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The long-range transmission of quantum information relies on multiple interfaces between photons, acting as flying qubits, and localized memories, serving as repeaters, to mitigate transmission losses. Efficient, long-range transmission…

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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

The Coulomb interaction generally limits the quantum propagation of electrons. However, it can also provide a mechanism to transfer their quantum state over larger distances. Here, we demonstrate such a form of teleportation, across a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 H. Duprez , E. Sivre , A. Anthore , A. Aassime , A. Cavanna , U. Gennser , F. Pierre

Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shaojiang Zhu , Xinyuan You , Alexander Romanenko , Anna Grassellino

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Plasmons, arising from the collective motion of electrons, can interact strongly with electromagnetic fields or photons; this capability has been exploited across a broad range of applications, from chemical reactivity to biosensing.…

Long-distance fast and precise transfer of charge in semiconductor nanostructures is one of the goals for scalable electronic devices. We study theoretically the control of shuttling of an electron along a linear chain of semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 María E. Rus , Rodolfo H. Romero , Sergio S. Gomez

We show that the state of a flying qubit may be transferred to a chain of identical, (near) ferromagnetically polarised, but non-interacting, static spin-1/2 particles in a passive way. During this process the flying qubit is coherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Yuting Ping , John H. Jefferson , Brendon W. Lovett

The entanglement of microwave photons and spin qubits in silicon represents a pivotal step forward for quantum information processing utilizing semiconductor quantum dots. Such hybrid spin circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) has been…

We propose and analyze a passive architecture for realizing on-chip, scalable cascaded quantum devices. In contrast to standard approaches, our scheme does not rely on breaking Lorentz reciprocity. Rather, we engineer the interplay between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 P. O. Guimond , B. Vermersch , M. L. Juan , A. Sharafiev , G. Kirchmair , P. Zoller

By exploiting the correlation properties of ultracold atoms in a multi-mode interferometer, we show how quantum enhanced measurement precision can be achieved with strong robustness to particle loss. While the potential for enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 J. J. Cooper , D. W. Hallwood , J. A. Dunningham , J. Brand

A picosecond acoustic pulse can be used to control the lasing emission from semiconductor nanostructures by shifting their electronic transitions. When the active medium, here an ensemble of (In,Ga)As quantum dots, is shifted into or out of…

A major challenge in optical quantum processing is implementing large, stable interferometers. Here we propose a virtual, measurement-based interferometer that is programmed on the fly solely by the choice of homodyne measurement angles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 Rafael N. Alexander , Natasha C. Gabay , Peter P. Rohde , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Quantum computers allow for direct simulation of the quantum interference and entanglement used in modern interferometry experiments with applications ranging from biological sensing to gravitational wave detection. Inspired by recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Cindy Tran , Tanaporn Na Narong , Eric S. Cooper

We experimentally demonstrate the coherent oscillations of a tunable superconducting flux qubit by manipulating its energy potential with a nanosecond-long pulse of magnetic flux. The occupation probabilities of two persistent current…

A new class of atomic interferences using ultra-narrow optical transitions are pushing quantum engineering control to a very high level of precision for a next generation of sensors and quantum gate operations. In such context, we propose a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 T. Zanon-Willette , D. Wilkowski , R. Lefevre , A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin

Recent technological advances allowed the coherent optical manipulation of high-energy electron wavepackets with attosecond precision. Here we theoretically investigate the collision of optically-modulated pulsed electron beams with atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Hommelhoff , Lars Bojer Madsen

We have studied theoretically the tunneling between two edges of Quantum Hall liquids (QHL) of different filling factors, $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$, with $m_0 \geq m_1\geq 0$, through two separate point contacts in the geometry of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-11 Vadim V. Ponomarenko , Dmitri V. Averin

We propose a scheme for controlling a radio-frequency mechanical resonator at the quantum level using a superconducting qubit. The mechanical part of the circuit consists of a suspended micrometer-long beam that is embedded in the loop of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Marios Kounalakis , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gary A. Steele

In this paper we describe an ultrafast scanning electron microscope setup developed for the research of inelastic scattering of electrons at optical near-fields of periodic dielectric nanostructures. Electron emission from the Schottky…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Kozák , J. McNeur , N. Schönenberger , J. Illmer , A. Li , A. Tafel , P. Yousefi , T. Eckstein , P. Hommelhoff