Dominik Leichtle, Luka Music, Elham Kashefi, and Harold Ollivier
PRX Quantum 2, 040302 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021
A blueprint for future quantum network applications: Devising a noise-robust, blind and verifiable protocol for delegating BQP computations to a powerful server.
C. Li, S. Zhang, Y.-K. Wu, N. Jiang, Y.-F. Pu, and L.-M. Duan
PRX Quantum 2, 040307 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
A full quantum repeater node is realized in a compact setup, combining two challenging requirements together: Long coherence time and multi-cell memory with individual addressing.
Paul D. Nation, Hwajung Kang, Neereja Sundaresan, and Jay M. Gambetta
PRX Quantum 2, 040326 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021
A new quantum error mitigation method outputs results within a few seconds for a sizable system–a feat that would otherwise be impractical.
Thomas K. Bracht, Michael Cosacchi, Tim Seidelmann, Moritz Cygorek, Alexei Vagov, V. Martin Axt, Tobias Heindel, and Doris E. Reiter
PRX Quantum 2, 040354 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021
The swing up of quantum emitter population (SUPER) scheme, taking a radically different off-resonant approach to coherently excite a two-level system, is explained and proposed for single-photon generation from quantum dots.
Nikolas P. Breuckmann and Jens Niklas Eberhardt
PRX Quantum 2, 040101 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021
Classically ubiquitous and promising in the quantum realm: The prospects and challenges for implementing LDPC error correcting codes are presented.
Juan Carrasquilla and Giacomo Torlai
PRX Quantum 2, 040201 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021
A newcomer guide on applying tools from machine learning to solve problems in condensed-matter physics and quantum information: From key ingredients to the implementation.
Yvonne Y. Gao, M. Adriaan Rol, Steven Touzard, and Chen Wang
PRX Quantum 2, 040202 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021
The core techniques that underlie typical cQED experiments are laid out, offering a guide on how one can design, construct, and characterize a quantum device.
John M. Martyn, Zane M. Rossi, Andrew K. Tan, and Isaac L. Chuang
PRX Quantum 2, 040203 (2021) - Published 3 December, 2021
This tutorial surveys the recently developed Quantum Singular Value Transformation and showcases how the three major quantum algorithms (search, factoring, and simulation) can be unified as instances of this transformation.
S.E. Rasmussen, K.S. Christensen, S.P. Pedersen, L.B. Kristensen, T. Bækkegaard, N.J.S. Loft, and N.T. Zinner
PRX Quantum 2, 040204 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021
The tools for designing and analyzing superconducting circuits are laid out, going from basic prototypes up to modern and sophisticated approaches, such as fluxonium and 0-/pi qubits.
Luca Pezzè and Augusto Smerzi
PRX Quantum 2, 040301 (2021) - Published 1 October, 2021
Crucial drawbacks on quantum phase estimation algorithms, such as exponential time overload and the use of fragile GHZ states, can be overcome using Gaussian spin states and an adaptive measurement protocol.
Dominik Leichtle, Luka Music, Elham Kashefi, and Harold Ollivier
PRX Quantum 2, 040302 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021
A blueprint for future quantum network applications: Devising a noise-robust, blind and verifiable protocol for delegating BQP computations to a powerful server.
N. Dupont, G. Chatelain, L. Gabardos, M. Arnal, J. Billy, B. Peaudecerf, D. Sugny, and D. Guéry-Odelin
PRX Quantum 2, 040303 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021
Using quantum optimal control methods, experiment shows preparation of arbitrary momentum states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice.
Muneer Alshowkan, Brian P. Williams, Philip G. Evans, Nageswara S.V. Rao, Emma M. Simmerman, Hsuan-Hao Lu, Navin B. Lingaraju, Andrew M. Weiner, Claire E. Marvinney, Yun-Yi Pai, Benjamin J. Lawrie, Nicholas A. Peters, and Joseph M. Lukens
PRX Quantum 2, 040304 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021
Three distinct campus buildings are connected using time-synchronized signals and flex-grid entanglement distribution, leading to the first deployed fiber network demonstration of remote state preparation.
Chi-Fang Chen, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Richard Kueng, and Joel A. Tropp
PRX Quantum 2, 040305 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021
Randomly sampled product formulas concentrate sharply around the ideal time evolution.
Federico Fedele, Anasua Chatterjee, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth
PRX Quantum 2, 040306 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021
A two-dimensional array of four tunable double quantum dots, each representing one singlet-triplet qubit, is implemented that constitute a toolset for the simultaneous operation of multiple qubits on a chip.
