查看更多>>摘要：We study quantum synchronization under the nonequilibrium reservoirs.We consider a two-qubit XXZ chain coupled independently to their own reservoirs modeled by the collisional model.Two reservoir particles,initially prepared in a thermal state or a state with coherence,are correlated through a unitary transformation and afterward interact locally with the two quantum subsystems.We study the quantum effect of reservoir on synchronous dynamics of system.By preparing different reservoir initial states or manipulating the reservoir particles coupling and the temperature gradient,we find that quantum entanglement of reservoir is the key to control quantum synchronization of system qubits.
查看更多>>摘要：We study genuine entanglement among three qubits undergoing a noisy process that includes dissipation,squeezing,and decoherence.We obtain a general solution and analyze the asymptotic quantum states.We find that most of these asymptotic states can be genuinely entangled depending upon the parameters of the channel,memory parameter,and the parameters of the initial states.We study Greenberger-Home-Zeilinger(GHZ)states and W states,mixed with white noise,and determine the conditions for them to be genuinely entangled at infinity.We find that for these mixtures,it is possible to start with a bi-separable state(with a specific mixture of white noise)and end with genuine entangled states.However,the memory parameter μ must be very high.We find that in contrast to the two-qubit case,none of the three-qubit asymptotic states for n →∞ are genuinely entangled.
查看更多>>摘要：In a two-frequency cavity driving and atom driving atom-cavity system,we find the photon blockade effect.In a truncated eigenstates space,we calculate the zero-delay second-order correlation function of the cavity mode analytically and obtain an optimal condition for the photon blockade.By including three transition pathways,we find that higher excitations of the cavity mode can be further suppressed and the zero-delay second-order correlation function can be reduced additionally.Based on the master equation,we simulate the system evolution and find that the analytical solutions match well with the numerical results.Our scheme is robust with small fluctuations of parameters and may be used as a new type of single photon source.
查看更多>>摘要：We discuss a quantum remote state preparation protocol by which two parties,Alice and Candy,prepare a single-qubit and a two-qubit state,respectively,at the site of the receiver Bob.The single-qubit state is known to Alice while the two-qubit state which is a non-maximally entangled Bell state is known to Candy.The three parties are connected through a single entangled state which acts as a quantum channel.We first describe the protocol in the ideal case when the entangled channel under use is in a pure state.After that,we consider the effect of amplitude damping(AD)noise on the quantum channel and describe the protocol executed through the noisy channel.The decrement of the fidelity is shown to occur with the increment in the noise parameter.This is shown by numerical computation in specific examples of the states to be created.Finally,we show that it is possible to maintain the label of fidelity to some extent and hence to decrease the effect of noise by the application of weak and reversal measurements.We also present a scheme for the generation of the five-qubit entangled resource which we require as a quantum channel.The generation scheme is run on the IBMQ platform.
查看更多>>摘要：Using quantum algorithms to solve various problems has attracted widespread attention with the development of quantum computing.Researchers are particularly interested in using the acceleration properties of quantum algorithms to solve NP-complete problems.This paper focuses on the well-known NP-complete problem of finding the minimum dominating set in undirected graphs.To expedite the search process,a quantum algorithm employing Grover's search is proposed.However,a challenge arises from the unknown number of solutions for the minimum dominating set,rendering direct usage of original Grover's search impossible.Thus,a swap test method is introduced to ascertain the number of iterations required.The oracle,diffusion operators,and swap test are designed with achievable quantum gates.The query complexity is O(1.414n)and the space complexity is O(n).To validate the proposed approach,qiskit software package is employed to simulate the quantum circuit,yielding the anticipated results.
