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We address quantum invisibility in the context of electronics in nanoscale quantum structures. We make use of the freedom of design that quantum corrals provide and show that quantum mechanical objects can be hidden inside the corral, with…

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We demonstrate how to determine numerically nearly exact orthonormal orbitals that are optimal for evaluation of the energy of arbitrary (correlated) states of atoms and molecules by minimization of the energy Lagrangian. Orbitals are…

New forms of electron beams have been intensively investigated recently, including vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum, as well as Airy beams propagating along a parabolic trajectory. Their traits may be harnessed for…

Light beams carrying orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) play an important role in optical manipulation and communication owing to their unbounded state space. However, it is still challenging to efficiently discriminate OAM modes with large…

We are pursuing an experiment to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron using the molecule PbO. This measurement requires the ability to prepare quantum states with orientation of the molecular axis and, simultaneously,…

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Molecular dynamics simulations are indispensable for exploring the behavior of atoms and molecules. Grounded in quantum mechanical principles, quantum molecular dynamics provides high predictive power but its computational cost is dominated…

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Advancements in quantum computing are fuelling emerging applications across disciplines, including finance, where quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms can now make market predictions, detect fraud, and optimize portfolios. Expanding this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Anna G. Hughes , Jack S. Baker , Santosh Kumar Radha

Free electron beams that carry high values of orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess large magnetic moments along the propagation direction. This makes them an ideal probe for measuring the electronic and magnetic properties of materials,…

We analyze the fundamental resolution of incoherent optical point sources from the perspective of a quantum detection problem: deciding whether the optical field on the image plane is generated by one source or two weaker sources with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Xiao-Ming Lu , Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

We study macroscopic observables defined as the total value of a physical quantity over a collection of quantum systems. We show that previous results obtained for infinite ensemble of identically prepared systems lead to incorrect…

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We present a scheme to measure the orbital angular momentum spectrum of light using a precisely timed optical loop and quantum non-demolition measurements. We also discuss the influence of imperfect optical components.

Optics · Physics 2014-01-14 Paul Bierdz , Hui Deng

We demonstrate high-fidelity detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light using a compact and practical OAM spectrometer that maps the OAM spectrum to time. The spectrometer consists of a single optical delay loop to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-14 Paul Bierdz , Minho Kwon , Connor Roncaioli , Hui Deng

In this work we study the tomography of the spatial structure of light. We develop a simple technique that allows one to perform the tomography over the space of fixed order modes. The technique is based on two spatially resolved intensity…

Strategies to optimally discriminate between quantum states are critical in quantum technologies. We present an experimental demonstration of minimum error discrimination between entangled states, encoded in the polarization of pairs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yang Lu , Nick Coish , Rainer Kaltenbaek , Deny R. Hamel , Sarah Croke , Kevin J. Resch

Duality in the entanglement of identical particles manifests that entanglement in only one variable can be revealed at a time. We demonstrate this using polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) variables of indistinguishable photons…

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Classical algorithms for predicting the equilibrium geometry of strongly correlated molecules require expensive wave function methods that become impractical already for few-atom systems. In this work, we introduce a variational quantum…

An optical microscope enables image-based findings and diagnosis on microscopic targets, which is indispensable in many scientific, industrial and medical settings. Majority of microscope users are accustomed to standard benchtop…

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We present an application of particle statistics to the problem of optimal ambiguous discrimination of quantum states. The states to be discriminated are encoded in the internal degrees of freedom of identical particles, and we use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bose , A. Ekert , Y. Omar , N. Paunkovic , V. Vedral

Quantum mechanics fundamentally forbids deterministic discrimination of quantum states and processes. However, the ability to optimally distinguish various classes of quantum data is an important primitive in quantum information science. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Simone Severini , Hartmut Neven , Masoud Mohseni

We consider the problem of designing an optimal quantum detector to minimize the probability of a detection error when distinguishing between a collection of quantum states, represented by a set of density operators. We show that the design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Yonina C. Eldar , Alexandre Megretski , George C. Verghese