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  • Journal article
    Tofful A, Baynham CFA, Curtis EA, Parsons AO, Robertson B, Schioppo M, Tunesi J, Margolis HS, Hendricks RJ, Whale J, Thompson RC, Godun RMet al., 2024,

    <SUP>171</SUP>Yb<SUP>+</SUP> optical clock with 2.2 x 10<SUP>-18</SUP> systematic uncertainty and absolute frequency measurements

    , METROLOGIA, Vol: 61, ISSN: 0026-1394
  • Journal article
    Will C, Wiesinger M, Micke P, Yildiz H, Driscoll T, Kommu S, Abbass F, Arndt BP, Bauer BB, Erlewein S, Fleck M, Jäger JI, Latacz BM, Mooser A, Schweitzer D, Umbrazunas G, Wursten E, Blaum K, Devlin JA, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Soter A, Walz J, Smorra C, Ulmer S, BASE Collaborationet al., 2024,

    Image-Current Mediated Sympathetic Laser Cooling of a Single Proton in a Penning Trap Down to 170 mK Axial Temperature.

    , Phys Rev Lett, Vol: 133

    We demonstrate a new temperature record for image-current mediated sympathetic cooling of a single proton in a cryogenic Penning trap by laser-cooled ^{9}Be^{+}. An axial mode temperature of 170 mK is reached, which is a 15-fold improvement compared to the previous best value. Our cooling technique is applicable to any charged particle, so that the measurements presented here constitute a milestone toward the next generation of high-precision Penning-trap measurements with exotic particles.

  • Journal article
    Jae J, Lee J, Kim MS, Lee K-G, Lee Jet al., 2024,

    Contextual quantum metrology

    , npj Quantum Information, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2056-6387

    We demonstrate that the contextuality of measurement selection can enhance the precision of quantum metrology with a simple linear optical experiment. Contextuality is a nonclassical property known as a resource for various quantum information processing tasks. Recent studies show that contextuality by anomalous weak values can be utilized to enhance metrological precision, unraveling the role of contextuality in quantum metrology. Our contextual quantum metrology (coQM) scheme can elevate the precision of the optical polarimetry as much as 6 times the precision limit given by the Quantum Fisher Information. We achieve the contextuality-enabled enhancement with two mutually complementary measurements, whereas, in the conventional method, some optimal measurements to achieve the precision limit are either theoretically challenging to find or experimentally infeasible to realize. These results highlight that the contextuality of measurement selection is applicable in practice for quantum metrology.

  • Journal article
    Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis M, Wilkins SG, Lassègues P, Lalanne L, Reilly JR, Ahmad O, Au M, Bai SW, Berbalk J, Bernerd C, Borschevsky A, Breier AA, Chrysalidis K, Cocolios TE, De Groote RP, Fajardo-Zambrano CM, Flanagan KT, Franchoo S, Ruiz RFG, Hanstorp D, Heinke R, Imgram P, Koszorús, Kyuberis AA, Lim J, Liu YC, Lynch KM, McGlone A, Mei WC, Neyens G, Nies L, Oleynichenko AV, Raggio A, Rothe S, Skripnikov LV, Smets E, Van Den Borne B, Warbinek J, Wessolek J, Yang XFet al., 2024,

    Radiative lifetime of the A Π1/2 2 state in RaF with relevance to laser cooling

    , Physical Review A, Vol: 110, ISSN: 2469-9926

    The radiative lifetime of the AΠ1/22 (v=0) state in radium monofluoride (RaF) is measured to be 35(1) ns. The lifetime of this state and the related decay rate Γ=2.86(8)×107 s-1 are of relevance to the laser cooling of RaF via the optically closed AΠ1/22←Xς1/22 transition, which makes the molecule a promising probe to search for new physics. RaF is found to have a comparable photon-scattering rate to homoelectronic laser-coolable molecules. Owing to its highly diagonal Franck-Condon matrix, it is expected to scatter an order of magnitude more photons than other molecules when using just three cooling lasers, before it decays to a dark state. The lifetime measurement in RaF is benchmarked by measuring the lifetime of the 8P3/2 state in Fr to be 83(3) ns, in agreement with literature.

