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Classifying phase transitions is a fundamental and complex challenge in condensed matter physics. This work proposes a framework for identifying quantum phase transitions by combining classical shadows with unsupervised machine learning. We…

Multimode optomechanical systems are an emerging platform for studying fundamental aspects of matter near the quantum ground state and are useful in sensitive sensing and measurement applications. We study optomechanical cooling in a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , M. F. Gely , E. Damskägg , M. Jenkins , G. A. Steele , M. A. Sillanpää

We provide a constructive algorithm to find the best separable approximation to an arbitrary density matrix of a composite quantum system of finite dimensions. The method leads to a condition of separability and to a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maciej Lewenstein , Anna Sanpera

Thermalization of isolated quantum systems is an intriguing phenomenon at the forefront of contemporary physics. In this work, we demonstrate that nonlinear multimode optical platforms can be harnessed to induce effective quantum…

The aim of quantum system identification is to estimate the ingredients inside a black box, in which some quantum-mechanical unitary process takes place, by just looking at its input-output behavior. Here we establish a basic and general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Daniel Burgarth , Kazuya Yuasa

We discuss the spectral lineshapes of N quantum dots in strong coupling with the single mode of a microcavity. Nontrivial features are brought by detuning the emitters or probing the direct exciton emission spectrum. We describe dark…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 F. P. Laussy , A. Laucht , E. del Valle , J. J. Finley , J. M. Villas-Bôas

We discuss a model of quantum photosynthesis with degeneracy in the light-harvesting system. We consider interaction of excitons in chromophores with light and phonons (vibrations of environment). These interactions have dipole form but are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 S. V. Kozyrev , I. V. Volovich

Simple optical instruments are linear optical networks where the incident light modes are turned into equal numbers of outgoing modes by linear transformations. For example, such instruments are beam splitters, multiports, interferometers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulf Leonhardt

Entanglement of light and multiple vibrations is a key resource for multi-channel quantum information processing and memory. However, entanglement generation is generally suppressed, or even fully destroyed, by the dark-mode (DM) effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Deng-Gao Lai , Jie-Qiao Liao , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori

High-dimensional quantum information processing promises capabilities beyond the current state of the art, but addressing individual information-carrying modes presents a significant experimental challenge. Here we demonstrate effective…

In a multi-level energy system with energy transitions, dark states are eigenstates of a Hamiltonian that consist entirely of ground states, with zero amplitude in the excited states. We present several criteria which allows one to deduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Kaixuan Zhou , June Wu , Junheng Shi , Tim Byrnes

In this work, we present a logical formalism for reasoning about quantum systems in finite dimension. Contrary to the usual approach in quantum logic, our formalism is based classical first-order logic, which allows us to use the tools of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Olivier Brunet

Statistical mechanics can provide a versatile theoretical framework for investigating the collective dynamics of weakly nonlinear waves-settings that can be utterly complex to describe otherwise. In optics, composite systems arise due to…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-04 Nikolaos K. Efremidis , Demetrios N. Christodoulides

In this paper, we study the problem of making brighter images from dark images found in the wild. The images are dark because they are taken in dim environments. They suffer from color shifts caused by quantization and from sensor noise. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Sara Aghajanzadeh , David Forsyth

Characterizing the interactions and dynamics of quantum mechanical systems is an essential task in the development of quantum technologies. We propose an efficient protocol based on the estimation of the time derivatives of few qubit…

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

Light dragging refers to the change in the path of light passing through a moving medium. This effect enables accurate detection of very slow speeds of light, which have prominent applications in state transfer, quantum gate operations, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Hazrat Ali , Nadia Boutabba , Amjad Sohail

Coupling light to ensembles of strongly interacting particles has emerged as a promising route toward achieving few photon nonlinearities. One specific way to implement this kind of nonlinearity is to interface light with highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Callum R. Murray , Thomas Pohl

We develop a general quantum theory of the coupled plasmonic modes resulting from the near-field interaction between localized surface plasmons in a heterogeneous metallic nanoparticle dimer. In particular, we provide analytical expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Adam Brandstetter-Kunc , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

The theory of the strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), has been addressed by a variety of non-perturbative techniques over the decades since its introduction. We have investigated Hamiltonian formulations with different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Vary , T. J. Fields J. R. Spence , H. W. L. Naus , H. J. Pirner , K. S. Gupta