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The characterization of quantum coherence in the context of quantum information theory and its interplay with quantum correlations is currently subject of intense study. Coherence in an Hamiltonian eigenbasis yields asymmetry, the ability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Davide Girolami , Benjamin Yadin

A major goal of developing high-precision control of many-body quantum systems is to realise their potential as quantum computers. Probably the most significant obstacle in this direction is the problem of "decoherence": the extreme…

Enhancing interactions in many-body quantum systems, while protecting them from environmental decoherence, is at the heart of many quantum technologies. Waveguide quantum electrodynamics is a promising platform for achieving this, as it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Aviv Karnieli , Offek Tziperman , Charles Roques-Carmes , Shanhui Fan

We investigate phase coherent electronic transport in an open quantum system, which consists of quantum dots side-coupled to a nanowire. It is demonstrated that coherent switching can be characterized by adjusting the electronic energy. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Valsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition a quantum state can have in a given basis. Since there is a difference in the structure of eigenstates of the ergodic and many-body localized systems, we expect them also to differ in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Sayandip Dhara , Alioscia Hamma , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We investigate coherent electron-switching transport in a double quantum waveguide system in a perpendicular static or vanishing magnetic field. The finite symmetric double waveguide is connected to two semi-infinite leads from both ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Minimizing decoherence due to coupling of a quantum system to its fluctuating environment is at the forefront of quantum information science and photonics research. Nature sets the ultimate limit, however, given by the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Galan Moody , Corey McDonald , Ari Feldman , Todd Harvey , Richard P. Mirin , Kevin L. Silverman

The tunneling process in a many-body system is a phenomenon which lies at the very heart of quantum mechanics. It appears in nature in the form of alpha-decay, fusion and fission in nuclear physics, photoassociation and photodissociation in…

By viewing the non-equilibrium transport setup as a quantum open system, we propose a reduced-density-matrix based quantum transport formalism. At the level of self-consistent Born approximation, it can precisely account for the correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Jiushu Shao , YiJing Yan

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

A multi-branch quantum circuit is considered from the viewpoint of coherent electron or wave transport. Starting with the closed system, we give analytical conditions for the appearance of two isolated localized states out of the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-06 Angelo Ziletti

We theoretically show that intriguing features of coherent many-body physics can be observed in electron transport through a quantum dot (QD). We first derive a master equation based framework for electron transport in the Coulomb-blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Martin J. A. Schuetz , Eric M. Kessler , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

The many-body state of carriers confined in a quantum dot is controlled by the balance between their kinetic energy and their Coulomb correlation. In coupled quantum dots, both can be tuned by varying the inter-dot tunneling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Rontani , Filippo Troiani , Ulrich Hohenester , Elisa Molinari

Entanglement entropy is a measure of quantum correlations between separate parts of a many-body system, which plays an important role in many areas of physics. Here we review recent work in which a relation between this quantity and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Israel Klich , Leonid Levitov

We establish a novel approach to probing spatially resolved multi-time correlation functions of interacting many-body systems, with scalable experimental overhead. Specifically, designing nonlinear measurement protocols for multidimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 M. Gessner , F. Schlawin , H. Haeffner , S. Mukamel , A. Buchleitner

Quantum coherence plays a crucial role in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, leading to breakthroughs in various fields such as quantum information, quantum sensing, and the detection of gravitational waves. Most coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yan-Han Yang , Xue Yang , Xing-Zhou Zheng , Ming-Xing Luo

Quantum annealing provides a way of solving optimization problems by encoding them as Ising spin models which are implemented using physical qubits. The solution of the optimization problem then corresponds to the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Nicholas Chancellor , Stefan Zohren , Paul A. Warburton

An external drive can improve the coherence of a quantum many-body system by averaging out noise sources. It can also be used to realize models that are inaccessible in the static limit, through Floquet Hamiltonian engineering. The full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 W. Morong , K. S. Collins , A. De , E. Stavropoulos , T. You , C. Monroe

Quantum many-body scarring (QMBS) -- a recently discovered form of weak ergodicity breaking in strongly-interacting quantum systems -- presents opportunities for mitigating thermalization-induced decoherence in quantum information…

Many-body entanglement is at the heart of the Kondo effect, which has its hallmark in quantum dots as a zero-bias conductance peak at low temperatures. It signals the emergence of a conducting singlet state formed by a localized dot degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 M. Niklas , S. Smirnov , D. Mantelli , M. Marganska , N. -V. Nguyen , W. Wernsdorfer , J. -P. Cleuziou , M. Grifoni