195 research outputs found
Decoherence in adiabatic quantum evolution - application to Cooper pair pumping
One of the challenges of adiabatic control theory is the proper inclusion of
the effects of dissipation. Here, we study the adiabatic dynamics of an open
two-level quantum system deriving a generalized master equation to consistently
account for the combined action of the driving and dissipation. We demonstrate
that in the zero temperature limit the ground state dynamics is not affected by
environment. As an example, we apply our theory to Cooper pair pumping which
demonstrates the robustness of ground state adiabatic evolution.Comment: 7 pages, derivation of the master equation in the appendi
Quantum Circuits for General Multiqubit Gates
We consider a generic elementary gate sequence which is needed to implement a
general quantum gate acting on n qubits -- a unitary transformation with 4^n
degrees of freedom. For synthesizing the gate sequence, a method based on the
so-called cosine-sine matrix decomposition is presented. The result is optimal
in the number of elementary one-qubit gates, 4^n, and scales more favorably
than the previously reported decompositions requiring 4^n-2^n+1 controlled NOT
gates.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Observation of the single-electron regime in a highly tunable silicon quantum dot
We report on low-temperature electronic transport measurements of a silicon
metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dot, with independent gate control of
electron densities in the leads and the quantum dot island. This architecture
allows the dot energy levels to be probed without affecting the electron
density in the leads, and vice versa. Appropriate gate biasing enables the dot
occupancy to be reduced to the single-electron level, as evidenced by
magnetospectroscopy measurements of the ground state of the first two charge
transitions. Independent gate control of the electron reservoirs also enables
discrimination between excited states of the dot and density of states
modulations in the leads.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for Applied Physics Letter
Vortex splitting and phase separating instabilities of coreless vortices in F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
The low lying excitations of coreless vortex states in F = 1 spinor
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are theoretically investigated using the
Gross-Pitaevskii and Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The spectra of the
elementary excitations are calculated for different spin-spin interaction
parameters and ratios of the number of particles in each sublevel. There exist
dynamical instabilities of the vortex state which are suppressed by
ferromagnetic interactions, and conversely, enhanced by antiferromagnetic
interactions. In both of the spin-spin interaction regimes, we find vortex
splitting instabilities in analogy with scalar BECs. In addition, a phase
separating instability is found in the antiferromagnetic regime.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Photon assisted tunneling as an origin of the Dynes density of states
We show that the effect of a high-temperature environment in current
transport through a normal metal-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction can
be described by an effective density of states (DOS) in the superconductor. In
the limit of a resistive low-ohmic environment, this DOS reduces into the
well-known Dynes form. Our theoretical result is supported by experiments in
engineered environments. We apply our findings to improve the performance of a
single-electron turnstile, a potential candidate for a metrological current
source.Comment: 4+3 pages, 4 figures; updated to the published version, includes
EPAPS supplementary materia
Lipreading and Covert Speech Production Similarly Modulate Human Auditory-Cortex Responses to Pure Tones
Watching the lips of a speaker enhances speech perception. At the same time, the 100 ms response to speech sounds is suppressed in the observer's auditory cortex. Here, we used whole-scalp 306-channel magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study whether lipreading modulates human auditory processing already at the level of the most elementary sound features, i.e., pure tones. We further envisioned the temporal dynamics of the suppression to tell whether the effect is driven by top-down influences. Nineteen subjects were presented with 50 ms tones spanning six octaves (125–8000 Hz) (1) during “lipreading,” i.e., when they watched video clips of silent articulations of Finnish vowels /a/, /i/, /o/, and /y/, and reacted to vowels presented twice in a row; (2) during a visual control task; (3) during a still-face passive control condition; and (4) in a separate experiment with a subset of nine subjects, during covert production of the same vowels. Auditory-cortex 100 ms responses (N100m) were equally suppressed in the lipreading and covert-speech-production tasks compared with the visual control and baseline tasks; the effects involved all frequencies and were most prominent in the left hemisphere. Responses to tones presented at different times with respect to the onset of the visual articulation showed significantly increased N100m suppression immediately after the articulatory gesture. These findings suggest that the lipreading-related suppression in the auditory cortex is caused by top-down influences, possibly by an efference copy from the speech-production system, generated during both own speech and lipreading.Peer reviewe
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