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Accurate values for atomic dipole matrix elements are useful in many areas of physics, and in particular for interpreting experiments such as atomic parity violation. Obtaining accurate matrix element values is a challenge for both…

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The problem of estimating a parameter of a quantum system through a series of measurements performed sequentially on a quantum probe is analyzed in the general setting where the underlying statistics is explicitly non-i.i.d. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Daniel Burgarth , Vittorio Giovannetti , Airi N. Kato , Kazuya Yuasa

In this paper, we present a brief overview of atom interferometry. This field of research has developed very rapidly since 1991. Atom and light wave interferometers present some similarities but there are very important differences in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Miffre , Marion Jacquey , Matthias Büchner , Gérard Trénec , Jacques Vigué

Advances of quantum control technology have led to nearly perfect single-qubit control of nuclear spins and atomic hyperfine ground states. In contrast, quantum control of strong optical transitions, even for free atoms, are far from being…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yudi Ma , Xing Huang , Xiaoqing Wang , Lingjing Ji , Yizun He , Liyang Qiu , Jian Zhao , Yuzhuo Wang , Saijun Wu

We examine the measurability of the temporal ordering of two events, as well as event coincidences. In classical mechanics, a measurement of the order-of-arrival of two particles is shown to be equivalent to a measurement involving only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Oppenheim , B. Reznik , W. Unruh

Optical clocks based on atoms and ions probe relativistic effects with unprecedented sensitivity by resolving time dilation due to atom motion or different positions in the gravitational potential through frequency shifts. However, all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Gabriel Sorci , Joshua Foo , Dietrich Leibfried , Christian Sanner , Igor Pikovski

We present a new framework to study the time variation of fundamental constants in a model-independent way. Model independence implies more free parameters than assumed in previous studies. Using data from atomic clocks based on $^{87}$Sr,…

Coherent control of ultrafast quantum phenomena benefits from pulse-shaping capabilities allowing to modulate the envelope and instantaneous phase of optical fields on femtosecond time scales. While such control is available for optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-05 Nelin Laštovičková Streshkova , Martin Kozák

Quantum computers based on cold-atom arrays offer long-lived qubits with programmable connectivity, yet their progress toward fault-tolerant operation is limited by the relatively low fidelity of site-selective local control. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Sanghyo Park , Seuk Lee , Keunyoung Lee , Minhyeok Kim , Donggyu Kim

Circular atomtronics is known to exhibit a uniform ground state, unlike elliptical atomtronics. In elliptical atomtronics, the matter wave tends to accumulate along the semimajor edges during its time dynamics, which we depict by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Sriganapathy Raghav , Suranjana Ghosh , Jayanta Bera , Utpal Roy

Time-resolution protocol of quantum sensing aims to measure the fast temporal variation of an external field and demands a high field sensitivity in a short interrogation time $\tau$. Since any operation that evolves the quantum state takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Chungwei Lin , Qi Ding , Yanting Ma

Quantum sensors represent a new generation of sensors with improved precision, accuracy, stability, and robustness to environmental effects compared to their classical predecessors. After decades of laboratory development, several types of…

Sequences of alternating-sign time-dependent electric field pulses lead to coherent interference effects in Schwinger vacuum pair production, producing a Ramsey interferometer, an all-optical time-domain realization of the multiple-slit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Eric Akkermans , Gerald V. Dunne

A pulse of matter waves may dramatically change its shape when traversing an absorbing barrier with time-dependent transparency. Here we show that this effect can be utilized for controlled manipulation of spatially-localized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Arseni Goussev

Temporal optics has attracted much attention due to its ability for lossless stretching of ultrafast temporal pulses. At the same time, spatial SU(1,1) interferometers have been widely used because of their high sensitivity to phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-03 Zepeng Liu , Tianyu Liu , Hongmei Ma , Chun-Hua Yuan

Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field of control over quantum phenomena, tracing the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Constantin Brif , Raj Chakrabarti , Herschel Rabitz

We propose a new scheme for an improved determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant G and evaluate it by numerical simulations. Cold atoms in free fall are probed by atom interferometry measurements to characterize the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 M. Jain , G. M. Tino , L. Cacciapuoti , G. Rosi

In the domain of variational quantum algorithms, quantum Fourier models (QFMs) provide a mathematically well defined structure for quantum machine learning (QML). There has been a substantial amount of work on the scalability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Melvin Strobl , Maja Franz , Lukas Scheller , Eileen Kuehn , Wolfgang Mauerer , Achim Streit

An operational time of arrival is introduced using a realistic position and momentum measurement scheme. The phase space measurement involves the dynamics of a quantum particle probed by a measuring device. For such a measurement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Kochanski , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

Quantum sensing takes advantage of well controlled quantum systems for performing measurements with high sensitivity and precision. We have implemented a concept for quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution, independent of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. M. Boss , K. S. Cujia , J. Zopes , C. L. Degen