  • Journal article
    Michniewicz J, Kim MS, 2024,

    Leveraging off-the-shelf silicon chips for quantum computing

    , Applied Physics Letters, Vol: 124, ISSN: 0003-6951

    There is a growing demand for quantum computing across various sectors, including finance, materials, and studying chemical reactions. A promising implementation involves semiconductor qubits utilizing quantum dots within transistors. While academic research labs currently produce their own devices, scaling this process is challenging, requires expertise, and results in devices of varying quality. Some initiatives are exploring the use of commercial transistors, offering scalability, improved quality, affordability, and accessibility for researchers. This paper delves into potential realizations and the feasibility of employing off-the-shelf commercial devices for qubits. It addresses challenges such as noise, coherence, limited customizability in large industrial fabs, and scalability issues. The exploration includes discussions on potential manufacturing approaches for early versions of small qubit chips. The use of state-of-the-art transistors as hosts for quantum dots, incorporating readout techniques based on charge sensing or reflectometry, and methods like electron shuttling for qubit connectivity are examined. Additionally, more advanced designs, including 2D arrays and crossbar or DRAM-like access arrays, are considered for the path toward accessible quantum computing.

  • Journal article
    Haug T, Lee S, Kim MS, 2024,

    Efficient quantum algorithms for stabilizer entropies

    , Physical Review Letters, Vol: 132, ISSN: 0031-9007

    Stabilizer entropies (SEs) are measures of nonstabilizerness or “magic” that quantify the degree to whicha state is described by stabilizers. SEs are especially interesting due to their connections to scrambling,localization and property testing. However, applications have been limited so far as previously knownmeasurement protocols for SEs scale exponentially with the number of qubits. Here, we efficiently measureSEs for integer R´enyi index n > 1 via Bell measurements. The SE of N-qubit quantum states can bemeasured with OðnÞ copies and OðnNÞ classical computational time, where for even n we additionallyrequire the complex conjugate of the state. We provide efficient bounds of various nonstabilizernessmonotones that are intractable to compute beyond a few qubits. Using the IonQ quantum computer, wemeasure SEs of random Clifford circuits doped with non-Clifford gates and give bounds for the stabilizerfidelity, stabilizer extent, and robustness of magic. We provide efficient algorithms to measure Clifford averaged 4n-point out-of-time-order correlators and multifractal flatness. With these measures we study thescrambling time of doped Clifford circuits and random Hamiltonian evolution depending on nonstabilizer ness. Counterintuitively, random Hamiltonian evolution becomes less scrambled at long times, which wereveal with the multifractal flatness. Our results open up the exploration of nonstabilizerness with quantumcomputers.

  • Journal article
    Xiao X, Yang JJ, Millard TS, Zhu S, Kowalczyk KM, Tisch JWG, Matthews M, Maier SA, Oulton RFet al., 2024,

    Nanofocusing in Critically Coupled Nanogap Waveguide Resonators

    , ACS PHOTONICS, ISSN: 2330-4022
  • Journal article
    Mok W-K, Zhang H, Haug T, Luo X, Lo G-Q, Li Z, Cai H, Kim MS, Liu AQ, Kwek L-Cet al., 2024,

    Rigorous noise reduction with quantum autoencoders

    , AVS QUANTUM SCIENCE, Vol: 6
  • Journal article
    Popa S, Schaller S, Fielicke A, Lim J, Sartakov BG, Tarbutt MR, Meijer Get al., 2024,

    Understanding Inner-Shell Excitations in Molecules through Spectroscopy of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mn>4</mml:mn><mml:mi>f</mml:mi></mml:math> Hole States of YbF

    , Physical Review X, Vol: 14

    <jats:p>Molecules containing a lanthanide atom have sets of electronic states arising from excitation of an inner-shell electron. These states have received little attention but are thought to play an important role in laser cooling of such molecules and may be a useful resource for testing fundamental physics. We study a series of inner-shell excited states in YbF using resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization spectroscopy. We investigate the excited states of lowest energy, 8474, 9013, and <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mn>9090</a:mn><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:msup><a:mrow><a:mi>cm</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mo>−</a:mo><a:mn>1</a:mn></a:mrow></a:msup></a:math> above the ground state, all corresponding to the configuration <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><c:mrow><c:mn>4</c:mn><c:msup><c:mrow><c:mi>f</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mn>13</c:mn></c:mrow></c:msup><c:mn>6</c:mn><c:msup><c:mrow><c:mi>s</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mn>2</c:mn></c:mrow></c:msup><c:mtext> </c:mtext><c:mtext> </c:mtext><c:msub><c:mrow><c:mmultiscripts><c:mrow><c:mi>F</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mprescripts/><c:none/><c:mrow><c:mn>2</c:mn></c:mrow></c:mmultiscripts></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mn>7</c:mn><c:mo>/</c:mo><c:mn>2</c:mn></c:mrow></c:msub></c:mrow></c:math> of the <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><e:mrow><e:msup>&l

