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Recent developments in practical quantum engineering and control techniques have allowed significant developments for experimental studies of open quantum systems and decoherence engineering. Indeed, it has become possible to test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 C. -F. Li , G. -C. Guo , J. Piilo

In the current era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, research in the theory of open system dynamics has a crucial role to play. In particular, understanding and quantifying memory effects in quantum systems is critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 U. Shrikant , Prabha Mandayam

We study how non-Markovianity of an open two-level system can be detected when continuously monitoring a part of its bosonic environment. Considering a physical scenario of an atom in a lossy cavity, we demonstrate that the properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Kimmo Luoma , Pinja Haikka , Jyrki Piilo

In the control of classical mechanical systems, the feedback has been successfully applied to the production of the desired nonlinear dynamics. However, how much this can be done is still an open problem in quantum mechanical systems. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Jing Zhang , Re-Bing Wu , Yu-xi Liu , Chun-Wen Li , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

Trapped atomic ions enable a precise quantification of the flow of information between internal and external degrees of freedom by employing a non-Markovianity measure [H.-P. Breuer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401 (2009)]. We reveal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Matthias Wittemer , Govinda Clos , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Ulrich Warring , Tobias Schaetz

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum optical systems comprising quantum emitters interacting with engineered optical modes generate non-classical states of light that can be used as resource states for quantum-enhanced interferometry. However, outside of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Daniel Malz , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Rahul Trivedi

We investigate the effect of counter-rotating-wave terms on the non-Markovianity in quantum open systems by employing the hierarchical equations of motion in the framework of the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion approach. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Wei Wu , Maoxin Liu

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

Nonlinear quantum metrology schemes can lead to faster than Heisenberg limited scalings for the measurement uncertainty. We study a Michelson interferometer embedded in a Kerr medium [Luis and Rivas, Phys. Rev. A 92, 022104 (2015)] that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Bijoy John Mathew , Anil Shaji

Machine learning methods have proved to be useful for the recognition of patterns in statistical data. The measurement outcomes are intrinsically random in quantum physics, however, they do have a pattern when the measurements are performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 I. A. Luchnikov , S. V. Vintskevich , D. A. Grigoriev , S. N. Filippov

Quantum memory effects are essential in understanding and controlling open quantum systems, yet distinguishing them from classical memory remains challenging. We introduce a convex geometric framework to analyze quantum memory propagating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Mei Yu , Ties-A. Ohst , Hai-Chau Nguyen , Stefan Nimmrichter

We study the problem of estimating the phase shift due to the general relativistic time dilation in the interference of photons using a non-linear Mach-Zender interferometer setup. By introducing two non-linear Kerr materials, one in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sebastian P. Kish , Timothy C. Ralph

We study the estimation of parameters pertaining to non-Markovian quantum open systems, such as the dissipation rate and environmental memory time. A key challenge is identifying the optimal measurement time, which must allow sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Da-Wei Luo , Ting Yu

By mapping the strong interaction between Rydberg excitations in ultra-cold atomic ensembles onto single photons via electromagnetically induced transparency, it is now possible to realize a nonlinear optical medium which exhibits a strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Ofer Firstenberg , Charles S. Adams , Sebastian Hofferberth

We experimentally realized a new method for transmitting quantum information reliably through paired optical polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. The physical setup extends the use of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where noises are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Jin-Shi Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Xiao-Ye Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Optomechanical systems have been shown both theoretically and experimentally to exhibit an analogon to atomic electromagnetically induced transparency, with sharp transmission features that are controlled by a second laser beam. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Andreas Kronwald , Florian Marquardt

The nonlinear quantum regime is crucial for implementing interesting quantum effects, which have wide applications in modern quantum science. Here we propose an effective method to reach the nonlinear quantum regime in a modulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Tai-Shuang Yin , Xin-You Lü , Li-Li Zheng , Mei Wang , Sha Li , Ying Wu

We describe a detector that measures the mutual coherence of two optical fields directly using quantum interference, free from photon noise of the individual irradiances. Our approach utilizes Raman transition in an atomic system where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Jungsang Kim , David J. Brady

The theory of semiparametric estimation offers an elegant way of computing the Cram\'er-Rao bound for a parameter of interest in the midst of infinitely many nuisance parameters. Here I apply the theory to the problem of moment estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-09 Mankei Tsang