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Gradient-based stopping rules for maximum-likelihood quantum-state tomography

September 18, 2012
Author(s)
Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Mark Girard
When performing maximum likelihood quantum state tomography, one must find the quantum state that maximizes the likelihood for observed measurements on identically prepared systems, all having that quantum state. This optimization is usually performed with

Dynamical Autler-Townes control of a phase qubit

September 10, 2012
Author(s)
Jian Li, G.S. Paraoanu, Katarina Cicak, Fabio Altomare, Jae Park, Raymond Simmonds, Mika A. Sillanpaa, Pertti Hakonen
We present an experimental demonstration of a phase qubit acting as an on/o® switch for the absorbtion of photons in a probe microwave beam. The switch is controlled by a second control microwave ¯eld. The on/o® states of the qubit are steady states which

Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector at 1.3 mm

August 3, 2012
Author(s)
Jason S. Pelc, Paulina Kuo, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Martin M. Fejer
We demonstrate efficient, single-photon upconversion detection of two wavelengths in the 1300-nm band. The upconversion detector is based on a phase-modulated, periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide that simultaneously quasi-phasematches two sum-frequency

Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector at 1300 nm

August 3, 2012
Author(s)
Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang
We show a dual-channel, upconversion detector at 1.3-m-wavelength based on phasemodulated periodically poled LiNbO3, and use it for wavelength- to time-division multiplexing to achieve high data rates, useful for quantum key distribution.

On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate the operation of an integrated photon number resolving transition edge sensor (TES), operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a

Transition edge sensors with low jitter and fast recovery times

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Nathan A. Tomlin, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Joern Beyer, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Superconducting transition edge sensors (TES) for single photon detection have been shown to have almost perfect quantum efficiency (98%) at a wide range of wavelengths. Their high quantum efficiency combined with their ability to intrisically measure the

Improving Quantum Clocks via Semidefinite Programming

July 26, 2012
Author(s)
Michael J. Mullan, Emanuel H. Knill
The accuracies of modern quantum logic clocks have surpassed those of standard atomic fountain clocks. These clocks also provide a greater degree of control, as before and after clock queries, we are able to apply chosen unitary operations and measurements

Continuous-variable quantum compressed sensing

July 9, 2012
Author(s)
Yi-Kai Liu, Matthias Ohliger, Vincent Nesme, David Gross, Jens Eisert
We introduce a novel method to faithfully reconstruct unknown quantum states that are approximately low-rank, using only a few measurement settings. The method is general enough to allow for measurements from a continuous family, and is also applicable to

A Digital-to-Analog Converter with a Voltage Standard Reference

July 1, 2012
Author(s)
Alain Rufenacht, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel Benz, Paul Dresselhaus
Commercially available 20-bit digital to analog converters (DACs) have the potential to impact the field of low frequency voltage metrology. We measured a linearity of ±6 µV (±0.6 µV/V full scale) over the 10 V range for such a DAC with a Zener voltage

Flat frequency response in the electronic measurement of the Boltzmann constant

July 1, 2012
Author(s)
Jifeng Qu, Samuel Benz, Yang Fu, Jianqiang Zhang, Horst Rogalla, Alessio Pollarolo
A new quantum voltage calibrated Johnson noise thermometer (JNT) was developed at NIM to demonstrate the electrical approach that determines the Boltzmann constant k by comparing electrical and thermal noise power. A measurement with integration period of
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