  • Journal article
    Walraven EF, Tarbutt MR, Karman T, 2024,

    Scheme for deterministic loading of laser-cooled molecules into optical tweezers

    , Physical Review Letters, Vol: 132, ISSN: 0031-9007

    We propose to repeatedly load laser-cooled molecules into optical tweezers, and transfer them to storage states that are rotationally excited by two additional quanta. Collisional loss of molecules in these storage states is suppressed, and a dipolar blockade prevents the accumulation of more than one molecule. Applying three cycles loads tweezers with single molecules at an 80% success rate, limited by residual collisional loss. This improved loading efficiency reduces the time needed for rearrangement of tweezer arrays, which would otherwise limit the scalability of neutral molecule quantum computers.

  • Journal article
    Cornish SL, Tarbutt MR, Hazzard KRA, 2024,

    Quantum computation and quantum simulation with ultracold molecules

    , NATURE PHYSICS, Vol: 20, Pages: 730-740, ISSN: 1745-2473
  • Journal article
    Guo Z, Driver T, Beauvarlet S, Cesar D, Duris J, Franz PL, Alexander O, Bohler D, Bostedt C, Averbukh V, Cheng X, Dimauro LF, Doumy G, Forbes R, Gessner O, Glownia JM, Isele E, Kamalov A, Larsen KA, Li S, Li X, Lin M-F, Mccracken GA, Obaid R, O'Neal JT, Robles RR, Rolles D, Ruberti M, Rudenko A, Slaughter DS, Sudar NS, Thierstein E, Tuthill D, Ueda K, Wang E, Wang AL, Wang J, Weber T, Wolf TJA, Young L, Zhang Z, Bucksbaum PH, Marangos JP, Kling MF, Huang Z, Walter P, Inhester L, Berrah N, Cryan JP, Marinelli Aet al., 2024,

    Experimental demonstration of attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with an X-ray free-electron laser

    , NATURE PHOTONICS, ISSN: 1749-4885
  • Journal article
    Popa S, Schaller S, Fielicke A, Lim J, Sartakov BG, Tarbutt M, Meijer Get al., 2024,

    Understanding inner-shell excitations in molecules through spectroscopy of the 4f hole states of YbF

    , Physical Review X, Vol: 14, ISSN: 2160-3308

    Molecules containing a lanthanide atom have sets of electronic states arising from excitation of an inner-shell electron. These states have received little attention, but are thought to play an important role in laser cooling of such molecules and may be a useful resource for testing fundamental physics. We study a series of inner-shell excited states in YbF using resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionisation spectroscopy. We investigate the excited states of lowest energy, 8474, 9013 and 9090 cm⁻¹ above the ground state, all corresponding to the configuration 4f¹³6s² ²F₇⁄₂ of the Yb⁺ ion. They are metastable, since they have no electric dipole allowed transitions to the ground state. We also characterize a state at 31050 cm¯¹ that is easily excited from both the ground and metastable states, which makes it especially useful for this spectroscopic study. Finally, we study two states at 48720 cm¯¹ and 48729 cm¯¹, which are above the ionization limit and feature strong auto-ionizing resonances that prove useful for efficient detection of the molecules and for identifying the rotational quantum number of each line in the spectrum. We resolve the rotational structures of all these states and find that they can all be described by a very simple model based on Hund’s case (c). Our study provides information necessary for laser slowing and magneto-optical trapping of YbF, which is an important species for testing fundamental physics. We also consider whether the low-lying inner-shell states may themselves be useful as probes of the electron’s electric dipole moment or of varying fundamental constants, since they are long-lived states in a laser-coolable molecule featuring closely-spaced levels of opposite parity.

