## Journals

### Optimal control of mirror pulses for atom interferometry. (arXiv:1804.04625v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

Atom matterwave interferometry requires mirror and beamsplitter pulses that are robust to inhomogeneities in field intensity, magnetic environment, atom velocity and Zeeman sub-state. Pulse shapes determined using quantum control methods offer significantly improved interferometer performance by allowing broader atom distributions, larger interferometer areas and higher contrast. We have applied gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE) to optimise the design of phase-modulated mirror pulses for a Mach-Zehnder light-pulse atom interferometer, with the aim of increasing fringe contrast when averaged over atoms with an experimentally relevant range of velocities, beam intensities, and Zeeman states. Pulses were found to be highly robust to variations in detuning and coupling strength, and offer a clear improvement in robustness over the best established composite pulses. The peak mirror fidelity in a cloud of $\sim 80\ \mu$K ${}^{85}$Rb atoms is predicted to be improved by a factor of 2 compared with standard rectangular $\pi$ pulses.

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### Photon echo using imperfect X-ray pulse with phase fluctuation. (arXiv:1804.03814v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We study the impact of inter-pulse phase fluctuation in free-electron X-ray laser on the signal in the photon echo spectroscopy, which is one of the simplest non-linear spectroscopic methods. A two-pulse echo model is considered with two-level atoms as the sample. The effect of both fluctuation amplitude and correlation strength of the random phase fluctuation is studied both numerically and analytically. We show that the random phase effect only affects the amplitude of the photon echo, yet not change the recovering time. Such random phase induces the fluctuation of recovering amplitude in the photon echo signals among different measurements. We show the normal method of measuring coherence time retains by averaging across the signals in different repeats in current paper.

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### Coherence and correlations affect energy flows between quantum systems. (arXiv:1803.11495v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

The application of thermodynamics to quantum systems have been arising great hopes and expectations in regard to thermodynamic tasks - work or energy extraction, and refrigeration. For such tasks, enhancements based on genuine quantum features like coherence and quantum correlations have been recently reported. However, little is known about the relation between such quantum features and a central part the aforementioned thermodynamic tasks, namely energy flows. Here, we introduce a concept of apparent temperature as an extension of the familiar and intuitive concept of temperature to out-of-equilibrium systems. We use it to study the influence of internal coherence and correlations on energy flows between two systems. Measured by the variation of the apparent temperature, we show that internal coherence and correlations affect drastically energy flows, and we give illustrative examples. To complete the picture we recover seminal results providing an interesting alternative point of view of diverse phenomena. Since energy exchanges are omnipresent in thermodynamics, it is expected that our formalism can be exploited in more problems and be decisive in designing future quantum thermal machines.

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### Kinetics, pseudo-kinetics, uncertainty principle and quantum 1/f noise. (arXiv:1803.09250v2 [cond-mat.stat-mech] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

1/f noise at arbitrary low frequences is the way of existence of irreversibility in thermal motion governed by reversible laws of mechanics. This statement not once was confirmed in statistical mechanics beyond its traditional kinetical roughenings. Here we point out that in case of quantum statistical mechanics in principle it is sufficient to avoid such the roughening as the "Fermi golden rule". This means taking into account the time-energy uncertainty principle (time-frequency one in classical limit) and thus uncertainties in characteristics of real collisions and scatterings of particles and/or quanta. We consider the resulting "pseudo-kinetics" and demonstrate how it produces quantum 1/f-noise

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### Quantum nonlinear four-wave mixing with a single atom in an optical cavity. (arXiv:1803.09274v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

Single atom cavity quantum electrodynamics grants access to nonclassical photon statistics, while electromagnetically induced transparency exhibits a dark state of long coherence time. The combination of the two produces a new light field via four-wave mixing that shows long-lived quantum statistics. We observe the new field in the emission from the cavity as a beat with the probe light that together with the control beam and the cavity vacuum is driving the four-wave mixing process. Moreover, the control field allows us to tune the new light field from antibunching to bunching, demonstrating our all-optical control over the photon-pair emission.

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### Entanglement of Purification in Free Scalar Field Theories. (arXiv:1802.09545v2 [hep-th] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We compute the entanglement of purification (EoP) in a 2d free scalar field theory with various masses. This quantity measures correlations between two subsystems and is reduced to the entanglement entropy when the total system is pure. We obtain explicit numerical values by assuming minimal gaussian wave functionals for the purified states. We find that when the distance between the subsystems is large, the EoP behaves like the mutual information. However, when the distance is small, the EoP shows a characteristic behavior which qualitatively agrees with the conjectured holographic computation and which is different from that of the mutual information. We also study behaviors of mutual information in purified spaces and violations of monogamy/strong superadditivity.

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### Quantum coherence fluctuation relations. (arXiv:1802.05919v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We investigate manipulations of pure quantum states under incoherent or strictly incoherent operations assisted by a coherence battery, that is, a storage device whose degree of coherence is allowed to fluctuate in the process. This leads to the derivation of fluctuation relations for quantum coherence, analogous to Jarzynski's and Crooks' relations for work in thermodynamics. Coherence is thus revealed as another instance of a physical resource, in addition to athermality and entanglement, for which a connection is established between the majorisation framework (regulating pure state transformations under suitable free operations) and the emergence of fluctuation theorems. Our study is hoped to provide further insight into the general structure of battery assisted quantum resource theories, and more specifically into the interplay between quantum coherence and quantum thermodynamics.

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### Weighted polygamy inequalities of multiparty entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems. (arXiv:1802.00336v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We provide a generalization for the polygamy constraint of multiparty entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems. By using the $\beta$th-power of entanglement of assistance for $0\leq \beta \leq1$ and the Hamming weight of the binary vector related with the distribution of subsystems, we establish a class of weighted polygamy inequalities of multiparty entanglement in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems. We further show that our class of weighted polygamy inequalities can even be improved to be tighter inequalities with some conditions on the assisted entanglement of bipartite subsystems.

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### Ramsey interferences and spin echoes from electron spins inside a levitating macroscopic particle. (arXiv:1801.07798v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We report observations of Ramsey interferences and spin echoes from electron spins inside a levitating macroscopic particle. The experiment is realized using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers hosted in a micron-sized diamond stored in a Paul trap both under atmospheric conditions and under vacuum. Spin echoes are used to show that the Paul trap preserves the coherence time of the embedded electron spins for more than microseconds. Conversely, the NV spin is employed to demonstrate high angular stability of the diamond even under vacuum. These results are significant steps towards strong coupling of NV spins to the rotational mode of levitating diamonds.

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### Information Theoretical Analysis of Quantum Metrology. (arXiv:1801.07071v3 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - 9 hours 44 min ago

We establish a direct connection between the recently proposed information theoretic picture of quantum metrology and its conventional root-mean-square-error (RMSE) picture. A complement is conceived of the information-theoretic quantum metrology by showing that any estimation procedure achieves Heisenberg limit in RMSE picture also have the information-theoretic Heisenberg limit for which entangled measurement is not necessary. We explicitly present a Quantum-Classical Parallel strategy of quantum metrology which employs a separable measurement and saturates the Heisenberg limit in both pictures.

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### Single-Particle Mobility Edge in a One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Optical Lattice

Author(s): Henrik P. Lüschen, Sebastian Scherg, Thomas Kohlert, Michael Schreiber, Pranjal Bordia, Xiao Li, S. Das Sarma, and Immanuel Bloch

A single-particle mobility edge (SPME) marks a critical energy separating extended from localized states in a quantum system. In one-dimensional systems with uncorrelated disorder, a SPME cannot exist, since all single-particle states localize for arbitrarily weak disorder strengths. However, in a q...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160404] Published Thu Apr 19, 2018

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### Two-beam pumped cascaded four-wave-mixing process for producing multiple-beam quantum correlation

Author(s): Shengshuai Liu, Hailong Wang, and Jietai Jing

We propose a two-beam pumped cascaded four-wave-mixing (CFWM) scheme with a double-Λ energy-level configuration in Rb85 vapor cell and experimentally observe the emission of up to 10 quantum correlated beams from such CFWM scheme. During this process, the seed beam is amplified; four new signal beam...

[Phys. Rev. A 97, 043846] Published Thu Apr 19, 2018

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### Demonstration of analyzers for multimode photonic time-bin qubits

Author(s): Jeongwan Jin, Sascha Agne, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Yanbao Zhang, Norbert Lütkenhaus, and Thomas Jennewein

We demonstrate two approaches for unbalanced interferometers as time-bin qubit analyzers for quantum communication, robust against mode distortions and polarization effects as expected from free-space quantum communication systems including wavefront deformations, path fluctuations, pointing errors,...

[Phys. Rev. A 97, 043847] Published Thu Apr 19, 2018

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### Multiple transparency windows and Fano interferences induced by dipole-dipole couplings

Author(s): E. C. Diniz, H. S. Borges, and C. J. Villas-Boas

We investigate the optical properties of a two-level system (TLS) coupled to a one-dimensional array of N other TLSs with dipole-dipole coupling between the first neighbors. The first TLS is probed by a weak field, and we assume that it has a decay rate much greater than the decay rates of the other...

