

Coherent dynamics of a superconducting phase qubit is considered in the presence of both unitary evolution due to microwave driving and continuous non-unitary collapse due to negative-result measurement. In the case of a relatively weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-08 Rusko Ruskov , Ari Mizel , Alexander N. Korotkov

We investigate the nature of quantum jumps occurring between macroscopic metastable states of light in the open driven Jaynes-Cummings model. We find that, in the limit of zero spontaneous emission considered in [H. J. Carmichael, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Th. K. Mavrogordatos

We investigate the relaxation of a superconducting qubit for the case when its detector, the Josephson bifurcation amplifier, remains latched in one of its two (meta)stable states of forced vibrations. The qubit relaxation rates are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Serban , M. I. Dykman , F. K. Wilhelm

Quantum state readout with minimal resources is crucial for scalable quantum information processing. As a leading platform, neutral atom arrays rely on atomic fluorescence imaging for qubit readout, requiring short exposure, low photon…