  • Journal article
    Cheng C, Frasinski LJ, Allum F, Howard AJ, Bucksbaum PH, Forbes R, Weinacht Tet al., 2024,

    Multiparticle cumulant mapping for Coulomb explosion imaging: Calculations and algorithm

    , PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol: 109, ISSN: 2469-9926
  • Journal article
    Thomas SE, Wagner L, Joos R, Sittig R, Nawrath C, Burdekin P, de Buy Wenniger IM, Rasiah MJ, Huber-Loyola T, Sagona-Stophel S, Höfling S, Jetter M, Michler P, Walmsley IA, Portalupi SL, Ledingham PMet al., 2024,

    Deterministic storage and retrieval of telecom light from a quantum dot single-photon source interfaced with an atomic quantum memory

    , Science Advances, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2375-2548

    A hybrid interface of solid-state single-photon sources and atomic quantum memories is a long sought-after goal in photonic quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate deterministic storage and retrieval of light from a semiconductor quantum dot in an atomic ensemble quantum memory at telecommunications wavelengths. We store single photons from an indium arsenide quantum dot in a high-bandwidth rubidium vapor-based quantum memory, with a total internal memory efficiency of (12.9 ± 0.4)%. The signal-to-noise ratio of the retrieved light field is 18.2 ± 0.6, limited only by detector dark counts.

  • Journal article
    Alaa El-Din K, Alexander O, Frasinski L, Mintert F, Guo Z, Duris J, Zhang Z, Cesar D, Franz P, Driver T, Walter P, Cryan J, Marinelli A, Marangos J, Mukherjee Ret al., 2024,

    Efficient prediction of attosecond two-colour pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser with machine learning

    , Scientific Reports, Vol: 14, ISSN: 2045-2322

    X-ray free-electron lasers are sources of coherent, high-intensity X-rays with numerous applications in ultra-fast measurements and dynamic structural imaging. Due to the stochastic nature of the self-amplified spontaneous emission process and the difficulty in controlling injection of electrons, output pulses exhibit significant noise and limited temporal coherence. Standard measurement techniques used for characterizing two-coloured X-ray pulses are challenging, as they are either invasive or diagnostically expensive. In this work, we employ machine learning methods such as neural networks and decision trees to predict the central photon energies of pairs of attosecond fundamental and second harmonic pulses using parameters that are easily recorded at the high-repetition rate of a single shot. Using real experimental data, we apply a detailed feature analysis on the input parameters while optimizing the training time of the machine learning methods. Our predictive models are able to make predictions of central photon energy for one of the pulses without measuring the other pulse, thereby leveraging the use of the spectrometer without having to extend its detection window. We anticipate applications in X-ray spectroscopy using XFELs, such as in time-resolved X-ray absorption and photoemission spectroscopy, where improved measurement of input spectra will lead to better experimental outcomes.

  • Journal article
    Yu S, Liu W, Tao S-J, Li Z-P, Wang Y-T, Zhong Z-P, Patel RB, Meng Y, Yang Y-Z, Wang Z-A, Guo N-J, Zeng X-D, Chen Z, Xu L, Zhang N, Liu X, Yang M, Zhang W-H, Zhou Z-Q, Xu J-S, Tang J-S, Han Y-J, Li C-F, Guo G-Cet al., 2024,

    A von-Neumann-like photonic processor and its application in studying quantum signature of chaos

    , LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS, Vol: 13, ISSN: 2095-5545
  • Journal article
    Tang H, Shang X-W, Shi Z-Y, He T-S, Feng Z, Wang T-Y, Shi R, Wang H-M, Tan X, Xu X-Y, Wang Y, Gao J, Kim MS, Jin X-Met al., 2024,

    Simulating photosynthetic energy transport on a photonic network

    , npj Quantum Information, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2056-6387

    Quantum effects in photosynthetic energy transport in nature, especially for the typical Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complexes, are extensively studied in quantum biology. Such energy transport processes can be investigated as open quantum systems that blend the quantum coherence and environmental noise, and have been experimentally simulated on a few quantum devices. However, the existing experiments always lack a solid quantum simulation for the FMO energy transport due to their constraints to map a variety of issues in actual FMO complexes that have rich biological meanings. Here we successfully map the full coupling profile of the seven-site FMO structure by comprehensive characterisation and precise control of the evanescent coupling of the three-dimensional waveguide array. By applying a stochastic dynamical modulation on each waveguide, we introduce the base site energy and the dephasing term in coloured noise to faithfully simulate the power spectral density of the FMO complexes. We show our photonic model well interprets the phenomena including reorganisation energy, vibrational assistance, exciton transfer and energy localisation. We further experimentally demonstrate the existence of an optimal transport efficiency at certain dephasing strength, providing a window to closely investigate environment-assisted quantum transport.