[Phys. Rev. A 97, 043848] Published Thu Apr 19, 2018

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### Entanglement criterion for tripartite systems based on local sum uncertainty relations

PRA: Quantum information - Thu, 2018-04-19 12:00

Author(s): Y. Akbari-Kourbolagh and M. Azhdargalam

We propose a sufficient criterion for the entanglement of tripartite systems based on local sum uncertainty relations for arbitrarily chosen observables of subsystems. This criterion generalizes the tighter criterion for bipartite systems introduced by Zhang et al. [C.-J. Zhang, H. Nha, Y.-S. Zhang,...

[Phys. Rev. A 97, 042333] Published Thu Apr 19, 2018

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### Recipe for creating an arbitrary number of Floquet chiral edge states. (arXiv:1804.06407v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall])

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - Thu, 2018-04-19 06:33

Floquet states of periodically driven systems could exhibit rich topological properties. Many of them are absent in their static counterparts. One such example is the chiral edge states in anomalous Floquet topological insulators, whose description requires a new topological invariant and a novel type of bulk-edge correspondence. In this work, we propose a prototypical quenched lattice model, whose two Floquet bands could exchange their Chern numbers periodically and alternatively via touching at quasienergies 0 and $\pi$ under the change of a single system parameter. This process in principle allows the generation of as many Floquet chiral edge states as possible in a highly controllable manner. The quantized transmission of these edge states are extracted from the Floquet scattering matrix of the system. The flexibility in controlling the number of topological edge channels provided by our scheme could serve as a starting point for the engineering of robust Floquet transport devices.

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### Hidden Messenger from Quantum Geometry: Towards Information Conservation in Quantum Gravity. (arXiv:1804.06408v1 [gr-qc])

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - Thu, 2018-04-19 06:33

The back reactions of Hawking radiation allow nontrivial correlations between consecutive Hawking quanta, which gives a possible way to resolving the paradox of black hole information loss known as the hidden massenger method. In a recent work of Ma et al [arXiv:1711.10704], this method is enhanced by a general derivation using small deviations of the states of Hawking quanta off canonical typicality. In this paper, we use this typicality argument to study the effects of back reactions on quantum geometries described by spin network states, and discuss the viability of entropy conservation in loop quantum gravity. We find that such back reactions lead to small area deformations of quantum geometries including those of quantum black holes. This shows that the hidden-messenger method is still viable in loop quantum gravity, which is a first step towards resolving the paradox of black hole information loss in quantum gravity.

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### Zero-dimensional topologically nontrivial state in a superconducting quantum dot. (arXiv:1804.06415v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall])

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - Thu, 2018-04-19 06:33

The classification of topological states of matter in terms of unitary symmetries and dimensionality predicts the existence of nontrivial topological states even in zero-dimensional systems, i.e., a system with a discrete energy spectrum. Here, we show that a quantum dot coupled with two superconducting leads can realize a nontrivial zero-dimensional topological superconductor with broken time-reversal symmetry, which corresponds to the finite size limit of the one-dimensional topological superconductor. Topological phase transitions corresponds to a change of the fermion parity, and to the presence of zero-energy modes and discontinuities in the current-phase relation at zero temperature. These fermion parity transitions therefore can be revealed by the current discontinuities or by a measure of the critical current at low temperatures.

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### Generalized trace distance approach to quantum non-Markovianity and detection of initial correlations. (arXiv:1804.06445v1 [quant-ph])

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - Thu, 2018-04-19 06:33

A measure of quantum non-Markovianity for an open system dynamics, based on revivals of the distinguishability between system states, has been introduced in the literature using the trace distance as quantifier for distinguishability. Recently it has been suggested to use as measure for the distinguishability of quantum states the trace norm of Helstrom matrices, given by weighted differences of statistical operators. Here we show that this new approach, which generalizes the original one, is consistent with the interpretation of information flow between the system and its environment associated to the original definition. To this aim we prove a bound on the growth of the external information, that is information which cannot be accessed by performing measurements on the system only, as quantified by means of the Helstrom matrix. We further demonstrate by means of example that it is of relevance in generalizing schemes for the local detection of initial correlations based on the increase of internal information. Finally we exploit this viewpoint to show the optimality of a previously introduced strategy for the local detection of quantum correlations.

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### Tests of hidden variable models by the relaxation of the measurement independence condition. (arXiv:1804.06452v1 [quant-ph])

arXiv.org: Quantum Physics - Thu, 2018-04-19 06:33

Bell inequalities or Bell-like experiments are supposed to test hidden variable theories based on three intuitive assumptions: determinism, locality and measurement independence. If one of the assumptions of Bell inequality is properly relaxed, the probability distribution of the singlet state, for example, can be reproduced by a hidden variable model. Models that deal with the relaxation of some condition above, with more than one hidden variable, have been studied in the literature nowadays. In this work the relation between the number of hidden variables and the degree of relaxation necessary to reproduce the singlet correlations is investigated. For the examples studied, it is shown that the increase of the number of hidden variables does not allow for more efficiency in the reproduction of quantum correlations.

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