Using symmetry considerations, we derive a unitary scattering matrix for a three-port optical Y coupler or Y branch. The result is shown to be unique up to external phase shifts. Unlike traditional passive linear-opti...
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Using symmetry considerations, we derive a unitary scattering matrix for a three-port optical Y coupler or Y branch. The result is shown to be unique up to external phase shifts. Unlike traditional passive linear-optical one-way splitters, coupling light into the conventional output ports of the Y coupler results in strong coherent back-reflections, making the device a hybrid between feed-forward devices like the beam splitter, which do not reverse the direction of light, and a recently considered class of directionally unbiased multiport scatterers (with dimension greater than two), which do. While the device could immediately find use as a novel scattering vertex for the implementation of quantum walks, we also design a few simple but nonetheless useful optical systems that can be constructed by taking advantage of the symmetry of the scattering process. This includes an interference-free, resource-efficient implementation of the Grover four-port and a higher-dimensional Fabry-Perot interferometer with tunable finesse. Symmetry-breaking generalizations are also considered.
In the case of standalone houses, ensuring a continuous and regulated power supply from renewable sources is crucial. To address their unpredictable nature, an environmentally conscious hybrid renewable energy system ...
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Blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) are highly efficient, although their short operational lifetimes have limited their commercial acceptance in displays and lighting. A high density of energet...
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Modern optical technologies encompass classical light phenomena and non-linear effects, crucial for biomedical imaging and therapies. Despite substantial interest and many experimental studies, non-linear optical effe...
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Recent hardware demonstrations and advances in circuit compilation have made quantum computing with higher- dimensional systems (qudits) on near-term devices an attractive possibility. Some problems have more natural ...
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We report measurements of the ratio of the scalar polarizability α to the vector polarizability β for the 6sS1/22→7sS1/22 transition in atomic cesium. These measurements are motivated by a discrepancy between the v...
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We report measurements of the ratio of the scalar polarizability α to the vector polarizability β for the 6sS1/22→7sS1/22 transition in atomic cesium. These measurements are motivated by a discrepancy between the values of the vector transition polarizability as determined using two separate methods. In the present measurement, we use a two-pathway, coherent-control technique in which we observe the interference between a two-photon interaction driven by infrared light at 1079 nm and a linear Stark-induced interaction driven by the mutually coherent second harmonic of this infrared beam at 540 nm. The result of our measurements is α/β=−9.902(9), in good agreement with the previous determination of this ratio. This measurement, critical to the study of atomic parity violation in cesium, does not reduce the discrepancy between the two methods for the determination of the vector polarizability β for this transition.
Given a quantum system S entangled with another system I, the entanglement-testing problem arises, prompting the identification of the system S within a set of m≥2 identical systems. This scenario serves as a model f...
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Given a quantum system S entangled with another system I, the entanglement-testing problem arises, prompting the identification of the system S within a set of m≥2 identical systems. This scenario serves as a model for the measurement task encountered in quantum ranging and entanglement-assisted communication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 240501, (2021)]. In this context, the optimal measurement approach typically involves joint measurements on all m+1 systems. However, we demonstrate that this is not the case when the subsystems containing system S are subjected to entanglement-breaking noise. Our approach utilizes the recently developed measurement technique of correlation-to-displacement conversion. We present a structured design for the entanglement-testing measurement, implementable with local operations and classical communications (LOCC) on the m+1 systems, while joint between multiple identical copies. Furthermore, we prove that this measurement approach, combining Gaussian operations and on and off photon detection, achieves optimality in terms of error probability asymptotically under noisy conditions. When applied to quantum illumination, our measurement design enables optimal ranging in scenarios with low signal brightness and high levels of noise. Similarly, when applied to entanglement-assisted pulse-position-modulated classical communication, the measurement design leads to a significant relative advantage in communication rates, particularly in scenarios with low signal brightness.
Spin pumping, a central phenomenon in spintronics used to source pure spin currents, is best understood in collinear magnetic multilayers. There is not yet a unified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) theory that captures ...
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Spin pumping, a central phenomenon in spintronics used to source pure spin currents, is best understood in collinear magnetic multilayers. There is not yet a unified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) theory that captures the fieldlike and dampinglike torques in a generic noncollinear magnetic multilayer. Here, we theoretically expand the LLG phenomenology to incorporate both dynamic fieldlike and dampinglike torques arising from spin pumping within noncollinear magnetic materials. We find that often overlooked dynamic fieldlike torques are capable of unveiling inversion asymmetries present in magnetic multilayers. Consequently, spin pumping can be used to lift the spectral degeneracy between various magnon modes in noncollinear antiferromagnets. We experimentally confirm this magnon-magnon interaction in a synthetic antiferromagnetic tetralayer, which has highly noncollinear magnetization configurations when under the influence of an external field. Thus, we demonstrate how spin pumping can facilitate a magnon-magnon interaction, significantly expanding how magnonic interactions can be engineered into antiferromagnets and magnetic metamaterials.
Quantum master equations are commonly used to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, but their accuracy is rarely compared with the analytical solution of exactly solvable models. In this work, we perform such a ...
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Quantum master equations are commonly used to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, but their accuracy is rarely compared with the analytical solution of exactly solvable models. In this work, we perform such a comparison for the damped Jaynes-Cummings model of a qubit in a leaky cavity, for which an analytical solution is available in the one-excitation subspace. We consider the non-Markovian time-convolutionless master equation up to the second (Redfield) and fourth orders as well as three types of Markovian master equations: the coarse-grained, cumulant, and standard rotating-wave approximation (RWA) Lindblad equations. We compare the exact solution to these master equations for three different spectral densities: impulse, Ohmic, and triangular. We demonstrate that the coarse-grained master equation outperforms the standard RWA-based Lindblad master equation for weak coupling or high qubit frequency (relative to the spectral density high-frequency cutoff ωc), where the Markovian approximation is valid. In the presence of non-Markovian effects characterized by oscillatory, nondecaying behavior, the time-convolutionless approximation closely matches the exact solution for short evolution times (in units of ωc−1) even outside the regime of validity of the Markovian approximations. For long evolution times, all master equations perform poorly, as quantified in terms of the trace-norm distance from the exact solution. The fourth-order time-convolutionless master equation achieves the top performance in all cases. Our results highlight the need for reliable approximation methods to describe open-system quantum dynamics beyond the short-time limit.
Quantitative phase imaging(QPI)recovers the exact wavefront of light from intensity *** and optical density maps of translucent microscopic bodies can be extracted from these quantified phase *** demonstrate quantitat...
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Quantitative phase imaging(QPI)recovers the exact wavefront of light from intensity *** and optical density maps of translucent microscopic bodies can be extracted from these quantified phase *** demonstrate quantitative phase imaging at the tip of a coherent fiber bundle using chromatic aberrations inherent in a silicon nitride hyperboloid *** method leverages spectral multiplexing to recover phase from multiple defocus planes in a single capture using a color *** 0.5mm aperture metalens shows robust quantitative phase imaging capability with a 28°field of view and 0.2πphase resolution(~0.1λin air)for experiments with an endoscopic fiber *** the spectral functionality is encoded directly in the imaging lens,the metalens acts both as a focusing element and a spectral *** use of a simple computational backend will enable real-time *** limitations in the adoption of phase imaging methods for endoscopy such as multiple acquisition,interferometric alignment or mechanical scanning are completely mitigated in the reported metalens based QPI.
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