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Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 George Mihailescu , Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Karol Gietka

We utilize a discrete (sequential) measurement protocol to investigate quantum process tomography of a single two-level quantum system, with an unknown initial state, undergoing Rabi oscillations. The ignorance of the dynamical parameters…

Critical quantum metrology relies on the extreme sensitivity of a system's eigenstates near the critical point of a quantum phase transition to Hamiltonian perturbations. This means that these eigenstates are extremely sensitive to all the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 George Mihailescu , Steve Campbell , Karol Gietka

We present an alternative protocol allowing for the preparation of critical states that instead of suffering from the critical slowing-down benefits from the critical speeding-up. Paradoxically, we prepare these states by going away from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Karol Gietka

The interplay of interactions, symmetries and gauge fields usually leads to intriguing quantum many-body phases. To explore the nature of emerging phases, we study a quantum Rabi triangle system as an elementary building block for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu , Libin Fu , Hong-Gang Luo , Han Pu , Xue-Feng Zhang

Present protocols of criticality-enhanced sensing with open quantum sensors assume direct measurement of the sensor and omit the radiation quanta emitted to the environment, thereby potentially missing valuable information. Here we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Theodoros Ilias , Dayou Yang , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Single parameter estimation is known to benefit from extreme sensitivity to parameter changes in quantum critical systems. However, the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters is generally limited due to the incompatibility arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Giovanni Di Fresco , Bernardo Spagnolo , Davide Valenti , Angelo Carollo

As the simplest and most fundamental model describing the interaction between light and matter, a breakdown in the rotating wave approximation of the Rabi model leads to phase transition versus coupling strength when the frequency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 M. Li , Y. N. Wang , Z. Y. Song , Y. M. Zhao , X. L. Zhao , H. Y. Ma

Critical metrology relies on the precise preparation of a system in its ground state near a quantum phase transition point where quantum correlations get very strong. Typically this increases the quantum Fisher information with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Christoph Hotter , Helmut Ritsch , Karol Gietka

Quantum systems can be used as probes in the context of metrology for enhanced parameter estimation. In particular, the delicacy of critical systems to perturbations can make them ideal sensors. Arguably the simplest realistic probe system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 George Mihailescu , Abolfazl Bayat , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

Critical phenomena of quantum systems are useful for enhancement of quantum sensing. However, experimental realizations of criticality enhancement have been confined to very few systems, owing to the stringent requirements, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lü , Xin Zhu , Hao-Long Zhang , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Quantum criticality usually occurs in many-body systems. Recently it was shown that the quantum Rabi model, which describes a two-level atom coupled to a single model cavity field, presents quantum phase transitions from a normal phase to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Bo-Bo Wei , Xiao-Chen Lv

Quantum tricriticality, a unique form of high-order criticality, is expected to exhibit fascinating features including unconventional critical exponents and universal scaling laws. However, a quantum tricritical point (QTCP) is much harder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 You-Qi Lu , Yu-Yu Zhang

Parametrically driven nonlinear resonators represent a building block for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation and are useful for critical quantum sensing. From a fundamental viewpoint, the most intriguing feature of such a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Hao-Long Zhang , Jia-Hao Lv , Ken Chen , Xue-Jia Yu , Fan Wu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

In this paper, we analyze the quantum criticality of the Rabi-Stark model at finite ratios of the qubit and cavity frequencies in terms of the energy gap, the order parameter, as well as the fidelity, if the Stark coupling strength is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiang-You Chen , You-Fei Xie , Qing-Hu Chen

Quantum metrology fundamentally relies upon the efficient management of quantum uncertainties. We show that, under equilibrium conditions, the management of quantum noise becomes extremely flexible around the quantum critical point of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Irénée Frérot , Tommaso Roscilde

The experimental observation of quantum phase transitions predicted by the quantum Rabi model in quantum critical systems is usually challenging due to the lack of signature experimental observables associated with them. Here, we describe a…

The quantum Rabi model exhibits a superradiant phase transition when the coupling becomes strong, even though it involves only two components: a two-level atom and a single bosonic mode. This phase transition is referred to as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Tokura

We present an exact analytical solution of the anisotropic Hopfield model, and we use it to investigate in detail the spectral and thermometric response of two ultrastrongly coupled quantum systems. Interestingly, we show that depending on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 M. Salado-Mejía , R. Román-Ancheyta , F. Soto-Eguibar , H. M. Moya-Cessa

Quantum sensing is one of the arenas that exemplifies the superiority of quantum technologies over their classical counterparts. Such superiority, however, can be diminished due to unavoidable noise and decoherence of the probe. Thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 V. Montenegro , M. G. Genoni , A. Bayat , M. G. A. Paris