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Publications (60)

quant-ph2019

Coherence as a measure for non-Markovianity and its applications to color centers in diamond

Ariel Norambuena, Jerónimo R. Maze, Peter Rabl +1

The degree of non-Markovianity of a continuous bath can be quantified by means of the coherence. This simple measure is experimentally accessible through Ramsey spectroscopy, but i…

quant-ph2020

Emergence of PT-symmetry breaking in open quantum systems

Julian Huber, Peter Kirton, Stefan Rotter +1

The effect of PT-symmetry breaking in coupled systems with balanced gain and loss has recently attracted considerable attention and has been demonstrated in various photonic, elect…

quant-ph2011

The photon blockade effect in optomechanical systems

Peter Rabl

We analyze the photon statistics of a weakly driven optomechanical system and discuss the effect of photon blockade under single photon strong coupling conditions. We present an in…

quant-ph2014

Implementation of the Dicke lattice model in hybrid quantum system arrays

Liujun Zou, David Marcos, Sebastian Diehl +4

Generalized Dicke models can be implemented in hybrid quantum systems built from ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond coupled to superconducting microwave cavities…

physics.optics2016

Dynamically encircling exceptional points in a waveguide: asymmetric mode switching from the breakdown of adiabaticity

Jörg Doppler, Alexei A. Mailybaev, Julian Böhm +7

Physical systems with loss or gain feature resonant modes that are decaying or growing exponentially with time. Whenever two such modes coalesce both in their resonant frequency an…

quant-ph2025

Dynamical cluster-based strategy for improving tensor network algorithms in quantum circuit simulations

Andrea De Girolamo, Paolo Facchi, Peter Rabl +3

We optimize matrix-product state-based algorithms for simulating quantum circuits with finite fidelity, specifically the time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) and the density-matri…

quant-ph2023

Entangling microwaves with optical light

Rishabh Sahu, Liu Qiu, William Hease +4

Entanglement is a genuine quantum mechanical property and the key resource in currently developed quantum technologies. Sharing this fragile property between superconducting microw…

quant-ph2021

The Vacua of Dipolar Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Michael Schuler, Daniele De Bernardis, Andreas M. Läuchli +1

The structure of solids and their phases is mainly determined by static Coulomb forces while the coupling of charges to the dynamical, i.e., quantized degrees of freedom of the ele…

quant-ph2016

Hybrid quantum device with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond coupled to carbon nanotubes

Peng-Bo Li, Ze-Liang Xiang, Peter Rabl +1

We show that nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond interfaced with a suspended carbon nanotube carrying a dc current can facilitate a spin-nanomechanical hybrid device. We demon…

quant-ph2026

Robust Superradiance and Spontaneous Spin Ordering in Disordered Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Xin H. H. Zhang, Daniel Malz, Peter Rabl

We study the collective emission of a disordered array of excited two-level atoms into a one-dimensional photonic waveguide. In the perfectly ordered case, where atoms are spac…

quant-ph2021

Light-matter interactions in synthetic magnetic fields: Landau-photon polaritons

Daniele De Bernardis, Ze-Pei Cian, Iacopo Carusotto +2

We study light-matter interactions in two dimensional photonic systems in the presence of a spatially homogeneous synthetic magnetic field for light. Specifically, we consider one…

quant-ph2025

Boundary-induced Phases in the Dissipative Dicke Lattice Model

Peng-Fei Wei, Yilun Xu, Fengxiao Sun +3

The superradiant phase transition in the dissipative Dicke lattice model, driven by on-site collective atom-photon interactions and inter-site photon hopping, is a cornerstone of n…

quant-ph2026

Theory of Multi-photon Processes for Applications in Quantum Control

Longxiang Huang, Jacquelin Luneau, Johannes Schirk +5

We present a general theoretical framework for evaluating multi-photon processes in periodically driven quantum systems, which have been identified as a versatile tool for engineer…

quant-ph2022

Can we observe non-perturbative vacuum shifts in cavity QED?

