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Devices that achieve nonreciprocal microwave transmission are ubiquitous in radar and radio-frequency communication systems, and commonly rely on magnetically biased ferrite materials. Such devices are also indispensable in the readout…

The last decades have seen a burst of experimental platforms reaching the so-called strong-coupling regime, where quantum coherent effects dominate over incoherent processes such as dissipation and thermalization. This has allowed us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Xiangjin Kong , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch , Yue Chang

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond and superconducting qubits are two promising solid-state quantum systems for quantum science and technology, but the realization of controlled interfaces between individual solid-state spins and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xue-Feng Pan , Peng-Bo Li

We demonstrate that persistent currents can be induced in a quantum system in contact with a structured reservoir, without the need of any applied gauge field. The working principle of the mechanism leading to their presence is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Maximilian Keck , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio

Active agents are capable of exerting nonreciprocal forces upon one another. For instance, one agent, say $A$, may attract another agent $B$ while $B$ repels $A$. These antagonistic nonreciprocal interactions have been extensively studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder , Matteo Brunelli

Nonreciprocal microwave routing plays a crucial role for measuring quantum circuits, and allows for realizing cascaded quantum systems for generating and stabilizing entanglement between non-interacting qubits. The most commonly used tools…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Xi Cao , Abdullah Irfan , Michael Mollenhauer , Kaushik Singirikonda , Wolfgang Pfaff

We investigate the dynamics of a non-interacting spin system, undergoing coherent Rabi oscillations, in the presence of stochastic resetting. We show that resetting generally induces long-range quantum and classical correlations both in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Matteo Magoni , Federico Carollo , Gabriele Perfetto , Igor Lesanovsky

Most protocols for Quantum Information Processing consist of a series of quantum gates, which are applied sequentially. In contrast, interactions, for example between matter and fields, as well as measurements such as homodyne detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Christine A. Muschik , Klemens Hammerer , Eugene S. Polzik , Ignacio J. Cirac

Reciprocity is a fundamental principle governing various physical systems, which ensures that the transfer function between any two points in space is identical, regardless of geometrical or material asymmetries. Breaking this transmission…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Corentin Coulais , Dimitrios Sounas , Andrea Alù

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize nonreciprocal transition between two energy levels that can not coupled directly. Suppose they are coupled indirectly by two auxiliary levels with a cyclic four-level configuration, and the four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Hai-Quan Shi , Ai-Xi Chen

Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for building quantum networks and ubiquitous in modern communication technology. Here, we use optomechanical interaction and linearly-coupled interaction to realize optical nonreciprocal transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Xiao-Bo Yan , He-Lin Lu , Feng Gao , Liu Yang

While non-reciprocal couplings are ubiquitous in classical systems, their impact on quantum many-body criticality and entanglement remains largely unexplored. Using exact numerical simulations, we study an interacting fermionic chain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Rafael D. Soares , Matteo Brunelli , Marco Schirò

The ability to efficiently simulate a variety of interacting quantum systems on a single device is an overarching goal for digital and analog quantum simulators. In circuit quantum electrodynamical systems, strongly nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 J. D. Koenig , G. Barbieri , F. Fani Sani , C. A. Potts , M. Kounalakis , G. A. Steele

A STIRAP-like scheme is proposed to exploit a three-photon resonance taking place in alkaline-earth-metal ions. This scheme is designed for state transfer between the two fine structure components of the metastable D-state which are two…

In analog to counterparts widely used in electronic circuits, all optical non-reciprocal devices are basic building blocks for both classical and quantum optical information processing. Approaching the fundamental limit of such devices,…

Breaking optical reciprocity enables new regimes of light--matter interaction with broad implications for fundamental physics and emerging quantum technologies. Although various approaches have been explored to achieve optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jierui Hu , Hao Yuan , Joshua Akin , Shanhui Fan , Kejie Fang

There is currently significant interest in operating devices in the quantum regime, where their behaviour cannot be explained through classical mechanics. Quantum states, including entangled states, are fragile and easily disturbed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 André Xuereb , Matteo Aquilina , Shabir Barzanjeh

In a solid-state spin system, we experimentally demonstrate a protocol for quantum-state population transfer with an improved efficiency compared to traditional stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). Using the ground-state triplet of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Musang Gong , Min Yu , Ralf Betzholz , Yaoming Chu , Pengcheng Yang , Zhenyu Wang , Jianming Cai

We describe a new approach for on-chip optical non-reciprocity which makes use of strong optomechanical interaction in microring resonators. By optically pumping the ring resonator in one direction, the optomechanical coupling is only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Mohammad Hafezi , Peter Rabl

Nonreciprocal interactions are known to produce distinctive dynamics in active matter. To shed light on how the stationary state of such systems is affected by breaking reciprocity, we consider active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matthew Du , Andriy Goychuk , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan