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quant-ph2020★ 20 cited

Deterministic loading and phase shaping of microwaves onto a single artificial atom

W. -J. Lin, Y. Lu, P. Y. Wen +12

Loading quantum information deterministically onto a quantum node is an important step towards a quantum network. Here, we demonstrate that coherent-state microwave photons, with a…

quant-ph2020

Ultimate quantum limit for amplification: a single atom in front of a mirror

Emely Wiegand, Ping-Yi Wen, Per Delsing +2

We investigate three types of amplification processes for light fields coupling to an atom near the end of a one-dimensional semi-infinite waveguide. We consider two setups where a…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Classification and reconstruction of optical quantum states with deep neural networks

Shahnawaz Ahmed, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Franco Nori +1

We apply deep-neural-network-based techniques to quantum state classification and reconstruction. We demonstrate high classification accuracies and reconstruction fidelities, even…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Transmon in a semi-infinite high-impedance transmission line -- appearance of cavity modes and Rabi oscillations

Emely Wiegand, Benjamin Rousseaux, Göran Johansson

In this letter, we investigate the dynamics of a single superconducting artificial atom capacitively coupled to a transmission line with a characteristic impedance comparable or la…

quant-ph2020★ 6 cited

Qubit Motion as a Microscopic Model for the Dynamical Casimir Effect

Andrés Agustí, Laura García-Álvarez, Enrique Solano +1

The generation of photons from the vacuum by means of the movement of a mirror is known as the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE). In general, this phenomenon is effectively described…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Pulsed Electron Spin Resonance of an Organic Microcrystal by Dispersive Readout

Ailsa Keyser, Jonathan Burnett, Sergey Kubatkin +4

We establish a testbed system for the development of high-sensitivity Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) techniques for small samples at cryogenic temperatures. Our system consists of a…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Listening to the quantum vacuum: a perspective on the dynamical Casimir effect

Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu, Göran Johansson

Modern quantum field theory has offered us a very intriguing picture of empty space. The vacuum state is no longer an inert, motionless state. We are instead dealing with an entity…

quant-ph2020★ 35 cited

Classical simulation of Gaussian quantum circuits with non-Gaussian input states

Ulysse Chabaud, Giulia Ferrini, Frédéric Grosshans +1

We consider Gaussian quantum circuits supplemented with non-Gaussian input states and derive sufficient conditions for efficient classical strong simulation of these circuits. In p…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Benchmarking the Variational Quantum Eigensolver through Simulation of the Ground State Energy of Prebiotic Molecules on High-Performance Computers

P. Lolur, M. Rahm, M. Skogh +2

We use the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) as implemented in the Qiskit software package to compute the ground state energy of small molecules derived from water, HO, and…

quant-ph2020★ 82 cited

QuTiP-BoFiN: A bosonic and fermionic numerical hierarchical-equations-of-motion library with applications in light-harvesting, quantum control, and single-molecule electronics

Neill Lambert, Tarun Raheja, Simon Cross +5

The "hierarchical equations of motion" (HEOM) method is a powerful exact numerical approach to solve the dynamics and find the steady-state of a quantum system coupled to a non-Mar…

quant-ph2020★ 23 cited

Stochastic Thermodynamic Cycles of a Mesoscopic Thermoelectric Engine

R David Mayrhofer, Cyril Elouard, Janine Splettstoesser +1

We analyze a steady-state thermoelectric engine, whose working substance consists of two capacitively coupled quantum dots. One dot is tunnel-coupled to a hot reservoir serving as…

quant-ph2020★ 23 cited

Wigner negativity in the steady-state output of a Kerr parametric oscillator

Ingrid Strandberg, Göran Johansson, Fernando Quijandría

The output field from a continuously driven linear parametric oscillator may exhibit considerably more squeezing than the intracavity field. Inspired by this fact, we explore the n…

quant-ph2020★ 14 cited

A comparison between quantum and classical noise radar sources

Robert Jonsson, Roberto Di Candia, Martin Ankel +2

We compare the performance of a quantum radar based on two-mode squeezed states with a classical radar system based on correlated thermal noise. With a constraint of equal number o…

quant-ph2020★ 203 cited

Tunable Chiral Bound States with Giant Atoms

Xin Wang, Tao Liu, Anton Frisk Kockum +2

We propose tunable chiral bound states in a system composed of superconducting giant atoms and a Josephson photonic-crystal waveguide (PCW), with no analog in other quantum setups.…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Quantum State Tomography with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Shahnawaz Ahmed, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Franco Nori +1

Quantum state tomography (QST) is a challenging task in intermediate-scale quantum devices. Here, we apply conditional generative adversarial networks (CGANs) to QST. In the CGAN f…

quant-ph2020★ 37 cited

Cavity Optomechanics with Photonic Bound States in the Continuum

Jamie M. Fitzgerald, Sushanth Kini Manjeshwar, Witlef Wieczorek +1

We propose a versatile, free-space cavity optomechanics platform built from two photonic crystal membranes, one of which is freely suspended, and designed to form a microcavity les…

quant-ph2020★ 41 cited

Squeezing and multimode entanglement of surface acoustic wave phonons

Gustav Andersson, Shan W. Jolin, Marco Scigliuzzo +6

Exploiting multiple modes in a quantum acoustic device could enable applications in quantum information in a hardware-efficient setup, including quantum simulation in a synthetic d…

quant-ph2020★ 33 cited

Gaussian conversion protocols for cubic phase state generation

Yu Zheng, Oliver Hahn, Pascal Stadler +4

Universal quantum computing with continuous variables requires non-Gaussian resources, in addition to a Gaussian set of operations. A known resource enabling universal quantum comp…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Collective radiation from distant emitters

Kanu Sinha, Alejandro González-Tudela, Yong Lu +1

Waveguides allow for direct coupling of emitters separated by large distances, offering a path to connect remote quantum systems. However, when facing the distances needed for prac…

quant-ph2020★ 30 cited

Efficient simulatability of continuous-variable circuits with large Wigner negativity

Laura García-Álvarez, Cameron Calcluth, Alessandro Ferraro +1

Discriminating between quantum computing architectures that can provide quantum advantage from those that cannot is of crucial importance. From the fundamental point of view, estab…

quant-ph2020★ 176 cited

Engineering the Level Structure of a Giant Artificial Atom in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

A. M. Vadiraj, Andreas Ask, T. G. McConkey +4

Engineering light-matter interactions at the quantum level has been central to the pursuit of quantum optics for decades. Traditionally, this has been done by coupling emitters, ty…

quant-ph2020★ 31 cited

Primary thermometry of propagating microwaves in the quantum regime

Marco Scigliuzzo, Andreas Bengtsson, Jean-Claude Besse +3

The ability to control and measure the temperature of propagating microwave modes down to very low temperatures is indispensable for quantum information processing, and may open op…

quant-ph2020★ 46 cited

Local vibrational modes of Si vacancy spin qubits in SiC

Z. Shang, A. Hashemi, Y. Berencén +4

Silicon carbide is a very promising platform for quantum applications because of extraordinary spin and optical properties of point defects in this technologically-friendly materia…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

On estimating the entropy of shallow circuit outputs

Alexandru Gheorghiu, Matty J. Hoban

Estimating the entropy of probability distributions and quantum states is a fundamental task in information processing. Here, we examine the hardness of this task for the case of p…