Rocío Sáez-Blázquez, Daniele de Bernardis, Johannes Feist +1

We address the fundamental question whether or not it is possible to achieve conditions under which the coupling of a single dipole to a strongly confined electromagnetic vacuum ca…

quant-ph2022

Long-distance distribution of qubit-qubit entanglement using Gaussian-correlated photonic beams

Joan Agustí, Yuri Minoguchi, Johannes M. Fink +1

We investigate the deterministic generation and distribution of entanglement in large quantum networks by driving distant qubits with the output fields of a non-degenerate parametr…

quant-ph2008

Theory of cavity-assisted microwave cooling of polar molecules

Margareta Wallquist, Peter Rabl, Mikhail D. Lukin +1

We analyze cavity-assisted cooling schemes for polar molecules in the microwave domain, where molecules are excited on a rotational transition and energy is dissipated via strong i…

quant-ph2022

Realistic simulations of spin squeezing and cooperative coupling effects in large ensembles of interacting two-level systems

Julian Huber, Ana Maria Rey, Peter Rabl

We describe an efficient numerical method for simulating the dynamics of interacting spin ensembles in the presence of dephasing and decay. The method builds on the discrete trunca…

quant-ph2020

Non-equilibrium magnetic phases in spin lattices with gain and loss

Julian Huber, Peter Kirton, Peter Rabl

We study the magnetic phases of a non-equilibrium spin chain, where coherent interactions between neighboring lattice sites compete with alternating gain and loss processes. This c…

quant-ph2026

Enabling Deterministic Passive Quantum State Transfer with Giant Atoms

Oliver Diekmann, Enrico Di Benedetto, Nicolas Jungwirth +7

Achieving quantum state transfer in passive ways can become a powerful asset for scalable quantum networks. Here, we demonstrate how giant atoms coupled to 1D waveguides provide a…

quant-ph2018

Breakdown of gauge invariance in ultrastrong-coupling cavity QED

Daniele De Bernardis, Philipp Pilar, Tuomas Jaako +2

We revisit the derivation of Rabi- and Dicke-type models, which are commonly used for the study of quantum light-matter interactions in cavity and circuit QED. We demonstrate that…

quant-ph2026

Driven two-level systems as a minimal resource for remote entanglement stabilization

Philippe Gigon, Adrian Parra-Rodriguez, Joan Agustí +1

We analyze the autonomous stabilization of remote entanglement by driving two distant qubits with the output of a correlated photon source. By treating the qubits as idealized enta…

quant-ph2025

Unraveling superradiance: Entanglement and mutual information in collective decay

Xin H. H. Zhang, Daniel Malz, Peter Rabl

We study the collective decay of an initially inverted ensemble of two-level emitters in two distinct scenarios: when coupled to a squeezed photonic reservoir and when interacting…

quant-ph2023

Universal time-dependent control scheme for realizing arbitrary linear bosonic transformations

Ze-Liang Xiang, Diego González Olivares, Juan José García-Ripoll +1

We study the implementation of arbitrary excitation-conserving linear transformations between two sets of stationary bosonic modes, which are connected through a photonic quant…

quant-ph2020

Thermodynamics of ultrastrongly coupled light-matter systems

Philipp Pilar, Daniele De Bernardis, Peter Rabl

We study the thermodynamic properties of a system of two-level dipoles that are coupled ultrastrongly to a single cavity mode. By using exact numerical and approximate analytical m…

quant-ph2015

Contextuality in phase space

Ali Asadian, Costantino Budroni, Frank E. S. Steinhoff +2

We present a general framework for contextuality tests in phase space using displacement operators. First, we derive a general condition that a single-mode displacement operator sh…

quant-ph2009

Hybrid quantum devices and quantum engineering

Margareta Wallquist, Klemens Hammerer, Peter Rabl +2

We discuss prospects of building hybrid quantum devices involving elements of atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics and solid state elements with the attempt to combine adva…

quant-ph2014

Non-classicality tests and entanglement witnesses for macroscopic mechanical superposition states

Oleg Gittsovich, Tobias Moroder, Ali Asadian +2

We describe a set of measurement protocols for performing non-classicality tests and the verification of entangled superposition states of macroscopic continuous variable systems,…

quant-ph2025

Mapping of a many-qubit state onto an oscillator using controlled displacements

Anders J. E. Bjerrum, Ulrik L. Andersen, Peter Rabl

We extend the controlled displacement interaction between a qubit and a harmonic oscillator to the multi-qubit (qudit) case. We define discrete quadratures of the qudit and show ho…

quant-ph2025

Refrigeration of a 1D gas of microwave photons

Lukas Schamriß, Lukas Schamriß, Louis Garbe +1

We discuss a conceptually simple scheme for cooling a one dimensional gas of microwave photons in a superconducting transmission line. By shunting one end of the transmission line…

quant-ph2015

Hybrid Mechanical Systems

Philipp Treutlein, Claudiu Genes, Klemens Hammerer +2

We discuss hybrid systems in which a mechanical oscillator is coupled to another (microscopic) quantum system, such as trapped atoms or ions, solid-state spin qubits, or supercondu…

quant-ph2023

Chiral quantum optics in the bulk of photonic quantum Hall systems

Daniele De Bernardis, Francesco Piccioli, Peter Rabl +1

We study light-matter interactions in the bulk of a two-dimensional photonic lattice system, where photons are subject to the combined effect of a synthetic magnetic field and an o…

quant-ph2015

Hybrid quantum device based on NV centers in diamond nanomechanical resonators plus superconducting waveguide cavities

