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The use of $d$-level qudits instead of two-level qubits can largely increase the power of quantum logic for many applications, ranging from quantum simulations to quantum error correction. Molecular Nanomagnets are ideal spin systems to…

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in understating the limitations imposed by quantum noise in precision measurements and devising techniques to reduce it. The attention is currently turning to the simultaneously estimation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

Beginners studying quantum mechanics are often baffled with electron tunneling.Hence an easy approach for comprehension of the topic is presented here on the basis of uncertainty principle.An estimate of the tunneling time is also derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angik Sarkar , T. K. Bhattacharyya

Quantum annealing is an optimization technique which potentially leverages quantum tunneling to enhance computational performance. Existing quantum annealers use superconducting flux qubits with short coherence times, limited primarily by…

We use machine optimisation to develop a quantum sensing scheme that achieves significantly better sensitivity than traditional schemes with the same quantum resources. Utilising one-axis twisting dynamics to generate quantum entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Simon A. Haine , Joseph J. Hope

When the electric conductance of a nano-sized metal is measured at low temperatures, it often exhibits complex but reproducible patterns as a function of external magnetic fields, called quantum fingerprints in electric conductance. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Shunsuke Daimon , Kakeru Tsunekawa , Shinji Kawakami , Takashi Kikkawa , Rafael Ramos , Koichi Oyanagi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Eiji Saitoh

Memristors are resistive elements retaining information of their past dynamics. They have garnered substantial interest due to their potential for representing a paradigm change in electronics, information processing and unconventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-17 J. Salmilehto , F. Deppe , M. Di Ventra , M. Sanz , E. Solano

Introducing quantum sensors as solution to real-world problem demands reliability and controllability outside laboratory conditions. Producers and operators ought to be assumed to have limited resources ready available for calibration, and…

Experiments with superconducting quantum processors have successfully demonstrated the basic functions needed for quantum computation and evidence of utility, albeit without a sizable array of error-corrected qubits. The realization of the…

How much time does a wave packet spent in tunneling a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier. In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out confirming quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Guenter Nimtz

Spins based in silicon provide one of the most promising architectures for quantum computing. Quantum dots are an inherently scalable technology. Here, we combine these two concepts into a workable design for a silicon-germanium quantum…

Quantum metrology is the use of genuinely quantum properties such as entanglement as a resource to outperform classical sensing strategies. Typically, entanglement is created by implementing gate operations or inducing many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Atsuki Yoshinaga , Mamiko Tatsuta , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Motivated by applications to covert quantum radar, we analyze a covert quantum sensing problem, in which a legitimate user aims at estimating an unknown parameter taking finitely many values by probing a quantum channel while remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu Bloch

The mechanism by which odorants are recognized by olfactory receptors remains primarily unresolved. While charge transport is believed to play a significant role, its precise nature is still unclear. Here, we present a novel perspective by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Dominik Szczȩśniak , Ewa Drzazga-Szczȩśniak , Sabre Kais

An extensively pursued current direction of research in physics aims at the development of practical technologies that exploit the effects of quantum mechanics. As part of this ongoing effort, devices for information processing, secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-02 G. Kurizki , P. Bertet , Y. Kubo , K. Mølmer , D. Petrosyan , P. Rabl , J. Schmiedmayer

We describe single electron tunneling through molecular structures under the influence of nano-mechanical excitations. We develop a full quantum mechanical model, which includes charging effects and dissipation, and apply it to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Boese , Herbert Schoeller

Quantum waveform estimation, in which quantum sensors sample entire time series, promises to revolutionize the sensing of weak and stochastic signals, such as the biomagnetic impulses emitted by firing neurons. For long duration signals…

We present a review on quantum metrology and sensing, from its foundations to current applications. Highlights of the review include consideration of both frequentist and Bayesian approaches to parameter estimation; single as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Priya Ghosh , Tanoy Kanti Konar , Debraj Rakshit , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We consider a type of Quantum Electro-Mechanical System, known as the shuttle system, first proposed by Gorelik et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 4526, (1998)]. We use a quantum master equation treatment and compare the semi-classical solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Wahyu Utami , Hsi-Sheng Goan , C. A. Holmes , G. J. Milburn

Reliable detection of single electron tunneling in quantum dots (QD) is paramount to use this category of device for quantum information processing. Here, we report charge sensing in a degenerately phosphorus-doped silicon QD by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Rossi , T. Ferrus , W. Lin , T. Kodera , D. A. Williams , S. Oda