C. Li, S. Zhang, Y.-K. Wu, N. Jiang, Y.-F. Pu, and L.-M. Duan
PRX Quantum 2, 040307 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021
A full quantum repeater node is realized in a compact setup, combining two challenging requirements together: Long coherence time and multi-cell memory with individual addressing.
Jonas Haferkamp, Christian Bertoni, Ingo Roth, and Jens Eisert
PRX Quantum 2, 040308 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021
Powerful technical tools are used to prove general theorems on random matrix product states, leading to valuable insights into how and when quantum systems equilibrate.
Tobias Haug, Kishor Bharti, and M.S. Kim
PRX Quantum 2, 040309 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021
Quantum geometric measures are presented to analyze parameterized quantum circuits, allowing one to identify improved quantum circuits and initialization techniques that enhance the performance of variational quantum algorithms.
Denis R. Candido and Michael E. Flatté
PRX Quantum 2, 040310 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021
The theoretical foundation for designing semiconductor electronic devices with fine control of the properties of quantum spin centers is presented.
Jad C. Halimeh, Haifeng Lang, Julius Mildenberger, Zhang Jiang, and Philipp Hauke
PRX Quantum 2, 040311 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021
An experimentally friendly protocol for quantum simulating lattice gauge theories that preserve local gauge invariance leads to an exponential improvement over previous results.
Nathan M. Myers and Sebastian Deffner
PRX Quantum 2, 040312 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021
A description of anyons as a statistical mixture of bosons and fermions is investigated, connecting concepts from quantum optics, quantum control and topological states of matter, among others.
X. Dai, D.M. Tennant, R. Trappen, A.J. Martinez, D. Melanson, M.A. Yurtalan, Y. Tang, S. Novikov, J.A. Grover, S.M. Disseler, J.I. Basham, R. Das, D.K. Kim, A.J. Melville, B.M. Niedzielski, S.J. Weber, J.L. Yoder, D.A. Lidar, and A. Lupascu
PRX Quantum 2, 040313 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021
An innovative flux crosstalk calibration that is circuit model independent and automated is presented, helping to reduce the errors of quantum devices, such as those used for quantum annealing.
Masaya Fukami, Denis R. Candido, David D. Awschalom, and Michael E. Flatté
PRX Quantum 2, 040314 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021
The challenges for coupling distant NV centers motivate a concrete practical proposal to entangle spin qubits with magnons.
J. Eli Bourassa, Nicolás Quesada, Ilan Tzitrin, Antal Száva, Theodor Isacsson, Josh Izaac, Krishna Kumar Sabapathy, Guillaume Dauphinais, and Ish Dhand
PRX Quantum 2, 040315 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021
A versatile formalism for representing continuous-variable states is presented, providing new tools for simulating and analyzing bosonic qubits in a practical regime.
Carlos Ortiz Marrero, Mária Kieferová, and Nathan Wiebe
PRX Quantum 2, 040316 (2021) - Published 25 October, 2021
Surplus of entanglement is shown to hinder the successful training of quantum machine learning algorithms.
Min Zhuang, Jiahao Huang, and Chaohong Lee
PRX Quantum 2, 040317 (2021) - Published 26 October, 2021
A metrological method for reliably reading signals with many-body quantum systems: Realizing an entanglement-enhanced lock-in amplifier is possible.
Samarth Vadia, Johannes Scherzer, Holger Thierschmann, Clemens Schäfermeier, Claudio Dal Savio, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, David Hunger, Khaled Karraï, and Alexander Högele
PRX Quantum 2, 040318 (2021) - Published 27 October, 2021
The challenge of engineering Fabry-Pérot cavities that simultaneously present large tunability, high mechanical stability, and operate at cryogenic temperatures under closed-cycle conditions is solved by a combination of vibration reduction techniques
Tsung-Cheng Lu and Tarun Grover
PRX Quantum 2, 040319 (2021) - Published 28 October, 2021
Space-time rotation of quantum circuits relates the phenomena of many-body localization to the phase transitions induced by measurements in monitored quantum systems.
Tzu-Ching Yen and Artur F. Izmaylov
PRX Quantum 2, 040320 (2021) - Published 29 October, 2021
A framework based on Lie algebra provides an efficient scheme for measuring quantum observables, leading to record low numbers of measurements in typical molecular systems.
Leonardo Banchi, Jason Pereira, and Stefano Pirandola
PRX Quantum 2, 040321 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021
A question answered by quantum information and hypothesis testing: How many training samples are needed to learn the classification of quantum states via quantum machine learning?