Peng-Bo Li, Yong-Chun Liu, S. -Y. Gao +4

We propose and analyze a hybrid device by integrating a microscale diamond beam with a single built-in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin to a superconducting coplanar waveguide (CP…

quant-ph2016

Ultrastrong coupling phenomena beyond the Dicke model

Tuomas Jaako, Ze-Liang Xiang, Juan José Garcia-Ripoll +1

We study effective light-matter interactions in a circuit QED system consisting of a single resonator, which is coupled symmetrically to multiple superconducting qubits. Start…

quant-ph2016

Atom-field dressed states in slow-light waveguide QED

Giuseppe Calajo, Francesco Ciccarello, Darrick Chang +1

We discuss the properties of atom-photon bound states in waveguide QED systems consisting of single or multiple atoms coupled strongly to a finite-bandwidth photonic channel. Such…

quant-ph2022

Universal deterministic quantum operations in microwave quantum links

Guillermo F. Peñas, Ricardo Puebla, Tomás Ramos +2

We propose a realistic setup, inspired by already existing experiments, within which we develop a general formalism for the implementation of distributed quantum gates. Mediated by…

quant-ph2020

Quantum Simulation of Non-perturbative Cavity QED with Trapped Ions

Tuomas Jaako, Juan José Garcia-Ripoll, Peter Rabl

We discuss the simulation of non-perturbative cavity-QED effects using systems of trapped ions. Specifically, we address the implementation of extended Dicke models with both colle…

quant-ph2018

Dissipative Phase Transition in the Open Quantum Rabi Model

Myung-Joong Hwang, Peter Rabl, Martin B. Plenio

We demonstrate that the open quantum Rabi model (QRM) exhibits a second-order dissipative phase transition (DPT) and propose a method to observe this transition with trapped ions.…

quant-ph2005

Quantum limited velocity readout and quantum feedback cooling of a trapped ion via electromagnetically induced transparency

Peter Rabl, Viktor Steixner, Peter Zoller

We discuss continuous observation of the momentum of a single atom by employing the high velocity sensitivity of the index of refraction in a driven -system based on electromag…

quant-ph2012

Optomechanically induced non-reciprocity in microring resonators

Mohammad Hafezi, Peter Rabl

We describe a new approach for on-chip optical non-reciprocity which makes use of strong optomechanical interaction in microring resonators. By optically pumping the ring resonator…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Electric-Field Noise above a Thin Dielectric Layer on Metal Electrodes

Muir Kumph, Carsten Henkel, Peter Rabl +2

The electric-field noise above a layered structure composed of a planar metal electrode covered by a thin dielectric is evaluated and it is found that the dielectric film considera…

quant-ph2019

Quantum state transfer via acoustic edge states in a 2D optomechanical array

Marc-Antoine Lemonde, Vittorio Peano, Peter Rabl +1

We propose a novel hybrid platform where solid-state spin qubits are coupled to the acoustic modes of a two-dimensional array of optomechanical nano cavities. Previous studies of c…

quant-ph2025

Nonreciprocity in Quantum Technology

Shabir Barzanjeh, André Xuereb, Andrea Alù +4

Nonreciprocity-the ability to transmit signals in one direction while blocking them in the reverse-has become a powerful resource in quantum technologies, enabling directional ampl…

quant-ph2018

Cavity quantum electrodynamics in the non-perturbative regime

Daniele De Bernardis, Tuomas Jaako, Peter Rabl

We study a generic cavity-QED system where a set of (artificial) two-level dipoles is coupled to the electric field of a single-mode LC resonator. This setup is used to derive a mi…

quant-ph2026

Quantum optical impurity models in interacting waveguide QED

Adrian Paul Misselwitz, Jacquelin Luneau, Peter Rabl

We consider a generic model for interacting waveguide QED systems, where photons in a coupled-cavity array localize around atomic impurities while simultaneously interacting throug…

quant-ph2017

Harvesting Multiqubit Entanglement from Ultrastrong Interactions in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Federico Armata, Giuseppe Calajo, Tuomas Jaako +2

