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Nonreciprocal coupling between photonic modes enables a range of advanced functionalities, though the available approaches for its practical implementation remain limited. Here, we introduce a novel strategy for achieving nonreciprocal…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 Yekai Shen , Shuhang Chen

Quantum systems are promising candidates for sensing of weak signals as they can provide unrivaled performance when estimating parameters of external fields. However, when trying to detect weak signals that are hidden by background noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Paraj Titum , Kevin M. Schultz , Alireza Seif , Gregory D. Quiroz , B. D. Clader

Inspired by the photosynthetic energy transfer process, we theoretically propose a method to realize non-reciprocal optical transmission in an array of coupled resonators. The optical non-reciprocity of the coupled resonators arises from…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yi-Xuan Yao , Qing Ai

We study the problem of joint communication and sensing for data transmission systems using optimal quantum instruments in order to transmit data and, at the same time, estimate environmental parameters. In particular we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Pere Munar-Vallespir , Janis Nötzel

The realization of optical non-reciprocity is crucial for many device applications, and also of fundamental importance for manipulating and protecting the photons with desired time-reversal symmetry. Recently, various new mechanisms of…

Directional transport is obtained in various multimode systems by driving multiple, nonreciprocally-interfering interactions between individual bosonic modes. However, systems sustaining the required number of modes become physically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Laure Mercier de Lépinay , Caspar F. Ockeloen-Korppi , Daniel Malz , Mika A. Sillanpää

We investigate perfect optical nonreciprocal transmission in a hybrid optomechanical system that incorporates an atomic ensemble. By introducing complex coupling strengths between the atomic ensemble and a mechanical oscillator,…

We show nonreciprocal light propagation for single-photon inputs due to quantum noise in coupled optical systems with gain and loss. We consider two parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric linear optical systems consisting of either two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dibyendu Roy , G. S. Agarwal

The more information a measurement provides about a quantum system's position statistics, the less information a subsequent measurement can provide about the system's momentum statistics. This information trade-off is embodied in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Gregory A. Howland , James Schneeloch , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

Devices that achieve nonreciprocal microwave transmission are ubiquitous in radar and radio-frequency communication systems, and commonly rely on magnetically biased ferrite materials. Such devices are also indispensable in the readout…

Nonreciprocal interactions are known to produce distinctive dynamics in active matter. To shed light on how the stationary state of such systems is affected by breaking reciprocity, we consider active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matthew Du , Andriy Goychuk , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We propose an all-optical approach to achieve optical nonreciprocity on a chip by quantum squeezing one of two coupled resonator modes. By parametric pumping a nonlinear resonator unidirectionally with a classical coherent field, we squeeze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Lei Tang , Jiangshan Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Franco Nori , Min Xiao , Keyu Xia

Non-reciprocal transmission of motion is potentially highly beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from wave guiding, to shock and vibration damping and energy harvesting. To date, large levels of non-reciprocity have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Brandenbourger , Xander Locsin , Edan Lerner , Corentin Coulais

We investigate that no-knowledge measurement-based feedback control is utilized to obtain the estimation precision of the detection efficiency. For the feedback operators that concern us, no-knowledge measurement is the optimal way to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Jianyong Chen , Anmin Wang

Recent progresses have revealed that quantum systems with multiple position-dependent couplings, e.g., giant atoms, can exhibit some unconventional phenomena, such as non-exponential decay etc. However, their potential applications are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Yu Ting Zhu , Rebing Wu , Zhihui Peng , Shibei Xue

Nonreciprocity originating from classical interactions among nonlinear scatterers has been attracting increasing attention in the quantum community, offering a promising tool to control excitation transfer for quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Nikita Nefedkin , Michele Cotrufo , Andrea Alù

One of the main advantages expected from using quantum probes as thermometers is non invasiveness, i.e., a negligible perturbation to the thermal sample. However, invasiveness is rarely investigated explicitly. Here, focusing on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Francesco Albarelli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Bassano Vacchini , Andrea Smirne

Quantum nonreciprocity-a fundamental phenomenon enabling directional control of quantum states and photon correlations-has long been recognized as pivotal for quantum technologies. However, the experimental realization of nonreciprocal…

We show that in the regime in which feedback control is most effective -- when measurements are relatively efficient, and feedback is relatively strong -- then, in the absence of any sharp inhomogeneity in the noise, it is always best to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kurt Jacobs , Austin P. Lund

Non-reciprocal systems can be thought of as disobeying Newtons third law - an action does not cause an equal and opposite reaction. In recent years there has been a dramatic rise in interest towards such systems. On a fundamental level,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Sergei Shmakov , Glasha Osipycheva , Peter B. Littlewood