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Light-matter interactions in quantum nanophotonic devices

Marcelo Castellanos2024-03-27T14:34:42+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Multidisciplinary. , Physics|

Authors: Gonzalez-Tudela, Alejandro; Reiserer, Andreas; Garcia-Ripoll, Juan Jose; Garcia-Vidal, Francisco J. Journal: NATURE REVIEWS PHYSICS Publication date: 2024/01/25 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-023-00681-1 Abstract: Nanophotonics offers opportunities for engineering and exploiting the quantum properties of light by integrating quantum emitters into nanostructures, and offering reliable paths to quantum technology applications such as sources of quantum light or new [...]

Parallel tomography of quantum non-demolition measurements in multi-qubit devices

Marcelo Castellanos2024-03-27T13:58:19+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Atomic, Condensed Matter. , Molecular & Chemical; Physics, Quantum Science & Technology; Physics|

Authors: Pereira, L.; Garcia-Ripoll, J. J.; Ramos, T. Journal: NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION Publication date: 2023/03/04 DOI: 10.1038/s41534-023-00688-7 Abstract: An efficient characterization of QND measurements is an important ingredient toward certifying and improving the performance and scalability of quantum processors. In this work, we introduce a parallel tomography of QND measurements that addresses single- and two-qubit [...]

Waveguide QED with Quadratic Light-Matter Interactions

Marcelo Castellanos2024-03-27T13:57:03+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Multidisciplinary. , Quantum Science & Technology; Physics|

Authors: Alushi, Uesli; Ramos, Tomas; Garcia-Ripoll, Juan Jose; Di Candia, Roberto; Felicetti, Simone Journal: PRX QUANTUM Publication date: 2023/08/25 DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.030326 Abstract: Quadratic light-matter interactions are nonlinear couplings such that quantum emitters interact with photonic or phononic modes exclusively via the exchange of excitation pairs. Implementable with atomic and solid-state systems, these couplings lead to [...]

Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:37:09+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Multidisciplinary. , Quantum Science & Technology; Physics|

Authors: Bello, M.; Platero, G.; Gonzalez-Tudela, A. Journal: PRX QUANTUM Publication date: 2022/03/07 DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.010336 Abstract: Waveguide QED has emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulator due to the possibility of mediating versatile spin-spin interactions with tunable sign, range, and even dimerization. Yet, despite their potential, the many-body phases emerging from these systems have only [...]

Quenches to the critical point of the three-state Potts model: Matrix product state simulations and conformal field theory

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:36:56+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Condensed Matter. , Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics|

Authors: Robertson, Niall F.; Surace, Jacopo; Tagliacozzo, Luca Journal: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Publication date: 2022/05/04 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.195103 Abstract: Conformal field theories (CFTs) have been used extensively to understand the physics of critical lattice models at equilibrium. However, the applicability of CFT calculations to the behavior of the lattice systems in the out-of-equilibrium setting is not [...]

Scalable estimation of pure multi-qubit states

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:36:54+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Atomic, Condensed Matter. , Molecular & Chemical; Physics, Quantum Science & Technology; Physics|

Authors: Pereira, Luciano; Zambrano, Leonardo; Delgado, Aldo Journal: NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION Publication date: 2022/05/13 DOI: 10.1038/s41534-022-00565-9 Abstract: We introduce an inductive n-qubit pure-state estimation method based on projective measurements on mn + 1 separable bases or m entangled bases plus the computational basis, with m >= 2. The method exhibits a favorable scaling in the [...]

Role of boundary conditions in the full counting statistics of topological defects after crossing a continuous phase transition

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:36:21+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Condensed Matter. , Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics|

Authors: Gomez-Ruiz, Fernando J.; Subires, David; del Campo, Adolfo Journal: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Publication date: 2022/10/10 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.134302 Abstract: In a scenario of spontaneous symmetry breaking in finite time, topological defects are generated at a density that scales with the driving time according to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). Signatures of universality beyond the KZM have [...]

Locality of spontaneous symmetry breaking and universal spacing distribution of topological defects formed across a phase transition

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:36:16+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Condensed Matter. , Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics|

Authors: del Campo, Adolfo; Javier Gomez-Ruiz, Fernando; Zhang, Hai-Qing Journal: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Publication date: 2022/10/11 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L140101 Abstract: The crossing of a continuous phase transition results in the formation of topological defects with a density predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). We characterize the spatial distribution of pointlike topological defects in the resulting nonequilibrium [...]

Detection of molecular transitions with nitrogen-vacancy centers and electron-spin labels

Marcelo Castellanos2023-02-21T13:36:07+01:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Atomic, Condensed Matter. , Molecular & Chemical; Physics, Quantum Science & Technology; Physics|

Authors: Munuera-Javaloy, C.; Puebla, R.; D'Anjou, B.; Plenio, M. B.; Casanova, J. Journal: NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION Publication date: 2022/11/30 DOI: 10.1038/s41534-022-00653-w Abstract: We present a protocol that detects molecular conformational changes with two nitroxide electron-spin labels and a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond. More specifically, we demonstrate that the NV can detect energy shifts induced [...]

Gigahertz Frame Rate Imaging of Charge-Injection Dynamics in a Molecular Light Source

Marcelo Castellanos2022-04-05T17:41:05+02:00Tags: Applied; Physics, Chemistry, Condensed Matter. , Multidisciplinary; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Physics, Physical; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science|

Authors: Roslawska, Anna; Merino, Pablo; Leon, Christopher C.; Grewal, Abhishek; Etzkorn, Markus; Kuhnke, Klaus; Kern, Klaus Journal: NANO LETTERS Publication date: 2021/06/09 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00328 Abstract: Light sources on the scale of single molecules can be addressed and characterized at their proper sub-nanometer scale by scanning tunneling microscopy-induced luminescence (STML). Such a source can be driven [...]