English
Related papers

Related papers: A critical Schr\"odinger cat qubit

200 papers

The code capacity threshold for error correction using qubits which exhibit asymmetric or biased noise channels is known to be much higher than with qubits without such structured noise. However, it is unclear how much this improvement…

Using quadratic optomechanical coupling to prepare high-purity mechanical cat states is not feasible as its strength is several orders weaker than linear optomechanical coupling. Here, using only linear coupling in a multimode system, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Nuo Wang , Haoyang Zhang , Yu Tian , Yadi Niu , Ying Gu

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for harnessing near-term quantum devices to tackle temporal machine learning tasks. Yet identifying the mechanisms that underlie enhanced performance remains challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Krai Cheamsawat , Thiparat Chotibut

In this paper, we propose a novel quantum classifier utilizing dissipative engineering. Unlike standard quantum circuit models, the classifier consists of a central spin-qubit model. By subjecting the auxiliary qubits to carefully tailored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 He Wang , Chuanbo Liu , Jin Wang

In quantum information processing, two primary research directions have emerged: one based on discrete variables (DV) and the other on the structure of quantum states in a continuous-variable (CV) space. Integrating these two approaches…

We discuss general properties of the equilibrium state of parametric down-conversion in superconducting quantum circuits with detunings and Kerr anharmonicities, in the strongly nonlinear regime. By comparing moments of the steady state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Feng-Xiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Qihuang Gong , Run Yan Teh , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

Superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states, introduced in Schroedinger's famous Gedankenexperiment, are an epitome of quantum "strangeness" and a natural tool for determining the validity limits of quantum physics. The…

Open quantum systems governed by quantum master equations can exhibit quantum metastability, where decoherence-free subspaces (DFS) remain approximately invariant for long transient times before relaxing to a unique steady state. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Thomas Botzung , Eliana Fiorelli

Schr\"odinger's cat originates from the famous thought experiment querying the counterintuitive quantum superposition of macroscopic objects. As a natural extension, several "cats" (quasi-classical objects) can be prepared into coherent…

Bosonic codes, leveraging infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces for redundancy, offer great potential for encoding quantum information. However, the realization of a practical continuous-variable bosonic code that can simultaneously correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yexiong Zeng , Fernando Quijandría , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

Quantum error correction codes based on continuous variables play an important role for the implementation of quantum communication systems. A natural application of such codes occurs within quantum repeater systems which are used to combat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Pei-Zhe Li , Josephine Dias , William J. Munro , Peter van Loock , Kae Nemoto , Nicoló Lo Piparo

The realization of strong photon-photon interactions has presented an enduring challenge across photonics, particularly in quantum computing, where two-photon gates form essential components for scalable quantum information processing…

A significant obstacle for practical quantum computation is the loss of physical qubits in quantum computers, a decoherence mechanism most notably in optical systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate, both in the quantum circuit model and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Chao-Yang Lu , Wei-Bo Gao , Jin Zhang , Xiao-Qi Zhou , Tao Yang , Jian-Wei Pan

The performance of a wide range of quantum computing algorithms and protocols depends critically on the fidelity and speed of the employed qubit readout. Examples include gate sequences benefiting from mid-circuit, real-time,…

Quantum information is very fragile to environmentally and operationally induced imperfections. Therefore, the construction of practical quantum computers requires quantum error-correction techniques to protect quantum information. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Ming-Jie Liang , Tao Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

In this paper, we provide a mechanism of decoherence suppression for open quantum systems in general, and that for "Schrodinger cat-like" state in particular, through the strong couplings to non-Markovian reservoirs. Different from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chan U. Lei , Wei-Min Zhang

We estimate and analyze the error rates and the resource overheads of the repetition cat qubit approach to universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation. The cat qubits stabilized by two-photon dissipation exhibit an extremely biased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jérémie Guillaud , Mazyar Mirrahimi

The central challenge in building a quantum computer is error correction. Unlike classical bits, which are susceptible to only one type of error, quantum bits ("qubits") are susceptible to two types of error, corresponding to flips of the…

Quantum computers have long been expected to efficiently solve complex classical differential equations. Most digital, fault-tolerant approaches use Carleman linearization to map nonlinear systems to linear ones and then apply quantum…

The interference-free double potential wells realized by the two-photon driving Kerr nonlinear resonator (KNR) can stabilize cat states and protect them from decoherence through a large energy gap. In this work, we use a parametrically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ke-hui Yu , Fan Zhu , Jiao-jiao Xue , Hong-rong Li