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Using Temperature to Reduce Noise in Quantum Frequency Conversion

May 12, 2018
Author(s)
Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Carsten Langrock, M. M. Fejer
A main source of noise in quantum frequency conversion is spontaneous Raman scattering, which can be reduced by lowering the operating temperature. We show reduction in dark count rates that agrees well with theory.

Noise Reduction in Optically Controlled Quantum Memory

May 7, 2018
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
Quantum memory is an essential device for quantum communications systems and quantum computers. An important category of quantum memory, called Optically controlled quantum memory, uses a strong classical beam to control the storage and re-emission of a

Enhanced superconducting transition temperature in electroplated rhenium

April 30, 2018
Author(s)
David P. Pappas, Don David, Mustafa Bal, Ilke Arslan, Paul T. Blanchard, Ronald B. Goldfarb, Dustin A. Hite, Hsiang S. Ku, Russell E. Lake, Junling Long, Alexana Roshko, Lee D. Pappas, Britton L. Plourde, Jianguo Wen, Xian Wu, Corey Rae H. McRae
We show that electroplated Re films in multilayers with noble metals such as Cu, Au, and Pd have an enhanced superconducting critical temperature relative to previous methods of preparing Re. The dc resistance and magnetic susceptibility indicate a critical

Using Temperature to Reduce Noise in Quantum Frequency Conversion

April 23, 2018
Author(s)
Paulina S. Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Carsten Langrock, M. M. Fejer
Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) is important in quantum networks to interface nodes operating at different wavelengths and to enable long-distance quantum communication using telecommunications wavelengths. Unfortunately, frequency conversion in actual

Flux-tunable heat sink for quantum electric circuits

April 20, 2018
Author(s)
Matti Partanen, K-Y Tan, S Masuda, Joonas Govenius, Russell Lake, Mate Jenei, Leif Gronberg, Juha Hassel, S Simbierowicz, Visa Vesterinen, J Tuorila, T Ala-Nissila, Mikko Mottonen
Superconducting microwave circuits show great potential for practical quantum technological applications such as quantum information processing. However, fast and on-demand initialization of the quantum degrees of freedom in these devices remains a

Experimentally Generated Random Numbers Certified by the Impossibility of Superluminal Signaling

April 11, 2018
Author(s)
Peter L. Bierhorst, Emanuel H. Knill, Scott C. Glancy, Yanbao Zhang, Alan Mink, Stephen P. Jordan, Andrea Rommal, Yi-Kai Liu, Bradley Christensen, Sae Woo Nam, Martin J. Stevens, Lynden K. Shalm
From dice to modern complex circuits, there have been many attempts to build increasingly better devices to generate random numbers. Today, randomness is fundamental to security and cryptographic systems, as well as safeguarding privacy. A key challenge

Effects of resonant-laser excitation on the emission properties in a single quantum dot

March 27, 2018
Author(s)
Sergey Polyakov, Vivien Loo, Edward Flagg, Glenn S. Solomon, Olivier Gazzano, Tobias Huber
While many solid-state emitters can be optically excited non-resonantly, resonant excitation is necessary for many quantum information protocols as it often maximizes the non-classicality of the emitted light. Here, we study the resonance fluorescence in a

Quantifying the post-quantum security-margin of popular block ciphers

March 27, 2018
Author(s)
Yi-Kai Liu, Brittanney Amento-Adelmann, Markus Grassl, Brandon Langenberg, Eddie Schoute, Rainer Steinwandt
Mounting an exhaustive key search against a block cipher with Grover's algorithm requires the implementation of the target cipher on a quantum computer. We report quantum circuits and resource bounds for various block ciphers with different design

Local Randomness: Examples and Application

March 19, 2018
Author(s)
Honghao Fu, Carl Miller
When two players achieve a superclassical score at a nonlocal game, their outputs must contain intrinsic randomness. This fact has many useful implications for quantum cryptography. Recently it has been observed (C. Miller, Y. Shi, Quant. Inf. & Comp. 17

Quantum receiver for large alphabet communication

February 21, 2018
Author(s)
Sergey Polyakov, Ivan Burenkov, Olga Tikhonova
Quantum mechanics allows measurements that surpass the fundamental sensitivity limits of classical methods. To benefit from the quantum advantage in a practical setting, the receiver should use communication channel resources optimally; this can be done

Dark state optical lattice with sub-wavelength spatial structure

February 20, 2018
Author(s)
Sarthak Subhankar, Tsz-Chun Tsui, James V. Porto, Steve Rolston, Przemek Bienias, Alexey Gorshkov, Mateusz Lacki, Michael Baranov, Peter Zoller
We report on the experimental realization of a conservative optical lattice for cold atoms with sub-wavelength spatial structure. The potential is based on the nonlinear optical response of three- level atoms in laser-dressed dark states, which is not
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