
A universal mixed-state quantum phase is identified and shown to be intrinsically connected to long-range conditional mutual information.
Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States
Leonardo A. Lessa, Ruochen Ma, Jian-Hao Zhang, Zhen Bi, Meng Cheng, and Chong Wang
PRX Quantum 6, 010344 (2025)
Katiuscia Cassemiro and Stephen Bartlett
PRX Quantum 6, 020001 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025
H.B. van Ommen, G.L. van de Stolpe, N. Demetriou, H.K.C. Beukers, J. Yun, T.R.J. Fortuin, M. Iuliano, A.R.-P. Montblanch, R. Hanson, and T.H. Taminiau
PRX Quantum 6, 020309 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025
Investigation of fundamental principles of dynamically decoupled radio-frequency gates leads to an improved understanding of the control limits and applications in sensing and multiqubit registers.
Zhenpu Zhang, Ting-Wei Hsu, Ting You Tan, Daniel H. Slichter, Adam M. Kaufman, Matteo Marinelli, and Cindy A. Regal
PRX Quantum 6, 020337 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025
An optical tweezer array in a cryogenic environment demonstrates new capabilities for long-lived Rydberg atom arrays.
Michele Governale, Christian Schönenberger, Pasquale Scarlino, and Gianluca Rastelli
PRX Quantum 6, 020339 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025
A novel scheme for generating entangled photons in the microwave domain using a circuit QED architecture has the potential to be a powerful resource for quantum technologies.
Alexander Ulanowski, Olivier Kuijpers, Benjamin Merkel, Adrian Holzäpfel, and Andreas Reiserer
PRX Quantum 6, 020344 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025
A spectroscopy technique achieves unprecedented resolution in detecting nuclear spins within dense baths, unlocking microscopic insights into their interaction with the surrounding magnetic environment.
D.G. Suárez-Forero, M. Jalali Mehrabad, C. Vega, A. González-Tudela, and M. Hafezi
PRX Quantum 6, 020101 (2025) - Published 18 April, 2025
The rapidly evolving field of chiral quantum optics is explored, showing developments and future opportunities in engineering asymmetric light-matter interactions for probing exotic quantum many-body effects.
Guillaume Beaulieu, Fabrizio Minganti, Simone Frasca, Marco Scigliuzzo, Simone Felicetti, Roberto Di Candia, and Pasquale Scarlino
PRX Quantum 6, 020301 (2025) - Published 1 April, 2025
A quantum sensor built with a superconducting parametric Kerr resonator, operating near a second-order dissipative phase transition, enables more precise metrological protocols.
Tomislav Begušić and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
PRX Quantum 6, 020302 (2025) - Published 2 April, 2025
Sparse Pauli dynamics is shown to effectively simulate real-time operator evolution in quantum circuits, competing with tensor-network methods and enabling quench dynamics studies in 2D and 3D transverse-field Ising models.
D. Goncalves, L. Bombieri, G. Ferioli, S. Pancaldi, I. Ferrier-Barbut, A. Browaeys, E. Shahmoon, and D.E. Chang
PRX Quantum 6, 020303 (2025) - Published 3 April, 2025
Following experimental efforts to observe a driven-dissipative phase transition in a strongly optically driven atomic ensemble, theoretical work suggests that such a system instead exhibits a “phase separation.”
Ming Lai Chan, Thomas J. Bell, Love A. Pettersson, Susan X. Chen, Patrick Yard, Anders S. Sørensen, and Stefano Paesani
PRX Quantum 6, 020304 (2025) - Published 4 April, 2025
A new photonic architecture with high resource efficiency and high tolerance to the most relevant types of noise makes scalable and practical computing with quantum emitters more feasible.
Mirko Arienzo, Dmitry Grinko, Martin Kliesch, and Markus Heinrich
PRX Quantum 6, 020305 (2025) - Published 7 April, 2025
A randomized benchmarking method for passive bosonic operations provides characterization for continuous-variable systems that also estimates average particle loss and is robust to state preparation and measurement errors.
