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most citedSecond-Order Topological Phases in Non-Hermitian Systems

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quant-ph2026

Operation Mpemba effect: Breakdown of resource-Markovianity of free dynamics

Tian-Ren Jin, Yu-Ran Zhang, Heng Fan

The Mpemba effect refers to faster relaxation of states that are initially farther from equilibrium, yet its characterization is often tied to a chosen distance or resource measure…

quant-ph2026

Programmable spectral symmetries in an anisotropic quantum Rabi simulator

Jia-Cheng Song, Yu Liu, Ming-Chuan Wang +28

The quantum Rabi model captures fundamental aspects of light--matter interaction, where symmetry dictates both spectra and dynamics. Over the past years, experiments have explored…

quant-ph2025

Generalized Entanglement of Purification Criteria for 2-Producible States in Multipartite Systems

Tian-Ren Jin, Yu-Ran Zhang, Heng Fan

Multipartite entanglement has a much more complex structure than bipartite entanglement. A state that lacks generic multipartite entanglement is 2-producible, i.e. it can be writte…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Observation and Modulation of the Quantum Mpemba Effect on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Yueshan Xu, Cai-Ping Fang, Bing-Jie Chen +33

In non-equilibrium quantum systems, the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) emerges as a counterintuitive phenomenon: systems exhibiting greater initial symmetry breaking restore symmetry…

quant-ph2025

Characterizing Many-body Dynamics with Projected Ensembles on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Zhiguang Yan, Zi-Yong Ge, Rui Li +3

Quantum simulators offer a new opportunity for the experimental exploration of non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics, which have traditionally been characterized through expec…

quant-ph2025

Non-Hermitian sensing from the perspective of post-selected measurements

Neng Zeng, Tao Liu, Keyu Xia +2

By employing the Naimark dilation, we establish a fundamental connection between non-Hermitian quantum sensing and post-selected measurements. The sensitivity of non-Hermitian quan…

quant-ph2025★ 5 cited

Prethermalization by Random Multipolar Driving on a 78-Qubit Superconducting Processor

Zheng-He Liu, Yu Liu, Gui-Han Liang +43

Time-dependent drives hold the promise of realizing non-equilibrium many-body phenomena that are absent in undriven systems. Yet, drive-induced heating normally destabilizes the sy…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Versatile Control of Nonlinear Topological States in Non-Hermitian Systems

Zhao-Fan Cai, Yu-Chun Wang, Yu-Ran Zhang +2

The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and nonlinearity can both delocalize topological modes (TMs) from the interface. However, the NHSE requires precise parameter tuning, while non…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Noisy Probabilistic Error Cancellation and Generalized Physical Implementability

Tian-Ren Jin, Kai Xu, Yu-Ran Zhang +1

Decoherence severely limits the performance of quantum processors, posing challenges to reliable quantum computation. Probabilistic error cancellation, a quantum error mitigation m…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

High-order topological pumping on a superconducting quantum processor

Cheng-Lin Deng, Yu Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang +21

High-order topological phases of matter refer to the systems of -dimensional bulk with the topology of -th order, exhibiting -dimensional boundary modes and can be cha…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Dynamics of quantum coherence in many-body localized systems

Jin-Jun Chen, Kai Xu, Li-Hang Ren +2

We demonstrate that the dynamics of quantum coherence serves as an effective probe for identifying dephasing, which is a distinctive signature of many-body localization (MBL). Quan…

quant-ph2024★ 22 cited

Interplay between disorder and topology in Thouless pumping on a superconducting quantum processor

Yu Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Yun-Hao Shi +24

Topological phases are robust against weak perturbations, but break down when disorder becomes sufficiently strong. However, moderate disorder can also induce topologically nontriv…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Recovery of damaged information via scrambling in indefinite casual order

Tian-Ren Jin, Tian-Ming Li, Zheng-An Wang +3

Scrambling prevents the access to local information with local operators and therefore can be used to protect quantum information from damage caused by local perturbations. Even th…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Probing spin hydrodynamics on a superconducting quantum simulator

Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang +20

Characterizing the nature of hydrodynamical transport properties in quantum dynamics provides valuable insights into the fundamental understanding of exotic non-equilibrium phases…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Variational generation of spin squeezing on one-dimensional quantum devices with nearest-neighbor interactions

Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang, Yu-Ran Zhang +2

Efficient preparation of spin-squeezed states is important for quantum-enhanced metrology. Current protocols for generating strong spin squeezing rely on either high dimensionality…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Logarithmic light cone, slow entanglement growth, and quantum memory

Yu Zeng, Alioscia Hamma, Yu-Ran Zhang +4

Effective light cones, characterized by Lieb-Robinson bounds, emerge in nonrelativistic local quantum systems. Here, we present several analytical results derived from logarithmic…

quant-ph2023

Metrological detection of multipartite entanglement through dynamical symmetries

Yu-Ran Zhang, Franco Nori

Multipartite entanglement, characterized by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), plays a central role in quantum-enhanced metrology and understanding quantum many-body physics. Wi…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Nonmesonic Quantum Many-Body Scars in a 1D Lattice Gauge Theory

Zi-Yong Ge, Yu-Ran Zhang, Franco Nori

We investigate the meson excitations (particle-antiparticle bound states) in quantum many-body scars of a 1D lattice gauge theory coupled to a dynamical spin-$\frac{…

quant-ph2022★ 45 cited

Quantum simulation of topological zero modes on a 41-qubit superconducting processor

Yun-Hao Shi, Yu Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang +21

Quantum simulation of different exotic topological phases of quantum matter on a noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processor is attracting growing interest. Here, we develop…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Bounded light cone and robust topological order out of equilibrium

Yu Zeng, Alioscia Hamma, Yu-Ran Zhang +3

The ground state degeneracy of topologically ordered gapped Hamiltonians is the bedrock for self-correcting quantum memories, which are unfortunately not stable away from equilibri…

quant-ph2022★ 50 cited

Simulating Chern insulators on a superconducting quantum processor

Zhong-Cheng Xiang, Kaixuan Huang, Yu-Ran Zhang +16

The quantum Hall effect, fundamental in modern condensed matter physics, continuously inspires new theories and predicts emergent phases of matter. Here we experimentally demonstra…

quant-ph2022★ 59 cited

Observation of a superradiant phase transition with emergent cat states

Ri-Hua Zheng, Wen Ning, Ye-Hong Chen +15

Superradiant phase transitions (SPTs) are important for understanding light-matter interactions at the quantum level, and play a central role in criticality-enhanced quantum sensin…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

Multipartite entanglement of the topologically ordered state in a perturbed toric code

Yu-Ran Zhang, Yu Zeng, Tao Liu +3

We demonstrate that multipartite entanglement, witnessed by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), can characterize topological quantum phase transitions in the spin- t…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

Deterministic one-way logic gates on a cloud quantum computer

Zhi-Peng Yang, Alakesh Baishya, Huan-Yu Ku +6

One-way quantum computing is a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here, we propose new protocols to realize a deterministic one-way CNOT gate and one-way …