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We investigate the nature of quantum jumps occurring between macroscopic metastable states of light in the open driven Jaynes-Cummings model. We find that, in the limit of zero spontaneous emission considered in [H. J. Carmichael, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Th. K. Mavrogordatos

Measuring a quantum system can randomly perturb its state. The strength and nature of this back-action depends on the quantity which is measured. In a partial measurement performed by an ideal apparatus, quantum physics predicts that the…

Feedback control in open quantum dynamics is crucial for the advancement of various coherent platforms. However, currently only a handful of feedback master equations exist in the literature, which are restricted to specific types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Alberto J. B. Rosal , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi

If several interventions performed on a quantum system are localized in mutually space-like regions, they will be recorded as a sequence of ``quantum jumps'' in one Lorentz frame, and as a different sequence of jumps in another Lorentz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asher Peres

We study an open quantum system of atoms with long-range Rydberg interaction, laser driving, and spontaneous emission. Over time, the system occasionally jumps between a state of low Rydberg population and a state of high Rydberg…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-10 Tony E. Lee , H. Häffner , M. C. Cross

A quantum system subjected to a strong continuous monitoring undergoes quantum jumps. This very well known fact hides a neglected subtlety: sharp scale-invariant fluctuations invariably decorate the jump process even in the limit where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Antoine Tilloy , Michel Bauer , Denis Bernard

Backaction evasion measurements of a quadrature component of the light field vacuum necessarily induce quantum jumps in the photon number. The correlation between measurement results and quantum jump events reveals fundamental nonclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger F. Hofmann , Takayoshi Kobayashi , Akira Furusawa

Quantum error correction (QEC) is required for a practical quantum computer because of the fragile nature of quantum information. In QEC, information is redundantly stored in a large Hilbert space and one or more observables must be…

We study the dynamics of a driven non-Hermitian superconducting qubit which is perturbed by quantum jumps between energy levels, a purely quantum effect with no classical correspondence. The quantum jumps mix the qubit states leading to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Kater W. Murch

Measurement combined with feedback that aims to restore a presumed pre-measurement quantum state will yield this state after a few measurement-feedback cycles even if the actual state of the system initially had no resemblance to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 H. Uys , H. Bassa , P. J. W du Toit , S. Gosh , T. Konrad

A measurement of the time between quantum jumps implies the capability to measure the next jump. During the time between jumps the quantum system is not evolving in a closed or unitary manner. While the wave function maintains phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Massimo Porrati , Seth Putterman

The transport of ultra-cold atoms in magneto-optical potentials provides a clean setting in which to investigate the distinct predictions of classical versus quantum dynamics for a system with coupled degrees of freedom. In this system,…

The characterization of collective behavior and nonequilibrium phase transitions in quantum systems is typically rooted in the analysis of suitable system observables, so-called order parameters. These observables might not be known a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Erik Fitzner , Francesco Carnazza , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We may infer a transition $|n \rangle \to |m \rangle$ between energy eigenstates of an open quantum system by observing the emission of a photon of Bohr frequency $\omega_{mn} = (E_n-E_m) / \hbar$. In addition to the "collapses" to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 John E. Gough

In a closed single-particle quantum system, spatial disorder induces Anderson localization of eigenstates and halts wave propagation. The phenomenon is vulnerable to interaction with environment and decoherence, that is believed to restore…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-17 I. I. Yusipov , T. V. Laptyeva , M. V. Ivanchenko

Time-resolved studies of quantum systems are the key to understand quantum dynamics at its core. The real-time measurement of individual quantum numbers as they switch between certain discrete values, well known as random telegraph signal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Eric Kleinherbers , Philipp Stegmann , Annika Kurzmann , Martin Geller , Axel Lorke , Jürgen König

In quantum mechanical experiments one distinguishes between the state of an experimental system and an observable measured in it. Heuristically, the distinction between states and observables is also suggested in scattering theory or when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Arno Bohm , Peter W. Bryant

This paper is a continuation of the paper [V.S.Mashkevich, gr-qc/9409010]. Indeterministic quantum gravity is a theory that unifies general relativity and quantum theory involving indeterministic conception, i.e., quantum jumps. By the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

When a quantum particle is launched with a finite velocity in a disordered potential, it may surprisingly come back to its initial position at long times and remain there forever. This phenomenon, dubbed ``quantum boomerang effect'', was…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Jakub Janarek , Dominique Delande , Nicolas Cherroret , Jakub Zakrzewski

We consider a model of a detector of ballistic electrons at the edge of a two-dimensional electron gas in the integer quantum Hall regime. The electron is detected by capacitive coupling to a gate which is also coupled to a passive RC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Fève , P. Degiovanni , Th. Jolicoeur