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most citedDetecting single gravitons with quantum sensing

60 citations · 401 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

quant-ph2026

The Transient Counting Statistics of Autonomous Quantum Clocks

Oscar Arandes, Sreenath K. Manikandan

At the heart of every atomic clock is a quantum coherent emitter, the laser, that could in principle be treated autonomously. While their frequency or phase stability is typically…

quant-ph2026

Correlated Quantum Sensing at the Seemingly Classical Limit

K. P. Athulya, Sreenath K. Manikandan

It is a difficult task to detect the indivisible quanta of weakly interacting radiation fields, and even more challenging to probe their quantum statistics. Nevertheless, if barely…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Sensing with Joint Emitter-Fluorescence Measurements

Yuliya Bilinskaya, Sreenath K. Manikandan

We present an analytically tractable model of a driven quantum harmonic emitter, such as an oscillating charged dipole, emitting radiation via resonance fluorescence. With this mod…

quant-ph2026

Signatures of coherent initial ensembles on all work moments

Pranay Nayak, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Tan Van Vu +1

Standard treatments of quantum work using projective energy measurements erase initial coherence and alter the dynamics, thereby failing to capture the thermodynamic effects of coh…

quant-ph2025

Detector Correlations and Null Tests of the Coherent State Hypothesis

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Frank Wilczek

We discuss the statistics of correlations between two resonant detectors. We show that this allows simple null tests of the coherent state hypothesis, free of vacuum (quantum) nois…

gr-qc2025

Squeezed Quasinormal Modes from Nonlinear Gravitational Effects

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Frank Wilczek

We estimate the degree of squeezing possible in gravitational waves due to nonlinear gravitational effects in the weakly perturbative regime. Using the predicted amplitude ratios f…

gr-qc2025

Complementary Probes of Gravitational Radiation States

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Frank Wilczek

We demonstrate that the statistical fluctuations in resonant radiation detectors operating in homodyne and heterodyne modes offers additional, complementary information to that obt…

gr-qc2025

Probing Quantum Structure in Gravitational Radiation

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Frank Wilczek

Gravitational radiation from known astrophysical sources is conventionally treated classically. This treatment corresponds, implicitly, to the hypothesis that a particular class of…

quant-ph2025★ 7 cited

Revealing the fuel of a quantum continuous measurement-based refrigerator

Cyril Elouard, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Andrew N. Jordan +1

While quantum measurements have been shown to constitute a resource for operating quantum thermal machines, the nature of the energy exchanges involved in the interaction between s…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Measurement Induced Radiative Processes in Continuously Monitored Optical Environments

Eldhose Benny, Sreenath K. Manikandan

We investigate the emission characteristics of a measurement-driven quantum emitter in a continuously monitored optical environment. The quantum emitter is stimulated by observing…

quant-ph2024

Testing the Coherent State Description of Radiation Fields

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Frank Wilczek

We propose simple quantitative criteria, based on counting statistics in resonant harmonic detectors, that probe the quantum mechanical character of radiation fields. They provide,…

gr-qc2024

Stimulated absorption of single gravitons: First light on quantum gravity

Victoria Shenderov, Mark Kanex, Thomas Beitel +3

In a recent work we showed that the detection of the exchange of a single graviton between a massive quantum resonator and a gravitational wave can be achieved. Key to this ability…

quant-ph2023★ 60 cited

Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing

Germain Tobar, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Thomas Beitel +1

The quantization of gravity is widely believed to result in gravitons -- particles of discrete energy that form gravitational waves. But their detection has so far been considered…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 4 cited

Cyclic Superconducting Quantum Refrigerators Using Guided Fluxon Propagation

Tathagata Karmakar, Étienne Jussiau, Sreenath K. Manikandan +1

We propose cyclic quantum refrigeration in solid-state, employing a gas of magnetic field vortices in a type-II superconductor -- also known as fluxons -- as the cooling agent. Ref…

quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Autonomous quantum clocks using athermal resources

Sreenath K. Manikandan

Here we explore the possibility of precise time-keeping in quantum systems using athermal resources. We show that quantum measurement engineered reservoirs can be used as athermal…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Thermodynamics of Quantum Measurement and the Demon's Arrow of Time

Kagan Yanik, Bibek Bhandari, Sreenath K. Manikandan +1

We discuss the thermodynamic aspects of a single qubit based device, powered by weak quantum measurements, and feedback controlled by a quantum Maxwell's demon. We discuss both dis…

quant-ph2022★ 14 cited

Optimal quantum parametric feedback cooling

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Sofia Qvarfort

We propose an optimal protocol using phase-preserving quantum measurements and phase-dependent modulations of the trapping potential at parametric resonance to cool a quantum oscil…

gr-qc2021★ 8 cited

New Kind of Echo from Quantum Black Holes

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Karthik Rajeev

We propose that a quantum black hole can produce a new kind of late-time gravitational echoes, facilitated by a near-horizon process analogous to Andreev reflection in condensed ma…

quant-ph2021★ 38 cited

Efficiently Fuelling a Quantum Engine with Incompatible Measurements

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Cyril Elouard, Kater W. Murch +2

We propose a quantum harmonic oscillator measurement engine fueled by simultaneous quantum measurements of the non-commuting position and momentum quadratures of the quantum oscill…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 3 cited

Thermal control across a chain of electronic nanocavities

Étienne Jussiau, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Bibek Bhandari +1

We study a chain of alternating hot and cold electronic nanocavities -- connected to one another via resonant-tunneling quantum dots -- with the intent of achieving precise thermal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 31 cited

Autonomous quantum absorption refrigerators

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Étienne Jussiau, Andrew N. Jordan

We propose a quantum absorption refrigerator using the quantum physics of resonant tunneling through quantum dots. The cold and hot reservoirs are fermionic leads, tunnel coupled v…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Quantum erasing the memory of Wigner's friend

Cyril Elouard, Philippe Lewalle, Sreenath K. Manikandan +3

The Wigner's friend paradox concerns one of the most puzzling problems of quantum mechanics: the consistent description of multiple nested observers. Recently, a variation of Wigne…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Black holes as Andreev reflecting mirrors

Sreenath K. Manikandan, Andrew N. Jordan

We propose a microscopic quantum description for Hawking radiation as Andreev reflections, which resolves the quantum information paradox at black hole event horizons. The detailed…

quant-ph2020

Wave-Particle Duality Controlled by Single-Photon Self-Entanglement

X. -F. Qian, K. Konthasinghe, S. K. Manikandan +3

We experimentally observe that quantum duality of a single photon is controlled by its self-entanglement through a three-way quantum coherence identity . Here V, D,…