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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Local and nonlocal stochastic control of quantum chaos: Measurement- and control-induced criticality

Haining Pan, Sriram Ganeshan, Thomas Iadecola +2

We theoretically study the topology of the phase diagram of a family of quantum models inspired by the classical Bernoulli map under stochastic control. The quantum models inherit…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Contact interactions, self-adjoint extensions, and low-energy scattering

Daniel R. DeSena, Brian C. Tiburzi

Low-energy scattering is well described by the effective-range expansion. In quantum mechanics, a tower of contact interactions can generate terms in this expansion after renormali…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

On the approximability of random-hypergraph MAX-3-XORSAT problems with quantum algorithms

Eliot Kapit, Brandon A. Barton, Sean Feeney +5

A canonical feature of the constraint satisfaction problems in NP is approximation hardness, where in the worst case, finding sufficient-quality approximate solutions is exponentia…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Simulating polaritonic ground states on noisy quantum devices

Mohammad Hassan, Fabijan Pavošević, Derek S. Wang +1

The recent advent of quantum algorithms for noisy quantum devices offers a new route toward simulating strong light-matter interactions of molecules in optical cavities for polarit…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

NISQ-compatible approximate quantum algorithm for unconstrained and constrained discrete optimization

M. R. Perelshtein, A. I. Pakhomchik, Ar. A. Melnikov +7

Quantum algorithms are getting extremely popular due to their potential to significantly outperform classical algorithms. Yet, applying quantum algorithms to optimization problems…

quant-ph2023★ 29 cited

Ab initio calculations of quantum light-matter interactions in general electromagnetic environments

Mark Kamper Svendsen, Kristian Sommer Thygesen, Angel Rubio +1

The emerging field of strongly coupled light-matter systems has drawn significant attention in recent years due to the prospect of altering physical and chemical properties of mole…

quant-ph2023★ 26 cited

Potential quantum advantage for simulation of fluid dynamics

Xiangyu Li, Xiaolong Yin, Nathan Wiebe +4

Numerical simulation of turbulent fluid dynamics needs to either parameterize turbulence-which introduces large uncertainties-or explicitly resolve the smallest scales-which is pro…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Quantum mechanical rules for observed observers and the consistency of quantum theory

Alexios P. Polychronakos

I argue that the rules of unitary quantum mechanics imply that observers who will themselves be subject to measurements in a linear combination of macroscopic states (``cat" measur…

quant-ph2021★ 3 cited

Uncertainties in Quantum Measurements: A Quantum Tomography

A. P. Balachandran, F. Calderón, V. P. Nair +3

The observables associated with a quantum system form a non-commutative algebra . It is assumed that a density matrix can be determined from the expectation…

quant-ph2021★ 55 cited

Matrix Model simulations using Quantum Computing, Deep Learning, and Lattice Monte Carlo

Enrico Rinaldi, Xizhi Han, Mohammad Hassan +4

Matrix quantum mechanics plays various important roles in theoretical physics, such as a holographic description of quantum black holes. Understanding quantum black holes and the r…

quant-ph2021★ 26 cited

Probing Geometric Excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall States on Quantum Computers

Ammar Kirmani, Kieran Bull, Chang-Yu Hou +5

Intermediate-scale quantum technologies provide new opportunities for scientific discovery, yet they also pose the challenge of identifying suitable problems that can take advantag…

quant-ph2021

One-directional polarization transport in electron/nuclear spin chains with loss and gain

Santiago Bussandri, Pablo R. Zangara, Rodolfo H. Acosta +1

Understanding the joint dynamics of electron and nuclear spins is central to core concepts in solid-state magnetic resonance - such as spin-lattice relaxation and dynamic nuclear p…

quant-ph2021★ 11 cited

Projectile motion of surface gravity water wave packets: An analogy to quantum mechanics

Georgi Gary Rozenman, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov +5

We study phase contributions of wave functions that occur in the evolution of Gaussian surface gravity water wave packets with nonzero initial momenta propagating in the presence a…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Dirac's Classical-Quantum Analogy for the Harmonic Oscillator: Classical Aspects in Thermal Radiation Including Zero-Point Radiation

Timothy H. Boyer

Dirac's Poisson-bracket-to-commutator analogy for the transition from classical to quantum mechanics assures that for many systems, the classical and quantum systems share the same…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Optically pumped spin polarization as a probe of many-body thermalization

Daniela Pagliero, Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw +5

The interplay between disorder and transport is a problem central to the understanding of a broad range of physical processes, most notably the ability of a system to reach thermal…

quant-ph2020★ 13 cited

Long-term spin state storage using ancilla charge memories

Harishankar Jayakumar, Artur Lozovoi, Damon Daw +1

We articulate confocal microscopy and electron spin resonance to implement spin-to-charge conversion in a small ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in bulk diamond, and demon…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Large-scale quantum hybrid solution for linear systems of equations

M. R. Perelshtein, A. I. Pakhomchik, A. A. Melnikov +5

State-of-the-art noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices (NISQ), although imperfect, enable computational tasks that are manifestly beyond the capabilities of modern classical sup…

quant-ph2019★ 3 cited

Mechanical rotation via optical pumping of paramagnetic impurities

Pablo R. Zangara, Alexander Wood, Marcus W. Doherty +1

Hybrid quantum systems exhibiting coupled optical, spin, and mechanical degrees of freedom can serve as a platform for sensing, or as a bus to mediate interactions between qubits w…

quant-ph2019★ 35 cited

13C dynamic nuclear polarization in diamond via a microwave-free 'integrated' cross effect

J. Henshaw, D. Pagliero, P. R. Zangara +6

Color-center-hosting semiconductors are emerging as promising source materials for low-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) at or near room temperature, but hyperfine broadenin…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

The Momentum Representation of the Hydrogen Atom in Paraboloidal Coordinates

John R. Lombardi

We examine the procedure to construct the variables of use for the momentum representation in quantum mechanics. The momentum variables must be chosen properly conjugate to the cor…

quant-ph2019★ 18 cited

Two-electron-spin ratchets as a platform for microwave-free dynamic nuclear polarization of arbitrary material targets

Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw, Daniela Pagliero +4

Optically-pumped color centers in semiconductor powders can potentially induce high levels of nuclear spin polarization in surrounding solids or fluids at or near ambient condition…

quant-ph2019★ 10 cited

Complexity of full counting statistics of free quantum particles in product states

Dmitri A. Ivanov, Leonid Gurvits

We study the computational complexity of quantum-mechanical expectation values of single-particle operators in bosonic and fermionic multi-particle product states. Such expectation…

quant-ph2019★ 54 cited

Hyperpolarized relaxometry based nuclear T1 noise spectroscopy in hybrid diamond quantum registers

Ashok Ajoy, Ben Safvati, Raffi Nazaryan +14

Understanding the origins of spin lifetimes in hybrid quantum systems is a matter of current importance in several areas of quantum information and sensing. Methods that spectrally…

quant-ph2019★ 12 cited

Proper time in atom interferometers: Diffractive versus specular mirrors

Enno Giese, Alexander Friedrich, Fabio Di Pumpo +4

We compare a conventional Mach-Zehnder light-pulse atom interferometer based on diffractive mirrors with one that uses specular reflection. In contrast to diffractive mirrors that…