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20142026
most citedNear ground-state cooling of two-dimensional trapped-ion crystals with more than 100 ions

74 citations · 326 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

quant-ph2026

Non-Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Quantum Sensors for Quantum Parameter Estimation

Naga Dileep Varikuti, Sourav Manna, Athreya Shankar +2

Non-KAM (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) systems, when subjected to weak time-dependent perturbations, exhibit an abrupt transition to classical chaos through the breakdown of invariant p…

quant-ph2026

Quantum-enhanced single and multiparameter metrology in qutrit ensembles by generalized twisting dynamics

Deep Datta, Sayam Chakraborty, John Drew Wilson +2

Quantum-enhanced sensing with atomic ensembles has predominantly focused on qubit-based protocols, despite the growing ability of many experimental platforms to coherently control…

quant-ph2026

Programmable coherent site-selective spin control in rotating Penning-trap ion crystals

Nihar Makadia, Julian Y. Z. Jee, Gustavo Café de Miranda +4

Large ion crystals in Penning traps provide a platform for quantum simulation and sensing with hundreds of spins, but their continuous rigid-body rotation has so far limited flexib…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Beam-Splitter Cooling and Thermometry in Large Trapped-Ion Crystals

Kirthik Rajakumar, Ansh Das, Abhinay Pandey +1

We propose and characterize a protocol for rapid near-ground state cooling of the center-of-mass (c.m.) mode of a large trapped ion crystal. When the initial mean thermal occupatio…

quant-ph2026

Dynamical aspects of steady-state subradiance: Detailed balance and its breakdown

Athreya Shankar, Simon B. Jäger, Jarrod T. Reilly +3

The dynamics of dissipative many-body quantum systems sometimes admit an emergent classical description in terms of a Markov chain even though the corresponding state space contain…

quant-ph2026

Experimental realisation of topological spin textures in a Penning trap

Julian Y. Z. Jee, Nihar Makadia, Joseph H. Pham +4

Quantum simulation with controllable many-body platforms offers a powerful route to exploring complex phases and dynamics that are difficult to access in natural materials. Among t…

quant-ph2026

Optimizing Doppler laser cooling protocols for quantum sensing with 3D ion crystals in a Penning trap

John Zaris, Wes Johnson, Athreya Shankar +4

Large, 3D trapped ion crystals offer improved sensitivity in quantum sensing protocols, and are expected to be implemented as platforms in near-future experiments. However, numeric…

quant-ph2026

Many-Body Effects in Dark-State Laser Cooling

Muhammad Miskeen Khan, David Wellnitz, Bhuvanesh Sundar +6

We develop a unified many-body theory of two-photon dark-state laser cooling, the workhorse for preparing trapped ions close to their motional quantum ground state. For ions with a…

quant-ph2025

Collective Vibronic Cascade in Cavity-Coupled Jahn-Teller Active Molecules

Suraj Kumar Pandit, Abhinay Pandey, Athreya Shankar +1

We study the polaritonic states and dynamics of multiple Jahn-Teller (JT) active molecules coupled to the modes of a Fabry-Perot cavity. We find that collective effects dramaticall…

quant-ph2025

Optimal Displacement Sensing with Spin-Dependent Squeezed States

Liam J. Bond, Christophe H. Valahu, Athreya Shankar +2

Displacement sensing is a fundamental task in metrology. However, the development of quantum-enhanced sensors that fully utilize the available degrees of freedom in many-body quant…

quant-ph2025

Parametric Amplification of Spin-Motion Coupling in Three-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Crystals

Samarth Hawaldar, N. Nikhil, Ana Maria Rey +2

Three-dimensional (3D) crystals offer a route to scale up trapped ion systems for quantum sensing and quantum simulation applications. However, engineering coherent spin-motion cou…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Adiabatic Cooling of Planar Motion in a Penning Trap Ion Crystal to Sub-Millikelvin Temperatures

