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Publications (39)

quant-ph2023

Two-photon-interaction effects in the bad-cavity limit

Nicolò Piccione, Simone Felicetti, Bruno Bellomo

Various experimental platforms have proven to be valid testbeds for the implementation of nondipolar light-matter interactions, where atomic systems and confined modes interact via…

quant-ph2025

Critical quantum metrology in a stabilized two-photon Rabi model

Zu-Jian Ying, Hang-Hang Han, Bo-Jian Li +2

We investigate a generalized quantum Rabi model (QRM) with two- and four-photon terms with respect to applications for non-linear critical quantum metrology. In the introduced mode…

quant-ph2025

Collective Enhancement of Photon Blockade via Two-Photon Interactions

Lijuan Dong, Aanal Jayesh Shah, Peter Kirton +2

Analogous to Coulomb blockade for electrons, photon blockade is a key quantum optical effect in which the presence of one photon prevents the transmission of subsequent ones throug…

quant-ph2016

Entanglement Detection with Single Hong-Ou-Mandel Interferometry

Chang Jian Kwong, Simone Felicetti, Leong Chuan Kwek +1

Entanglement is not only fundamental for understanding multipartite quantum systems but also generally useful for quantum information applications. Despite much effort devoted so f…

quant-ph2023

Waveguide QED with Quadratic Light-Matter Interactions

Uesli Alushi, Tomás Ramos, Juan José García-Ripoll +2

Quadratic light-matter interactions are nonlinear couplings such that quantum emitters interact with photonic or phononic modes exclusively via the exchange of excitation pairs. Im…

quant-ph2017

Entanglement of superconducting qubits via acceleration radiation

Laura García-Álvarez, Simone Felicetti, Enrique Rico +2

We show that simulated relativistic motion can generate entanglement between artificial atoms and protect them from spontaneous emission. We consider a pair of superconducting qubi…

quant-ph2022

Non-Gaussian superradiant transition via three-body ultrastrong coupling

Fabrizio Minganti, Louis Garbe, Alexandre Le Boité +1

We introduce a class of quantum optical Hamiltonian characterized by three-body couplings, and propose a circuit-QED scheme based on state-of-the-art technology that implements the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Photoprotecting uracil by coupling with lossy nanocavities

Simone Felicetti, Jacopo Fregoni, Thomas Schnappinger +3

We analyze how the photorelaxation dynamics of a molecule can be controlled by modifying its electromagnetic environment using a nanocavity mode. In particular, we consider the pho…

quant-ph2025

Collective quantum enhancement in critical quantum sensing

Uesli Alushi, Alessandro Coppo, Valentina Brosco +2

Critical systems represent a valuable resource in quantum sensing and metrology. Critical quantum sensing (CQS) protocols can be realized using finite-component phase transitions,…

quant-ph2019

Dissipation-induced bistability in the two-photon Dicke model

Louis Garbe, Peregrine Wade, Fabrizio Minganti +3

The Dicke model is a paradigmatic quantum-optical model describing the interaction of a collection of two-level systems with a single bosonic mode. Effective implementations of thi…

quant-ph2026

Hybrid Analog Teleportation-Direct Transmission in Noisy Bosonic Channels

Uesli Alushi, Simone Felicetti, Roberto Di Candia

Quantum teleportation uses a shared entangled resource, local operations, and a digitally error-corrected classical channel to transfer quantum states between distant parties. We i…

quant-ph2025

Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing with a Parametric Superconducting Resonator

Guillaume Beaulieu, Fabrizio Minganti, Simone Frasca +4

Quantum metrology, a cornerstone of quantum technologies, exploits entanglement and superposition to achieve higher precision than classical protocols in parameter estimation tasks…

quant-ph2018

Demonstration of an effective ultrastrong coupling between two oscillators

Danijela Marković, Sébastien Jezouin, Quentin Ficheux +6

When the coupling rate between two quantum systems becomes as large as their characteristic frequencies, it induces dramatic effects on their dynamics and even on the nature of the…

quant-ph2024

Optimality and Noise-Resilience of Critical Quantum Sensing

Uesli Alushi, Wojciech Górecki, Simone Felicetti +1

We compare critical quantum sensing to passive quantum strategies to perform frequency estimation, in the case of single-mode quadratic Hamiltonians. We show that, while in the uni…

quant-ph2019

Critical Quantum metrology with a finite-component quantum phase transition

Louis Garbe, Matteo Bina, Arne Keller +2

Physical systems close to a quantum phase transition exhibit a divergent susceptibility, suggesting that an arbitrarily-high precision may be achieved by exploiting quantum critica…

quant-ph2018

Ultrastrong coupling regime of non-dipolar light-matter interactions

Simone Felicetti, Myung-Joong Hwang, Alexandre Le Boité

We present a circuit-QED scheme which allows to reach the ultrastrong coupling regime of a nondipolar interaction between a single qubit and a quantum resonator. We show that the s…

quant-ph2023

Observation of first- and second-order dissipative phase transitions in a two-photon driven Kerr resonator

Guillaume Beaulieu, Fabrizio Minganti, Simone Frasca +4

In open quantum systems, first- and second-order dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) can emerge in the thermodynamic limit from the competition between unitary evolution, driving…

quant-ph2016

Generalized spin squeezing inequalities for particles number with quantum fluctuations

Ibrahim Saideh, Simone Felicetti, Thomas Coudreau +2

Particle number fluctuations, no matter how small, are present in experimental set-ups. One should rigorously take these fluctuations into account, especially, for entanglement det…

quant-ph2011

Testing sequential quantum measurements: how can maximal knowledge be extracted?

