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Theory of ground state cooling of a mechanical oscillator using dynamical back-action
A quantum theory of cooling of a mechanical oscillator by radiation
pressure-induced dynamical back-action is developed, which is analogous to
sideband cooling of trapped ions. We find that final occupancies well below
unity can be attained when the mechanical oscillation frequency is larger than
the cavity linewidth. It is shown that the final average occupancy can be
retrieved directly from the optical output spectrum.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Ground State Energy Fluctuations of a System Coupled to a Bath
It is often argued that a small non-degenerate quantum system coupled to a
bath has a fixed energy in its ground state since a fluctuation in energy would
require an energy supply from the bath. We consider a simple model of a
harmonic oscillator (the system) coupled to a linear string and determine the
mean squared energy fluctuations. We also analyze the two time correlator of
the energy and discuss its behavior for a finite string.Comment: 5 pages, 2 eps figures, minor change
Decoherence of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs in a noisy Andreev entangler
We investigate quantum noise effect on the transportation of nonlocal Cooper
pairs accross the realistic Andreev entangler which consists of an s-wave
superconductor coupled to two small quantum dots at resonance which themselves
are coupled to normal leads. The noise emerges due to voltage fluctuations felt
by the electrons residing on the two dots as a result of the finite resistances
in the gate leads or of any resistive lead capacitively coupled to the dots. In
the ideal noiseless case, the setup provides a trustable source of mobile and
nonlocal spin-entangled electrons and the transport is dominated by a
two-particle Breit-Wigner resonance that allows the injection of two
spin-entangled electrons into different leads at the same energy [P. Recher, E.
V. Sukhorukov, and D. Loss, Phys. Rev. B 63, 165314 (2001)]. We seek to revisit
the transport of those nonlocal Cooper pairs as well as the efficiency of such
an Andreev entangler when including the quantum noise (decoherence).Comment: 15 pages and 6 figures; final version to appear in Physical Review
Many-body dephasing in a trapped-ion quantum simulator
How a closed interacting quantum many-body system relaxes and dephases as a function of time is a fundamental question in thermodynamic and statistical physics. In this Letter, we analyze and observe the persistent temporal fluctuations after a quantum quench of a tunable long-range interacting transverse-field Ising Hamiltonian realized with a trapped-ion quantum simulator. We measure the temporal fluctuations in the average magnetization of a finite-size system of spin-1/2 particles. We experiment in a regime where the properties of the system are closely related to the integrable Hamiltonian with global spin-spin coupling, which enables analytical predictions for the long-time nonintegrable dynamics. The analytical expression for the temporal fluctuations predicts the exponential suppression of temporal fluctuations with increasing system size. Our measurement data is consistent with our theory predicting the regime of many-body dephasing
Deflagrations in hybrid CONe white dwarfs: a route to explain the faint Type Iax supernova 2008ha
Stellar evolution models predict the existence of hybrid white dwarfs (WDs)
with a carbon-oxygen core surrounded by an oxygen-neon mantle. Being born with
masses ~1.1 Msun, hybrid WDs in a binary system may easily approach the
Chandrasekhar mass (MCh) by accretion and give rise to a thermonuclear
explosion. Here, we investigate an off-centre deflagration in a near-MCh hybrid
WD under the assumption that nuclear burning only occurs in carbon-rich
material. Performing hydrodynamics simulations of the explosion and detailed
nucleosynthesis post-processing calculations, we find that only 0.014 Msun of
material is ejected while the remainder of the mass stays bound. The ejecta
consist predominantly of iron-group elements, O, C, Si and S. We also calculate
synthetic observables for our model and find reasonable agreement with the
faint Type Iax SN 2008ha. This shows for the first time that deflagrations in
near-MCh WDs can in principle explain the observed diversity of Type Iax
supernovae. Leaving behind a near-MCh bound remnant opens the possibility for
recurrent explosions or a subsequent accretion-induced collapse in faint Type
Iax SNe, if further accretion episodes occur. From binary population synthesis
calculations, we find the rate of hybrid WDs approaching MCh to be on the order
of 1 percent of the Galactic SN Ia rate.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA
Stub model for dephasing in a quantum dot