  • Journal article
    Stray B, Ennis O, Hedges S, Dey S, Langlois M, Bongs K, Lellouch S, Holynski M, Bostwick B, Chen J, Eyler Z, Gibson V, Harte TL, Hsu CC, Karzazi M, Mitchell J, Mouelle N, Schneider U, Tang Y, Tkalcec K, Zhi Y, Clarke K, Vick A, Bridges K, Coleman J, Elertas G, Hawkins L, Hindley S, Hussain K, Metelko C, Throssell H, Baynham CFA, Buchmüller O, Evans D, Hobson R, Iannizzotto-Venezze L, Josset A, Pasatembou E, Sauer BE, Tarbutt MR, Badurina L, Beniwal A, Blas D, Carlton J, Ellis J, McCabe C, Bentine E, Booth M, Bortoletto D, Foot C, Gómez-Monedero Castellanos CM, Hird T, Hughes K, James A, Lowe A, March-Russell J, Schelfhout J, Shipsey I, Weatherill D, Wood D, Balashov S, Bason MG, Boehm J, Courthold M, van der Grinten M, Majewski P, Marchant AL, Newbold D, Pan Z, Tam Z, Valenzuela T, Wilmut Iet al., 2024,

    Centralized design and production of the ultra-high vacuum and laser-stabilization systems for the AION ultra-cold strontium laboratories

    , AVS Quantum Science, Vol: 6, ISSN: 2639-0213

    This paper outlines the centralized design and production of the ultra-high-vacuum sidearm and laser-stabilization systems for the AION Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories. Commissioning data on the residual gas and steady-state pressures in the sidearm chambers, on magnetic field quality, on laser stabilization, and on the loading rate for the 3D magneto-optical trap are presented. Streamlining the design and production of the sidearm and laser stabilization systems enabled the AION Collaboration to build and equip in parallel five state-of-the-art Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories within 24 months by leveraging key expertise in the collaboration. This approach could serve as a model for the development and construction of other cold atom experiments, such as atomic clock experiments and neutral atom quantum computing systems, by establishing dedicated design and production units at national laboratories.

  • Journal article
    Schwickert D, Przystawik A, Diaman D, Kip D, Marangos JP, Laarmann Tet al., 2024,

    Coupled electron-nuclear dynamics induced and monitored with femtosecond soft X-ray pulses in the amino acid glycine

    , The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory, Vol: 128, Pages: 989-995, ISSN: 1089-5639

    The coupling of electronic and nuclear motion in polyatomic molecules is at the heart of attochemistry. The molecular properties, transient structures, and reaction mechanism of these many-body quantum objects are defined on the level of electrons and ions by molecular wave functions and their coherent superposition, respectively. In the present contribution, we monitor nonadiabatic quantum wave packet dynamics during molecular charge motion by reconstructing both the oscillatory charge density distribution and the characteristic time-dependent nuclear configuration coordinate from time-resolved Auger electron spectroscopic data recorded in previous studies on glycine molecules [Schwickert et al. Sci. Adv. 2022, 8, eabn6848]. The electronic and nuclear motion on the femtosecond time scale was induced and probed in kinematically complete soft X-ray experiments at the FLASH free-electron laser facility. The detailed analysis of amplitude, instantaneous phase, and instantaneous frequency of the propagating many-body wave packet during its lifecycle provides unprecedented insight into dynamical processes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. We are confident that the refined experimental data evaluation helps to develop new theoretical tools to describe time-dependent molecular wave functions in complicated but ubiquitous non-Born-Oppenheimer photochemical conditions.

