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How to Wire a 1000-Qubit Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

M. Malinowski, D.T.C. Allcock, and C.J. Ballance

PRX Quantum 4, 040313 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A concrete proposal for a 1000-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor takes advantage of integrated switching electronics to reduce the wiring complexity without reducing operation fidelity.

Quantum Thermometry with Single Molecules in Nanoprobes

V. Esteso, R. Duquennoy, R.C. Ng, M. Colautti, P. Lombardi, G. Arregui, E. Chavez-Angel, C.M. Sotomayor-Torres, P.D. Garcia, M. Hilke, and C. Toninelli

PRX Quantum 4, 040314 (2023) - Published 20 October, 2023

A single-molecule thermometer provides two-dimensional mapping with high spatial and temperature resolution under cryogenic conditions.

TUTORIALS

Quantum Many-Body Systems in Thermal Equilibrium

Álvaro M. Alhambra

PRX Quantum 4, 040201 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

A pedagogical guide to understand important aspects of the physics and complexity of quantum many-body systems, focusing on short-range interactions and thermal equilibrium.

ARTICLES

Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Isotopically Engineered Group-IV Color Centers in Diamond

Isaac B.W. Harris, Cathryn P. Michaels, Kevin C. Chen, Ryan A. Parker, Michael Titze, Jesús Arjona Martínez, Madison Sutula, Ian R. Christen, Alexander M. Stramma, William Roth, Carola M. Purser, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Chao Li, Matthew E. Trusheim, Nicola L. Palmer, Matthew L. Markham, Edward S. Bielejec, Mete Atatüre, and Dirk Englund

PRX Quantum 4, 040301 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

First-principle calculations and experimental validation show that color centers in diamond exhibit large hyperfine coupling, making them promising candidates to build quantum registers.

Variational Quantum Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Rotor Models

Matija Medvidović and Dries Sels

PRX Quantum 4, 040302 (2023) - Published 4 October, 2023

Classical variational methods are used to simulate the dynamics of two-dimensional quantum models with continuous degrees of freedom using neural networks, pushing the limits of classical computation in simulating these systems.

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation of Materials Using Bloch Orbitals

Nicholas C. Rubin, Dominic W. Berry, Fionn D. Malone, Alec F. White, Tanuj Khattar, A. Eugene DePrince, III, Sabrina Sicolo, Michael Küehn, Michael Kaicher, Joonho Lee, and Ryan Babbush

PRX Quantum 4, 040303 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

An improvement and detailed accounting of the fault-tolerant resources required for ab initio simulation of periodic systems provides context for quantum computation in materials science.

Thermal Recall: Memory-Assisted Markovian Thermal Processes

Jakub Czartowski, A. de Oliveira Junior, and Kamil Korzekwa

PRX Quantum 4, 040304 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

A novel resource-theoretic framework is developed to bridge the gap between thermodynamic processes with and without memory effects.

Optimal Protocols for Quantum Metrology with Noisy Measurements

Sisi Zhou, Spyridon Michalakis, and Tuvia Gefen

PRX Quantum 4, 040305 (2023) - Published 9 October, 2023

Preprocessing protocols for quantum control are optimized using Fisher information to set ultimate precision bounds for noisy measurements of quantum states.

Finite-Size Security for Discrete-Modulated Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Florian Kanitschar, Ian George, Jie Lin, Twesh Upadhyaya, and Norbert Lütkenhaus

PRX Quantum 4, 040306 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution is provably secure under experimentally viable conditions in the finite-key regime against collective i.i.d. attacks.

Admissible Causal Structures and Correlations

Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis and Ämin Baumeler

PRX Quantum 4, 040307 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Local quantum theory is found to impose novel limitations on causal structures and correlations.

State-Insensitive Trapping of Alkaline-Earth Atoms in a Nanofiber-Based Optical Dipole Trap

G. Kestler, K. Ton, D. Filin, C. Cheung, P. Schneeweiss, T. Hoinkes, J. Volz, M.S. Safronova, A. Rauschenbeutel, and J.T. Barreiro

PRX Quantum 4, 040308 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Alkaline-earth atoms are trapped with fields from a nanophotonic structure for the first time, with possible applications in quantum sensing and atomtronic-photonic circuits.

