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quant-ph2026★ 2 cited

Spin-induced multipartite steady-state entanglement of motional modes in hexagonal boron nitride membranes

Nahid Yazdi, Vahid Salari, Roohollah Ghobadi

In this paper, we focus on a scheme in which three high-quality-factor mechanical modes of a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) membrane monolayer are coupled to a common optically addr…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Phase-space negativity as a computational resource for quantum kernel methods

Ulysse Chabaud, Roohollah Ghobadi, Salman Beigi +1

Quantum kernel methods are a proposal for achieving quantum computational advantage in machine learning. They are based on a hybrid classical-quantum computation where a function c…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

The Power of One Clean Qubit in Supervised Machine Learning

Mahsa Karimi, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Christoph Simon +1

This paper explores the potential benefits of quantum coherence and quantum discord in the non-universal quantum computing model called deterministic quantum computing with one qub…

q-bio.NC2022★ 21 cited

Photons guided by axons may enable backpropagation-based learning in the brain

Parisa Zarkeshian, Taylor Kergan, Roohollah Ghobadi +2

Despite great advances in explaining synaptic plasticity and neuron function, a complete understanding of the brain's learning algorithms is still missing. Artificial neural networ…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Proposal for room-temperature quantum repeaters with nitrogen-vacancy centers and optomechanics

Jia-Wei Ji, Yu-Feng Wu, Stephen C. Wein +3

We propose a quantum repeater architecture that can operate under ambient conditions. Our proposal builds on recent progress towards non-cryogenic spin-photon interfaces based on n…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Non-Classical Kernels in Continuous Variable Systems

Roohollah Ghobadi

Kernel methods are ubiquitous in classical machine learning, and recently their formal similarity with quantum mechanics has been established. To grasp the potential advantage of q…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Proposal for room-temperature quantum repeaters with nitrogen-vacancy centers and optomechanics

Jia-Wei Ji, Yu-Feng Wu, Stephen C. Wein +3

We propose a quantum repeater architecture that can operate under ambient conditions. Our proposal builds on recent progress towards non-cryogenic spin-photon interfaces based on n…

quant-ph2020★ 21 cited

Analyzing photon-count heralded entanglement generation between solid-state spin qubits by decomposing the master equation dynamics

Stephen C. Wein, Jia-Wei Ji, Yu-Feng Wu +3

We analyze and compare three different schemes that can be used to generate entanglement between spin qubits in optically-active single solid-state quantum systems. Each scheme is…

quant-ph2019★ 24 cited

Optomechanical Detection of Light with Orbital Angular Momentum

Hamidreza Kaviani, Roohollah Ghobadi, Bishnupada Behera +5

We present an optomechanical device designed to allow optical transduction of orbital angular momentum of light. An optically induced twist imparted on the device by light is detec…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

The Power of One Qubit in Machine Learning

Roohollah Ghobadi, Jaspreet S. Oberoi, Ehsan Zahedinejhad

Kernel methods are used extensively in classical machine learning, especially in the field of pattern analysis. In this paper, we propose a kernel-based quantum machine learning al…

quant-ph2017★ 12 cited

Towards a Room-Temperature Spin-Photon Interface based on Nitrogen-Vacancy centers and Optomechanics

Roohollah Ghobadi, Stephen Wein, Hamidreza Kaviani +2

The implementation of quantum networks involving quantum memories and photonic channels without the need for cryogenics would be a major technological breakthrough. Nitrogen-vacanc…

quant-ph2017★ 44 cited

Feasibility of efficient room-temperature solid-state sources of indistinguishable single photons using ultrasmall mode volume cavities

Stephen Wein, Nikolai Lauk, Roohollah Ghobadi +1

Highly efficient sources of indistinguishable single photons that can operate at room temperature would be very beneficial for many applications in quantum technology. We show that…

quant-ph2015★ 33 cited

Full-quantum light diode

Filippo Fratini, Roohollah Ghobadi

Unidirectional light transport in one-dimensional nanomaterials at the quantum level is a crucial goal to achieve for upcoming computational devices. We here employ a full-quantum…

quant-ph2014★ 18 cited

Strong micro-macro entanglement from a weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity

Tian Wang, Hon Wai Lau, Hamidreza Kaviani +2

We study the entanglement generated by a weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity between two initial coherent states, one of which has an amplitude close to the single-photon level, while the…

quant-ph2014★ 86 cited

Opto-mechanical micro-macro entanglement

R. Ghobadi, S. Kumar, B. Pepper +3

We propose to create and detect opto-mechanical entanglement by storing one component of an entangled state of light in a mechanical resonator and then retrieving it. Using micro-m…

quant-ph2013★ 1 cited

Can coarse measurements reveal macroscopic quantum effects?

Tian Wang, Roohollah Ghobadi, Sadegh Raeisi +1

It has recently been conjectured that detecting quantum effects such as superposition or entanglement for macroscopic systems always requires high measurement precision. Analyzing…

quant-ph2012★ 26 cited

Creating and detecting micro-macro photon-number entanglement by amplifying and de-amplifying a single-photon entangled state

Roohollah Ghobadi, Alexander Lvovsky, Christoph Simon

We propose a scheme for the observation of micro-macro entanglement in photon number based on amplifying and de-amplifying a single-photon entangled state in combination with homod…

quant-ph2012★ 14 cited

Macroscopic superpositions via nested interferometry: finite temperature and decoherence considerations

Brian Pepper, Evan Jeffrey, Roohollah Ghobadi +2

Recently there has been much interest in optomechanical devices for the production of macroscopic quantum states. Here we focus on a proposed scheme for achieving macroscopic super…

quant-ph2012★ 2 cited

Demonstrating macroscopic entanglement based on Kerr non-linearities requires extreme phase resolution

Roohollah Ghobadi, Sadegh Raeisi, Christoph Simon

Entangled coherent states, which can in principle be created using strong Kerr non-linearities, allow the violation of Bell inequalities for very coarse-grained measurements. This…

quant-ph2011★ 116 cited

Optomechanical superpositions via nested interferometry

Brian Pepper, Roohollah Ghobadi, Evan Jeffrey +2

We present a scheme for achieving macroscopic quantum superpositions in optomechanical systems by using single photon postselection and detecting them with nested interferometers.…

quant-ph2011★ 31 cited

Optomechanical Entanglement in the Presence of Laser Phase Noise

R. Ghobadi, A. R. Bahrampour, C. Simon

We study the simplest optomechanical system in the presence of laser phase noise using the covariance matrix formalism. We show that the destructive effect of the phase noise is es…