Mario S. Könz, Wolfgang Lechner, Helmut G. Katzgraber, and Matthias Troyer
PRX Quantum 2, 040322 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021
Disadvantages of standard analog quantum annealing hardware are inspected, offering ways to benchmark and guide new studies on chip design.
Rafael Chaves, George Moreno, Emanuele Polino, Davide Poderini, Iris Agresti, Alessia Suprano, Mariana R. Barros, Gonzalo Carvacho, Elie Wolfe, Askery Canabarro, Robert W. Spekkens, and Fabio Sciarrino
PRX Quantum 2, 040323 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021
Bell experiments with measurement dependence are mapped into causal networks, leading to new nonlinear Bell inequalities and bounds that clearly signal nonclassicality.
Yuval Baum, Mirko Amico, Sean Howell, Michael Hush, Maggie Liuzzi, Pranav Mundada, Thomas Merkh, Andre R.R. Carvalho, and Michael J. Biercuk
PRX Quantum 2, 040324 (2021) - Published 4 November, 2021
A bottleneck for scaling quantum hardware is solved: An AI-based technique to design quantum gates without knowledge of the physical model or the noise processes is demonstrated experimentally, outperforming the best human-designed gates.
Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Sebastian Scherg, Thomas Kohlert, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger
PRX Quantum 2, 040325 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021
Neutral atom quantum simulators can help benchmark a new approximation algorithm to study many-body systems in a regime that is computationally intractable with existing numerical methods.
Paul D. Nation, Hwajung Kang, Neereja Sundaresan, and Jay M. Gambetta
PRX Quantum 2, 040326 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021
A new quantum error mitigation method outputs results within a few seconds for a sizable system–a feat that would otherwise be impractical.
Tyler Volkoff, Zoë Holmes, and Andrew Sornborger
PRX Quantum 2, 040327 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021
Continuous variable algorithms for quantum compilation are developed, establishing a connection with quantum learning theory through a collection of no-free lunch theorems.
Jeongrak Son, Peter Talkner, and Juzar Thingna
PRX Quantum 2, 040328 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021
Two different diagnostic-based schemes to determine the performance of quantum Otto engines are compared; their stark differences demonstrate the importance of incorporating the effects of measurements on the properties of such quantum devices.
John S. Van Dyke, George S. Barron, Nicholas J. Mayhall, Edwin Barnes, and Sophia E. Economou
PRX Quantum 2, 040329 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021
An efficient quantum algorithm for the direct preparation of the eigenstates of an interacting many-body problem is presented.
Armands Strikis, Dayue Qin, Yanzhu Chen, Simon C. Benjamin, and Ying Li
PRX Quantum 2, 040330 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021
An ab initio learning process leads to an efficient and intuitive error mitigation strategy, seeding many ideas in a rapidly evolving field.
Álvaro M. Alhambra and J. Ignacio Cirac
PRX Quantum 2, 040331 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021
The efficiency of classical methods for local properties of quantum systems is explored, showing how tensor networks can efficiently describe equilibrium and dynamical properties.
Yuan Su, Dominic W. Berry, Nathan Wiebe, Nicholas Rubin, and Ryan Babbush
PRX Quantum 2, 040332 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021
The future is first-quantized: A complete cost analysis of quantum algorithms adapted to first quantization shows that the approach is unrivaled for high accuracy simulations of solid-state materials and certain chemical compounds.
Fabio Di Pumpo, Christian Ufrecht, Alexander Friedrich, Enno Giese, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and William G. Unruh
PRX Quantum 2, 040333 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021
Based on the standard derived from atomic clocks, the essential working principles of gravitational redshift tests are transferred to atom interferometers, highlighting the resulting quantum tests of general relativity.
Wen-Bo Liu, Chen-Long Li, Yuan-Mei Xie, Chen-Xun Weng, Jie Gu, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yu-Shuo Lu, Bing-Hong Li, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zeng-Bing Chen
PRX Quantum 2, 040334 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021
Sending four different quantum states randomly enables a protocol that satisfies the requirements of deploying large-scale secure communication networks.
Marco Fellous-Asiani, Jing Hao Chai, Robert S. Whitney, Alexia Auffèves, and Hui Khoon Ng
PRX Quantum 2, 040335 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021
A trade-off between computational accuracy and required resources to execute a quantum algorithm is derived, providing a tool to design and optimize experiments.