Measurement-Induced Phases of Matter Require Feedback

Aaron J. Friedman, Oliver Hart, and Rahul Nandkishore

PRX Quantum 4, 040309 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

A systematic study of chaotic quantum dynamics with measurements shows that outcome-dependent feedback is needed to observe measurement-induced phases of matter.

Experimental Optical Simulator of Reconfigurable and Complex Quantum Environment

P. Renault, J. Nokkala, G. Roeland, N.Y. Joly, R. Zambrini, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, N. Treps, and V. Parigi

PRX Quantum 4, 040310 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

A continuous-variable optical setup is used to simulate the open-system quantum dynamics with engineered environments, with applications in quantum biology, synchronization, and understanding the quantum-to-classical transition.

Learning Correlated Noise in a 39-Qubit Quantum Processor

Robin Harper and Steven T. Flammia

PRX Quantum 4, 040311 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

An efficient method for modeling and measuring noise in a quantum device is proposed and experimentally tested, helping to illuminate the effectiveness of error correction against correlated noise.

Singular-Value Statistics of Non-Hermitian Random Matrices and Open Quantum Systems

Kohei Kawabata, Zhenyu Xiao, Tomi Ohtsuki, and Ryuichi Shindou

PRX Quantum 4, 040312 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

A new method, based on singular values of non-Hermitian matrices, is shown to be able to identify chaos and nonintegrability in open quantum many-body systems.

How to Wire a 1000-Qubit Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

M. Malinowski, D.T.C. Allcock, and C.J. Ballance

PRX Quantum 4, 040313 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A concrete proposal for a 1000-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor takes advantage of integrated switching electronics to reduce the wiring complexity without reducing operation fidelity.

Quantum Thermometry with Single Molecules in Nanoprobes

V. Esteso, R. Duquennoy, R.C. Ng, M. Colautti, P. Lombardi, G. Arregui, E. Chavez-Angel, C.M. Sotomayor-Torres, P.D. Garcia, M. Hilke, and C. Toninelli

PRX Quantum 4, 040314 (2023) - Published 20 October, 2023

A single-molecule thermometer provides two-dimensional mapping with high spatial and temperature resolution under cryogenic conditions.

Detecting Spin-Bath Polarization with Quantum Quench Phase Shifts of Single Spins in Diamond

Paul C. Jerger, Yu-Xin Wang (王语馨), Mykyta Onizhuk, Benjamin S. Soloway, Michael T. Solomon, Christopher Egerstrom, F. Joseph Heremans, Giulia Galli, Aashish A. Clerk, and David D. Awschalom

PRX Quantum 4, 040315 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Measurements of quantum quench phase shifts enable a direct probe of an NV center’s nuclear spin-bath polarization, with applications in quantum memories and metrology.

Designing High-Fidelity Zeno Gates for Dissipative Cat Qubits

Ronan Gautier, Mazyar Mirrahimi, and Alain Sarlette

PRX Quantum 4, 040316 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

A new perspective on cat-qubit gates is introduced, leading to four new gate designs that improve upon the standard Zeno gate and that can increase gate fidelities by an order of magnitude for realistic experimental parameters.

Many-Body Magic Via Pauli-Markov Chains—From Criticality to Gauge Theories

Poetri Sonya Tarabunga, Emanuele Tirrito, Titas Chanda, and Marcello Dalmonte

PRX Quantum 4, 040317 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

A novel quantum many-body method is developed for measuring magic, a fundamental resource in quantum information protocols.

Quantum Fourier Transform Has Small Entanglement

Jielun Chen (陈捷伦), E.M. Stoudenmire, and Steven R. White

PRX Quantum 4, 040318 (2023) - Published 27 October, 2023

Novel results show that the quantum Fourier transform is compatible with area-law entanglement dynamics, opening the way for classical simulations using tensor networks.