查看更多>>摘要：A Gray code based gradient-free optimization(GCO)algorithm is proposed to update the parameters of parameterized quantum circuits(PQCs)in this work.Each parameter of PQCs is encoded as a binary string,named as a gene,and a genetic-based method is adopted to select the offsprings.The individuals in the offspring are decoded in Gray code way to keep Hamming distance,and then are evaluated to obtain the best one with the lowest cost value in each iteration.The algorithm is performed iteratively for all parameters one by one until the cost value satisfies the stop condition or the number of iterations is reached.The GCO algorithm is demonstrated for classification tasks in Iris and MNIST datasets,and their performance are compared by those with the Bayesian optimization algorithm and binary code based optimization algorithm.The simulation results show that the GCO algorithm can reach high accuracies steadily for quantum classification tasks.Importantly,the GCO algorithm has a robust performance in the noise environment.
查看更多>>摘要：The capacity to extract work from a quantum heat machine is not only of practical value but also lies at the heart of understanding quantum thermodynamics.In this paper,we investigate optimal work extraction for quantum systems with work storage,where extracting work is completed by a unitary evolution on the composite system.We consider the physical requirement of energy conservation both strictly and on average.For both,we construct their corresponding unitaries and propose variational quantum algorithms for optimal work extraction.We show that maximal work extraction in general can be feasible when energy conservation is satisfied on average.We demonstrate with numeral simulations using a continuous-variable work storage.Our work show an implementation of a variational quantum computing approach for simulating work extraction in quantum systems.
查看更多>>摘要：Encoding system plays a significant role in quantum key distribution(QKD).However,the security and performance of QKD systems can be compromised by encoding misalignment due to the inevitable defects in realistic devices.To alleviate the influence of misalignments,a method exploiting statistics from mismatched basis is proposed to enable un-characterized sources to generate secure keys in QKD.In this work,we propose a scheme on four-intensity decoy-state quantum key distribution with uncharacterized heralded single-photon sources.It only requires the source states are pre-pared in a two-dimensional Hilbert space,and can thus reduce the complexity of practical realizations.Moreover,we carry out corresponding numerical simulations and demonstrate that our present four-intensity decoy-state scheme can achieve a much higher key rate compared than a three-intensity decoy-state method,and meantime it can obtain a longer transmission distance compared than the one using weak coherent sources.
查看更多>>摘要：Manipulating nonlinear excitations,including solitons and vortices,is an essential topic in quantum many-body physics.A new progress in this direction is a protocol proposed in[Phys.Rev.Res.2 043256(2020)]to produce dark solitons in a one-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensate(BEC)by quenching inter-atomic interaction.Motivated by this work,we generalize the protocol to a two-dimensional BEC and investigate the generic scenario of its post-quench dynamics.For an isotropic disk trap with a hard-wall boundary,we find that successive inward-moving ring dark solitons(RDSs)can be induced from the edge,and the number of RDSs can be controlled by tuning the ratio of the after-and before-quench interaction strength across different critical values.The role of the quench played on the profiles of the den-sity,phase,and sound velocity is also investigated.Due to the snake instability,the RDSs then become vortex-antivortex pairs with peculiar dynamics managed by the initial density and the after-quench interaction.By tuning the geometry of the box traps,demonstrated as polygonal ones,more subtle dynamics of solitons and vortices are enabled.Our pro-posed protocol and the discovered rich dynamical effects on nonlinear excitations can be realized in near future cold-atom experiments.
查看更多>>摘要：A significant obstacle impeding the advancement of the time fractional Schrödinger equation lies in the challenge of determining its precise mathematical formulation.In order to address this,we undertake an exploration of the time fractional Schrödinger equation within the context of a non-Markovian environment.By leveraging a two-level atom as an illustrative case,we find that the choice to raise i to the order of the time derivative is inappropriate.In contrast to the conventional approach used to depict the dynamic evolution of quantum states in a non-Markovian environment,the time fractional Schrödinger equation,when devoid of fractional-order operations on the imaginary unit i,emerges as a more intuitively comprehensible framework in physics and offers greater simplicity in computational aspects.Meanwhile,we also prove that it is meaningless to study the memory of time fractional Schrödinger equation with time derivative 1＜α ≤2.It should be noted that we have not yet constructed an open system that can be fully described by the time fractional Schrödinger equation.This will be the focus of future research.Our study might provide a new perspective on the role of time fractional Schrödinger equation.
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