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quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Transition Path and Interface Sampling of Stochastic Schrödinger Dynamics

Robson Christie, Peter G. Bolhuis, David T. Limmer

We study rare transitions in Markovian open quantum systems driven with Gaussian noise, applying transition path and interface sampling methods to trajectories generated by stochas…

quant-ph2024★ 35 cited

Non-Hermitian Pseudomodes for Strongly Coupled Open Quantum Systems: Unravelings, Correlations and Thermodynamics

Paul Menczel, Ken Funo, Mauro Cirio +2

The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the influence of the…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Dynamics of a quantum system interacting with white non-Gaussian baths: Poisson noise master equation

Ken Funo, Akihito Ishizaki

Quantum systems are unavoidably open to their surrounding degrees of freedom. The theory of open quantum systems is thus crucial to understanding the fluctuations, dissipation, and…

quant-ph2023

Optimal control for manipulating vibrational wave packets through polarizability interactions induced by non-resonant laser pulses

Reon Ishii, Tomotaro Namba, Hiroyuki Katsuki +2

On the basis of optimal control theory, we numerically study how to optimally manipulate molecular vibrational dynamics by using cycle-averaged polarizability interactions induced…

quant-ph2022★ 31 cited

Optical tweezers throw and catch single atoms

Hansub Hwang, Andrew Byun, Juyoung Park +2

Single atoms movable from one place to another would enable a flying quantum memory that can be used for quantum communication and quantum computing at the same time. Guided atoms,…

quant-ph2020★ 26 cited

Probing excited-state dynamics with quantum entangled photons: Correspondence to coherent multidimensional spectroscopy

Akihito Ishizaki

Quantum light is a key resource for promoting quantum technology. One such class of technology aims to improve the precision of optical measurements using engineered quantum states…

quant-ph2019★ 15 cited

Generation of pseudo-sunlight via quantum entangled photons and the interaction with molecules

Yuta Fujihashi, Ryosuke Shimizu, Akihito Ishizaki

Light incident upon molecules trigger fundamental processes in diverse systems present in nature. However, under natural conditions, such as sunlight illumination, it is impossible…

quant-ph2018★ 4 cited

Hierarchical Equations of Motion Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics

Akihito Kato, Yoshitaka Tanimura

We present a theoretical framework to investigate quantum thermodynamic processes under non-Markovian system-bath interactions on the basis of the hierarchical equations of motion…

quant-ph2018★ 38 cited

Ultrabright narrow-band telecom two-photon source for long-distance quantum communication

Kazuya Niizeki, Kohei Ikeda, Mingyang Zheng +7

We demonstrate an ultrabright narrow-band two-photon source at the 1.5 -μm telecom wavelength for long-distance quantum communication. By utilizing a bow-tie cavity, we obtain a ca…

quant-ph2017★ 3 cited

Scattering of a composite quasiparticle by an impurity on a lattice

Fumika Suzuki, Marina Litinskaya, William G. Unruh

We study scattering of a composite quasiparticle, which possesses a degree of freedom corresponding to relative separation between two bound excitations, by a delta-like impurity p…

quant-ph2016★ 10 cited

Quantification of Concurrence via Weak Measurement

Mikko Tukiainen, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Yutaka Shikano

Since entanglement is not an observable per se, measuring its value in practice is a difficult task. Here we propose a protocol for quantifying a particular entanglement measure, n…

quant-ph2016★ 35 cited

Quantum walks and gravitational waves

Pablo Arnault, Fabrice Debbasch

A new family of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) propagating on a regular D spacetime lattice is introduced. The continuous limit of these DTQWs is shown to coincide with…

quant-ph2015★ 13 cited

Ground-state cooling of dispersively coupled optomechanical system in unresolved sideband regime via dissipatively coupled oscillator

Yu-Xiang Zhang, Shengjun Wu, Zeng-Bing Chen +1

In the optomechanical cooling of a dispersively coupled oscillator, it is only possible to reach the oscillator ground state in the resolved sideband regime, where the cavity-mode…

quant-ph2015★ 30 cited

Advantages of nonclassical pointer states in postselected weak measurements

Yusuf Turek, W. Maimaiti, Yutaka Shikano +2

We investigate, within the weak measurement theory, the advantages of non-classical pointer states over semi-classical ones for coherent, squeezed vacuum, and Schröinger cat states…

quant-ph2015

Quantum chemistry beyond Born-Oppenheimer approximation on a quantum computer: a simulated phase estimation study

Libor Veis, Jakub Višňák, Hiroaki Nishizawa +2

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for beyond-Born-Oppenheimer molecular energy computations. Our approach combines the quantum full configuration interaction method with th…

quant-ph2015★ 6 cited

The Dynamics of Compact Laser Pulses

S. Goto, R. W. Tucker, T. J. Walton

We discuss the use of a class of exact finite energy solutions to the vacuum source-free Maxwell equations as models for multi- and single cycle laser pulses in classical interacti…

quant-ph2014★ 12 cited

Massless Dirac Equation from Fibonacci Discrete-Time Quantum Walk

Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Lauchlan Honter, Ben B. Luo +2

Discrete-time quantum walks can be regarded as quantum dynamical simulators since they can simulate spatially discretized Schrödinger, massive Dirac, and Klein-Gordon equations. He…

quant-ph2014★ 14 cited

Generation of phase-squeezed optical pulses with large coherent amplitudes by post-selection of single photon and weak cross-Kerr non-linearity

Fumiaki Matsuoka, Akihisa Tomita, Yutaka Shikano

Phase-squeezed light can enhance the precision of optical phase estimation. The larger the photon numbers are and the stronger the squeezing is, the better the precision will be. W…

quant-ph2014★ 39 cited

Post-selected von Neumann measurement with Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian pointer states

Yusuf Turek, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Tomotada Akutsu +2

Through the von Neumann interaction followed by post-selection, we can extract not only the eigenvalue of an observable of the measured system but also the weak value. In this post…

quant-ph2014★ 65 cited

Aharonov-Bohm effect in the tunnelling of a quantum rotor in a linear Paul trap

Atshushi Noguchi, Yutaka Shikano, Kenji Toyoda +1

Quantum tunnelling is a common fundamental quantum-mechanical phenomenon that originates from the wave-like characteristics of quantum particles. Although the quantum-tunnelling ef…

quant-ph2013★ 42 cited

Stereographical visualization of a polarization state using weak measurements with an optical-vortex beam

Hirokazu Kobayashi, Koji Nonaka, Yutaka Shikano

We propose a stereographical-visualization scheme for a polarization state by two-dimensional imaging of a weak value with a single setup. The key idea is to employ Laguerre-Gaussi…

quant-ph2013★ 51 cited

From Discrete Time Quantum Walk to Continuous Time Quantum Walk in Limit Distribution

Yutaka Shikano

The discrete time quantum walk defined as a quantum-mechanical analogue of the discrete time random walk have recently been attracted from various and interdisciplinary fields. In…

quant-ph2013★ 4 cited

Reply to "Comment on `Optimal probe wave function of weak-value amplification' "

Yuki Susa, Yutaka Shikano, Akio Hosoya

It is pointed out that the "counter example" presented in the Comment is a family of probe wave functions which are increasingly broad as the shift becomes large. Furthermore, the…

quant-ph2013★ 42 cited

Discrete-time quantum walk with feed-forward quantum coin

Yutaka Shikano, Tatsuaki Wada, Junsei Horikawa

Constructing a discrete model like a cellular automaton is a powerful method for understanding various dynamical systems. However, the relationship between the discrete model and i…