We analyze a multiqubit circuit QED system in the regime where the qubit-photon coupling dominates over the system's bare energy scales. Under such conditions a manifold of low-ene…

quant-ph2024

Autonomous Distribution of Programmable Multiqubit Entanglement in a Dual-Rail Quantum Network

Joan Agustí, Xin H. H. Zhang, Yuri Minoguchi +1

We propose and analyze a scalable and fully autonomous scheme for preparing spatially distributed multiqubit entangled states in a dual-rail waveguide QED setup. In this approach,…

quant-ph2021

Phase-Space Methods for Simulating the Dissipative Many-Body Dynamics of Collective Spin Systems

Julian Huber, Peter Kirton, Peter Rabl

We describe an efficient numerical method for simulating the dynamics and steady states of collective spin systems in the presence of dephasing and decay. The method is based on th…

quant-ph2025

All-mechanical coherence protection and fast control of a spin qubit

Eliza Cornell, Zhujing Xu, Zhaoyou Wang +9

In a phononic quantum network, quantum information is stored and processed within stationary nodes defined by solid-state spins, and the information is routed between nodes by phon…

quant-ph2019

Active energy transport and the role of symmetry breaking in microscopic power grid

Julian Huber, Peter Rabl

We study the transfer of energy through a network of coupled oscillators, which represents a minimalmicroscopic power grid connecting multiple active quantum machines. We evaluate…

quant-ph2015

General description of quasi-adiabatic dynamical phenomena near exceptional points

Thomas J. Milburn, Jörg Doppler, Catherine A. Holmes +3

The appearance of so-called exceptional points in the complex spectra of non-Hermitian systems is often associated with phenomena that contradict our physical intuition. One exampl…

quant-ph2005

Feedback cooling of a single trapped ion

Pavel Bushev, Daniel Rotter, Alex Wilson +7

Based on a real-time measurement of the motion of a single ion in a Paul trap, we demonstrate its electro-mechanical cooling below the Doppler limit by homodyne feedback control (c…

quant-ph2017

Strong coupling between moving atoms and slow-light Cherenkov photons

Giuseppe Calajo, Peter Rabl

We describe the coupling of moving atoms to a one dimensional photonic waveguide in the regime where the atomic velocities are comparable to the effective speed of light. Such cond…

quant-ph2016

PT-symmetry breaking in the steady state of microscopic gain-loss systems

Kosmas V. Kepesidis, Thomas J. Milburn, Julian Huber +3

The phenomenon of PT (parity- and time-reversal) symmetry breaking is conventionally associated with a change in the complex mode spectrum of a non-Hermitian system that marks a tr…

quant-ph2026

Non-Markovian thermal reservoirs for autonomous entanglement distribution

Joan Agustí, Christian M. F. Schneider, Kirill G. Fedorov +2

We describe a novel scheme for the generation of stationary entanglement between two separated qubits that are driven by a purely thermal photon source. While in this scenario the…

quant-ph2024

The bosonic skin effect: boundary condensation in asymmetric transport

Louis Garbe, Yuri Minoguchi, Julian Huber +1

We study the incoherent transport of bosonic particles through a one dimensional lattice with different left and right hopping rates, as modelled by the asymmetric simple inclusion…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Electrostatics-induced breakdown of the integer quantum Hall effect in cavity QED

Gian Marcello Andolina, Zeno Bacciconi, Alberto Nardin +4

We address the prevailing theoretical explanation of the recently observed breakdown of the integer quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas embedded in a metallic spl…

quant-ph2020

Super-correlated radiance in nonlinear photonic waveguides

Zhihai Wang, Tuomas Jaako, Peter Kirton +1

We study the collective decay of two-level emitters coupled to a nonlinear waveguide, for example, a nanophotonic lattice or a superconducting resonator array with strong photon-ph…

quant-ph2021

Quantum computing with superconducting circuits in the picosecond regime

Daoquan Zhu, Tuomas Jaako, Qiongyi He +1

We discuss the realization of a universal set of ultrafast single- and two-qubit operations with superconducting quantum circuits and investigate the most relevant physical and tec…

quant-ph2026

Excitable quantum systems: the bosonic avalanche laser

Louis Garbe, Peter Rabl

We investigate the dynamics of a lasing system driven by a current of bosonic (quasi-)particles via a dissipative three-mode mixing process. A semi-classical analysis of this syste…

quant-ph2017

Intracity quantum communication via thermal microwave networks

Ze-Liang Xiang, Mengzhen Zhang, Liang Jiang +1

Communication over proven-secure quantum channels is potentially one of the most wide-ranging applications of currently developed quantum technologies. It is generally envisioned t…