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The phenomenon of synchronization, where entities exhibit stable oscillations with aligned frequencies and phases, has been detected in diverse areas of natural science. It plays a crucial role in achieving frequency locking in multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tong Liu , Laura García-Álvarez , Giovanna Tancredi

We investigate the most general mechanisms that lead to perfect synchronization of the quantum states of all subsystems of an open quantum system starting from an arbitrary initial state. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Jakub Czartowski , Ronny Müller , Karol Zyczkowski , Daniel Braun

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon encountered in many natural and engineered systems with nonlinear classical dynamics. How synchronization concepts and mechanisms transfer to the quantum realm and whether features are universal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Florian Höhe , Lukas Danner , Ciprian Padurariu , Brecht I. C Donvil , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

We study mechanisms that allow one to synchronize the quantum phase of two qubits relative to a fixed basis. Starting from one qubit in a fixed reference state and the other in an unknown state, we find that contrary to the impossibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Lukas J. Fiderer , Marek Kuś , Daniel Braun

The synchronization properties of two self-sustained quantum oscillators are studied in the Wigner representation. Instead of considering the quantum limit of the quantum van-der-Pol master equation we derive the quantum master equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Lisa Morgan , Haye Hinrichsen

It is well known from classical physics that weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators may spontaneously lock their phases. Just like classical synchronization is known to break down due to noise induced phase slips, we show here how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hans Christiansen , Jens Paaske

We study synchronization of two dissipatively coupled Van der Pol oscillators in the quantum regime. Due to quantum noise strict frequency locking is absent and is replaced by a crossover from weak to strong frequency entrainment. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Stefan Walter , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Christoph Bruder

We implement nonlinear anharmonic interaction in the coupled van der Pol oscillators to investigate the quantum synchronization behaviour of the systems. We study the quantum synchronization in two oscillator models, coupled quantum van der…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Niss Thomas , M. Senthilvelan

We analyse the properties of the synchronisation transition in a many-body system consisting of quantum van der Pol oscillators with all-to-all coupling using a self-consistent mean-field method. We find that the synchronised state, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 C. Davis-Tilley , C. K. Teoh , A. D. Armour

Spontaneous synchronization between coupled periodic systems occur in a wealth of classical physical setups. Here, we show theoretically that the phase of two distinct quantum harmonic oscillators spontaneously when they are strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Loic Henriet

Synchronization is ubiquitous in nature at various scales and fields. This phenomenon not only offers a window into the intrinsic harmony of complex systems, but also serves as a robust probe for many-body quantum systems. One such system…

Synchronizing a few-level quantum system is of fundamental importance to understanding synchronization in deep quantum regime. Whether a two-level system, the smallest quantum system, can be synchronized has been theoretically debated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Liyun Zhang , Zhao Wang , Yucheng Wang , Junhua Zhang , Zhigang Wu , Jianwen Jie , Yao Lu

We investigate the quantum synchronization phenomena of two mechanical oscillators of different frequencies in two optomechanical systems under periodically modulating cavity detunings or driving amplitudes, which can interact mutually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Guo-jian Qiao , Hui-xia Gao , Hao-di Liu , X. X. Yi

It is desirable to observe synchronization of quantum systems in the quantum regime, defined by low number of excitations and a highly non-classical steady state of the self-sustained oscillator. Several existing proposals of observing…

Synchronization, a ubiquitous phenomenon in classical systems, has recently been extended to the quantum domain. Here, we show quantum synchronization of a bosonic mode exhibiting a Fock state-like limit cycle, manifesting as a steady state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Fabian Hassler , David Scheer , Samah Saquaque , Steven Kim

We develop an analytical framework to study the synchronization of a quantum self-sustained oscillator to an external signal. Our unified description allows us to identify the resource on which quantum synchronization relies, and to compare…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Martin Koppenhöfer , Alexandre Roulet

Synchronization between limit cycle oscillators can arise through entrainment to an external drive or through mutual coupling. The interplay between the two mechanisms has been studied in classical synchronizing systems, but not in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Taufiq Murtadho , Sai Vinjanampathy , Juzar Thingna

A paradigm for quantum synchronization is the quantum analog of the Stuart--Landau oscillator, which corresponds to a van der Pol oscillator in the limit of weak (i.e. vanishingly small) nonlinearity. Due to this limitation, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Yuan Shen , Wai-Keong Mok , Changsuk Noh , Ai Qun Liu , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Weijun Fan , Andy Chia

We consider the phenomenon of mutual synchronization in a fundamental quantum system of two detuned quantum harmonic oscillators dissipating into the environment. We identify the conditions leading to this spontaneous phenomenon showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Gian Luca Giorgi , Fernando Galve , Gonzalo Manzano , Pere Colet , Roberta Zambrini

This study explores the dual role of a squeezed reservoir in controlling the quantum phase synchronization of a driven two-level system. We first demonstrate, through a Liouvillian eigen-spectrum analysis, that the squeezed reservoir can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Xing Xiao , Tian-Xiang Lu , Wo-Jun Zhong , Yan-Ling Li