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The protocol of quantum reading refers to the quantum enhanced retrieval of information from an optical memory, whose generic cell stores a bit of information in two possible lossy channels. In the following we analyze the case of a…

Nanostructures defined in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems offer a unique way of controlling the microscopic details of the investigated device. Quantum point contacts play a key role in these investigations, since they are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 Clemens Rössler , Tobias Krähenmann , Stephan Baer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider

We investigate the process of quantum measurements on scattered probes. Before scattering, the probes are independent, but they become entangled afterwards, due to the interaction with the scatterer. The collection of measurement results…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Marco Merkli , Mark Penney

We study the interaction between two adjacent but electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPCs). At high enough source-drain bias on one QPC, the drive QPC, we detect a finite electric current in the second, unbiased, detector QPC.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-03 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

Quantum measurements of physical quantities are usually described as ideal measurements. However, only a few measurements fulfil the conditions of ideal measurements. The aim of the present work is to describe real position measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Klaus Wick

We derive an analytical description for the quantum state preparation using systems of on-off detectors. Our method will apply the true click statistics of such detector systems. In particular, we consider heralded quantum state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Sperling , W. Vogel , G. S. Agarwal

Destructive interference of single-electron tunneling between three quantum dots can trap an electron in a coherent superposition of charge on two of the dots. Coupling to external charges causes decoherence of this superposition, and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 C. W. Groth , B. Michaelis , C. W. J. Beenakker

If a quantum computer is stabilized by fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC), then most of its resources (qubits and operations) are dedicated to the extraction of error information. Analysis of this process leads to a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Steane

The content of phase information of an arbitrary phase--sensitive measurement is evaluated using the maximum likelihood estimation. The phase distribution is characterized by the relative entropy--a nonlinear functional of input quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Zdeněk Hradil , Robert Myška , Tomáš Opatrný , Jiří Bajer

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) serves as a building block of many different quantum algorithms and finds important applications in computational chemistry problems. Despite the rapid development of quantum hardware, experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Kentaro Yamamoto , Samuel Duffield , Yuta Kikuchi , David Muñoz Ramo

A quantum dot is a sub-micron-scale conducting device containing up to several thousand electrons. Transport through a quantum dot at low temperatures is a quantum-coherent process. This review focuses on dots in which the electron's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Alhassid

We theoretically study the effect of quantum statistics of the light field on the quantum enhancement of parameter estimation based on cat state input the SU(1,1) interferometer. The phase sensitivity is dependent on the relative phase…

Quantum phase is not a direct observable and is usually determined by interferometric methods. We present a method to map complete electron wave functions, including internal quantum phase information, from measured single-state probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 Christopher R. Moon , Laila S. Mattos , Brian K. Foster , Gabriel Zeltzer , Wonhee Ko , Hari C. Manoharan

We propose an entanglement concentration scheme which uses only the effects of quantum statistics of indistinguishable particles. This establishes the fact that useful quantum information processing can be accomplished by quantum statistics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Paunkovic , Y. Omar , S. Bose , V. Vedral

The quantum fisher information and quantum correlation parameters are employed to study the application of non-classical light to the problem of parameter estimation. It is shown that the optimal measurement sensitivity of a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Jaspreet Sahota , Nicolás Quesada

Quantum communication devices, such as quantum repeaters, quantum memories, or quantum channels, are unavoidably exposed to imperfections. However, the presence of imperfections can be tolerated, as long as we can verify such devices retain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-26 Nathan Killoran , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We consider a quantum dot system whose charge fluctuations are monitored by a quantum point contact allowing for the detection of both charge and transferred heat statistics. Our system consists of two nearby conductors that exchange energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Rafael Sánchez , Markus Büttiker

Recent advances in the fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and their evolution into nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have allowed researchers to measure extremely small forces, masses, and displacements. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-02 M. Poggio , M. P. Jura , C. L. Degen , M. A. Topinka , H. J. Mamin , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , D. Rugar

We propose a dynamical scheme for measuring the full counting statistics in a mesoscopic conductor using an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The conductor couples capacitively to one arm of the interferometer and causes a phase shift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt

Entanglement detection is a fundamental task in quantum information science, serving as a cornerstone for quantum benchmarking and foundational studies. With an increasing qubit number that can be effectively controlled, there is a pressing…