As an alternative to Buttiker's dephasing lead model, we examine a dephasing
stub. Both models are phenomenological ways to introduce decoherence in chaotic
scattering by a quantum dot. The difference is that the dephasing lead opens up
the quantum dot by connecting it to an electron reservoir, while the dephasing
stub is closed at one end. Voltage fluctuations in the stub take over the
dephasing role from the reservoir. Because the quantum dot with dephasing lead
is an open system, only expectation values of the current can be forced to
vanish at low frequencies, while the outcome of an individual measurement is
not so constrained. The quantum dot with dephasing stub, in contrast, remains a
closed system with a vanishing low-frequency current at each and every
measurement. This difference is a crucial one in the context of quantum
algorithms, which are based on the outcome of individual measurements rather
than on expectation values. We demonstrate that the dephasing stub model has a
parameter range in which the voltage fluctuations are sufficiently strong to
suppress quantum interference effects, while still being sufficiently weak that
classical current fluctuations can be neglected relative to the nonequilibrium
shot noise.Comment: 8 pages with 1 figure; contribution for the special issue of J.Phys.A
on "Trends in Quantum Chaotic Scattering
Continuous mode cooling and phonon routers for phononic quantum networks
We study the implementation of quantum state transfer protocols in phonon
networks, where in analogy to optical networks, quantum information is
transmitted through propagating phonons in extended mechanical resonator arrays
or phonon waveguides. We describe how the problem of a non-vanishing thermal
occupation of the phononic quantum channel can be overcome by implementing
optomechanical multi- and continuous mode cooling schemes to create a 'cold'
frequency window for transmitting quantum states. In addition, we discuss the
implementation of phonon circulators and switchable phonon routers, which rely
on strong coherent optomechanical interactions only, and do not require strong
magnetic fields or specific materials. Both techniques can be applied and
adapted to various physical implementations, where phonons coupled to spin or
charge based qubits are used for on-chip networking applications.Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures. Final version, a few minor changes and updated
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Decoherence in qubits due to low-frequency noise
The efficiency of the future devices for quantum information processing is
limited mostly by the finite decoherence rates of the qubits. Recently a
substantial progress was achieved in enhancing the time, which a solid-state
qubit demonstrates a coherent dynamics. This progress is based mostly on a
successful isolation of the qubits from external decoherence sources. Under
these conditions the material-inherent sources of noise start to play a crucial
role. In most cases the noise that quantum device demonstrate has 1/f spectrum.
This suggests that the environment that destroys the phase coherence of the
qubit can be thought of as a system of two-state fluctuators, which experience
random hops between their states. In this short review we discuss the current
state of the theory of the decoherence due to the qubit interaction with the
fluctuators. We describe the effect of such an environment on different
protocols of the qubit manipulations - free induction and echo signal. It turns
out that in many important cases the noise produced by the fluctuators is
non-Gaussian. Consequently the results of the interaction of the qubit with the
fluctuators are not determined by the pair correlation function only.
We describe the effect of the fluctuators using so-called spin-fluctuator
model. Being quite realistic this model allows one to evaluate the qubit
dynamics in the presence of one fluctuator exactly. This solution is found, and
its features, including non-Gaussian effects are analyzed in details. We extend
this consideration for the systems of large number of fluctuators, which
interact with the qubit and lead to the 1/f noise. We discuss existing
experiments on the Josephson qubit manipulation and try to identify
non-Gaussian behavior.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figure
Entanglement and decoherence of a micromechanical resonator via coupling to a Cooper box
We analyse the quantum dynamics of a micromechanical resonator capacitively
coupled to a Cooper box. With appropriate quantum state control of the Cooper
box, the resonator can be driven into a superposition of spatially separated
states. The Cooper box can also be used to probe the environmentally-induced
decoherence of the resonator superposition state.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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