Publications related to Fock state

Identifying Large Charge operators

Riccardo Rattazzi, Alexander Monin, Gil Badel

The Large Charge sector of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) can generically be described through a semiclassical expansion around a superfluid background. In this work, focussing on U(1) invariant Wilson-Fisher fixed points, we study the spectrum of spinning l ...

Springer Nature2023

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Fermionic wave functions from neural-network constrained hidden states

Giuseppe Carleo

We introduce a systematically improvable family of variational wave functions for the simulation of strongly correlated fermionic systems. This family consists of Slater determinants in an augmented Hilbert space involving “hidden” additional fermionic deg ...

2022

Variational approach to time-dependent fluorescence of a driven qubit

Yang Zhao

We employ the Dirac-Frenkel variational principle and the multiple Davydov ansatz to study time-dependent fluorescence spectra of a driven qubit in the weak to strong qubit-reservoir coupling regimes, where both the Rabi frequency and the spontaneous decay ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Optomechanical generation of a mechanical catlike state by phonon subtraction

Tobias Kippenberg, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni

We propose a scheme to prepare a macroscopic mechanical oscillator in a catlike state, close to a coherent state superposition. The mechanical oscillator, coupled by radiation-pressure interaction to a field in an optical cavity, is first prepared close to ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Preparation and Decay of a Single Quantum of Vibration at Ambient Conditions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Vivishek Sudhir, Mitchell David Anderson, Kilian Robert Seibold, Nils Kipfer, Santiago Tarrago Velez

A single quantum of excitation of a mechanical oscillator is a textbook example of the principles of quantum physics. But mechanical oscillators, despite their pervasive presence in nature and modem technology, do not genetically exist in an excited Fock s ...

American Physical Society2019

Two-Color Pump-Probe Measurement of Photonic Quantum Correlations Mediated by a Single Phonon

Vincenzo Savona, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac, Mitchell David Anderson, Kilian Robert Seibold, Santiago Tarrago Velez

We propose and demonstrate a versatile technique to measure the lifetime of the one-phonon Fock state using two-color pump-probe Raman scattering and spectrally resolved, time-correlated photon counting. Following pulsed laser excitation, the n = 1 phonon ...

2018

Structural, Dynamical, and Electronic Properties of Liquid Water: A Hybrid Functional Study

Alfredo Pasquarello, Giacomo Francesco Leonardo Miceli, Francesco Ambrosio

We study structural, dynamical, and electronic properties of liquid water through ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on a hybrid functional which includes nonlocal van der Waals (vdW) interactions. The water dimer, the water hexamer, and t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Single photon emission up to liquid nitrogen temperature from charged excitons confined in GaAs-based epitaxial nanostructures

We demonstrate a non-classical photon emitter at near infrared wavelength based on a single (In, Ga)As/GaAs epitaxially grown columnar quantum dot. Charged exciton complexes have been identified in magneto-photoluminescence. Photon auto-correlation histogr ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Heralded Single-Phonon Preparation, Storage, and Readout in Cavity Optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

We show how to use the radiation pressure optomechanical coupling between a mechanical oscillator and an optical cavity field to generate in a heralded way a single quantum of mechanical motion (a Fock state). Starting with the oscillator close to its grou ...

American Physical Society2014

Semiclassical approach to ground-state properties of hard-core bosons in two dimensions

Frédéric Mila, Tommaso Coletta, Nicolas Laflorencie

Motivated by some inconsistencies in the way quantum fluctuations are included beyond the classical treatment of hard-core bosons on a lattice in the recent literature, we revisit the large-S semiclassical approach to hard-core bosons on the square lattice ...

2012

Optomechanical sideband cooling of a micromechanical oscillator close to the quantum ground state

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser, Emanuel Gavartin, Stefan Alexander Weis

Cooling a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator to its quantum ground state is elementary for the preparation and control of quantum states of mechanical objects. Here, we pre-cool a 70-MHz micromechanical silica oscillator to an occupancy below 200 quanta by t ...

2011

Higher order coherence of exciton-polariton condensates

Paolo Schwendimann, Antonio Quattropani

The second- and third-order coherence functions g((n))(0) (n= 2 and 3) of an exciton-polariton condensate are measured and compared to the theory. Contrary to an ideal photon laser, deviation from unity in the second- and third-order coherence functions is ...

2010

Stationary and time-dependent correlations in polariton condensates

Paolo Schwendimann, Antonio Quattropani, Davide Sarchi

The statistics of the condensed polaritons is described in terms of the Wigner function. In the framework of the truncated Wigner method, the Wigner function obeys a Fokker-Planck equation, which is solved analytically. The second-order correlations in the ...

2010

Role of fermion exchanges in statistical signatures of composite bosons

Marc-André Dupertuis

We study statistical signatures of composite bosons made of two fermions by extending number states to these quantum particles. Two-particle correlations as well as the dispersion of the probability distribution are analyzed. We show that the particle comp ...

2009

Dynamics-controlled truncation scheme for quantum optics and nonlinear dynamics in semiconductor microcavities

We present a systematic theory of Coulomb-induced correlation effects in the nonlinear optical processes within the strong-coupling regime. In this paper, we shall set a dynamics controlled truncation scheme microscopic treatment of nonlinear parametric pr ...

2008

Superconducting nanowire photon-number-resolving detector at telecommunication wavelengths

Francis Lévy, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero

Optical-to-electrical conversion, which is the basis of the operation of optical detectors, can be linear or nonlinear. When high sensitivities are needed, single-photon detectors are used, which operate in a strongly nonlinear mode, their response being i ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

Can an odd number of fermions be created due to chiral anomaly?

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Yannis Burnier

We describe a possible creation of an odd number of fractionally charged fermions in the 1+1 dimensional Abelian Higgs model. We point out that for 1+1 dimensions this process does not violate any symmetries of the theory, nor makes it mathematically incon ...

American Physical Society2006

Non-perturbative processes with Fermion number non-conservation in different models of particle physics

Yannis Burnier

When a classical conservation law is broken by quantum corrections, the associated symmetry is said to be anomalous. This type of symmetry breaking can lead to interesting physics. For instance in strong interactions, the anomaly in the chiral current is i ...

EPFL2006

One-loop fermionic corrections to the instanton transition in two dimensional chiral Higgs model

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Yannis Burnier

The one-loop fermionic contribution to the probability of an instanton transition with fermion number violation is calculated in the chiral Abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions, where the fermions have a Yukawa coupling to the scalar field. The dependence ...

American Physical Society2005