Lisa Bombieri, Zhongda Zeng, Roberto Tricarico, Rui Lin, Simone Notarnicola, Madelyn Cain, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hannes Pichler
PRX Quantum 6, 020306 (2025) - Published 8 April, 2025
A performance analysis of quantum optimization algorithms applied to combinatorial problems encoded in Rydberg atom arrays uncovers quantum-induced bottlenecks and proposes quantum-aware modifications to the encoding strategies to circumvent these issues.
N. Paraskevopoulos, M. Steinberg, B. Undseth, A. Sarkar, L.M.K. Vandersypen, X. Xue, and S. Feld
PRX Quantum 6, 020307 (2025) - Published 9 April, 2025
By combining new benchmarks centering the entangling power of a device and a detailed noise model, this paper will help experimentalists design architectures for quantum computation with spin qubits.
Kaito Wada, Naoki Yamamoto, and Nobuyuki Yoshioka
PRX Quantum 6, 020308 (2025) - Published 10 April, 2025
An algorithm with sublinear resource scaling in the number of observables and Heisenberg-limited precision brings quantum-enhanced measurements of multiple observables within reach.
H.B. van Ommen, G.L. van de Stolpe, N. Demetriou, H.K.C. Beukers, J. Yun, T.R.J. Fortuin, M. Iuliano, A.R.-P. Montblanch, R. Hanson, and T.H. Taminiau
PRX Quantum 6, 020309 (2025) - Published 11 April, 2025
Investigation of fundamental principles of dynamically decoupled radio-frequency gates leads to an improved understanding of the control limits and applications in sensing and multiqubit registers.
Daniel Malz and Rahul Trivedi
PRX Quantum 6, 020310 (2025) - Published 14 April, 2025
The computational complexity of 2D isometric tensor-network states is determined through a dual representation in terms of 1D open systems.
Tristan Le Roy-Deloison, Edwin Peter Lobo, Jef Pauwels, and Stefano Pironio
PRX Quantum 6, 020311 (2025) - Published 15 April, 2025
A novel class of secure, device-independent quantum key distribution protocols based on routed Bell tests is proposed, extending the range of optics-based key distribution protocols that seamlessly integrate into existing experimental setups.
Jiaqing Jiang
PRX Quantum 6, 020312 (2025) - Published 17 April, 2025
For the problem of finding ground-state energy of a local Hamiltonian, new complexity results help to bring more clarity to the boundary of quantum advantage.
O. Meskine, I. Šupić, D. Markham, F. Appas, F. Boitier, M. Morassi, A. Lemaître, M.I. Amanti, F. Baboux, E. Diamanti, and S. Ducci
PRX Quantum 6, 020313 (2025) - Published 21 April, 2025
Theory and experiment show that strong quantum nonlocality in a triangle network can exist even in the presence of correlations between sources.
David Gross and Dominik Hangleiter
PRX Quantum 6, 020314 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025
Successful recovery of secrets embedded in cryptographic schemes presents new limitations on regimes where verified quantum advantage is possible.
Michael J. Bremner, Bin Cheng, and Zhengfeng Ji
PRX Quantum 6, 020315 (2025) - Published 22 April, 2025
Generalization of a long-held quantum verification scheme demonstrates security against prior vulnerabilities and known attacks.
Francesco Buscemi, Rajeev Gangwar, Kaumudibikash Goswami, Himanshu Badhani, Tanmoy Pandit, Brij Mohan, Siddhartha Das, and Manabendra Nath Bera
PRX Quantum 6, 020316 (2025) - Published 23 April, 2025
Differences between causal and noncausal backflows lead to a convex resource theory of genuine quantum non-Markovianity.
Nick von Selzam and Florian Marquardt
PRX Quantum 6, 020317 (2025) - Published 24 April, 2025
A novel machine-learning-based approach can construct a local hidden-variable model for arbitrary multipartite entangled states, enabling a quantitative determination of nonlocality regimes in any given physical context.
D.G. Atanasova, I. Yang, T. Hönigl-Decrinis, D. Gusenkova, I. Pop, and G. Kirchmair
PRX Quantum 6, 020318 (2025) - Published 25 April, 2025
A novel platform combines a high-coherence microwave cavity with a fluxonium qubit, enabling seamless tuning of interaction across its full range via magnetic-field adjustments, without additional elements or drives.
