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Fano fluctuations in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

August 9, 2017
Author(s)
Alex Kozorezov, Colin Lambert, Francesco Marsili, Martin Stevens, Varun Verma, Matthew Shaw, Richard Mirin
Because of their universal nature, Fano fluctuations are expected to play an important role in the behavior of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). Taking into account Fano fluctuations we predict that the photon counting rate as a

Simultaneous readout of 128 X-ray and Gamma-ray Transition-edge Microcalorimeters using Microwave SQUID Multiplexing

August 8, 2017
Author(s)
John Mates, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Johnathon Gard, James P. Hays-Wehle, Joseph Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Leila R. Vale, Joel Ullom
The number of elements in most cryogenic sensor arrays is limited by the technology available to multiplex signals from the array into a smaller number of wires and readout amplifiers. The largest demonstrated arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES)

Narrowband Optomechanical Refrigeration of a Chiral Bath

August 7, 2017
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Kim Seunghwi, Xu Xunnong, Gaurav Bahl
The transport of sound and heat, in the form of phonons, is fundamentally limited by disorder-induced scattering. In electronic and optical settings, introduction of chiral transport - in which carriers have unidirectional propagation - provides robustness

Noise Refocusing in a Five-blade Neutron Interferometer

August 1, 2017
Author(s)
Michael G. Huber, Muhammad D. Arif, Dimitry A. Pushin, David G. Cory, Dusan Sarenac, Joachim Nsofini, Kamyar Ghofrani
We provide a quantum information description of a proposed five-blade neutron interferometer geometry and show that it is robust against low-frequency mechanical vibrations and dephasing due to the dynamical phase. The extent to which the dynamical phase

Demonstration of efficient nonreciprocity in a microwave optomechanical circuit

July 6, 2017
Author(s)
Gabriel A. Peterson, Florent Q. Lecocq, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
Abstract The ability to engineer nonreciprocal interactions is an essential tool in modern communication technology as well as a powerful resource for building quantum networks. Aside from large reverse isolation, a nonreciprocal device suitable for

Identification of nonclassical properties of light with multiplexing layouts

July 6, 2017
Author(s)
Jan Sperling, Andreas Eckstein, W.R. Clements, Meritt Moore, Jelmer Renema, Steven Kolthammer, Sae Woo Nam, Adriana Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Ian Walmsley, G.S. Agarwal, Wolfgang Vogel
In our work, we introduce and apply a detector-independent method to uncover nonclassicality. In this contribution, we extend those techniques and give more details on the performed nalysis. We derive the general structure of the positive-operator-valued

Optical Radiation from Integer Quantum Hall States in Dirac Materials

June 30, 2017
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Jacob M. Taylor, Mohammad Hafezi
Quantum Hall systems exhibit topologically protected edge states, which can have a macroscopic spatial extent. Such edge states provide a unique opportunity to study a quantum emitter whose size far exceeds the wavelength of emitted light. To better

Software for complete mode structure analysis of a light field

June 26, 2017
Author(s)
Ivan A. Burenkov, Sergey V. Polyakov
We present a software package aimed at simulating photon-number probability distributions of a range of naturally occurring classical and non-classical states of light. This software can generate arbitrary probability distributions based on the known mode

Optomechanical Quantum Correlations at Room Temperature

June 23, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas P. Purdy, Karen E. Grutter, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Jacob M. Taylor
By shining laser light through a nanomechanical beam, we measure the beam’s thermally driven vibrations and perturb its motion with optical forces at a level dictated by the Heisenberg measurement-disturbance uncertainty relation. Such quantum effects are

Counting Near Infrared Photons with Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors

May 22, 2017
Author(s)
Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Joel N. Ullom, Johannes Hubmayr, Joseph W. Fowler, Leila R. Vale, Weijie Guo
We demonstrate photon counting at 1550~nm wavelength using microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) made from TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer films with superconducting transition temperature $T_{c} \sim$ 1.4~K. The detector has a lump-element design with a

