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Numerical simulation of quantum systems is crucial to further our understanding of natural phenomena. Many systems of key interest and importance, in areas such as superconducting materials and quantum chemistry, are thought to be described…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Katherine L Brown , William J Munro , Vivien M Kendon

The main power of quantum sensors is achieved when the probe is composed of several particles. In this situation, quantum features such as entanglement contribute to enhancing the precision of quantum sensors beyond the capacity of…

Using a single quantum probe to sense other quantum objects offers distinct advantages but suffers from some limitations that may degrade the sensing precision severely, especially when the probe-target coupling is weak. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Yi-Nan Fang , Xing Xiao , Chang-Pu Sun , Wen Yang , Nan Zhao

One of the most promising applications of quantum networks is entanglement assisted sensing. The field of quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to improve the precision bound for applications such as precision timekeeping, field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Emily A. Van Milligen , Christos N. Gagatsos , Eneet Kaur , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

A quantum simulator is a well controlled quantum system that can simulate the behavior of another quantum system which may require exponentially large classical computing resources to understand otherwise. In the 1980s, Feynman proposed the…

The sensitivity afforded by quantum sensors is limited by decoherence. Quantum error correction (QEC) can enhance sensitivity by suppressing decoherence, but it has a side-effect: it biases a sensor's output in realistic settings. If…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ivan Rojkov , David Layden , Paola Cappellaro , Jonathan Home , Florentin Reiter

Tunneling is an iconic concept that captures the peculiarity of quantum dynamics but, despite its ubiquity, questions remain. We focus on strong-field tunneling, which is vital to all attosecond science. We find an unexpected optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Anne Weber , Margarita Khokhlova , Emilio Pisanty

The applications of spin-based quantum sensors to measurements probing fundamental physics are surveyed. Experimental methods and technologies developed for quantum information science have rapidly advanced in recent years, and these tools…

A secure quantum identification system combining a classical identification procedure and quantum key distribution is proposed. Each identification sequence is always used just once and new sequences are ``refuelled'' from a shared provably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Miloslav Dusek , Ondrej Haderka , Martin Hendrych , Robert Myska

While quantum annealers have emerged as versatile and controllable platforms for experimenting on correlated spin systems, the important phenomenology of magnetic memory and hysteresis remain unexplored on hardware designed to escape…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Elijah Pelofske , Frank Barrows , Pratik Sathe , Cristiano Nisoli

Sensing and metrology play an important role in fundamental science and applications by fulfilling the ever-present need for more precise data sets and by allowing researchers to make more reliable conclusions on the validity of theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Sergey Danilin , Nicholas Nugent , Martin Weides

Classical molecular dynamics and electro-diffusion theories have achieved profound success in elucidating ion selectivity and gating mechanisms. However, reconciling strict selectivity with high flux permeation in Angstrom-scaled biological…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Bin Zhou , Yangmei Li , Ziyi Zhang , Yindong Huang , Zuoxian Xiang , Chao Chang

Recent demonstrations using electron spins stored in quantum dots array as qubits are promising for developing a scalable quantum computing platform. An ongoing effort is therefore aiming at the precise control of the quantum dots…

Quantum tunneling is the phenomenon that makes superconducting circuits "quantum". Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using quantum tunneling in phase space of a Kerr parametric oscillator as a resource for quantum information…

Industrial, metrological, and medical applications provide a strong technological pull for advanced nanoscale sensors exploiting the unique sensitivity of quantum coherent systems to their environments. Essential to the functionality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. M. Frey , S. Mavadia , L. M. Norris , W. de Ferranti , D. Lucarelli , L. Viola , M. J. Biercuk

Resonant tunneling through identical potential barriers is a textbook problem in quantum mechanics. Its solution yields total transparency (100% tunneling) at discrete energies. This dramatic phenomenon results from coherent interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Daniel Rohrlich , Oren Zarchin , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

A few-electron double quantum dot was fabricated using metal-oxide-semiconductor(MOS)-compatible technology and low-temperature transport measurements were performed to study the energy spectrum of the device. The double dot structure is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 W. H. Lim , H. Huebl , L. H. Willems van Beveren , S. Rubanov , P. G. Spizzirri , S. J. Angus , R. G. Clark , A. S. Dzurak

There are new detector proposals and R&D that utilize quantum enhancements not previously adopted. Examples include superconducting quantum sensors, atom interferometry, and quantum spin sensors. They are mainly motivated by industrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-15 Masashi Hazumi

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

The dominant noise in an "erasure qubit" is an erasure -- a type of error whose occurrence and location can be detected. Erasure qubits have potential to reduce the overhead associated with fault tolerance. To date, research on erasure…