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As quantum technologies advance, a fundamental challenge is mitigating noise and backscattering in superconducting circuits to achieve scalable, high-fidelity operations. Conventional superconducting components lack directionality, causing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Han Zhong , Denis Kochan , Igor Zutic , Yingying Wu

Non-reciprocal propagation of energy and information is fundamental to a wide range of quantum technology applications. In this work, we explore the quantum many-body dynamics of a qubit ensemble coupled to a shared bath that mediates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Xin Li , Benedetta Flebus

Controllable nonlinear quantum interactions are a much sought after target for modern quantum technologies. They are typically difficult and costly to engineer for bespoke purposes. However controllable nonlinearities may have always been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luca Ornigotti , Darren W. Moore , Radim Filip

We demonstrate the emergence of nonreciprocal superradiant phase transitions and novel multicriticality in a cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system, where a two-level atom interacts with two counter-propagating modes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Gui-Lei Zhu , Chang-Sheng Hu , Hui Wang , Wei Qin , Xin-You Lü , Franco Nori

Non-Hermitian dynamics has been widely studied to enhance the precision of quantum sensing; and non-reciprocity can be a powerful resource for non-Hermitian quantum sensing, as non-reciprocity allows to arbitrarily exceed the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Liying Bao , Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong , Franco Nori

Applications of the quantum switch on quantum channels have recently become a topic of intense discussion. In the present work, we show that some useless (for communication) channels may provide useful communication under the action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Arindam Mitra , Himanshu Badhani , Sibasish Ghosh

For the past three decades, nanoscience has widely affected many areas in physics, chemistry, and engineering, and has led to numerous fundamental discoveries as well as applications and products. Concurrently, quantum science and…

The secure communication of information plays an ever increasing role in our society today. Classical methods of encryption inherently rely on the difficulty of solving a problem such as finding prime factors of large numbers and can, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Thomas Scheidl , Rupert Ursin , Anton Zeilinger

Most protocols for Quantum Information Processing consist of a series of quantum gates, which are applied sequentially. In contrast, interactions, for example between matter and fields, as well as measurements such as homodyne detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Christine A. Muschik , Klemens Hammerer , Eugene S. Polzik , Ignacio J. Cirac

Non-reciprocal devices are key components in both classical and quantum electronics. One approach to realizing passive non-reciprocal microwave devices is through capacitive coupling between external electrodes and materials exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Stefano Bosco

Breaking Lorentz reciprocity was believed to be a prerequisite for nonreciprocal transmissions of light fields, so the possibility of nonreciprocity by linear optical systems was mostly ignored. We put forward a structure of three mutually…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-12 Bing He , Liu Yang , Xiaoshun Jiang , Min Xiao

Protocols for quantum communication between massive particles, such as atoms, are usually based on transmitting nonclassical light, and/or super-high finesse optical cavities are normally needed to enhance interaction between atoms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lu-Ming Duan , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller , E. S. Polzik

We investigate electrical transport in a quantum wire of $N$ sites connected to an equal number $(N_i/2)$ of sources and drains of charges in bulk. Each source and drain injects and extracts charges at the same rate, respectively. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Rupak Bag , Dibyendu Roy

Quantum communication holds the promise of creating disruptive technologies that will play an essential role in future communication networks. For example, the study of quantum communication complexity has shown that quantum communication…

Optical non-reciprocity, a phenomenon that allows unidirectional flow of optical field is pivoted on the time reversal symmetry breaking. The symmetry breaking happens in the cavity optomechanical system (COS) due to non uniform radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Muhib Ullah , Xihua Yang , Li-Gang Wang

Nonreciprocity is most commonly associated with a large difference in the transmitted energy when the locations of the source and receiver are interchanged. This energy bias is accompanied by a difference in the transmitted phase. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ali Kogani , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

One of the most basic tasks required for Quantum Information Technology is the ability to connect different components of a Quantum Computer by quantum wires that obey the superposition principle. Since superpositions can be very sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Daniel Burgarth

With the rapid development of quantum computers the currently secure cryptographic protocols may not stay that way. Quantum mechanics provides means to create an inherently secure communication channel that is protected by the laws of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Andrew Frigyik

Device redundancy is one of the most well-known mechanisms in distributed systems to increase the overall system fault tolerance and, consequently, trustworthiness. Existing algorithms in this regard aim to exchange a significant number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Agustin Zaballos , Adria Mallorqui , Joan Navarro

Quantum communication is at the forefront of quantum technology, enabling the development of absolutely secure encryption, distributed quantum computing, teleportation and more. Whilst quantum communication has been experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Scott E. Vinay , Pieter Kok