Trion Valley Coherence in Monolayer Semiconductors

May 22, 2017
Author(s)
Kai Hao, Lixiang Xu, Wu Fengcheng, Philip Nagler, Kha Tran, Xin Ma, Tobias Korn, Allan H. MacDonald, Xiaoqin Li, Galan Moody
The emerging field of valleytronics aims to exploit the valley pseudospin of electrons residing near Bloch band extrema as an information carrier. Recent experiments demonstrating optical generation and manipulation of exciton valley coherence (the

A telecom-band cavity-enhanced single-photon source with high klyshko efficiencies

May 18, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Lu Xiyuan, Steven Rogers, W C. Wiang, Sae Woo Nam, Qiang Lin
We develop an on-chip telecom-band single-photon source with Klyshko efficiencies up to 48%, the highest value for cavity-enhanced photon sources. For the first time, we relate Klyshko efficiency to high-order correlations and verify this relation

Optomechanical Quantum Correlations

May 18, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas P. Purdy, Karen E. Grutter, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jacob M. Taylor
We present methods to measure optical quantum correlations arising from an optomechanical interaction even when large classical noise sources are present. We demonstrate quantum- backaction-noise-calibrated Brownian motion thermometry as a metrological

Room-temperature-deposited dielectrics and superconductors for integrated photonics

May 1, 2017
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Nima Nader, Cale M. Gentry, Kevin C. Cossel, Milos A. Popovic, Nathan R. Newbury, Richard P. Mirin
We present an approach to fabrication and packaging of integrated photonic devices that utilizes waveguide and detector layers deposited at near-ambient temperature. All lithography is performed with a 365 nm i-line stepper, facilitating low cost and high

Detector-Independent Verification of Quantum Light

April 21, 2017
Author(s)
Jan Sperling, W.R. Clements, Andreas Eckstein, Meritt Moore, Jelmer Renema, Steven Kolthammer, Sae Woo Nam, Adriana Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Wolfgang Vogel, G.S. Agarwal, Ian Walmsley
We introduce a method for the verification of nonclassical light which is independent of the complex interaction between the generated light and the material of the detectors, which are in our work superconducting transition-edge sensors. This is achieved

UV-sensitive superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for integration in an ion trap

April 17, 2017
Author(s)
Daniel H. Slichter, Varun B. Verma, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, David J. Wineland
We demonstrate superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with 76 +/- 4% system detection efficiency at a wavelength of 315 nm and an operating temperature of 3.2 K, with a background count rate below 1 count per second at saturated detection

Qubit gates using hyperbolic secant pulses

April 7, 2017
Author(s)
Hsiang S. Ku, Junling Long, Xian Wu, Mustafa Bal, Russell Lake, Edwin Barnes, Sophia Economou, David P. Pappas
It has been known since the early days of quantum mechanics that hyperbolic secant pulses possess the unique property that they can perform cyclic evolution on two-level quantum systems independently of the pulse detuning. More recently, it was realized

Arbitrarily fast quantum computation with bounded energy

March 6, 2017
Author(s)
Stephen P. Jordan
One version of the energy-time uncertainty principle states that the minimum time for a quantum system to evolve from a given state to any orthogonal state is h/(4 Δ E) where Δ E is the energy uncertainty. Many subsequent works have interpreted this as

Hybrid quantum systems with trapped charged particles

February 21, 2017
Author(s)
Shlomi S. Kotler, Raymond Simmonds, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Trapped charged particles have been at the forefront of quantum information processing (QIP) for a few decades now, with deterministic two-qubit logic gates reaching record fidelities of 99.9% and single-qubit operations of much higher fidelity. In a

Optical quantum memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency

February 20, 2017
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a promising approach to implement quantum memory in quantum communication and quantum computing applications. In this paper, following a brief overview of the main approaches to quantum memory, we provide
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