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We introduce a quantum spin van der Pol (vdP) oscillator as a prototypical model of quantum spinbased limit-cycle oscillators, which coincides with the quantum optical vdP oscillator in the high-spin limit. The system is described as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-20 Yuzuru Kato , Hiroya Nakao

Recently, several studies have investigated synchronization in quantum-mechanical limit-cycle oscillators. However, the quantum nature of these systems remained partially hidden, since the dynamics of the oscillator's phase was overdamped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Talitha Weiss , Stefan Walter , Florian Marquardt

Limit-cycle oscillators are the basic building blocks for synchronization; yet, the notion of a quantum limit cycle has remained unclear. Here, we study quantum limit cycles and synchronization in the presence of continuous heterodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder

We develop a general theoretical framework of semiclassical phase reduction for analyzing synchronization of quantum limit-cycle oscillators. The dynamics of quantum dissipative systems exhibiting limit-cycle oscillations are reduced to a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-16 Yuzuru Kato , Naoki Yamamoto , Hiroya Nakao

We study synchronization in a two-node network built out of the smallest possible self-sustained oscillator: a spin 1. We first demonstrate that phase locking between the quantum oscillators can be achieved, even for limit cycles that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Alexandre Roulet , Christoph Bruder

Synchronizing a few-level quantum system is of fundamental importance to understanding synchronization in deep quantum regime. Whether a two-level system, the smallest quantum system, can be synchronized has been theoretically debated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Liyun Zhang , Zhao Wang , Yucheng Wang , Junhua Zhang , Zhigang Wu , Jianwen Jie , Yao Lu

We report the first experimental demonstration of quantum synchronization. This is achieved by performing a digital simulation of a single spin-$1$ limit-cycle oscillator on the quantum computers of the IBM Q System. Applying an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Martin Koppenhöfer , Christoph Bruder , Alexandre Roulet

With growing interest in quantum technologies, possibilities of synchronizing quantum systems has garnered significant recent attention. In experiments with dilute ensemble of laser cooled spin-1 $^{87}{Rb}$ atoms, we observe phase…

Classical self-sustained oscillators, that generate periodic motion without periodic external forcing, are ubiquitous in science and technology. The realization of nonclassical self-oscillators is an important goal of quantum physics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Yi Li , Zihan Xie , Xiaodong Yang , Yue Li , Xingyu Zhao , Xu Cheng , Xinhua Peng , Jun Li , Eric Lutz , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

Synchronization occurs ubiquitously in nature. The van der Pol oscillator has been a favorite model to investigate synchronization. Here we study the oscillator in the deep quantum regime, where nonclassical effects dominate the dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Wai Keong Mok , Leong Chuan Kwek , Hermanni Heimonen

We study the synchronization of dissipatively-coupled van der Pol oscillators in the quantum limit, when each oscillator is near its quantum ground state. Two quantum oscillators with different frequencies exhibit an entanglement tongue,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Tony E. Lee , Ching-Kit Chan , Shenshen Wang

Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without clear classical limits, no comprehensive theory has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Berislav Buca , Cameron Booker , Dieter Jaksch

We study the quantum synchronization of a single spin driven by an external semiclassical signal for spin numbers larger than $S = 1$, the smallest system to host a quantum self-sustained oscillator. The occurrence of interference-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Ryan Tan , Christoph Bruder , Martin Koppenhöfer

Synchronization manifests itself in oscillators adjusting their frequencies and phases with respect to an external signal or another oscillator. In the quantum case, new features appear such as destructive interferences that can result in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Tobias Kehrer , Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder

Quantum synchronization has been a subject of intensive research in the last decade. In this work, we propose a quantum Li\'enard system whose classical equivalent features two limit cycles to one of which the system will converge. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Tobias Kehrer , Christoph Bruder , Parvinder Solanki

To observe synchronization in a large network of classical or quantum systems demands both excellent control of the interactions between the nodes and very accurate preparation of the initial conditions due to the involved nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Christopher W. Wächtler , Gloria Platero

The synchronization properties of two self-sustained quantum oscillators are studied in the Wigner representation. Instead of considering the quantum limit of the quantum van-der-Pol master equation we derive the quantum master equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Lisa Morgan , Haye Hinrichsen

In nature, instances of synchronisation abound across a diverse range of environments. In the quantum regime, however, synchronisation is typically observed by identifying an appropriate parameter regime in a specific system. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Joseph Tindall , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Berislav Buča , Dieter Jaksch

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon that is important both in fundamental studies and in technical applications. Here we investigate synchronization in the simplest quantum-mechanical scenario possible, i.e., a quantum-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefan Walter , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Christoph Bruder
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