Eleonora Nagali, Simone Felicetti, Pierre-Louis de Assis +3

The extraction of information from a quantum system unavoidably implies a modification of the measured system itself. It has been demonstrated recently that partial measurements ca…

quant-ph2019

Classification of Dark States in Multi-level Dissipative Systems

Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Simone Felicetti, Thorsten Hansen +2

Dark states are eigenstates or steady-states of a system that are decoupled from the radiation. Their use, along with associated techniques such as Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passa…

quant-ph2016

Quantum Rabi model in the Brillouin zone with ultracold atoms

Simone Felicetti, Enrique Rico, Carlos Sabin +6

The quantum Rabi model describes the interaction between a two-level quantum system and a single bosonic mode. We propose a method to perform a quantum simulation of the quantum Ra…

quant-ph2026

Dynamical entanglement percolation with spatially correlated disorder

Lorenzo Cirigliano, Valentina Brosco, Claudio Castellano +3

The distribution of entanglement between the nodes of a quantum network plays a fundamental role in quantum information applications. In this work, we investigate the dynamics of a…

quant-ph2026

Nonlocal Quantum Phase Transitions

Alessandro Coppo, Aanal Jayesh Shah, Hadiseh Alaeian +3

Phase transitions are paradigmatic examples of emergent phenomena, in which symmetries present at the microscopic level can be spontaneously broken in the thermodynamic limit. Two…

quant-ph2025

Generation of frequency entanglement with an effective quantum dot-waveguide two-photon quadratic interaction

Mohamed Meguebel, Maxime Federico, Simone Felicetti +2

Light-matter interactions with quantum dots have been extensively studied to harness key quantum properties of photons, such as indistinguishability and entanglement. In this theor…

quant-ph2021

Parameter estimation of time and frequency shifts with generalized HOM interferometry

Nicolas Fabre, Simone Felicetti

Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry takes advantage of the quantum nature of two-photon interference to increase the resolution of precision measurements of time-delays. Relying on few-p…

quant-ph2025

Nonlinearity-driven Topology via Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Alessandro Coppo, Alexandre Le Boité, Simone Felicetti +1

Topology and nonlinearity are deeply connected. However, whether topological effects can arise solely from the structure of nonlinear interaction terms, and the nature of the resul…

quant-ph2019

Observing the Spectral Collapse of Two-Photon Interaction Models

Simone Felicetti, Alexandre Le Boité

Until very recently, two-photon interaction processes have been considered only as arising from second- or higher-order effects in driven systems, and so limited to extremely small…

quant-ph2019

Metrological advantage at finite temperature for Gaussian phase estimation

Louis Garbe, Simone Felicetti, Perola Milman +2

In the context of phase estimation with Gaussian states, we introduce a quantifiable definition of metrological advantage that takes into account thermal noise in the preparation p…

quant-ph2022

First design of a superconducting qubit for the QUB-IT experiment

Danilo Labranca, Hervè Atsè Corti, Leonardo Banchi +5

Quantum sensing is a rapidly growing field of research which is already improving sensitivity in fundamental physics experiments. The ability to control quantum devices to measure…

quant-ph2024

Dissipative Phase Transition in the Two-Photon Dicke Model

Aanal Jayesh Shah, Peter Kirton, Simone Felicetti +1

We explore the dissipative phase transition of the two-photon Dicke model, a topic that has garnered significant attention recently. Our analysis reveals that while single-photon l…

quant-ph2022

Exponential precision by reaching a quantum critical point

Louis Garbe, Obinna Abah, Simone Felicetti +1

Quantum metrology shows that by exploiting nonclassical resources it is possible to overcome the fundamental limit of precision found for classical parameter-estimation protocols.…

quant-ph2022

Critical Quantum Metrology in the Non-Linear Quantum Rabi Model

Zu-Jian Ying, Simone Felicetti, Gang Liu +1

The quantum Rabi model (QRM) with linear coupling between light mode and qubit exhibits the analog of a second order phase transition for vanishing mode frequency which allows for…

quant-ph2026

Analog Quantum Teleportation

Uesli Alushi, Simone Felicetti, Roberto Di Candia

Digital teleportation protocols make use of entanglement, local measurements and a classical communication channel to transfer quantum states between remote parties. We consider an…

quant-ph2021

Dispersive qubit readout with machine learning

Enrico Rinaldi, Roberto Di Candia, Simone Felicetti +1

Open quantum systems can undergo dissipative phase transitions, and their critical behavior can be exploited in sensing applications. For example, it can be used to enhance the fid…

quant-ph2025

Critical Quantum Sensing: a tutorial on parameter estimation near quantum phase transitions

George Mihailescu, Uesli Alushi, Roberto Di Candia +2

Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmen…

quant-ph2019

Universal spectral features of ultrastrongly coupled systems

Simone Felicetti, Alexandre Le Boité

We identify universal properties of the low-energy subspace of a wide class of quantum optical models in the ultrastrong coupling limit, where the coupling strength dominates over…

quant-ph2025

Time correlations from steady-state expectation values

Wojciech Górecki, Simone Felicetti, Lorenzo Maccone +1

Recovering properties of correlation functions is typically challenging. On one hand, experimentally, it requires measurements with a temporal resolution finer than the system's dy…

quant-ph2025

Interplay between time and energy in bosonic noisy quantum metrology

Wojciech Górecki, Francesco Albarelli, Simone Felicetti +2

Quantum entanglement and coherence often allow for protocols that outperform classical ones in estimating a system's parameter. When using infinite-dimensional probes (such as a bo…

quant-ph2024

Critical Quantum Metrology with Fully-Connected Models: From Heisenberg to Kibble-Zurek Scaling

Louis Garbe, Obinna Abah, Simone Felicetti +1

Phase transitions represent a compelling tool for classical and quantum sensing applications. It has been demonstrated that quantum sensors can in principle saturate the Heisenberg…