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quant-ph2019★ 25 cited

Finite-size effects in continuous-variable QKD with Gaussian post-selection

Nedasadat Hosseinidehaj, Andrew M. Lance, Thomas Symul +2

In a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocol, which is based on heterodyne detection at the receiver, the application of a noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) o…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

Quantum advantage from energy measurements of many-body quantum systems

Leonardo Novo, Juani Bermejo-Vega, Raúl García-Patrón

The problem of sampling outputs of quantum circuits has been proposed as a candidate for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage (sometimes referred to as quantum "supremac…

quant-ph2019★ 6 cited

Bounding the resources for thermalizing many-body localized systems

Carlo Sparaciari, Marcel Goihl, Paul Boes +2

Understanding under which conditions physical systems thermalize is a long-standing question in many-body physics. While generic quantum systems thermalize, there are known instanc…

quant-ph2019★ 41 cited

Stationary optomechanical entanglement between a mechanical oscillator and its measurement apparatus

C. Gut, K. Winkler, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier +9

We provide an argument to infer stationary entanglement between light and a mechanical oscillator based on continuous measurement of light only. We propose an experimentally realiz…

quant-ph2019★ 4 cited

Cooling to absolute zero: The unattainability principle

Nahuel Freitas, Rodrigo Gallego, Lluís Masanes +1

The unattainability principle (UP) is an operational formulation of the third law of thermodynamics stating the impossibility to bring a system to its ground state in finite time.…

quant-ph2019★ 12 cited

Thermodynamic Implementations of Quantum Processes

Philippe Faist, Mario Berta, Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

Recent understanding of the thermodynamics of small-scale systems have enabled the characterization of the thermodynamic requirements of implementing quantum processes for fixed in…

quant-ph2019★ 338 cited

Quantum certification and benchmarking

J. Eisert, D. Hangleiter, N. Walk +5

Concomitant with the rapid development of quantum technologies, challenging demands arise concerning the certification and characterization of devices. The promises of the field ca…

quant-ph2019★ 213 cited

Stochastic gradient descent for hybrid quantum-classical optimization

Ryan Sweke, Frederik Wilde, Johannes Meyer +4

Within the context of hybrid quantum-classical optimization, gradient descent based optimizers typically require the evaluation of expectation values with respect to the outcome of…

quant-ph2019★ 19 cited

Microwave measurement beyond the quantum limit with a nonreciprocal amplifier

F. Lecocq, L. Ranzani, G. A. Peterson +6

The measurement of a quantum system is often performed by encoding its state in a single observable of a light field. The measurement efficiency of this observable can be reduced b…

quant-ph2019★ 8 cited

Harnessing symmetry-protected topological order for quantum memories

Marcel Goihl, Nathan Walk, Jens Eisert +1

Spin chains with symmetry-protected edge modes are promising candidates to realize intrinsically robust physical qubits that can be used for the storage and processing of quantum i…

quant-ph2019★ 37 cited

Closing gaps of a quantum advantage with short-time Hamiltonian dynamics

Jonas Haferkamp, Dominik Hangleiter, Adam Bouland +3

Demonstrating a quantum computational speedup is a crucial milestone for near-term quantum technology. Recently, quantum simulation architectures have been proposed that have the p…

quant-ph2019★ 12 cited

Teleportation-based collective attacks in Gaussian quantum key distribution

Spyros Tserkis, Nedasadat Hosseinidehaj, Nathan Walk +1

In Gaussian quantum key distribution eavesdropping attacks are conventionally modeled through the universal entangling cloner scheme, which is based on the premise that the whole e…

quant-ph2019★ 17 cited

Macroscopic Thermodynamic Reversibility in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Philippe Faist, Takahiro Sagawa, Kohtaro Kato +2

The resource theory of thermal operations, an established model for small-scale thermodynamics, provides an extension of equilibrium thermodynamics to nonequilibrium situations. On…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

Asymptotic Reversibility of Thermal Operations for Interacting Quantum Spin Systems via Generalized Quantum Stein's Lemma

Takahiro Sagawa, Philippe Faist, Kohtaro Kato +3

For quantum spin systems in any spatial dimension with a local, translation-invariant Hamiltonian, we prove that asymptotic state convertibility from a quantum state to another one…

quant-ph2019★ 22 cited

Quantum simulation of non-Markovianity using the quantum Zeno effect

Sabrina Patsch, Sabrina Maniscalco, Christiane P. Koch

We suggest a quantum simulator that allows to study the role of memory effects in the dynamics of open quantum systems. Our proposal is based on a bipartite quantum system consisti…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

Emerging unitary evolutions in dissipatively coupled systems

C. Arenz, A. Metelmann

Having a broad range of methods available for implementing unitary operations is crucial for quantum information tasks. We study a dissipative process commonly used to describe dis…

quant-ph2019★ 24 cited

Lieb-Robinson bounds for open quantum systems with long-ranged interactions

Ryan Sweke, Jens Eisert, Michael Kastner

We state and prove four types of Lieb-Robinson bounds valid for many-body open quantum systems with power law decaying interactions undergoing out of equilibrium dynamics. We also…

quant-ph2019★ 87 cited

Easing the Monte Carlo sign problem

Dominik Hangleiter, Ingo Roth, Daniel Nagaj +1

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are the gold standard for studying equilibrium properties of quantum many-body systems -- their phase transitions, ground and thermal state proper…

quant-ph2019★ 13 cited

Maximal Violation of a Broad Class of Bell Inequalities and Its Implications on Self-Testing

C. Jebarathinam, Jui-Chen Hung, Shin-Liang Chen +1

In quantum information, lifting is a systematic procedure that can be used to derive---when provided with a seed Bell inequality---other Bell inequalities applicable in more compli…

quant-ph2019★ 41 cited

Certified Quantum Random Numbers from Untrusted Light

David Drahi, Nathan Walk, Matty J. Hoban +8

A remarkable aspect of quantum theory is that certain measurement outcomes are entirely unpredictable to all possible observers. Such quantum events can be harnessed to generate nu…

quant-ph2019★ 214 cited

Magic State Distillation: Not as Costly as You Think

Daniel Litinski

Despite significant overhead reductions since its first proposal, magic state distillation is often considered to be a very costly procedure that dominates the resource cost of fau…

quant-ph2019★ 71 cited

Phase space simulation method for quantum computation with magic states on qubits

Robert Raussendorf, Juani Bermejo-Vega, Emily Tyhurst +2

We propose a method for classical simulation of finite-dimensional quantum systems, based on sampling from a quasiprobability distribution, i.e., a generalized Wigner function. Our…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Rotational state changes in collisions of diatomic molecular ions with atomic ions

J. Martin Berglund, Michael Drewsen, Christiane P. Koch

We investigate rotational state changes in a single collision of diatomic molecular ions, polar or apolar, with an atomic ion. Rotational state changes may occur since the angular…

quant-ph2019★ 115 cited

Machine learning for long-distance quantum communication

Julius Wallnöfer, Alexey A. Melnikov, Wolfgang Dür +1

Machine learning can help us in solving problems in the context big data analysis and classification, as well as in playing complex games such as Go. But can it also be used to fin…