William J. Huggins, Oskar Leimkuhler, Torin F. Stetina, and K. Birgitta Whaley
PRX Quantum 6, 020319 (2025) - Published 28 April, 2025
By using tensor-network techniques to compress the single-particle wave functions, the initial state preparation for the simulation of molecular systems in first quantization is accelerated.
Martin Kuffer, Analia Zwick, and Gonzalo A. Álvarez
PRX Quantum 6, 020320 (2025) - Published 29 April, 2025
Time-reversal symmetry breaking in quantum-probe dynamics provides a novel sensing paradigm for detecting out-of-equilibrium and quantum non-Gaussian environments.
Caterina Zerba, Alexander Seidel, Frank Pollmann, and Michael Knap
PRX Quantum 6, 020321 (2025) - Published 30 April, 2025
Nonequilibrium signatures of partially occupied lowest Landau levels in fractional quantum Hall systems enable the exploration of fracton hydrodynamics.
Nikhil Bansal, Wai-Keong Mok, Kishor Bharti, Dax Enshan Koh, and Tobias Haug
PRX Quantum 6, 020322 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025
A framework of pseudorandomness for mixed states is introduced, with implications on how efficiently one can test, or observe, entanglement, magic, and coherence.
Sitan Chen and Weiyuan Gong
PRX Quantum 6, 020323 (2025) - Published 2 May, 2025
Circumventing recent no-go theorems, this work shows that a logarithmic amount of quantum memory is sufficient to give exponential advantages in the task of learning the structure of Pauli-noise channels.
Andi Gu, Salvatore F.E. Oliviero, and Lorenzo Leone
PRX Quantum 6, 020324 (2025) - Published 5 May, 2025
Two distinct phases—entanglement dominated and magic dominated—in Hilbert space are separated by a computational separation yet provide a unifying framework for understanding quantum behavior.
Zhenhuan Liu, Xingjian Zhang, Yue-Yang Fei, and Zhenyu Cai
PRX Quantum 6, 020325 (2025) - Published 6 May, 2025
A new connection between error mitigation and error correction improves the quality of computation without requiring detailed knowledge of target states or noise models.
Kaavya Sahay, Yingjia Lin, Shilin Huang, Kenneth R. Brown, and Shruti Puri
PRX Quantum 6, 020326 (2025) - Published 7 May, 2025
Robust and time-efficient error correction of transversal logical gates between code blocks presents a route toward practical, large-scale implementations.
Dominic W. Berry, Yu Tong, Tanuj Khattar, Alec White, Tae In Kim, Guang Hao Low, Sergio Boixo, Zhiyan Ding, Lin Lin, Seunghoon Lee, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Ryan Babbush, and Nicholas C. Rubin
PRX Quantum 6, 020327 (2025) - Published 8 May, 2025
Faster preparation of ground-state approximations plus more efficient sampling of those prepared states yields a method to reliably estimate the ground-state energy of complex chemical systems.
He Zhang, Tong Liu, Zhongcheng Xiang, Kai Xu, Heng Fan, and Dongning Zheng
PRX Quantum 6, 020328 (2025) - Published 9 May, 2025
Experimental investigation of the topology near exceptional points yields insights into non-Hermitian topological structures and the use of dynamic operations to manipulate quantum states.
G. O. Steffensen and A. Levy Yeyati
PRX Quantum 6, 020329 (2025) - Published 12 May, 2025
Embedding a double quantum dot in parallel with a transmon provides promising qubit properties, including coherent manipulations through dot gates and suitability with a broad range of material platforms.
Tom Peham, Ludwig Schmid, Lucas Berent, Markus Müller, and Robert Wille
PRX Quantum 6, 020330 (2025) - Published 14 May, 2025
Gate- and depth-optimized nondeterministic fault-tolerant state-preparation circuits can be automatically generated for CSS codes.
Haoran Liao, Gavin S. Hartnett, Ashish Kakkar, Adrian Tan, Michael Hush, Pranav S. Mundada, Michael J. Biercuk, and Yuval Baum
PRX Quantum 6, 020331 (2025) - Published 16 May, 2025
Low-overhead error detection implemented at the physical level can offer cost savings compared to full-scale quantum error correction and improve the fidelities of a new protocol for long-range entangling gates.
