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Spontaneous synchronisation is a collective phenomenon that can occur in both dynamical classical and quantum systems. Here, we analyse the spontaneous synchronisation dynamics of vibrations assisting energy transfer in a bio-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without clear classical limits, no comprehensive theory has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Berislav Buca , Cameron Booker , Dieter Jaksch

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

Quantum synchronization (QS) in open many-body systems offers a promising route for controlling collective quantum dynamics, yet existing manipulation schemes often rely on dissipation engineering, which distorts limit cycles, lacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Shuo Dai , Zeqing Wang , Liang-Liang Wan , Weidong Li , Augusto Smerzi , Ran Qi , Jianwen Jie

The notion of symmetry is shown to be at the heart of all error correction/avoidance strategies for preserving quantum coherence of an open quantum system S e.g., a quantum computer. The existence of a non-trivial group of symmetries of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Zanardi

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

Synchronisation is a collective phenomenon widely investigated in classical oscillators and, more recently, in quantum systems. However, it remains unclear what features distinguish synchronous behaviour in these two scenarios. Recent works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

In this paper, we delve into the issue of Quantum Synchronization in a driven two-level (qubit) system situated within a structured environment. Our findings have practical implications as we discover that adding a time-dependent periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Amir Hossein Houshmand Almani , Ali Mortezapour , Alireza Nourmandipour

We report the first experimental demonstration of quantum synchronization. This is achieved by performing a digital simulation of a single spin-$1$ limit-cycle oscillator on the quantum computers of the IBM Q System. Applying an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Martin Koppenhöfer , Christoph Bruder , Alexandre Roulet

A major goal of developing high-precision control of many-body quantum systems is to realise their potential as quantum computers. Probably the most significant obstacle in this direction is the problem of "decoherence": the extreme…

We investigate quantum synchronization phenomenon within the complex network constituted by coupled optomechanical systems and prove the unknown identical quantum states can be shared or distributed in the quantum network even though the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wenlin Li , Chong Li , Heshan Song

We study a theoretical model of closed quasi-hermitian chain of spins which exhibits quantum analogues of chimera states, i.e. long life classical states for which a part of an oscillator chain presents an ordered dynamics whereas another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 David Viennot , Lucile Aubourg

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

Preserving quantum coherence with the increase of a system's size and complexity is a major challenge. Molecules, with their diverse sizes and complexities and many degrees of freedom, are an excellent platform for studying the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Tamar Levin , Ziv Meir

Quantum synchronization has been a subject of intensive research in the last decade. In this work, we propose a quantum Li\'enard system whose classical equivalent features two limit cycles to one of which the system will converge. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Tobias Kehrer , Christoph Bruder , Parvinder Solanki

Chimera states have attracted significant attention as symmetry-broken states exhibiting the unexpected coexistence of coherence and incoherence. Despite the valuable insights gained from analyzing specific systems, an understanding of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-03-10 Yuanzhao Zhang , Adilson E. Motter

A "chimera state" is a dynamical pattern that occurs in a network of coupled identical oscillators when the symmetry of the oscillator population is broken into synchronous and asynchronous parts. We report the experimental observation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joseph D. Hart , Kanika Bansal , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

Controlling non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is an outstanding challenge as interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout Hilbert space. We experimentally investigate non-equilibrium…

Chimera states in systems of nonlocally coupled oscillators, i.e., self-organized coexistence of coherent and incoherent oscillator populations, have attracted much attention. In this study, we consider the effect of frequency…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-02-06 Petar Mircheski , Hiroya Nakao

Recently, several studies have investigated synchronization in quantum-mechanical limit-cycle oscillators. However, the quantum nature of these systems remained partially hidden, since the dynamics of the oscillator's phase was overdamped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Talitha Weiss , Stefan Walter , Florian Marquardt