Kentaro Heya and Naoki Kanazawa
PRX Quantum 2, 040336 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021
An efficient pulse control technique is presented to implement entangling gates with dispersively coupled transmon qubits.
Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, Shan You, and Dacheng Tao
PRX Quantum 2, 040337 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021
The learnability of quantum neural network, which includes its convergence behavior in optimization and the ability to efficiently learn classes of computationally hard concepts is investigated, providing theoretical guidance for developing advanced protocols in the NISQ era.
Kenneth Rudinger, Craig W. Hogle, Ravi K. Naik, Akel Hashim, Daniel Lobser, David I. Santiago, Matthew D. Grace, Erik Nielsen, Timothy Proctor, Stefan Seritan, Susan M. Clark, Robin Blume-Kohout, Irfan Siddiqi, and Kevin C. Young
PRX Quantum 2, 040338 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021
Novel tomographic methods are used to obtain quantitative information about crosstalk in quantum processors, leading to the identification and characterization of resulting errors.
Nathan Walk and Jens Eisert
PRX Quantum 2, 040339 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021
A cryptographic application of multipartite entanglement is presented, that serves as a rigorous and practical benchmark for near-term quantum networks.
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Vladimir Narovlansky, and Shinsei Ryu
PRX Quantum 2, 040340 (2021) - Published 23 November, 2021
A number of new random matrix theory averaging techniques is established and applied to the connection between quantum information and quantum gravity via black holes, holography, and quantum chaos
Matilda Peruzzo, Farid Hassani, Gregory Szep, Andrea Trioni, Elena Redchenko, Martin Žemlička, and Johannes M. Fink
PRX Quantum 2, 040341 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021
A large variety of superconducting qubits built from geometric superinductances are demonstrated, highlighting several crucial advantages stemming from the small footprint, high degree of control, and design flexibility.
Guillermo García-Pérez, Matteo A.C. Rossi, Boris Sokolov, Francesco Tacchino, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Guglielmo Mazzola, Ivano Tavernelli, and Sabrina Maniscalco
PRX Quantum 2, 040342 (2021) - Published 29 November, 2021
A method to reduce the number of required measurements to execute certain algorithms, such as VQE, is developed and shown to offer competitive advantages over other state-of-the-art approaches.
J.H. Béjanin, C.T. Earnest, Y.R. Sanders, and M. Mariantoni
PRX Quantum 2, 040343 (2021) - Published 30 November, 2021
Calibrating a quantum computer should not require days or weeks: A method is presented to accurately estimate quantum parameters and evade noise much more efficiently than with any state-of-the-art technique.
Jie Li, Yi-Pu Wang, Wei-Jiang Wu, Shi-Yao Zhu, and J.Q. You
PRX Quantum 2, 040344 (2021) - Published 1 December, 2021
Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution in the magnonic network are predicted, and a connection between optomechanics and optomagnonics is established.
Kianna Wan, Soonwon Choi, Isaac H. Kim, Noah Shutty, and Patrick Hayden
PRX Quantum 2, 040345 (2021) - Published 2 December, 2021
A method to construct logical qubits with extremely low logical error rates: The engineering overhead for building fault-tolerant quantum computation can be reduced to a handful of photonic and phononic components currently available.
Shishir Khandelwal, Nicolas Brunner, and Géraldine Haack
PRX Quantum 2, 040346 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021
By establishing a connection between quantum thermodynamics and non-Hermitian physics, the significance of exceptional points in the short- and long-range dynamics of the system is highlighted.
Archana Mishra, Pascal Simon, Timo Hyart, and Mircea Trif
PRX Quantum 2, 040347 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021
A novel quantum bit, the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov qubit, originating from two nearby adatoms deposited on an s-wave superconductor, is proposed for controlling and reading out topological qubits based on Majorana zero modes, facilitating the implementation of a universal set of quantum gates.
Xiu Gu, Jorge Fernández-Pendás, Pontus Vikstål, Tahereh Abad, Christopher Warren, Andreas Bengtsson, Giovanna Tancredi, Vitaly Shumeiko, Jonas Bylander, Göran Johansson, and Anton Frisk Kockum
PRX Quantum 2, 040348 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021
A recipe to create multi-qubit gates that uses existing quantum hardware– without any additional components, complicated pulse shapes, or changes in design–is proposed, promising a reduction in circuit depth, and executions that are faster than their two-qubit counterparts.
Pablo M. Poggi, Steve Campbell, and Sebastian Deffner
PRX Quantum 2, 040349 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021
Vanishing quantum speed limits are shown to be linked with reduced uncertainty in quantum observables, helping to understand the emergence of classicality.