J. Mögerle, K. Brechtelsbauer, A.T. Gea-Caballero, J. Prior, G. Emperauger, G. Bornet, C. Chen, T. Lahaye, A. Browaeys, and H.P. Büchler
PRX Quantum 6, 020332 (2025) - Published 19 May, 2025
A new protocol to obtain a spin-1 Haldane phase in a chain of Rydberg atoms reveals robust topological order and fractionalized edge states that are accessible with current experimental techniques.
Shijun Sun, Jian-Hao Zhang, Zhen Bi, and Yizhi You
PRX Quantum 6, 020333 (2025) - Published 20 May, 2025
A holographic duality is established, providing a new framework to explore intrinsic mixed-state symmetry-protected topological phases unique to open quantum systems, with no pure-state analogues.
J. A. Muniz et al.
PRX Quantum 6, 020334 (2025) - Published 21 May, 2025
A universal gate set made of local single-qubit gates and entangling gates in a zoned architecture for ground-state nuclear-spin qubits is benchmarked, showing high-fidelity operation in a scalable system.
Giulio Chiribella and Kaumudibikash Goswami
PRX Quantum 6, 020335 (2025) - Published 22 May, 2025
Two rigorous measures of causal strength in quantum processes are introduced, revealing deep ties to key quantum information tasks like channel capacity and approximate quantum error correction.
Alexander Anferov, Fanghui Wan, Shannon P. Harvey, Jonathan Simon, and David I. Schuster
PRX Quantum 6, 020336 (2025) - Published 23 May, 2025
A superconducting transmon operating at 72 GHz is the highest-frequency qubit measured to date, enabling quantum experiments near 1 K and thus more accessible, high-energy superconducting quantum technologies.
Zhenpu Zhang, Ting-Wei Hsu, Ting You Tan, Daniel H. Slichter, Adam M. Kaufman, Matteo Marinelli, and Cindy A. Regal
PRX Quantum 6, 020337 (2025) - Published 27 May, 2025
An optical tweezer array in a cryogenic environment demonstrates new capabilities for long-lived Rydberg atom arrays.
Dominik Hangleiter, Marcin Kalinowski, Dolev Bluvstein, Madelyn Cain, Nishad Maskara, Xun Gao, Aleksander Kubica, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Michael J. Gullans
PRX Quantum 6, 020338 (2025) - Published 28 May, 2025
A new study on fault-tolerant realization of complex sampling circuits provides powerful tools for the codesign of algorithms with error-correction codes and hardware properties.
Michele Governale, Christian Schönenberger, Pasquale Scarlino, and Gianluca Rastelli
PRX Quantum 6, 020339 (2025) - Published 29 May, 2025
A novel scheme for generating entangled photons in the microwave domain using a circuit QED architecture has the potential to be a powerful resource for quantum technologies.
Giovanni Rodari, Leonardo Novo, Riccardo Albiero, Alessia Suprano, Carlos T. Tavares, Eugenio Caruccio, Francesco Hoch, Taira Giordani, Gonzalo Carvacho, Marco Gardina, Niki Di Giano, Serena Di Giorgio, Giacomo Corrielli, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Nicolò Spagnolo, Ernesto F. Galvão, and Fabio Sciarrino
PRX Quantum 6, 020340 (2025) - Published 30 May, 2025
A robust semi-device-independent toolbox for the characterization of multiphoton indistinguishability is demonstrated on a hybrid photonic platform.
Ahana Chakraborty, Michele Pini, Martina Zündel, and Francesco Piazza
PRX Quantum 6, 020341 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025
A new work shows that the quantum nature of the interaction-mediating photons can significantly alter two-body scattering and even shift the critical behavior of superconducting phase transitions.
Lars Kamin, Amir Arqand, Ian George, Norbert Lütkenhaus, and Ernest Y.-Z. Tan
PRX Quantum 6, 020342 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025
A numerical framework leveraging the generalized entropy-accumulation theorem enhances finite-size corrections in security proofs, advancing the practicality of quantum key distribution.
