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quant-ph2020★ 67 cited

Variational preparation of finite-temperature states on a quantum computer

R. Sagastizabal, S. P. Premaratne, B. A. Klaver +13

The preparation of thermal equilibrium states is important for the simulation of condensed-matter and cosmology systems using a quantum computer. We present a method to prepare suc…

quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Appearance of objectivity for NV centers interacting with dynamically polarized nuclear environment

Damian Kwiatkowski, Łukasz Cywiński, Jarosław K. Korbicz

Quantum-to-classical transition still eludes a full understanding. Out of its multiple aspects, one has recently gained an increased attention - the appearance of objective world o…

quant-ph2020★ 14 cited

Conformal Properties of Hyperinvariant Tensor Networks

Matthew Steinberg, Javier Prior

Hyperinvariant tensor networks (hyMERA) were introduced as a way to combine the successes of perfect tensor networks (HaPPY) and the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz…

quant-ph2020★ 51 cited

Entanglement of dark electron-nuclear spin defects in diamond

M. J. Degen, S. J. H. Loenen, H. P. Bartling +5

A promising approach for multi-qubit quantum registers is to use optically addressable spins to control multiple dark electron-spin defects in the environment. While recent experim…

quant-ph2020★ 34 cited

Optimizing Entanglement Generation and Distribution Using Genetic Algorithms

Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Ariana Torres-Knoop, Tim Coopmans +2

Long-distance quantum communication via entanglement distribution is of great importance for the quantum internet. However, scaling up to such long distances has proved challenging…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Stoquasticity in circuit QED

Alessandro Ciani, Barbara M. Terhal

We analyze whether circuit-QED Hamiltonians are stoquastic focusing on systems of coupled flux qubits: we show that scalable sign-problem free path integral Monte Carlo simulations…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Protocols for creating and distilling multipartite GHZ states with Bell pairs

Sébastian de Bone, Runsheng Ouyang, Kenneth Goodenough +1

The distribution of high-quality Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states is at the heart of many quantum communication tasks, ranging from extending the baseline of telescopes to…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Proposal and Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of Fast-Switching Broadband Frequency-Shifting for a Frequency-Multiplexed Quantum Repeater

Peng-Cheng Wang, Oriol Pietx-Casas, Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani +1

A proposal for fast-switching broadband frequency-shifting technology making use of frequency conversion in a nonlinear crystal is set forth, whereby the shifting is imparted to th…

quant-ph2020★ 264 cited

NetSquid, a NETwork Simulator for QUantum Information using Discrete events

Tim Coopmans, Robert Knegjens, Axel Dahlberg +13

In order to bring quantum networks into the real world, we would like to determine the requirements of quantum network protocols including the underlying quantum hardware. Because…

quant-ph2020★ 300 cited

CMOS-based cryogenic control of silicon quantum circuits

Xiao Xue, Bishnu Patra, Jeroen P. G. van Dijk +21

The most promising quantum algorithms require quantum processors hosting millions of quantum bits when targeting practical applications. A major challenge towards large-scale quant…

quant-ph2020★ 80 cited

Resonant Excitation and Purcell Enhancement of Coherent Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers Coupled to a Fabry-Pérot Micro-Cavity

Maximilian Ruf, Matthew J. Weaver, Suzanne B. van Dam +1

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been established as a prime building block for quantum networks. However, scaling beyond a few network nodes is currently limited by…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Exploring a Double Full-Stack Communications-Enabled Architecture for Multi-Core Quantum Computers

Santiago Rodrigo, Sergi Abadal, Eduard Alarcón +1

Being a very promising technology, with impressive advances in the recent years, it is still unclear how quantum computing will scale to satisfy the requirements of its most powerf…

quant-ph2020★ 115 cited

High-fidelity controlled-Z gate with maximal intermediate leakage operating at the speed limit in a superconducting quantum processor

V. Negîrneac, H. Ali, N. Muthusubramanian +9

We introduce the sudden variant (SNZ) of the Net Zero scheme realizing controlled- (CZ) gates by baseband flux control of transmon frequency. SNZ CZ gates operate at the speed l…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Probabilistic one-time programs using quantum entanglement

Marie-Christine Roehsner, Joshua A. Kettlewell, Joseph Fitzsimons +1

It is well known that quantum technology allows for an unprecedented level of data and software protection for quantum computers as well as for quantum-assisted classical computers…

quant-ph2020★ 30 cited

Orbital and Spin Dynamics of Single Neutrally-Charged Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

S. Baier, C. E. Bradley, T. Middelburg +3

The neutral charge state plays an important role in quantum information and sensing applications based on nitrogen-vacancy centers. However, the orbital and spin dynamics remain un…

quant-ph2020★ 27 cited

Deep learning enhanced individual nuclear-spin detection

Kyunghoon Jung, M. H. Abobeih, Jiwon Yun +5

The detection of nuclear spins using individual electron spins has enabled new opportunities in quantum sensing and quantum information processing. Proof-of-principle experiments h…

quant-ph2020★ 54 cited

Optimising repeater schemes for the quantum internet

Kenneth Goodenough, David Elkouss, Stephanie Wehner

The rate at which quantum communication tasks can be performed using direct transmission is fundamentally hindered by the channel loss. Quantum repeaters allow, in principle, to ov…

quant-ph2020★ 120 cited

A variational toolbox for quantum multi-parameter estimation

Johannes Jakob Meyer, Johannes Borregaard, Jens Eisert

With an ever-expanding ecosystem of noisy and intermediate-scale quantum devices, exploring their possible applications is a rapidly growing field of quantum information science. I…

quant-ph2020★ 57 cited

Designing Quantum Networks Using Preexisting Infrastructure

Julian Rabbie, Kaushik Chakraborty, Guus Avis +1

We consider the problem of deploying a quantum network on an existing fiber infrastructure, where quantum repeaters and end nodes can only be housed at specific locations. We propo…

quant-ph2020★ 122 cited

Entanglement Distribution in a Quantum Network, a Multi-Commodity Flow-Based Approach

Kaushik Chakraborty, David Elkouss, Bruno Rijsman +1

We consider the problem of optimising the achievable EPR-pair distribution rate between multiple source-destination pairs in a quantum internet, where the repeaters may perform a p…

quant-ph2020★ 9 cited

Realistic simulation of quantum computation using unitary and measurement channels

Ahmed Abid Moueddene, Nader Khammassi, Koen Bertels +1

The implementation and practicality of quantum algorithms highly hinge on the quality of operations within a quantum processor. Therefore, including realistic error models in quant…

quant-ph2020★ 35 cited

Quantum advantage in simulating stochastic processes

Kamil Korzekwa, Matteo Lostaglio

We investigate the problem of simulating classical stochastic processes through quantum dynamics, and present three scenarios where memory or time quantum advantages arise. First,…

quant-ph2020★ 96 cited

A Quantum Router Architecture for High-Fidelity Entanglement Flows in Quantum Networks

Yuan Lee, Eric Bersin, Axel Dahlberg +2

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in experimentally realizing the building blocks of quantum repeaters. Repeater architectures with multiplexed quantum memories have bee…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Secure multi-party quantum computation with few qubits

Victoria Lipinska, Jérémy Ribeiro, Stephanie Wehner

We consider the task of secure multi-party distributed quantum computation on a quantum network. We propose a protocol based on quantum error correction which reduces the number of…