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We demonstrate a planar, tunable superconducting qubit with energy relaxation times up to 44 microseconds. This is achieved by using a geometry designed to both minimize radiative loss and reduce coupling to materials-related defects. At…

We report on a quantum thermodynamic method to purify a qubit on a quantum processing unit (QPU) equipped with (nearly) identical qubits. Our starting point is a three qubit design that emulates the well known two qubit swap engine. Similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Andrea Solfanelli , Alessandro Santini , Michele Campisi

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with in-situ tunable interactions is important for developing novel systems for quantum simulation and computing. The ability to tune the dispersive shifts of a cavity QED system provides more…

Quantum device measurements are powerful tools to probe dark matter interactions. Among these, transmon qubits stand out for their ability to suppress external noise while remaining highly sensitive to tiny energy deposits. Ambient galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-07 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Noah Kurinsky , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

We propose an electronic bipartite system consisting of a working substance, in which a refrigeration process is implemented, and of a nonthermal resource region, containing a combination of different thermal baths. In the working…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Juliette Monsel , Matteo Acciai , Rafael Sánchez , Janine Splettstoesser

In a recent paper we have introduced a continuous version of the Maxwell demon (CMD) that is capable of extracting large amounts of work per cycle by repeated measurements of the state of the system. Here we underline its main features such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-26 Marco Ribezzi-Crivellari , Felix Ritort

Quantum purity amplification (QPA) provides a novel approach to counteracting the pervasive noise that degrades quantum states. We present the optimal QPA protocol for general quantum systems and global noise, resolving a two-decade open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhaoyi Li , Honghao Fu , Takuya Isogawa , Caio Silva , Isaac Chuang

We show that Maxwell's demon-like nonreciprocity can be supported in a class of non-Hermitian gyrotropic metasurfaces in the linear regime. The proposed metasurface functions as a transmission-only Maxwell's demon operating at a pair of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Wenyan Wang , Wang Tat Yau , Yanxia Cui , Jin Wang , Kin Hung Fung

We propose a physically realizable Maxwell's demon device using a spin valve interacting unitarily for a short time with electrons placed on a tape of quantum dots, which is thermodynamically equivalent to the device introduced by Mandal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-03 Philipp Strasberg , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes , Christopher Jarzynski

Building large-scale superconducting quantum computers requires two complimentary elements: scalable wiring techniques and multiplex architectures. In our previous work [B\'ejanin et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 6, 044010 (2016)], we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 J. H. Béjanin , C. T. Earnest , M. Mariantoni

Inferring a quantum system from incomplete information is a common problem in many aspects of quantum information science and applications, where the principle of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) plays an important role. The quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Shi-Yao Hou , Zipeng Wu , Jinfeng Zeng , Ningping Cao , Chenfeng Cao , Youning Li , Bei Zeng

Motivated by recent progress on the motive power of information in quantum thermodynamics, we put forth an operational resource theory of Maxwell's demons. We show that the resourceful ({\em daemonic}) states can be partitioned into at most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Gabriel T. Landi , Giacomo Guarnieri , Benjamin Morris , John Goold , Gerardo Adesso

We present a device demonstrating a lithographically patterned transmon integrated with a micromachined cavity resonator. Our two-cavity, one-qubit device is a multilayer microwave integrated quantum circuit (MMIQC), comprising a basic unit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 T. Brecht , Y. Chu , C. Axline , W. Pfaff , J. Z. Blumoff , K. Chou , L. Krayzman , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf

Quantum computing with qudits is an emerging approach that exploits a larger, more-connected computational space, providing advantages for many applications, including quantum simulation and quantum error correction. Nonetheless, qudits are…

Coupling an isolated emitter to a single mode of the electromagnetic field is now routinely achieved and well understood. Current efforts aim to explore the coherent dynamics of emitters coupled to several electromagnetic modes (EM).…

The distribution of entanglement across distant qubits is a central challenge for the operation of scalable quantum computers and large-scale quantum networks. Existing approaches rely on deterministic state transfer schemes or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 A. Andrés-Juanes , J. Agustí , R. Sett , E. S. Redchenko , L. Kapoor , S. Hawaldar , P. Rabl , J. M. Fink

We present here a machine that is capable of extracting work from a single heat bath. Although no significant temperature gradient is involved in the operation of the machine, yet the Carnot efficiency as high as one is achievable. Working…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arbab A. Khan , M. S. Ansari

The thermodynamical costs imposed by computational resource limitations like memory and time have been investigated before. We focus on a new computational limitation, namely, the machine being allowed to scan the input only once, and prove…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Fırat Kıyak , A. C. Cem Say

Maxwell refrigerator as a device that can transfer heat from a cold to hot temperature reservoir making use of information reservoir was introduced by Mandal et al. \cite{Mandal2013a}. The model has a two state demon and a bit stream…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-24 Toby Joseph , Kiran V

We propose a new thermodynamic equality and several inequalities concerning the relationship between work and information for an isothermal process with Maxwell's demon. Our approach is based on the formulation a la Jarzynski of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda