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The manner in which unpredictable chaotic dynamics manifests itself in quantum mechanics is a key question in the field of quantum chaos. Indeed, very distinct quantum features can appear due to underlying classical nonlinear dynamics. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 G. B. Lemos , R. M. Gomes , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro , F. Toscano

We propose a method of simulating efficiently many-body interacting fermion lattice models in trapped ions, including highly nonlinear interactions in arbitrary spatial dimensions and for arbitrarily distant couplings. We map products of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Casanova , A. Mezzacapo , L. Lamata , E. Solano

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

We show that an atom can be coupled to a mechanical oscillator via quantum vacuum fluctuations of a cavity field enabling energy transfer processes between them. In a hybrid quantum system consisting of a cavity resonator with a movable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Bo Wang , Jia-Ming Hu , Vincenzo Macrì , Ze-Liang Xiang , Franco Nori

We discuss the trapping of cold atoms within microscopic voids drilled perpendicularly through the axis of an optical waveguide. The dimensions of the voids considered are between 1 and 40 optical wavelengths. By simulating light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 N Cooper , C Briddon , E Da Ros , V Naniyil , M Greenaway , L Hackermueller

According to quantum mechanics, if we keep observing a continuous variable we generally disturb its evolution. For a class of observables, however, it is possible to implement a so-called quantum nondemolition measurement: by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , L. Marconi , F. Marino , G. Pandraud , G. A. Prodi , P. M. Sarro , E. Serra , F. Marin

Nonlinear dynamics in the fundamental interaction between a two-level atom with recoil and a quantized radiation field in a high-quality cavity is studied. We consider the strongly coupled atom-field system as a quantum-classical hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. V. Prants

We explore the potential for hybrid development of quantum hardware where currently available quantum computers simulate open Cavity Quantum Electrodynamical (CQED) systems for applications in optical quantum communication, simulation and…

Ultra-cold atoms in specifically designed optical lattices can be used to mimic the many-particle Hamiltonian describing electrons and positrons in an external electric field. This facilitates the experimental simulation of (so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Nikodem Szpak , Ralf Schützhold

Molecular quantum electrodynamics leads to photon frequency shifts and thus to changes in condensed matter free energies often called the Casimir effect. Strong quantum electrodynamic coupling between radiation and molecular motions can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Sivasubramanian , A. Widom , Y. N. Srivastava

We consider the dissipative single-qubit circuit QED architecture in which the atomic transition frequency undergoes a weak external time-modulation. For sinusoidal modulation with linearly varying frequency we derive effective Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 A. V. Dodonov , B. Militello , A. Napoli , A. Messina

We study the problem of the behavior of a quantum massless scalar field in the space between two parallel infinite perfectly conducting plates, one of them stationary, the other moving periodically. We reformulate the physical problem into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikola P. Petrov

We report the observation of photon generation in a microwave cavity with a time-dependent boundary condition. Our system is a microfabricated quarter-wave coplanar waveguide cavity. The electrical length of the cavity is varied using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-13 C. M. Wilson , T. Duty , M. Sandberg , F. Persson , V. Shumeiko , P. Delsing

Cavity electromagnonic system, which simultaneously consists of cavities for photons, magnons (quanta of spin waves), and acoustic phonons, provides an exciting platform to achieve coherent energy transduction among different physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Shihao Zhuang , Yujie Zhu , Changchun Zhong , Liang Jiang , Xufeng Zhang , Jia-Mian Hu

We explore the quantum dynamics of photoassociation of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms into molecules using an optical cavity field. Inside of an optical resonator, photoassociation of quantum degenerate atoms involves the interaction of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Christopher P. Search , J. Mauricio Campuzano , Marko Zivkovic

A system of harmonic oscillators coupled via nonlinear interaction is a fundamental model in many branches of physics, from biophysics to electronics and condensed matter physics. In quantum optics, weak nonlinear interaction between light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Shiqian Ding , Gleb Maslennikov , Roland Hablutzel , Huanqian Loh , Dzmitry Matsukevich

We consider a real massless scalar field in 1+1 dimensions satisfying time-dependent Robin boundary condition at a static wall. This condition can simulate moving reflecting mirrors whose motions are determined by the time-dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 Hector O. Silva , C. Farina

Quantum field theories describe a wide variety of fundamental phenomena in physics. However, their study often involves cumbersome numerical simulations. Quantum simulators, on the other hand, may outperform classical computational…

The lateral Casimir-Polder force between an atom and a corrugated surface should allow one to study experimentally non trivial geometrical effects in quantum vacuum. Here, we derive the theoretical expression of this force in a scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego A. R. Dalvit , Paulo A. Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

In this paper, we use the formalism of finite-temperature quantum field theory to investigate the Casimir force between flat, ideally conductive surfaces containing confined, but mobile ions. We demonstrate that, in the Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Yu. A. Budkov , P. E. Brandyshev