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We consider a dissipative evolution of parametrically-driven qubits-cavity system under the periodical modulation of coupling energy between two subsystems, which leads to the amplification of counterrotating processes. We reveal a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 S. V. Remizov , A. A. Zhukov , D. S. Shapiro , W. V. Pogosov , Yu. E. Lozovik

The iconic Schr\"odinger's cat state describes a system that may be in a superposition of two macroscopically distinct states, for example two clearly separated oscillator coherent states. Quite apart from their role in understanding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 M. J. Everitt , T. P. Spiller , G. J. Milburn , R. D. Wilson , A. M. Zagoskin

The Schr\"{o}dinger cat state produced differently in two directions is anticipated to be a critical quantum resource in quantum information technologies. By exploring the interplay between quantum nonreciprocity and topology in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Zi-Hao Li , Li-Li Zheng , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

The orthogonality of cat and displaced cat states, underlying Heisenberg limited measurement in quantum metrology, is studied in the limit of large number of states. The mesoscopic superposition of the generalized cat state is correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Suranjana Ghosh , Raman Sharma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum nanophotonics merges the precision of nanoscale light manipulation with the capabilities of quantum technologies, offering a pathway for enhanced light-matter interaction and compact realization of quantum devices. Here, we show how…

Absorbing phase transitions (APTs) are widespread in non-equilibrium systems, spanning condensed matter, epidemics, earthquakes, ecology, and chemical reactions. APTs feature an absorbing state in which the system becomes entrapped, along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 R. Maire , A. Plati , M. Stockinger , E. Trizac , F. Smallenburg , G. Foffi

Starting from the geometric description of quantum systems, we propose a novel approach to time-independet dissipative quantum processes according to which the energy is dissipated but the coherence of the states is preserved. Our proposal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Hans Cruz-Prado , Alessandro Bravetti , Angel Garcia-Chung

Linear superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states (sometimes also called Schr\"odinger cat states) are usually almost immediately reduced to a statistical mixture if exposed to the dephasing influence of a dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Braun , Petr A. Braun , Fritz Haake

The striking nonlinear effects exhibited by cavity QED systems make them a powerful tool in modern condensed matter and atomic physics. A recently discovered example is the quantized pumping of energy into a cavity by a strongly-coupled,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 David M. Long , Philip J. D. Crowley , Alicia J. Kollár , Anushya Chandran

We propose an efficient scheme for generating spin-squeezed states at steady state in a spin-mechanical hybrid system, where an ensemble of SiV centers are coupled to a strongly damped nanomechanical resonator. We show that,there exists a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Jia-Qiang Chen , Yi-Fan Qiao , Xing-Liang Dong , Xin-Lei Hei , Peng-Bo Li

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

We consider novel method for implementation of hybrid entanglement between microscopic and macroscopic states on output of spontaneous parametric down converter through the depletion of the pump wave. The generated signal, idler and pumping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Sergey A. Podoshvedov

Engineered dissipation provides a powerful route to controlling and stabilizing quantum states in open systems. Superconducting circuits are particularly suited to this approach due to their tunable coupling to dissipative environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Qihao Guo , Botao Du , Ruichao Ma

The possibility for detuned spins to display synchronous oscillations in local observables is analyzed in the presence of collective dissipation and incoherent pumping. We show that there exist two distinct mechanisms that can give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Albert Cabot , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Entangled photons produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion have been of paramount importance for our current understanding of quantum mechanics and advances in quantum information. In this process, the quantum correlations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Lucas Hutter , Gustavo Lima , Stephen P. Walborn

The four-component cat state represents a particularly useful quantum state for realizing fault-tolerant continuous variable quantum computing. While such encoding has been experimentally generated and employed in the microwave regime, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jacob Hastrup , Jonas Schou Neergaard-Nielsen , Ulrik Lund Andersen

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information technologies ranging from quantum sensing to quantum computing. Conventionally, the entanglement between two coupled qubits is established at the time scale of the inverse of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Zeng-Zhao Li , Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Kater W. Murch , K. Birgitta Whaley

Macroscopic quantum superpositions, such as mechanical Schr\"odinger cat states, are central to emerging quantum technologies in sensing and bosonic error-correcting codes. We propose a scheme to generate such states by coupling a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 M. Tahir Naseem

Quantized dynamics is essential for natural processes and technological applications alike. The work of Thouless on quantized particle transport in slowly varying potentials (Thouless pumping) has played a key role in understanding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Zlata Fedorova , Haixin Qiu , Stefan Linden , Johann Kroha

The decoherence of superpositions of classically distinguishable states (cat states) is crucial for understanding quantum-to-classical transitions and quantum measurements. So far, decoherence processes of mesoscopic cat states have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ri-Hua Zheng , Jia-Hao Lü , Fan Wu , Yan Xia , Li-Hua Lin , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng