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quant-ph2015★ 1 cited

Phonon induced two-mode squeezing of nitrogen-vacancy center ensembles

Qidong Xu, W. L. Yang, Zhang-qi Yin

We propose a potentially practical scheme for realization of two-mode squeezed state with respect to two distant nitrogen-vacancy center ensembles coupled to two interconnected mec…

quant-ph2015★ 1 cited

The transport character of quantum state in one-dimensional coupled-cavity-arrays: effect of the number of photons and entanglement degree

Shao-Qiang Ma, Guo-Feng Zhang

The transport properties of the photons injected into one-dimensional coupled-cavity-arrays (CCAs) are studied. It is found that the number of photons cannot change the evolution c…

quant-ph2015★ 13 cited

Non-Markovian coherent feedback control of quantum dot systems

Shibei Xue, Re-Bing Wu, Michael R. Hush +1

This paper presents a non-Markovian coherent feedback scheme to control single quantum dot systems. The feedback loop is closed via a quantum tunneling junction between the natural…

quant-ph2015★ 12 cited

Reliable and robust entanglement witness

Xiao Yuan, Quanxin Mei, Shan Zhou +1

Entanglement, a critical resource for quantum information processing, needs to be witnessed in many practical scenarios. Theoretically, witnessing entanglement is by measuring a sp…

quant-ph2015★ 316 cited

Cavity quantum electrodynamics with ferromagnetic magnons in a small yttrium-iron-garnet sphere

Dengke Zhang, Xin-Ming Wang, Tie-Fu Li +4

Hybridizing collective spin excitations and a cavity with high cooperativity provides a new research subject in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics and can also have potent…

quant-ph2015★ 132 cited

Quantum processes which do not use coherence

Benjamin Yadin, Jiajun Ma, Davide Girolami +2

A major signature of quantum mechanics beyond classical physics is coherence, the existence of superposition states. The recently developed resource theory of quantum coherence all…

quant-ph2015★ 4 cited

The performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm on spike Hamiltonians

Linghang Kong, Elizabeth Crosson

Perturbed Hamming weight problems serve as examples of optimization instances for which the adiabatic algorithm provably out performs classical simulated annealing. In this work we…

quant-ph2015★ 15 cited

Sympathetic cooling in a large ion crystal

Guin-Dar Lin, L. -M. Duan

We analyze the dynamics and steady state of a linear ion array when some of the ions are continuously laser cooled. We calculate the ions' local temperature measured by its positio…

quant-ph2015★ 54 cited

Tomography is necessary for universal entanglement detection with single-copy observables

Dawei Lu, Tao Xin, Nengkun Yu +7

Entanglement, one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics, plays an essential role in numerous applications of quantum information theory. A natural question of both theoreti…

quant-ph2015★ 128 cited

Nonreciprocal conversion between microwave and optical photons in electro-optomechanical systems

Xun-Wei Xu, Yong Li, Ai-Xi Chen +1

We propose to demonstrate nonreciprocal conversion between microwave and optical photons in an electro-optomechanical system where a microwave mode and an optical mode are coupled…

quant-ph2015★ 90 cited

Loss-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum random number generation

Zhu Cao, Hongyi Zhou, Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) output genuine random numbers based upon the uncertainty principle. A QRNG contains two parts in general --- a randomness source and a read…

quant-ph2015★ 16 cited

symmetry breaking for the scattering problem in a one-dimensional non-Hermitian lattice model

Baogang Zhu, Rong Lü, Shu Chen

We study the -symmetry breaking for the scattering problem in a one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian tight-binding lattice model with balanced gain and loss distribute…

quant-ph2015★ 445 cited

Metrology with -symmetric cavities: Enhanced sensitivity near the -phase transition

Zhong-Peng Liu, Jing Zhang, Şahin Kaya Özdemir +7

We propose and analyze a new approach based on parity-time () symmetric microcavities with balanced gain and loss to enhance the performance of cavity-assisted metrol…

quant-ph2015★ 443 cited

Quantum random number generation

Xiongfeng Ma, Xiao Yuan, Zhu Cao +2

Quantum physics can be exploited to generate true random numbers, which play important roles in many applications, especially in cryptography. Genuine randomness from the measureme…

quant-ph2015★ 414 cited

Converting Coherence to Quantum Correlations

Jiajun Ma, Benjamin Yadin, Davide Girolami +2

Recent results in quantum information theory characterize quantum coherence in the context of resource theories. Here we study the relation between quantum coherence and quantum di…

quant-ph2015★ 16 cited

Realization of microwave amplification, attenuation, and frequency conversion using a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit

Yan-Jun Zhao, Jiang-Hao Ding, Z. H. Peng +1

Using different configurations of applied strong driving and weak probe fields, we find that only a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit (SQC) is enough to realize am…

quant-ph2015★ 37 cited

The power of one qumode for quantum computation

Nana Liu, Jayne Thompson, Christian Weedbrook +4

Although quantum computers are capable of solving problems like factoring exponentially faster than the best-known classical algorithms, determining the resources responsible for t…

quant-ph2015★ 134 cited

Quantum Discriminant Analysis for Dimensionality Reduction and Classification

Iris Cong, Luming Duan

We present quantum algorithms to efficiently perform discriminant analysis for dimensionality reduction and classification over an exponentially large input data set. Compared with…

quant-ph2015★ 32 cited

Thermodynamics of complexity and pattern manipulation

Andrew J. P. Garner, Jayne Thompson, Vlatko Vedral +1

Many organisms capitalize on their ability to predict the environment to maximize available free energy, and reinvest this energy to create new complex structures. This functionali…

quant-ph2015★ 252 cited

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution over untrustful metropolitan network

Yan-Lin Tang, Hua-Lei Yin, Qi Zhao +15

Quantum cryptography holds the promise to establish an information-theoretically secure global network. All field tests of metropolitan-scale quantum networks to date are based on…

quant-ph2015★ 59 cited

Quantum Error-Correcting Codes for Qudit Amplitude Damping

Markus Grassl, Linghang Kong, Zhaohui Wei +2

Traditional quantum error-correcting codes are designed for the depolarizing channel modeled by generalized Pauli errors occurring with equal probability. Amplitude damping channel…

quant-ph2015★ 29 cited

Decoy-state quantum key distribution with biased-bases revisited

Z. -W. Yu, Y. -H. Zhou, X. -B. Wang

In order to improve the key rate of the decoy-state method, we need to jointly study yields of different bases. Given the delicate fact that pulses of the same preparation state ca…

quant-ph2015★ 20 cited

Information-theoretic equilibrium and observable thermalization

Fabio Anza, Vlatko Vedral

To understand under which conditions thermodynamics emerges from the microscopic dynamics is the ultimate goal of statistical mechanics. Despite the fact that the theory is more th…

quant-ph2015★ 127 cited

Quantum superposition, entanglement, and state teleportation of a microorganism on an electromechanical oscillator

Tongcang Li, Zhang-Qi Yin

Schrödinger's thought experiment to prepare a cat in a superposition of both alive and dead states reveals profound consequences of quantum mechanics and has attracted enormous int…