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Characterizing the nonclassicality of quantum systems under minimal assumptions is an important challenge for quantum foundations and technology. Here we introduce a theory-independent method of process tomography and perform it on a…

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By constructing an exactly solvable spin model, we investigate the critical behaviors of transverse field Ising chains interpolated with cluster interactions, which exhibit various types of topologically distinct Ising critical points.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-12 Xue-Jia Yu , Wei-Lin Li

Non-Markovian evolution in open quantum systems is often characterized in terms of the backflow of information from environment to system and is thus an important facet in investigating the performance and robustness of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Manabendra Nath Bera , Gerardo Adesso

Spatially resolved local quantum geometric markers play a crucial role in the diagnosis of topological phases without long-range translational symmetry, including amorphous systems. Here, we focus on the nonlocality of such markers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Quentin Marsal , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We perform digital quantum simulations of the noninteracting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a parameterized quantum circuit. The circuit comprises two main components: the first prepares the initial state from the product state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Qing Xie , Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

The transverse Ising Model (TIM) in one dimension is the simplest model which exhibits a quantum phase transition (QPT). Quantities related to quantum information theoretic measures like entanglement, quantum discord (QD) and fidelity are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Amit Kumar Pal , Indrani Bose

We introduce a coherence susceptibility method, based on the fact that it signals quantum fluctuations, for identifying quantum phase transitions, which are induced by quantum fluctuations. This method requires no prior knowledge of order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Jin-Jun Chen , Jian Cui , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

The detection of topological phases of matter becomes a central issue in recent years. Conventionally, the realization of a specific topological phase in condensed matter physics relies on probing the underlying surface band dispersion or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Xin , Yishan Li , Yu-ang Fan , Xuanran Zhu , Yingjie Zhang , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Qihang Liu , Dawei Lu

Quantum computers promise to perform computations beyond the reach of modern computers with profound implications for scientific research. Due to remarkable technological advances, small scale devices are now becoming available for use. One…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-20 Adam Smith , Bernhard Jobst , Andrew G. Green , Frank Pollmann

The discovery of topological phases in condensed matter systems has changed the modern conception of phases of matter. The global nature of topological ordering makes these phases robust and hence promising for applications. However, the…

Non-Markovian processes have recently become a central topic in the study of open quantum systems. We realize experimentally non-Markovian decoherence processes of single photons by combining time delay and evolution in a…

We study two coupled Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains system, which is shown to contain rich quantum phases associated with topological invariants protected by symmetries. In the weak coupling region, the system supports two non-trivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Ci. Li , Sen. Lin , Gang. Zhang , Zhi. Song

In recent years, much effort has been devoted to the construction of a proper measure of quantum non-Markovianity. However, those proposed measures are shown to be at variance with different situations. In this work, we utilize the theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiun-Yi Lien , Guang-Yin Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen

We propose a protocol using a tunable Xmon qubit chain to construct generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) models that support various topological phases. We study the time evolution of a single-excitation quantum state in a SSH-type qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Feng Mei , Gang Chen , Lin Tian , Shi-Liang Zhu , Suotang Jia

Understanding the interplay between quantum coherence and non-Hermitian features would enable the devising of quantum technologies based on dissipative systems. In turn, quantum coherence can be characterized in terms of the language of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

Topological phase transitions can be described by the theory of critical phenomena and identified by critical exponents that define their universality classes. This is a consequence of the existence of a diverging length at the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 S. Rufo , Nei Lopes , Mucio A. Continentino , Griffith M. A. R

A number of tools have been developed to detect topological phase transitions in strongly correlated quantum systems. They apply under different conditions, but do not cover the full range of many-body models. It is hence desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Sourav Manna , N. S. Srivatsa , Julia Wildeboer , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We demonstrate that genuinely non-Hermitian topological phases and corresponding topological phase transitions can be naturally realized in monitored quantum circuits, exemplified by the paradigmatic non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Christoph Fleckenstein , Alberto Zorzato , Daniel Varjas , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson , Apoorv Tiwari

In this work, we propose a novel qubit-based sensor with the ability to characterize topological edge states in low-dimensional systems. A composite system is studied, consisting of a qubit coupled to a topologically nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Nicolas Delnour , Alexei Bissonnette , Hichem Eleuch , Richard MacKenzie , Michael Hilke

A non-equilibrium theory describing the charge qubit dynamics measured by a quantum point contact is developed based on Schwinger-Keldysh's approach. Using the real-time diagram technique, we derive the master equation to all orders in…

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