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most citedQuantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms

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cond-mat.str-el2010★ 38 cited

Modified spin-wave theory with ordering vector optimization II: Spatially anisotropic triangular lattice and model with Heisenberg interactions

Philipp Hauke, Tommaso Roscilde, Valentin Murg +2

We study the ground state phases of the Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet on the spatially anisotropic triangular lattice and on the square lattice with up to next-next-ne…

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…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 17 cited

Creating exotic condensates via quantum-phase-revival dynamics in engineered lattice potentials

M. Buchhold, U. Bissbort, S. Will +1

In the field of ultracold atoms in optical lattices a plethora of phenomena governed by the hopping energy and the interaction energy have been studied in recent years. How…

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…

cond-mat.stat-mech2010★ 211 cited

Robustness of a perturbed topological phase

S. Dusuel, M. Kamfor, R. Orus +2

We investigate the stability of the topological phase of the toric code model in the presence of a uniform magnetic field by means of variational and high-order series expansion ap…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 14 cited

Variational study of a mobile hole in a two dimensional quantum antiferromagnet using entangled-plaquette states

Fabio Mezzacapo

We study the properties of a mobile hole in the model on the square lattice by means of variational Monte Carlo simulations based on the entangled-plaquette ansatz. Our energ…

physics.optics2010★ 188 cited

Optomechanical coupling in a two-dimensional photonic crystal defect cavity

Emanuel Gavartin, Remy Braive, Isabelle Sagnes +4

Periodically structured materials can sustain both optical and mechanical modes. Here we investigate and observe experimentally the optomechanical properties of a conventional two-…

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…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 81 cited

Coherent Interaction of a Single Fermion with a Small Bosonic Field

Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Simon Braun +2

We have experimentally studied few-body impurity systems consisting of a single fermionic atom and a small bosonic field on the sites of an optical lattice. Quantum phase revival s…

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…

cond-mat.quant-gas2010★ 26 cited

Effect of interactions on harmonically confined Bose-Fermi mixtures in optical lattices

Michiel Snoek, Irakli Titvinidze, Immanuel Bloch +1

We investigate a Bose-Fermi mixture in a three-dimensional optical lattice, trapped in a harmonic potential. Using Generalized Dynamical Mean-Field theory, which treats the Bose-Bo…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 16 cited

Phase diagram of the SO(n) bilinear-biquadratic chain from many-body entanglement

Roman Orus, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Hong-Hao Tu

Here we investigate the phase diagram of the SO(n) bilinear-biquadratic quantum spin chain by studying the global quantum correlations of the ground state. We consider the cases of…

cond-mat.str-el2010★ 794 cited

Classifying quantum phases using Matrix Product States and PEPS

Norbert Schuch, David Perez-Garcia, Ignacio Cirac

We give a classification of gapped quantum phases of one-dimensional systems in the framework of Matrix Product States (MPS) and their associated parent Hamiltonians, for systems w…

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…

physics.atom-ph2010★ 70 cited

Imaging of microwave fields using ultracold atoms

Pascal Boehi, Max F. Riedel, Theodor W. Haensch +1

We report a technique that uses clouds of ultracold atoms as sensitive, tunable, and non-invasive probes for microwave field imaging with micrometer spatial resolution. The microwa…

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…

physics.plasm-ph2010

Dynamics of Nanometer-Scale Foil Targets Irradiated with Relativistically Intense Laser Pulses

R. Hörlein, S. Steinke, A. Henig +15

In this letter we report on an experimental study of high harmonic radiation generated in nanometer-scale foil targets irradiated under normal incidence. The experiments constitute…