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Enhanced energy relaxation process of quantum memory coupled with a superconducting qubit
For quantum information processing, each physical system has different
advantage for the implementation and so hybrid systems to benefit from several
systems would be able to provide a promising approach. One of the common hybrid
approach is to combine a superconducting qubit as a controllable qubit and the
other quantum system with a long coherence time as a memory qubit. The
superconducting qubit allows us to have an excellent controllability of the
quantum states and the memory qubit is capable of storing the information for a
long time. By tuning the energy splitting between the superconducting qubit and
the memory qubit, it is believed that one can realize a selective coupling
between them. However, we have shown that this approach has a fundamental
drawback concerning energy leakage from the memory qubit. The detuned
superconducting qubit is usually affected by severe decoherence, and this
causes an incoherent energy relaxation from the memory qubit to the
superconducting qubit via the imperfect decoupling. We have also found that
this energy transport can be interpreted as an appearance of anti quantum Zeno
effect induced by the fluctuation in the superconducting qubit. We also discuss
a possible solution to avoid such energy relaxation process, which is feasible
with existing technology
Optical Lenses for Atomic Beams
Superpositions of paraxial laser beam modes to generate atom-optical lenses
based on the optical dipole force are investigated theoretically. Thin, wide,
parabolic, cylindrical and circular atom lenses with numerical apertures much
greater than those reported in the literature to date can be synthesized. This
superposition approach promises to make high quality atom beam imaging and
nano-deposition feasible.Comment: 10 figure
Initializing a Quantum Register from Mott Insulator States in Optical Lattices
We propose and quantitatively develop two schemes to quickly and accurately
generate a stable initial configuration of neutral atoms in optical microtraps
by extraction from the Mott insulator state in optical lattices. We show that
thousands of atoms may be extracted and stored in the ground states of optical
microtrap arrays with one atom per trap in one operational process
demonstrating massive scalability. The failure probability during extraction in
the first scheme can be made sufficiently small (10^{-4}) to initialize a large
scale quantum register with high fidelity. A complementary faster scheme with
more extracted atoms but lower fidelity is also developed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Spatiotemporal dynamics of quantum jumps with Rydberg atoms
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum jumps in a one-dimensional
chain of atoms. Each atom is driven on a strong transition to a short-lived
state and on a weak transition to a metastable state. We choose the metastable
state to be a Rydberg state so that when an atom jumps to the Rydberg state, it
inhibits or enhances jumps in the neighboring atoms. This leads to rich
spatiotemporal dynamics that are visible in the fluorescence of the strong
transition.Comment: 10 page
Coulomb crystallization in expanding laser-cooled neutral plasmas
We present long-time simulations of expanding ultracold neutral plasmas,
including a full treatment of the strongly coupled ion dynamics. Thereby, the
relaxation dynamics of the expanding laser-cooled plasma is studied, taking
into account elastic as well as inelastic collisions. It is demonstrated that,
depending on the initial conditions, the ionic component of the plasma may
exhibit short-range order or even a superimposed long-range order resulting in
concentric ion shells. In contrast to ionic plasmas confined in traps, the
shell structures are built up from the center of the plasma cloud rather than
from the periphery
Two-Level Systems in Evaporated Amorphous Silicon
In -beam evaporated amorphous silicon (-Si), the densities of two-level
systems (TLS), and , determined from specific heat
and internal friction measurements, respectively, have been shown to
vary by over three orders of magnitude. Here we show that and
are proportional to each other with a constant of
proportionality that is consistent with the measurement time dependence
proposed by Black and Halperin and does not require the introduction of
additional anomalous TLS. However, and depend strongly
on the atomic density of the film () which depends on both film
thickness and growth temperature suggesting that the -Si structure is
heterogeneous with nanovoids or other lower density regions forming in a dense
amorphous network. A review of literature data shows that this atomic density
dependence is not unique to -Si. These findings suggest that TLS are not
intrinsic to an amorphous network but require a heterogeneous structure to
form
Single Cs Atoms as Collisional Probes in a large Rb Magneto-Optical Trap
We study cold inter-species collisions of Caesium and Rubidium in a strongly
imbalanced system with single and few Cs atoms. Observation of the single atom
fuorescence dynamics yields insight into light-induced loss mechanisms, while
both subsystems can remain in steady-state. This significantly simplifies the
analysis of the dynamics, as Cs-Cs collisions are effectively absent and the
majority component remains unaffected, allowing us to extract a precise value
of the Rb-Cs collision parameter. Extending our results to ground state
collisions would allow to use single neutral atoms as coherent probes for
larger quantum systems.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Compression of Atomic Phase Space Using an Asymmetric One-Way Barrier
We show how to construct asymmetric optical barriers for atoms. These
barriers can be used to compress phase space of a sample by creating a confined
region in space where atoms can accumulate with heating at the single photon
recoil level. We illustrate our method with a simple two-level model and then
show how it can be applied to more realistic multi-level atoms
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