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Thomas Gerrits, Alan L. Migdall, Joshua C. Bienfang, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Oliver T. Slattery, Jolene D. Splett, Igor Vayshenker, Chih-Ming Wang
We present our measurements of the detection efficiency of free-space and fiber-coupled single- photon detectors at wavelengths near 851 nm and 1533.6 nm. We investigate the spatial uniformity of one free-space-coupled silicon single-photon avalanche diode
Sumit Bhushan, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma
We outline a proposal to realize Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) with the potential to store Terahertz (THz) optical pulses in Cesium atoms. Such a system, when experimentally realized, has a potential to make Quantum Communication possible
Jacob Taylor, Gadi Afek, Sunil Bhave, Daniel Carney, Gordan Krnjaic, David Moore, Robinjeet Singh, Cindy Regal, Benjamin M. Brubaker, Andrew Geraci, Jonathan D. Cripe, Sohitri Ghosh, Jack Harris, Anson Hook, Jonathan Kunjummen, Rafael Lang, Li Tongcang, Tongyan Lin, Zhen Liu, Joseph Lykken, Lorenzo Magrini, Jack Manley, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Alissa Monte, Fernando Monteiro, Thomas Purdy, C. J. Riedel, Swati Singh, Kanupriya Sinha, Juehang Qin, Dalziel Wilson, Yue Zhao
Numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations are best explained by the existence of dark matter, a mass density which interacts only very weakly with visible, baryonic matter. Searching for the extremely weak signals produced by this dark matter
Entangled photons produced by parametric down-conversion effectively have two down-conversion paths. Ideally, amplitudes of the two paths are matched.We show that the entanglement visibility is, to first order, insensitive to amplitude mismatch.
How can two parties with competing interests carry out a fair coin flip, using only a noiseless quantum channel? This problem (quantum weak coin-flipping) was formalized more than 15 years ago, and, despite some phenomenal theoretical progress, practical
Joseph Hagmann, Xiqiao Wang, Ranjit Kashid, Pradeep Namboodiri, Jonathan Wyrick, Scott W. Schmucker, Michael Stewart, Richard M. Silver, Curt A. Richter
Key to producing quantum computing devices based on the atomistic placement of dopants in silicon by scanning tunneling microscope (STM) lithography is the formation of embedded highly doped Si:P delta layers (δ-layers). This study investigates the
Corey Rae H. McRae, Haozhi Wang, Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Teresa Brecht, A Dunsworth, David P. Pappas, J. Mutus
The performance of superconducting circuits for quantum computing is limited by materials losses. In particular, coherence times are typically bounded by two-level system (TLS) losses at single photon powers and millikelvin temperatures. The identification
Consider a quantum circuit that, when fed a constant input, produces a fixed-length random bit- string in each execution. Executing it many times yields a sample of many bit-strings that contain fresh randomness inherent to the quantum evaluation. When the
Mustafa Bal, Junling Long, Ruichen Zhao, Haozhi Wang, Sungoh Park, Corey Rae H. McRae, Tongyu Zhao, Russell Lake, Daniil Frolov, Roman Pilipenko, Silvia Zorzetti, Alexander Romanenko, David P. Pappas
Due to their unique properties as lossless, nonlinear circuit elements, Josephson junctions lie at the heart of superconducting quantum information processing. Previously, we demonstrated a two-layer, submicrometer-scale overlap junction fabrication
Gabriela Wojtowicz, Justin E. Elenewski, Marek Rams, Michael P. Zwolak
Tensor networks are a powerful tool for many-body ground-states with limited entanglement. These methods can nonetheless fail for certain time-dependent processes - such as quantum trans- port or quenches - where entanglement growth is linear in time
Xiqiao Wang, Jonathan E. Wyrick, Ranjit V. Kashid, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Scott W. Schmucker, Andrew Murphy, Michael D. Stewart, Richard M. Silver
Atomically precise donor-based quantum devices are a promising candidate for scalable solid- state quantum computing. Atomically precise design and implementation of the tunnel coupling in these devices is essential to realize gate-tunable exchange
Kamal Choudhary, Kevin F. Garrity, Jie Jiang, Ruth Pachter, Francesca M. Tavazza
Two-dimensional topological materials (TMs) have a variety of properties that make them attractive for applications including spintronics and quantum computation. However, there are only a few such materials known experimentally. To help discover new 2D
Corey Rae H. McRae, Russell Lake, Junling Long, Mustafa Bal, Xian Wu, Battogtokh Jugdersuren, Thomas Metcalf, Xiao Liu, David P. Pappas
The investigation of two-level-state (TLS) loss in dielectric materials and interfaces remains at the forefront of materials research in superconducting quantum circuits. We demonstrate a method of TLS loss extraction of a thin film dielectric by measuring
Alan L. Migdall, Evan Meyer-Scott, Christine Silberhorn
We review the rapid recent progress in single-photon sources based on multiplexing multiple probabilistic photon-creation events. Such multiplexing allows higher single-photon probabilities and lower contamination from higher-order photon states. We study
Ali Elshaari, Wolfram Pernice, Kartik Srinivasan, Oliver Benson, Val Zwiller
Recent development in chip-based photonic quantum circuits has radically impacted the ways in which we can process quantum information. However, it is challenging for any one specific integrated photonics platform to meet the stringent demands for most
A prominent application of quantum cryptography is the distribution of cryptographic keys that are provably secure. Such security proofs were extended by Vazirani and Vidick (Physical Review Letters, 113, 140501, 2014) to the device-independent (DI)
Justyna Zwolak, Thomas McJunkin, Sandesh Kalantre, J. P. Dodson, Evan MacQuarrie, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, S N. Coppersmith, Mark A. Eriksson, Jacob Taylor
The current practice of manually tuning quantum dots (QDs) for qubit operation is a relatively time- consuming procedure that is inherently impractical for scaling up and applications. In this work, we report on the \it in situ} implementation of a
The recognition that large classes of quantum many-body systems have limited - or efficiently representable - entanglement in the ground and low-lying excited states led to dramatic advances in their numerical simulation via so-called tensor networks [1-6]
G Thekkadath, David Phillips, Jacob Bulmer, W.R. Clements, A. Eckstein, B.A. Bell, J Lugani, Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, C.G. Wade, Ian Walmsley
Variable measurement operators enable optimization of strategies for testing quantum properties and for preparation of a range of quantum states. Here, we experimentally implement a weak-field homodyne detector that can continuously tune between performing