  • Journal article
    Bressanini G, Kwon H, Kim MS, 2024,

    Gaussian boson sampling with click-counting detectors

    , Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol: 109, ISSN: 1050-2947

    Gaussian boson sampling constitutes a prime candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage within reach with current technological capabilities. The original proposal employs photon-number-resolving detectors, however, these are not widely available. Nevertheless, inexpensive threshold detectors can be combined into a single click-counting detector to achieve approximate photon-number resolution. We investigate the problem of sampling from a general multimode Gaussian state using click-counting detectors and show that the probability of obtaining a given outcome is related to a matrix function which is dubbed as the Kensingtonian. We show how the Kensingtonian relates to the Torontonian and the Hafnian, thus bridging the gap between known Gaussian boson sampling variants. We then prove that, under standard complexity-theoretical conjectures, the model cannot be simulated efficiently.

  • Journal article
    Fekete J, Joshi P, Barrett TJ, James TM, Shah R, Gadge A, Bhumbra S, Evans W, Tripathi M, Large M, Dalton AB, Orucevic F, Kruger Pet al., 2024,

    Quantum Gas-Enabled Direct Mapping of Active Current Density in Percolating Networks of Nanowires

    , NANO LETTERS, Vol: 24, Pages: 1309-1315, ISSN: 1530-6984
  • Journal article
    Xu L, Zhou M, Tao R, Zhong Z, Wang B, Cao Z, Xia H, Wang Q, Zhan H, Zhang A, Yu S, Xu N, Dong Y, Ren C, Zhang Let al., 2024,

    Resource-Efficient Direct Characterization of General Density Matrix

    , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 132, ISSN: 0031-9007
  • Journal article
    Garratt D, Matthews M, Marangos J, 2024,

    Towards ultrafast soft X-ray spectroscopy of organic photovoltaic devices

    , Structural Dynamics, Vol: 11, ISSN: 2329-7778

    Novel ultrafast x-ray sources based on high harmonic generation and at x-ray free electron lasers are opening up new opportunities to resolve complex ultrafast processes in condensed phase systems with exceptional temporal resolution and atomic site specificity. In this perspective, we present techniques for resolving charge localization, transfer, and separation processes in organic semiconductors and organic photovoltaic devices with time-resolved soft x-ray spectroscopy. We review recent results in ultrafast soft x-ray spectroscopy of these systems and discuss routes to overcome the technical challenges in performing time-resolved x-ray experiments on photosensitive materials with poor thermal conductivity and low pump intensity thresholds for nonlinear effects.

  • Journal article
    Röser D, Padilla-Castillo JE, Ohayon B, Thomas R, Truppe S, Meijer G, Stellmer S, Wright SCet al., 2024,

    Hyperfine structure and isotope shifts of the (4s2) S0 1 →(4s4p) P1 1 transition in atomic zinc

    , Physical Review A, Vol: 109, ISSN: 2469-9926

    We report absolute frequency, isotope shift, radiative lifetime, and hyperfine structure measurements of the (4s2)S01→(4s4p)P11 (213.8 nm) transition in Zn I using a cryogenic buffer gas beam. Laser-induced fluorescence is collected with two orthogonally oriented detectors to take advantage of differences in the emission pattern of the isotopes. This enables a clear distinction between isotopes whose resonances are otherwise unresolved, and a measurement of the Zn67 hyperfine structure parameters, A(Zn67)=20(2)MHz and B(Zn67)=10(5)MHz. We reference our frequency measurements to an ultralow expansion cavity and achieve an uncertainty at the level of 1 MHz, about 1 percent of the natural linewidth of the transition.

  • Conference paper
    Vanner MR, 2024,

    Brillouin Optomechanics: Strong coupling, the lasing transition, and single-phonon-level operations

    , ISSN: 0277-786X

    Backward Brillouin scattering in whispering-gallery-mode micro-resonators offers an exciting avenue to pursue both classical and quantum optomechanics applications. Our team—the Quantum Measurement Lab—together with our collaborators, are currently exploring and utilizing the favourable properties this platform affords for non-Gaussian motional state preparation of acoustic fields. In particular, the high acoustic frequencies, acoustic mode selectivity, and low optical absorption provide a promising route to overcome current hindrances within optomechanics. Some of our key recent results in this direction include: the observation of Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling, single-phonon addition and subtraction to a thermal state of the acoustic field, advancing the state-of-the-art of mechanical state tomography to observe the non-Gaussian states generated by single- and multi-phonon subtraction, studying the second-order coherence across the Brillouin lasing threshold, and enhancing sideband cooling via zero-photon detection. This talk will cover these results, what they enable, and the broader direction of our lab.