Optimizing Resource Efficiencies for Scalable Full-Stack Quantum Computers

Marco Fellous-Asiani, Jing Hao Chai, Yvain Thonnart, Hui Khoon Ng, Robert S. Whitney, and Alexia Auffèves

PRX Quantum 4, 040319 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

A full-stack approach to the energetics of quantum computers is introduced, allowing one to minimize their energy consumption for a given computational accuracy.

Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution in the Presence of Bypass Channels

Masoud Ghalaii, Sima Bahrani, Carlo Liorni, Federico Grasselli, Hermann Kampermann, Lewis Wooltorton, Rupesh Kumar, Stefano Pirandola, Timothy P. Spiller, Alexander Ling, Bruno Huttner, and Mohsen Razavi

PRX Quantum 4, 040320 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Spaceborne quantum communication protocols are studied under restrictive eavesdropping scenarios, showing that even simple QKD protocols can offer positive key rates at high channel losses.

Coupler Microwave-Activated Controlled-Phase Gate on Fluxonium Qubits

Ilya A. Simakov, Grigoriy S. Mazhorin, Ilya N. Moskalenko, Nikolay N. Abramov, Alexander A. Grigorev, Dmitry O. Moskalev, Anastasiya A. Pishchimova, Nikita S. Smirnov, Evgeniy V. Zikiy, Ilya A. Rodionov, and Ilya S. Besedin

PRX Quantum 4, 040321 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Direct control of the longitudinal coupling between fluxonium qubits and their coupler enables a novel entangling gate.

Linear Optical Logical Bell State Measurements with Optimal Loss-Tolerance Threshold

Paul Hilaire, Yaron Castor, Edwin Barnes, Sophia E. Economou, and Frédéric Grosshans

PRX Quantum 4, 040322 (2023) - Published 6 November, 2023

Linear-optical quantum information processing is shown not to intrinsically reduce the loss tolerance performances of quantum error correction.

Quantum Repeater for W States

Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Ferran Riera-Sàbat, and Wolfgang Dür

PRX Quantum 4, 040323 (2023) - Published 8 November, 2023

A quantum repeater protocol that distributes three-qubit W states over arbitrary distances with polylogarithmic overhead is introduced.

Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Reconstruction Using Continuous Weak Measurements

Karthik Siva, Gerwin Koolstra, John Steinmetz, William P. Livingston, Debmalya Das, L. Chen, J.M. Kreikebaum, N.J. Stevenson, C. Jünger, D.I. Santiago, I. Siddiqi, and A.N. Jordan

PRX Quantum 4, 040324 (2023) - Published 9 November, 2023

Continuous weak measurements enable reconstruction of time-dependent Hamiltonians, enhancing the time resolution of quantum gate errors beyond what is revealed by standard tomographic and benchmarking techniques.

End-To-End Resource Analysis for Quantum Interior-Point Methods and Portfolio Optimization

Alexander M. Dalzell, B. David Clader, Grant Salton, Mario Berta, Cedric Yen-Yu Lin, David A. Bader, Nikitas Stamatopoulos, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Helmut G. Katzgraber, and William J. Zeng

PRX Quantum 4, 040325 (2023) - Published 13 November, 2023

A detailed resource analysis of an established quantum algorithm for convex optimization reveals that the practical run times implied by this quantum solution are impractical for problems of interest in finance.

Efficient Sampling of Noisy Shallow Circuits Via Monitored Unraveling

Zihan Cheng and Matteo Ippoliti

PRX Quantum 4, 040326 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Building on the insight of unraveling noise channels into optimized measurements, a classical algorithm for sampling noisy random circuits is developed, increasing our understanding of the boundary of “practically hard” quantum computation in real-world noisy settings.

Floquet-Engineered Nonlinearities and Controllable Pair-Hopping Processes: From Optical Kerr Cavities to Correlated Quantum Matter

N. Goldman, O.K. Diessel, L. Barbiero, M. Prüfer, M. Di Liberto, and L. Peralta Gavensky

PRX Quantum 4, 040327 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

A general construction shows how to design unconventional interaction processes in bosonic systems, providing a route for the exploration of exotic quantum phases of matter.

