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Entropy production and non-Gaussianity of fast processes at weak damping
Mario A. Ciampini, Jakob Rieser, Nikolai Kiesel +1
We present a method of estimating the rate of entropy production in underdamped dynamics by decomposing it into contributions originating in different non-equilibrium effects. Spec…
Free expansion of a charged nanoparticle via electrostatic compensation
David Steiner, Yaakov Y. Fein, Gregor Meier +5
Coherent wavepacket expansion is a key component of recent proposals aiming to create non-classical states of a levitated dielectric nanoparticle. Free evolution, i.e., releasing t…
Feedback stabilization of a nanoparticle at the intensity minimum of an optical double-well potential
Vojtěch Mlynář, Salambô Dago, Jakob Rieser +5
In this work, we develop and analyze adaptive feedback control strategies to stabilize and confine a nanoparticle at the unstable intensity minimum of an optical double-well potent…
Roadmap on Quantum Thermodynamics
Steve Campbell, Irene D'Amico, Mario A. Ciampini +66
The last two decades has seen quantum thermodynamics become a well established field of research in its own right. In that time, it has demonstrated a remarkably broad applicabilit…
Stabilizing nanoparticles in the intensity minimum: feedback levitation on an inverted potential
Salambô Dago, Jakob Rieser, Mario A. Ciampini +5
We demonstrate the stable trapping of a levitated nanoparticle on top of an inverted potential using a combination of optical readout and electrostatic control. The feedback levita…
Hollow-core fiber loading of nanoparticles into ultra-high vacuum
Stefan Lindner, Paul Juschitz, Jakob Rieser +4
Many experiments in the field of optical levitation with nanoparticles today are limited by the available technologies for particle loading. Here we introduce a new particle loadin…
Quantifying protocol efficiency: a thermodynamic figure of merit for classical and quantum state-transfer protocols
Qiongyuan Wu, Mario A. Ciampini, Mauro Paternostro +1
Manipulating quantum systems undergoing non-Gaussian dynamics in a fast and accurate manner is becoming fundamental to many quantum applications. Here, we focus on classical and qu…
Fast Quantum Interference of a Nanoparticle via Optical Potential Control
Lukas Neumeier, Mario A. Ciampini, Oriol Romero-Isart +2
We introduce and theoretically analyze a scheme to prepare and detect non-Gaussian quantum states of an optically levitated particle via the interaction with a light pulse that gen…
Observation of strong and tunable light-induced dipole-dipole interactions between optically levitated nanoparticles
Jakob Rieser, Mario A. Ciampini, Henning Rudolph +5
Arrays of optically trapped nanoparticles have emerged as a promising platform for the study of complex non-equilibrium phenomena. Analogous to atomic many-body systems, one of the…
Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics of a particle trapped in a controllable time-varying potential
Qiongyuan Wu, Luca Mancino, Matteo Carlesso +4
Many advanced quantum techniques feature non-Gaussian dynamics, and the ability to manipulate the system in that domain is the next-stage in many experiments. One example of meanin…
Experimental nonequilibrium memory erasure beyond Landauer's bound
Mario A. Ciampini, Tobias Wenzl, Michael Konopik +4
The clean world of digital information is based on noisy physical devices. Landauer's principle provides a deep connection between information processing and the underlying thermod…
Experimental Lower Bounds to the Classical Capacity of Quantum Channels
Mario A. Ciampini, Álvaro Cuevas, Paolo Mataloni +2
We show an experimental procedure to certify the classical capacity for noisy qubit channels. The method makes use of a fixed bipartite entangled state, where the system qubit is s…
Stimulated Emission Tomography: Beyond Polarization
Mario Arnolfo Ciampini, Andrea Geraldi, Valeria Cimini +4
In this work we demonstrate the use of stimulated emission tomography to characterize a hyper-entangled state generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a CW-pumped sou…
Experimental signature of Quantum Darwinism in photonic cluster states
Mario A. Ciampini, Giorgia Pinna, Paolo Mataloni +1
We report on an experimental assessment of the emergence of Quantum Darwinism (QD) from engineered open-system dynamics. We use a photonic hyperentangled source of graph states to…
Visualising multiqubit correlatons using the Wigner function
Todd Tilma, Mario A. Ciampini, Mark J. Everitt +4
Quantum engineering now allows to design and construct multi-qubit states in a range of physical systems. These states are typically quite complex in nature, with disparate, but re…
Structure of multipartite entanglement in random cluster-like photonic systems
Mario Arnolfo Ciampini, Paolo Mataloni, Mauro Paternostro
Quantum networks are natural scenarios for the communication of information among distributed parties, and the arena of promising schemes for distributed quantum computation. Measu…
Optimal measurements for simultaneous quantum estimation of multiple phases
Luca Pezzè, Mario A. Ciampini, Nicolò Spagnolo +6
A quantum theory of multiphase estimation is crucial for quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging and may link quantum metrology to more complex quantum computation and communication p…
Experimental detection of quantum channel capacities
Álvaro Cuevas, Massimiliano Proietti, Mario Arnolfo Ciampini +4
We present an effcient experimental procedure that certifies non vanishing quantum capacities for qubit noisy channels. Our method is based on the use of a fixed bipartite entangle…
Experimental nonlocality-based network diagnostics of mutipartite entangled states
Mario A. Ciampini, Caterina Vigliar, Valeria Cimini +8
Quantum networks of growing complexity play a key role as resources for quantum computation; the ability to identify the quality of their internal correlations will play a crucial…
Path-polarization hyperentangled and cluster states of photons on a chip
Mario A. Ciampini, Adeline Orieux, Stefano Paesani +6
Encoding many qubits in different degrees of freedom (DOFs) of single photons is one of the routes towards enlarging the Hilbert space spanned by a photonic quantum state. Hyperent…
Experimental entanglement-enhanced work extraction based on a Maxwell's demon
Mario A. Ciampini, Luca Mancino, Adeline Orieux +4
The relation between the theory of entanglement and thermodynamics is very tight: a thermodynamic theory of quantum entanglement, as well as the establishment of rigorous formal co…
Quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation in multiarm interferometers
Mario A. Ciampini, Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli +3
Quantum metrology is the state-of-the-art measurement technology. It uses quantum resources to enhance the sensitivity of phase estimation beyond what reachable within classical ph…
Experimental generation of entanglement from classical correlations via non-unital local noise
Adeline Orieux, Mario A. Ciampini, Paolo Mataloni +3
We experimentally show how classical correlations can be turned into quantum entanglement, via the presence of non-unital local noise and the action of a CNOT gate. We first implem…