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Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter, such as an excited atom, is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics (QED), typically associated with exponential decay to the ground state accompanied by irreversible photon emission. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefano Longhi

The paper presents numerical results on an innovative concept of an efficient, site-specific cooling technology for microprocessor hot spots using Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow (ACET). ACET deploys an electrokinetic transport…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Golak Kunti , Jayabrata Dhar , Anandaroop Bhattacharya , Suman Chakraborty

The problem of simulating the thermal behavior of quantum systems remains a central open challenge in quantum computing. Unlike well-established quantum algorithms for unitary dynamics, \emph{provably efficient} algorithms for preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Dominik Hahn , Ryan Sweke , Abhinav Deshpande , Oles Shtanko

Conventional mode switching mechanisms, which rely on dynamically encircling exceptional points (EPs) through non-adiabatic transitions (NATs), suffer from intrinsic nonlinear dynamics that hinder precise control and reproducibility in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kyu-Won Park , KyeongRo Kim , Jinuk Kim , Muhan Choi , Kabgyun Jeong

Microwave storage and retrieval are essential capabilities for superconducting quantum circuits. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip multimode resonator in which strong parametric modulation induces a large and tunable normal-mode splitting…

Dissipation-driven quantum state engineering uses the environment to steer the state of quantum systems and preserve quantum coherence in the steady state. We show that modulating the damping rate of a microwave resonator generates a vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicolas Didier , Farzad Qassemi , Alexandre Blais

Separating heat from charge in a material is an extremely challenging task since they are transported by the very same carriers, i.e. electrons or holes. In this Letter we show that such separation can reach 100% efficiency in a hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Carlo Panu , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini , Amir Yacoby

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) and exceptional points (EPs), as two distinct physical singularities represented by complex frequencies in non-Hermitian systems, have garnered significant attention and clear definitions in their…

Exceptional points (EPs) promise revolutionary control over quantum light-matter interactions. Here, we experimentally demonstrate flexible and reversible engineering of quantum vacuum fluctuation in an integrated microcavity supporting…

The fragile nature of quantum circuits is a major bottleneck to scalable quantum applications. Operating at cryogenic temperatures, quantum circuits are highly vulnerable to amplifier backaction and external noise. Non-reciprocal microwave…

We study the optimal performance of an endoreversible quantum dot heat engine, in which the heat transfer between the system and baths is mediated by qubits, operating under the conditions of a trade-off objective function known as maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Kirandeep Kaur , Anmol Jain , Love Sahajbir Singh , Rakesh Singla , Shishram Rebari

We propose a realizable architecture using one-dimensional transmission line resonators to reach the strong coupling limit of cavity quantum electrodynamics in superconducting electrical circuits. The vacuum Rabi frequency for the coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Girvin , Ren-Shou Huang , Alexandre Blais , Andreas Wallraff , R. J. Schoelkopf

Non-Hermitian systems and their topological singularities, such as exceptional points (EPs), lines, and surfaces, have recently attracted intense interest. The investigation of these exceptional constituents has led to fruitful…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-08 Liang Fang , Kai Bai , Cheng Guo , Tian-Rui Liu , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

Atomic and single-molecule junctions represent the ultimate limit to the miniaturization of electrical circuits. They are also ideal platforms to test quantum transport theories that are required to describe charge and energy transfer in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 Woochul Lee , Kyeongtae Kim , Wonho Jeong , Linda Angela Zotti , Fabian Pauly , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Pramod Reddy

In one-dimensional waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems, quantum emitters interact through infinite-range, dispersive, and dissipative dipole-dipole interactions mediated by guided photonic modes. These interactions give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Wei Chen , Guin-Dar Lin , H. H. Jen

Systems operating at exceptional points (EPs) are highly responsive to small perturbations, making them suitable for sensing applications. Although this feature impedes the system working exactly at an EP due to imperfections arising during…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-19 Shahab Ramezanpour

The number of superconducting qubits contained in a single quantum processor is increasing steadily. However, to realize a truly useful quantum computer, it is inevitable to increase the number of qubits much further by distributing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Kazuki Koshino , Kunihiro Inomata

Exceptional points (EPs) have been suggested for ultra-sensitive sensing because the eigenfrequency splitting grows as the nth-root of a perturbation, suggesting divergent responsivity. In ideal linear devices, however, this responsivity…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-25 Todd Darcie , J. Stewart Aitchison

In this work, we develop an optimal control theory on open quantum system and its environment, and exemplify the method with the application to the non-Condon photo-induced electron transfer (PET) in condensed phase. This method utilizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zi-Fan Zhu , Yu Su , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu

A main distinguishing feature of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics is the presence of exceptional points (EPs). They correspond to the coalescence of two energy levels and their respective eigenvectors. Here, we use the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Milan Šindelka , Lea F. Santos , Nimrod Moiseyev