Shadow Tomography on General Measurement Frames

L. Innocenti, S. Lorenzo, I. Palmisano, F. Albarelli, A. Ferraro, M. Paternostro, and G. M. Palma

PRX Quantum 4, 040328 (2023) - Published 20 November, 2023

The interplay between measurements, reconstructed observables, and the estimators used to process measurement outcomes is examined in a framework that connects shadow tomography with the general theory of measurement frames.

Noise-Assisted Digital Quantum Simulation of Open Systems Using Partial Probabilistic Error Cancellation

José D. Guimarães, James Lim, Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

PRX Quantum 4, 040329 (2023) - Published 21 November, 2023

Noise can be used as a computational resource for simulating open quantum systems on NISQ devices.

Simple and Tighter Derivation of Achievability for Classical Communication Over Quantum Channels

Hao-Chung Cheng (鄭皓中)

PRX Quantum 4, 040330 (2023) - Published 22 November, 2023

A judicious application of the so-called pretty-good measurement in quantum coding considerably simplifies the derivation of one-shot achievability, sharpening many existing quantum information-processing protocols.

Clifford Group and Unitary Designs under Symmetry

Yosuke Mitsuhashi and Nobuyuki Yoshioka

PRX Quantum 4, 040331 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

The concept of unitary designs is extended to scenarios involving symmetry, which can be applied in the contexts of randomized benchmarking and many-body simulations.

Ultrafast Entanglement Dynamics in Monitored Quantum Circuits

Shengqi Sang, Zhi Li, Timothy H. Hsieh, and Beni Yoshida

PRX Quantum 4, 040332 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

Quantum correlation and information spread superlinearly with time in quantum dynamics subject to repeated measurements.

Qudit Entanglers Using Quantum Optimal Control

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Anupam Mitra, Eric J. Meier, Michael J. Martin, and Ivan H. Deutsch

PRX Quantum 4, 040333 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Novel techniques based on Lie group and algebraic quantum optimal control are employed in a new protocol to implement entangling universal logic gates on qudits.

Closest Lattice Point Decoding for Multimode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Codes

Mao Lin, Christopher Chamberland, and Kyungjoo Noh

PRX Quantum 4, 040334 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

The advantage of decoding large instances of GKP codes from a lattice perspective is demonstrated, and several instances of optimized GKP codes that outperform the currently known codes are found.

Efficient Estimation of Trainability for Variational Quantum Circuits

Valentin Heyraud, Zejian Li, Kaelan Donatella, Alexandre Le Boité, and Cristiano Ciuti

PRX Quantum 4, 040335 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

An efficient method to evaluate the trainability of variational quantum circuits allows for the exploration of strategies to overcome the barren plateau problem.

Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation for Noisy Quantum Metrology

Philippe Faist, Mischa P. Woods, Victor V. Albert, Joseph M. Renes, Jens Eisert, and John Preskill

PRX Quantum 4, 040336 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

The impact of noise on the accuracy of a quantum clock is investigated, unveiling a necessary and sufficient requirement for accuracy that extends standard error-correcting conditions to quantum metrology.

Learning to Predict Arbitrary Quantum Processes

Hsin-Yuan Huang, Sitan Chen, and John Preskill

PRX Quantum 4, 040337 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

A new machine-learning algorithm for predicting unknown quantum dynamics is presented.

Detecting High-Dimensional Entanglement in Cold-Atom Quantum Simulators

Niklas Euler and Martin Gärttner

PRX Quantum 4, 040338 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

A general, experimentally accessible scheme to bound entanglement in a system of cold atoms in an optical lattice is presented.

Persistent Non-Gaussian Correlations in Out-of-Equilibrium Rydberg Atom Arrays

Aydin Deger, Aiden Daniel, Zlatko Papić, and Jiannis K. Pachos

PRX Quantum 4, 040339 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Long-lived non-Gaussian states are identified on Rydberg atom arrays, laying out a proposal for their observation and use as a stable resource for quantum information protocols.

