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quant-ph2026

Electrically detected magnetic resonance of As magnetic clock transitions in silicon

Ravi Acharya, Shao Qi Lim, Brett C. Johnson +9

Magnetic clock transitions (CTs), defined by vanishing first-order sensitivity of the transition frequency to magnetic field fluctuations, provide a powerful route to suppress deco…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Variational approach to open quantum systems with long-range competing interactions

Dawid A. Hryniuk, Marzena H. Szymańska

Competition between short- and long-range interactions underpins many emergent phenomena in nature. Despite rapid progress in their experimental control, computational methods capa…

quant-ph2025

Identifying optimal magnetic field configurations for decoherence mitigation of boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride

Basanta Mistri, Saksham Mahajan, Felix Donaldson +2

The negatively charged boron vacancy center in 2D hexagonal boron nitride has emerged as a promising quantum sensor. However, its sensitivity is constrained due to ubiquitous nucle…

quant-ph2025★ 12 cited

Chemically Tuning Room Temperature Pulsed Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance

Sarah K. Mann, Angus Cowley-Semple, Emma Bryan +4

Optical detection of magnetic resonance enables spin-based quantum sensing with high spatial resolution and sensitivity-even at room temperature-as exemplified by solid-state defec…

quant-ph2025

Fully optimised variational simulation of a dynamical quantum phase transition on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Lesley Gover, Vinul Wimalaweera, Fariha Azad +3

We time-evolve a translationally invariant quantum state on the Quantinuum H1-1 trapped-ion quantum processor, studying the dynamical quantum phase transition of the transverse fie…

quant-ph2025★ 20 cited

Roadmap on Atomic-scale Semiconductor Devices

Steven R. Schofield, Andrew J. Fisher, Eran Ginossar +47

Spin states in semiconductors provide exceptionally stable and noise-resistant environments for qubits, positioning them as optimal candidates for reliable quantum computing techno…

quant-ph2025★ 5 cited

Millikelvin Nb nanoSQUID-embedded tuneable resonator fabricated with a neon focused-ion-beam

Jamie A. Potter, Laith Meti, Gemma Chapman +3

SQUID-embedded superconducting resonators are of great interest due to their potential for coupling highly scalable superconducting circuits with quantum memories based on solid-st…

quant-ph2024

Operator space fragmentation in perturbed Floquet-Clifford circuits

Marcell D. Kovács, Christopher J. Turner, Lluis Masanes +1

Floquet quantum circuits are able to realise a wide range of non-equilibrium quantum states, exhibiting quantum chaos, topological order and localisation. In this work, we investig…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Continuous-time quantum optimisation without the adiabatic principle

Robert J. Banks, Georgios S. Raftis, Dan E. Browne +1

Continuous-time quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimisation problems, such as quantum annealing, have previously been motivated by the adiabatic principle. A number of contin…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Tensor-network-based variational Monte Carlo approach to the non-equilibrium steady state of open quantum systems

Dawid A. Hryniuk, Marzena H. Szymańska

We introduce a novel method of efficiently simulating the non-equilibrium steady state of large many-body open quantum systems with highly non-local interactions, based on a variat…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Seedless extractors for device-independent quantum cryptography

Cameron Foreman, Lluis Masanes

Device-independent (DI) quantum cryptography aims at providing secure cryptography with minimal trust in, or characterisation of, the underlying quantum devices. A key step in DI p…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Fundamental charges for dual-unitary circuits

Tom Holden-Dye, Lluis Masanes, Arijeet Pal

Dual-unitary quantum circuits have recently attracted attention as an analytically tractable model of many-body quantum dynamics. Consisting of a 1+1D lattice of 2-qudit gates arra…

quant-ph2023★ 21 cited

Rapid cryogenic characterisation of 1024 integrated silicon quantum dots

Edward J. Thomas, Virginia N. Ciriano-Tejel, David F. Wise +8

Quantum computers are nearing the thousand qubit mark, with the current focus on scaling to improve computational performance. As quantum processors grow in complexity, new challen…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Response to "The measurement postulates of quantum mechanics are not redundant"

Lluís Masanes, Thomas D. Galley, Markus P. Müller

Adrian Kent has recently presented a critique [arXiv:2307.06191] of our paper [Nat. Comms. 10, 1361 (2019)] in which he claims to refute our main result: the measurement postulates…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Purification Dynamics in a Continuous-time Hybrid Quantum Circuit Model

Sebastian Leontica, Max McGinley

We introduce a continuous time model of many-body quantum dynamics based on infinitesimal random unitary operations, combined with projective measurements. We consider purification…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Continuous-time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are hot

Robert J. Banks, Ehsan Haque, Farah Nazef +21

By exploiting the link between time-independent Hamiltonians and thermalisation, heuristic predictions on the performance of continuous-time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are made. The…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Probabilistic Interpolation of Quantum Rotation Angles

Bálint Koczor, John Morton, Simon Benjamin

Quantum computing requires a universal set of gate operations; regarding gates as rotations, any rotation angle must be possible. However a real device may only be capable of b…

quant-ph2023★ 405 cited

Room temperature quantum bit storage exceeding 39 minutes using ionized donors in 28-silicon

Kamyar Saeedi, Stephanie Simmons, Jeff Z. Salvail +7

Quantum memories capable of storing and retrieving coherent information for extended times at room temperature would enable a host of new technologies. Electron and nuclear spin qu…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Stochastic entropy production associated with quantum measurement in a framework of Markovian quantum state diffusion

Claudia L. Clarke, Ian J. Ford

The reduced density matrix that characterises the state of an open quantum system is a projection from the full density matrix of the quantum system and its environment, and there…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Rapid quantum approaches for combinatorial optimisation inspired by optimal state-transfer

Robert J. Banks, Dan E. Browne, P. A. Warburton

We propose a new design heuristic to tackle combinatorial optimisation problems, inspired by Hamiltonians for optimal state-transfer. The result is a rapid approximate optimisation…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Absence of localization in two-dimensional Clifford circuits

Tom Farshi, Jonas Richter, Daniele Toniolo +2

We analyze a Floquet circuit with random Clifford gates in one and two spatial dimensions. By using random graphs and methods from percolation theory, we prove in the two dimension…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Non-destructive X-ray imaging of patterned delta-layer devices in silicon

Nicolò D'Anna, Dario Ferreira Sanchez, Guy Matmon +11

The progress of miniaturisation in integrated electronics has led to atomic and nanometre-sized dopant devices in silicon. Such structures can be fabricated routinely by hydrogen r…

quant-ph2022★ 20 cited

Coherent spin dynamics of rare-earth doped crystals in the high-cooperativity regime

Joseph Alexander, Gavin Dold, Oscar W. Kennedy +9

Rare-earth doped crystals have long coherence times and the potential to provide quantum interfaces between microwave and optical photons. Such applications benefit from a high coo…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Probing finite-temperature observables in quantum simulators of spin systems with short-time dynamics

Alexander Schuckert, Annabelle Bohrdt, Eleanor Crane +1

Preparing finite temperature states in quantum simulators of spin systems, such as trapped ions or Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers, is challenging due to their almost perfect iso…