[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in Wigner function approaches

J Weinbub, DK Ferry - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The Wigner function was formulated in 1932 by Eugene Paul Wigner, at a time when
quantum mechanics was in its infancy. In doing so, he brought phase space representations …

Observation of pairwise level degeneracies and the quantum regime of the Arrhenius law in a double-well parametric oscillator

NE Frattini, RG Cortiñas, J Venkatraman, X **ao, Q Su… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized
a double-well model system: a Kerr oscillator submitted to a squeezing force. We have …

Spectral theory of Liouvillians for dissipative phase transitions

F Minganti, A Biella, N Bartolo, C Ciuti - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
A state of an open quantum system is described by a density matrix, whose dynamics is
governed by a Liouvillian superoperator. Within a general framework, we explore …

Engineering the quantum states of light in a Kerr-nonlinear resonator by two-photon driving

S Puri, S Boutin, A Blais - npj Quantum Information, 2017 - nature.com
Photonic cat states stored in high-Q resonators show great promise for hardware efficient
universal quantum computing. We propose an approach to efficiently prepare such cat …

Quantum error correction using squeezed Schrödinger cat states

DS Schlegel, F Minganti, V Savona - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Bosonic quantum codes redundantly encode quantum information in the states of a quantum
harmonic oscillator, making it possible to detect and correct errors. Schrödinger cat codes …

Symmetry breaking and error correction in open quantum systems

S Lieu, R Belyansky, JT Young, R Lundgren… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Symmetry-breaking transitions are a well-understood phenomenon of closed quantum
systems in quantum optics, condensed matter, and high energy physics. However, symmetry …

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 …

Exact steady state of a Kerr resonator with one-and two-photon driving and dissipation: Controllable Wigner-function multimodality and dissipative phase transitions

N Bartolo, F Minganti, W Casteels, C Ciuti - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We present exact results for the steady-state density matrix of a general class of driven-
dissipative systems consisting of a nonlinear Kerr resonator in the presence of both coherent …

Critical parametric quantum sensing

R Di Candia, F Minganti, KV Petrovnin… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Critical quantum systems are a promising resource for quantum metrology applications, due
to the diverging susceptibility developed in proximity of phase transitions. Here, we assess …

Quantum critical regime in a quadratically driven nonlinear photonic lattice

R Rota, F Minganti, C Ciuti, V Savona - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We study an array of coupled optical cavities in the presence of two-photon driving and
dissipation. The system displays a critical behavior similar to that of a quantum Ising model …