Quantum State Smoothing Cannot Be Assumed Classical Even When the Filtering and Retrofiltering Are Classical

Kiarn T. Laverick, Prahlad Warszawski, Areeya Chantasri, and Howard M. Wiseman

PRX Quantum 4, 040340 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Classical smoothing theory is shown to not be always applicable to quantum systems, even when both the filtering and retrofiltering appear classical.

Statistical Phase Estimation and Error Mitigation on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Nick S. Blunt, Laura Caune, Róbert Izsák, Earl T. Campbell, and Nicole Holzmann

PRX Quantum 4, 040341 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

A phase-estimation method to find energies of quantum many-body systems is tested on a real quantum processor, combining statistical methods and error-mitigation techniques.

Strong Dispersive Coupling Between a Mechanical Resonator and a Fluxonium Superconducting Qubit

Nathan R.A. Lee, Yudan Guo, Agnetta Y. Cleland, E. Alex Wollack, Rachel G. Gruenke, Takuma Makihara, Zhaoyou Wang, Taha Rajabzadeh, Wentao Jiang, Felix M. Mayor, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, Christopher J. Sarabalis, and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

PRX Quantum 4, 040342 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

The reach of circuit quantum acoustodynamics is expanded, providing a path for developing new quantum sensing and information processing schemes with phonons at frequencies below 700 MHz.

Many-Body Singlet Prepared by a Central-Spin Qubit

Leon Zaporski, Stijn R. de Wit, Takuya Isogawa, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Claire Le Gall, Mete Atatüre, and Dorian A. Gangloff

PRX Quantum 4, 040343 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

A proposed quantum control protocol uses a central spin to prepare two spin ensembles in a singlet state.

Scalable Surface-Code Decoders with Parallelization in Time

Xinyu Tan, Fang Zhang, Rui Chao, Yaoyun Shi, and Jianxin Chen

PRX Quantum 4, 040344 (2023) - Published 15 December, 2023

Leveraging parallelization in time, a scalable decoding paradigm for topological quantum error-correction codes effectively resolves the exponential backlog problem without compromising decoding accuracy.

Reconstructing Complex States of a 20-Qubit Quantum Simulator

Murali K. Kurmapu, V.V. Tiunova, E.S. Tiunov, Martin Ringbauer, Christine Maier, Rainer Blatt, Thomas Monz, Aleksey K. Fedorov, and A.I. Lvovsky

PRX Quantum 4, 040345 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

A new quantum tomography method inspired by variational matrix-product-state ansatze is introduced and benchmarked in a 20-qubit quantum simulator.

Sideband Thermometry of Ion Crystals

Ivan Vybornyi, Laura S. Dreissen, Dominik Kiesenhofer, Helene Hainzer, Matthias Bock, Tuomas Ollikainen, Daniel Vadlejch, Christian F. Roos, Tanja E. Mehlstäubler, and Klemens Hammerer

PRX Quantum 4, 040346 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

A new method for ion-trap thermometry is developed and tested, showing accuracy for large 1D and 2D ion crystals, accounting for quantum many-body effects.

Inferring Quantum Network Topology Using Local Measurements

Daniel T. Chen, Brian Doolittle, Jeffrey Larson, Zain H. Saleem, and Eric Chitambar

PRX Quantum 4, 040347 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Statistical correlations generated across the nodes of a quantum network are used to infer the network topology using entropic quantities.

Stability of the Many-Body Scars in Fermionic Spin-1/2 Models

Patrice Kolb and Kiryl Pakrouski

PRX Quantum 4, 040348 (2023) - Published 26 December, 2023

Stability of quantum many-body scars in spin-1/2 fermionic systems under typical perturbations is investigated, revealing insights for experimental detection and theoretical and quantum computing applications.

Complexity-Theoretic Limitations on Quantum Algorithms for Topological Data Analysis

Alexander Schmidhuber and Seth Lloyd

PRX Quantum 4, 040349 (2023) - Published 28 December, 2023

New insights on the hardness of topological data analysis and the possibility of quantum advantage.

ERRATA

Erratum: Role of Quantum Coherence in Thermodynamics [PRX Quantum 3, 040323 (2022)]

Gilad Gour

PRX Quantum 4, 040901 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

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