A quantum battery with quadratic driving

CA Downing, MS Ukhtary - Communications Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum batteries are energy storage devices built using quantum mechanical objects,
which are developed with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. Proposing …

Microwave photon detection at parametric criticality

K Petrovnin, J Wang, M Perelshtein, P Hakonen… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The detection of microwave fields at single-photon power levels is a much-sought-after
technology, with practical applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information science …

Nonlinearity-enhanced quantum sensing in Stark probes

R Yousefjani, X He, A Carollo, A Bayat - Physical Review Applied, 2025 - APS
Stark systems in which a linear gradient field is applied across a many-body system have
recently been proposed for quantum sensing. Here, we explore sensing capacity of Stark …

Modular many-body quantum sensors

C Mukhopadhyay, A Bayat - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum many-body systems undergoing phase transitions have been proposed as probes
enabling beyond-classical enhancement of sensing precision. However, this enhancement …

Single-photon induced instabilities in a cavity electromechanical device

T Bera, M Kandpal, GS Agarwal, V Singh - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cavity-electromechanical systems are extensively used for sensing and controlling the
vibrations of mechanical resonators down to their quantum limit. The nonlinear radiation …

Criticality-enhanced electric field gradient sensor with single trapped ions

T Ilias, D Yang, SF Huelga, MB Plenio - npj Quantum Information, 2024 - nature.com
We propose and analyze a driven-dissipative quantum sensor that is continuously
monitored close to a dissipative critical point. The sensor relies on the critical open Rabi …

Quantum thermodynamics

PP Potts - ar** high-precision temperature sensors is an important issue that
has recently received a lot of attention. In this work, we introduce an estimation technique to …

Critical properties of quantum Fisher information of SU (1, 1)-dynamic systems

Y Tang, Y Yang, M An, J **e, Y Wang, F Wang, F Li - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Quantum Fisher information (QFI) may exhibit the irregular behavior at the critical point of
phase transitions of a physical system and be very sensitive to slight variations of some …

Precision magnetometry exploiting excited state quantum phase transitions

W Qian, U Marzolino - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
Critical behaviour in phase transitions is a resource for enhanced precision metrology. The
reason is that the function, known as Fisher information, is superextensive at critical points …