Wes Johnson, Bryce Bullock, Athreya Shankar +3

Two-dimensional planar ion crystals in a Penning trap are a platform for quantum information science experiments. However, the low-frequency planar modes of these crystals are not…

quant-ph2025

Impedance-Engineered Josephson Parametric Amplifier with Single-Step Lithography

Lipi Patel, Samarth Hawaldar, Aditya Panikkar +2

We present the experimental demonstration of an impedance-engineered Josephson parametric amplifier (IEJPA) fabricated in a single-step lithography process. Impedance engineering i…

physics.atom-ph2025

Multilevel Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Cooling

Katya Fouka, Athreya Shankar, Ting Rei Tan +1

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) cooling is a well-established method for preparing trapped ion systems in their motional ground state. However, isolating a three-lev…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Lieb-Mattis states for robust entangled differential phase sensing

Raphael Kaubruegger, Diego Fallas Padilla, Athreya Shankar +9

We explore a two-node, entanglement-enhanced sensor network for differential phase sensing that exploits decoherence-free subspaces to suppress common-mode noise, a primary limitat…

quant-ph2024

Scalable High-Dimensional Multipartite Entanglement with Trapped Ions

Harsh Vardhan Upadhyay, Sanket Kumar Tripathy, Ting Rei Tan +2

We propose a protocol for the preparation of generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states of atoms each with or internal levels. We generalize the celebrated…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Numerical Simulations of 3D Ion Crystal Dynamics in a Penning Trap using the Fast Multipole Method

John Zaris, Wes Johnson, Athreya Shankar +2

We simulate the dynamics, including laser cooling, of 3D ion crystals confined in a Penning trap using a newly developed molecular dynamics-like code. The numerical integration of…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Synchronization and Dissipative Quantum Sensing

Gaurav M. Vaidya, Simon B. Jäger, Athreya Shankar

We study the phenomenon of quantum synchronization from the viewpoint of quantum metrology. By interpreting quantum self-sustained oscillators as dissipative quantum sensors, we de…

quant-ph2024

Optimal Multiparameter Metrology: The Quantum Compass Solution

Denis V. Vasilyev, Athreya Shankar, Raphael Kaubruegger +1

We study optimal quantum sensing of multiple physical parameters using repeated measurements. In this scenario, the Fisher information framework sets the fundamental limits on sens…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Bilayer crystals of trapped ions for quantum information processing

Samarth Hawaldar, Prakriti Shahi, Allison L. Carter +3

Trapped ion systems are a leading platform for quantum information processing, but they are currently limited to 1D and 2D arrays, which imposes restrictions on both their scalabil…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Rapid cooling of the in-plane motion of two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap to millikelvin temperatures

Wes Johnson, Athreya Shankar, John Zaris +2

We propose a highly feasible technique with no experimental overhead to rapidly cool the in-plane degrees of freedom of large two-dimensional ion crystals in Penning traps. Through…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Exploring Quantum Synchronization with a Composite Two-Qubit Oscillator

Gaurav M. Vaidya, Arvind Mamgain, Samarth Hawaldar +4

Synchronization has recently been explored deep in the quantum regime with elementary few-level quantum oscillators such as qudits and weakly pumped quantum Van der Pol oscillators…

quant-ph2023★ 49 cited

Optimal and Variational Multi-Parameter Quantum Metrology and Vector Field Sensing

Raphael Kaubruegger, Athreya Shankar, Denis V. Vasilyev +1

We study multi-parameter sensing of 2D and 3D vector fields within the Bayesian framework for quantum interferometry. We establish a method to determine the optimal quantum…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Characterising Polariton States in Non-Dispersive Regime of Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Arvind Mamgain, Samarth Hawaldar, Athreya Shankar +1

A superconducting qubit coupled to a read-out resonator is currently the building block of multiple quantum computing as well as quantum optics experiments. A typical qubit-resonat…