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Interfacing quantum mechanics and gravity is one of the great open questions in natural science. Micromechanical oscillators have been suggested as a plausible platform to carry out these experiments. We present an experimental design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Yulong Liu , Jay Mummery , Mika A. Sillanpää

This paper presents a hybrid classical-quantum program for density estimation and supervised classification. The program is implemented as a quantum circuit in a high-dimensional quantum computer simulator. We show that the proposed quantum…

Due to their exceptional isolation from the environment, magnetically levitated particles are explored as extremely sensitive mechanical sensors. For future gravity experiments on quantum superpositions, such systems need to be cooled close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Dennis G. Uitenbroek , Jurriaan Langendorff , Tjerk H. Oosterkamp

Quantum metrology promises high-precision measurements of classical parameters with far reaching implications for science and technology. So far, research has concentrated almost exclusively on quantum-enhancements in integrable systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Lukas J. Fiderer , Daniel Braun

Gravitational information is incorporated into an atomic state by correlation of the internal and external degrees of freedom of the atom, in the present study of the atomic interferometer. Thus it is difficult to transfer information by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Baocheng Zhang , Qing-yu Cai , Ming-sheng Zhan

The Quantum Fourier Transformation ($QFT$) is a key building block for a whole wealth of quantum algorithms. Despite its proven efficiency, only a few proof-of-principle demonstrations have been reported. Here we utilize $QFT$ to enhance…

Recent progresses have revealed that quantum systems with multiple position-dependent couplings, e.g., giant atoms, can exhibit some unconventional phenomena, such as non-exponential decay etc. However, their potential applications are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Yu Ting Zhu , Rebing Wu , Zhihui Peng , Shibei Xue

Quantum metrology research promises approaches to build new sensors that achieve the ultimate level of precision measurement and perform fundamentally better than modern sensors. Practical schemes that tolerate realistic fabrication…

Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 George Mihailescu , Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Karol Gietka

Quantum mechanics is usually formulated with an implicit assumption that agents who can observe and interact with the world are external to it and have a classical memory. However, there is no accepted way to define the quantum-classical…

Manipulating the motions of macroscopic objects near their quantum mechanical uncertainties has been desired in diverse fields, including fundamental physics, sensing, and transducers. Despite significant progresses in ground-state cooling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 M. Kamba , N. Hara , K. Aikawa

Preparing and observing quantum states of nanoscale particles is a challenging task with great relevance for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. In contrast to atomic systems with discrete transitions, nanoparticles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Lukas Martinetz , Klaus Hornberger , James Millen , M. S. Kim , Benjamin A. Stickler

Motivated by the expectation that relativistic symmetries might acquire quantum features in Quantum Gravity, we take the first steps towards a theory of ''Doubly'' Quantum Mechanics, a modification of Quantum Mechanics in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vittorio D'Esposito , Giuseppe Fabiano , Domenico Frattulillo , Flavio Mercati

Quantum sensing utilizes quantum systems as sensors to capture weak signal, and provides new opportunities in nowadays science and technology. The strongest adversary in quantum sensing is decoherence due to the coupling between the sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yijin Xie , Jianpei Geng , Huiyao Yu , Xing Rong , Ya Wang , Jiangfeng Du

The resources required to characterise the dynamics of engineered quantum systems-such as quantum computers and quantum sensors-grow exponentially with system size. Here we adapt techniques from compressive sensing to exponentially reduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 A. Shabani , R. L. Kosut , M. Mohseni , H. Rabitz , M. A. Broome , M. P. Almeida , A. Fedrizzi , A. G. White

We utilise a magneto-mechanical levitated massive resonator in the quantum regime to prepare highly macroscopic quantum superposition states. Using these macroscopic superpositions we present a novel interferometry protocol to perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Mattias T. Johnsson , Gavin K. Brennen , Jason Twamley

Quantum resources can enhance the sensitivity of a device beyond the classical shot noise limit and, as a result, revolutionize the field of metrology through the development of quantum-enhanced sensors. In particular, plasmonic sensors,…

Quantum sensors have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts. For classical sensing, the uncertainty of the estimation of the target fields scales inversely with the square root of the measurement time T. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Simon Benjamin , Shojun Nakayama , Shiro Saito , William J. Munro

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

Quantum physics enables parameter estimation with precisions beyond the capability of classical sensors. Quantum criticality is a key resource for this quantum-enhanced sensing, but experimental realization has been challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Lei Xiao , Saubhik Sarkar , Kunkun Wang , Abolfazl Bayat , Peng Xue
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