  • Journal article
    Bressanini G, Kwon H, Kim MS, 2024,

    Gaussian boson sampling at finite temperature

    , Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol: 109, ISSN: 1050-2947

    Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage using photons. However, sufficiently large noise might hinder a GBS implementation from entering the regime where quantum speedup is achievable. Here, we investigate how thermal noise affects the classical intractability of generic quantum optical sampling experiments, GBS being a particular instance of the latter. We do so by establishing sufficient conditions for an efficient simulation to be feasible, expressed in the form of inequalities between the relevant parameters that characterize the system and its imperfections. We demonstrate that the addition of thermal noise—modeled by (passive) linear optical interaction between the system and a Markovian thermal bath—has the effect of tightening the constraints on the remaining noise parameters, required to show quantum advantage. Furthermore, we show that there exists a threshold temperature, under the assumption of a uniform loss rate, at which quantum sampling experiments become classically simulable, and provide an intuitive physical interpretation by relating this occurrence with the disappearance of the quantum state's nonclassical properties.

  • Journal article
    Jun Park J, Baek K, Kim MS, Nha H, Kim J, Bang Jet al., 2024,

    T-depth-optimized quantum search with quantum data-access machine

    , Quantum Science and Technology, Vol: 9, ISSN: 2058-9565

    Quantum search algorithms offer a remarkable advantage of quadraticreduction in query complexity using quantum superposition principle. However, howan actual architecture may access and handle the database in a quantum superposedstate has been largely unexplored so far; the quantum state of data was simply assumedto be prepared and accessed by a black-box operation—so-called oracle, even thoughthis process, if not appropriately designed, may adversely diminish the quantum queryadvantage. Here, we introduce an efficient quantum data-access process, dubbedas quantum data-access machine (QDAM), and present a general architecture forquantum search algorithm. We analyze the runtime of our algorithm in view of thefault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) consisting of logical qubits within aneffective quantum error correction code. Specifically, we introduce a measure involvingtwo computational complexities, i.e. quantum query and T-depth complexities, whichcan be critical to assess performance since the logical non-Clifford gates, such as theT (i.e., π/8 rotation) gate, are known to be costliest to implement in FTQC. Ouranalysis shows that for N searching data, a QDAM model exhibiting a logarithmic,i.e., O(log N), growth of the T-depth complexity can be constructed. Further analysisreveals that our QDAM-embedded quantum search requires O(√N × log N) runtimecost. Our study thus demonstrates that the quantum data search algorithm can trulyspeed up over classical approaches with the logarithmic T-depth QDAM as a keycomponent.

  • Journal article
    Ma Y, Kim MS, 2024,

    Limitations of probabilistic error cancellation for open dynamics beyond sampling overhead

    , Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol: 109, ISSN: 1050-2947

    Quantum simulation of dynamics is an important goal in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, within which quantum error mitigation may be a viable path towards modifying or eliminating the effects of noise. Most studies on quantum error mitigation have focused on the resource cost due to its exponential scaling in the circuit depth. Methods such as probabilistic error cancellation rely on discretizing the evolution into finite time steps and applying the mitigation layer after each time step, modifying only the noise part without any Hamiltonian dependence. This may lead to Trotter-like errors in the simulation results even if the error mitigation is implemented ideally, which means that the number of samples is taken as infinite. Here we analyze the aforementioned errors which have been largely neglected before. We show that they are determined by the commutating relations between the superoperators of the unitary part, the device noise part, and the noise part of the open dynamics to be simulated. We include both digital quantum simulation and analog quantum simulation setups and consider defining the ideal error mitigation map both by exactly inverting the noise channel and by approximating it to first order in the time step. We use single-qubit toy models to numerically demonstrate our findings. Our results illustrate fundamental limitations of applying probabilistic error cancellation in a stepwise manner to continuous dynamics, thus motivating the investigations of truly time-continuous error cancellation methods.

  • Journal article
    Wenniger IMDB, Thomas SE, Maffei M, Wein SC, Pont M, Belabas N, Prasad S, Harouri A, Lemaitre A, Sagnes I, Somaschi N, Auffeves A, Senellart Pet al., 2023,

    Experimental Analysis of Energy Transfers between a Quantum Emitter and Light Fields

    , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 131, ISSN: 0031-9007

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