K. Wurtz, B.M. Brubaker, Y. Jiang, E.P. Ruddy, D.A. Palken, and K.W. Lehnert
PRX Quantum 2, 040350 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021
A quantum-enhanced measurement technique based on entanglement can increase the scan rate of axion dark matter detection by up to a factor of 15.
Pedro Figueroa-Romero, Kavan Modi, Robert J. Harris, Thomas M. Stace, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh
PRX Quantum 2, 040351 (2021) - Published 13 December, 2021
A set of methods is derived to estimate the effects of temporally-correlated noise, determine their time scales and recognize the types of noise, proven on selected examples.
Jeffrey Cohn, Mario Motta, and Robert M. Parrish
PRX Quantum 2, 040352 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021
A method is developed to predict low-lying eigenspectra in representative molecular systems: Substantial compression is achieved with reasonably short circuit depths and modest measurement costs.
Ilan Tzitrin, Takaya Matsuura, Rafael N. Alexander, Guillaume Dauphinais, J. Eli Bourassa, Krishna K. Sabapathy, Nicolas C. Menicucci, and Ish Dhand
PRX Quantum 2, 040353 (2021) - Published 16 December, 2021
A GKP-based quantum computing architecture whose entangling stage is free of inline squeezing and reconfigurable optical elements promises to expedite the construction of a photonic quantum computer.
Thomas K. Bracht, Michael Cosacchi, Tim Seidelmann, Moritz Cygorek, Alexei Vagov, V. Martin Axt, Tobias Heindel, and Doris E. Reiter
PRX Quantum 2, 040354 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021
The swing up of quantum emitter population (SUPER) scheme, taking a radically different off-resonant approach to coherently excite a two-level system, is explained and proposed for single-photon generation from quantum dots.
Élie Genois, Jonathan A. Gross, Agustin Di Paolo, Noah J. Stevenson, Gerwin Koolstra, Akel Hashim, Irfan Siddiqi, and Alexandre Blais
PRX Quantum 2, 040355 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021
Machine learning will do better if the quantum nature of the dynamics is part of the training: A physics-inspired approach for device characterization is demonstrated.
Evelyn A. Ortega, Krishna Dovzhik, Jorge Fuenzalida, Sören Wengerowsky, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Rodrigo F. Shiozaki, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Martin Bohmann, and Rupert Ursin
PRX Quantum 2, 040356 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021
Using a specially designed 19-core multicore fiber, the distribution of polarization-entangled states multiplexed in the spatial degree of freedom is achieved.
Armin Tavakoli, Jef Pauwels, Erik Woodhead, and Stefano Pironio
PRX Quantum 2, 040357 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021
Entanglement-assisted communication protocols are analyzed, deriving optimal bounds for the correlations established between two parties that exchange messages in the presence of noise.
Donovan Buterakos and Sankar Das Sarma
PRX Quantum 2, 040358 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021
The role of spin-valley entanglement as a source of errors for technologies based on multiqubits silicon quantum dots is investigated, showing that detrimental effects can happen even when the system temperature is very low.
Ollie Corfield, Jake Lishman, Chungsun Lee, Jacopo Mosca Toba, George Porter, Johannes M. Heinrich, Simon C. Webster, Florian Mintert, and Richard C. Thompson
PRX Quantum 2, 040359 (2021) - Published 27 December, 2021
A scheme based on an interference pattern is used to experimentally certify the existence of multiple superposition elements in the motional state of a single ion, without risking false positives from imperfect operations.
Baleegh Abdo, Oblesh Jinka, Nicholas T. Bronn, Salvatore Olivadese, and Markus Brink
PRX Quantum 2, 040360 (2021) - Published 28 December, 2021
An on-chip superconducting isolator that does not rely on magnetic materials to break reciprocity is implemented, providing 45 dB of isolation at the qubit readout frequency.
Yongdan Yang, Bing-Nan Lu, and Ying Li
PRX Quantum 2, 040361 (2021) - Published 29 December, 2021
A quantum circuit Monte Carlo algorithm is introduced that can overcome the ubiquitous sign problem, leading to quantum advantage in solving many-body problems on noisy quantum computers.
K. E. Ballantine and J. Ruostekoski
PRX Quantum 2, 040362 (2021) - Published 30 December, 2021
A single-photon playground: Properly engineering the collective response of a two-dimensional atomic array leads to full control of the electric and magnetic components of the field.