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quant-ph2010★ 253 cited

Scalable Architecture for a Room Temperature Solid-State Quantum Information Processor

Norman Y. Yao, Liang Jiang, Alexey V. Gorshkov +4

The realization of a scalable quantum information processor has emerged over the past decade as one of the central challenges at the interface of fundamental science and engineerin…

quant-ph2010★ 37 cited

Microwave guiding of electrons on a chip

Johannes Hoffrogge, Roman Fröhlich, Mark A. Kasevich +1

Electrons travelling in free space have allowed to explore fundamental physics like the wave nature of matter, the Aharonov-Bohm and the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect. Complementarily…

quant-ph2010★ 32 cited

Trapping ions with lasers

Cecilia Cormick, Tobias Schaetz, Giovanna Morigi

This work theoretically addresses the trapping an ionized atom with a single valence electron by means of lasers, analyzing qualitatively and quantitatively the consequences of the…

quant-ph2010★ 109 cited

Entanglement distillation by dissipation and continuous quantum repeaters

Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht, Christine A. Muschik, J. Ignacio Cirac

Even though entanglement is very vulnerable to interactions with the environment, it can be created by purely dissipative processes. Yet, the attainable degree of entanglement is p…

quant-ph2010★ 177 cited

Optomechanical sideband cooling of a micromechanical oscillator close to the quantum ground state

Remi Riviere, Samuel Deleglise, Stefan Weis +4

Cooling a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator to its quantum ground state is elementary for the preparation and control of low entropy quantum states of large scale objects. Here, we…

quant-ph2010★ 442 cited

Controlling the quantum stereodynamics of ultracold bimolecular reactions

M. H. G. de Miranda, A. Chotia, B. Neyenhuis +6

Chemical reaction rates often depend strongly on stereodynamics, namely the orientation and movement of molecules in three-dimensional space. An ultracold molecular gas, with a tem…

quant-ph2010★ 228 cited

Optically Levitating Dielectrics in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Protocols

Oriol Romero-Isart, Anika C. Pflanzer, Mathieu L. Juan +4

We provide a general quantum theory to describe the coupling of light with the motion of a dielectric object inside a high finesse optical cavity. In particular, we derive the tota…

quant-ph2010★ 70 cited

Simulating quantum-optical phenomena with cold atoms in optical lattices

Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Inés de Vega, Diego Porras +1

We propose a scheme involving cold atoms trapped in optical lattices to observe different phenomena traditionally linked to quantum-optical systems. The basic idea consists of conn…

quant-ph2010★ 163 cited

Quantum memories based on engineered dissipation

Fernando Pastawski, Lucas Clemente, Juan Ignacio Cirac

Storing quantum information for long times without disruptions is a major requirement for most quantum information technologies. A very appealing approach is to use self-correcting…

quant-ph2010★ 72 cited

Correlation complementarity yields Bell monogamy relations

P. Kurzynski, T. Paterek, R. Ramanathan +2

We present a method to derive Bell monogamy relations by connecting the complementarity principle with quantum non-locality. The resulting monogamy relations are stronger than thos…

quant-ph2010★ 195 cited

Determination of the vacuum optomechanical coupling rate using frequency noise calibration

Michael Gorodetsky, Albert Schliesser, Georg Anetsberger +2

The strength of optomechanical interactions in a cavity optomechanical system can be quantified by a vacuum coupling rate $\vcr$ analogous to cavity quantum electrodynamics. This s…

quant-ph2010★ 7 cited

Dynamical enhancement of spatial entanglement in massive particles

Michael Lubasch, Florian Mintert, Sandro Wimberger

We discuss dynamical enhancement of entanglement in a driven Bose-Hubbard model and find an enhancement of two orders of magnitude which is robust against fluctuations in experimen…

quant-ph2010★ 265 cited

Strong-field above-threshold photoemission from sharp metal tips

Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Peter Hommelhoff

We present energy-resolved measurements of electron emission from sharp metal tips driven with low energy pulses from a few-cycle laser oscillator. We observe above-threshold photo…

quant-ph2010★ 6 cited

Laser Dressed Scattering of an Attosecond Electron Wave Packet

Justin Gagnon, Ferenc Krausz, Vladislav S. Yakovlev

We theoretically investigate the scattering of an attosecond electron wave packet launched by an attosecond pulse under the influence of an infrared laser field. As the electron sc…

quant-ph2010★ 18 cited

Hawking Radiation on an Ion Ring in the Quantum Regime

Birger Horstmann, Ralf Schützhold, Benni Reznik +2

This paper discusses a recent proposal for the simulation of acoustic black holes with ions. The ions are rotating on a ring with an inhomogeneous, but stationary velocity profile.…

quant-ph2010★ 37 cited

Highly-efficient state-selective sub-microsecond photoionization detection of single atoms

Florian Henkel, Michael Krug, Julian Hofmann +3

We experimentally demonstrate a detection scheme suitable for state analysis of single optically trapped atoms in less than 1 μs with an overall detection efficiency η exceeding 98…

quant-ph2010★ 376 cited

Strong and weak thermalization of infinite non-integrable quantum systems

Mari Carmen Bañuls, J. Ignacio Cirac, Matthew B. Hastings

When a non-integrable system evolves out of equilibrium for a long time, local observables are expected to attain stationary expectation values, independent of the details of the i…

quant-ph2010★ 156 cited

Dissipatively driven entanglement of two macroscopic atomic ensembles

Christine A. Muschik, Eugene S. Polzik, J. Ignacio Cirac

Up to date, the life time of experimentally demonstrated entangled states has been limited, due to their fragility under decoherence and dissipation. Therefore, they are created un…

quant-ph2010★ 1.7k cited

Optomechanically induced transparency

S. Weis, R. Riviere, S. Deleglise +4

Coherent interaction of laser radiation with multilevel atoms and molecules can lead to quantum interference in the electronic excitation pathways. A prominent example observed in…

quant-ph2010★ 69 cited

Feedback Cooling of a Single Neutral Atom

Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Alexander Kubanek +5

We demonstrate feedback cooling of the motion of a single rubidium atom trapped in a high-finesse optical resonator to a temperature of about 160 μK. Time-dependent transmission an…

quant-ph2010★ 32 cited

Optimized magnetic lattices for ultracold atomic ensembles

Roman Schmied, Dietrich Leibfried, Robert J. C. Spreeuw +1

We introduce a general method for designing tailored lattices of magnetic microtraps for ultracold atoms, on the basis of patterned permanently magnetized films. A fast numerical a…

quant-ph2010★ 23 cited

Effects of dissipation in an adiabatic quantum search algorithm

Ines de Vega, Mari Carmen Bañuls, A. Pérez

We consider the effect of two different environments on the performance of the quantum adiabatic search algorithm, a thermal bath at finite temperature, and a structured environmen…

quant-ph2010★ 594 cited

Fisher information and multiparticle entanglement

Philipp Hyllus, Wiesław Laskowski, Roland Krischek +5

The Fisher information gives a limit to the ultimate precision achievable in a phase estimation protocol. It has been shown recently that the Fisher information for a linear tw…

quant-ph2010★ 592 cited

Entanglement generated by dissipation and steady state entanglement of two macroscopic objects

Hanna Krauter, Christine A. Muschik, Kasper Jensen +4

Entanglement is a striking feature of quantum mechanics and an essential ingredient in most applications in quantum information. Typically, coupling of a system to an environment i…