Rui-An Chang, Harshank Shrotriya, Wen Wei Ho, and Matteo Ippoliti
PRX Quantum 6, 020343 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025
Conservation laws shape deep thermalization in quantum many-body systems, giving rise to universal wave-function distributions determined by initial charge fluctuations and measurement choices.
Alexander Ulanowski, Olivier Kuijpers, Benjamin Merkel, Adrian Holzäpfel, and Andreas Reiserer
PRX Quantum 6, 020344 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025
A spectroscopy technique achieves unprecedented resolution in detecting nuclear spins within dense baths, unlocking microscopic insights into their interaction with the surrounding magnetic environment.
Peter A. Spring, Luka Milanovic, Yoshiki Sunada, Shiyu Wang, Arjan F. van Loo, Shuhei Tamate, and Yasunobu Nakamura
PRX Quantum 6, 020345 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025
Careful engineering of the coupling between the readout and filter resonators in a superconducting measurement circuit eliminates a qubit decay pathway and enables fast, high-fidelity, multiplexed readout.
Franz J. Schreiber, Jens Eisert, and Johannes Jakob Meyer
PRX Quantum 6, 020346 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025
Quantum state tomography for states that vary with parameters such as time or control settings attains new capabilities in characterization of evolving quantum states.
Takeaki Miyamura, Yoshiki Sunada, Zhiling Wang, Jesper Ilves, Kohei Matsuura, and Yasunobu Nakamura
PRX Quantum 6, 020347 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025
Off-resonant driving of a fixed-frequency superconducting qubit system enables the generation of frequency-tunable shaped single microwave photons without additional circuit elements.
Arian Vezvaee, Vinay Tripathi, Daria Kowsari, Eli Levenson-Falk, and Daniel A. Lidar
PRX Quantum 6, 020348 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025
A new study highlights how the method of compiling virtual- gates on a NISQ device can enhance overall gate performance, with particular benefits for correct implementation of dynamical decoupling sequences and, more broadly, quantum circuits.
C.L. Edmunds, E. Rico, I. Arrazola, G.K. Brennen, M. Meth, R. Blatt, and M. Ringbauer
PRX Quantum 6, 020349 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025
Qutrits are used to efficiently encode and process quantum information in a symmetry-protected topological phase, reducing both the physical resources and the number of gates compared to a qubit implementation.
R. Chinnarasu, C. Poole, L. Phuttitarn, A. Noori, T. M. Graham, S. N. Coppersmith, A. B. Balantekin, and M. Saffman
PRX Quantum 6, 020350 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025
Dynamic atom positioning, dynamic control beams with flattop profiles, and zero noise extrapolation combine to enable simulations of many-body physics.
Wojciech Górecki, Francesco Albarelli, Simone Felicetti, Roberto Di Candia, and Lorenzo Maccone
PRX Quantum 6, 020351 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025
New research shows that by jointly considering energy and time constraints under noise, quantum protocols using Fock states can surpass classical methods in parameter estimation, particularly achieving superior scaling for temperature measurements.
H. Ahmed, A. Litvinov, P. Guesdon, E. Maréchal, J.H. Huckans, B. Pasquiou, B. Laburthe-Tolra, and M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent
PRX Quantum 6, 020352 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025
A tensor light shift allows for the targeted control of states within the nuclear-spin manifold of strontium-87, enabling its use as a quantum resource beyond merely encoding a qubit.
David T. Stephen, Rahul Nandkishore, and Jian-Hao Zhang
PRX Quantum 6, 020353 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025
A catalyst framework for transforming between symmetry-protected topological phases offers new insights into their structure and efficient methods for preparing them.
Amy F. Brown and Daniel A. Lidar
PRX Quantum 6, 020354 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025
A novel approach introduces a family of dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences, offering an exponential reduction in circuit depth compared to previously known multiqubit DD methods.
Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
PRX Quantum 6, 020355 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025
A powerful quantum measurement framework enables syndrome extraction and logical readout, paving the way for new quantum error-correction protocols.
Tomohiro Itogawa, Yugo Takada, Yutaka Hirano, and Keisuke Fujii
PRX Quantum 6, 020356 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025
Performing magic state distillation at the physical qubit level can reduce space and time overhead compared to performing distillation at the logical qubit level.
Zijian Liang, Ke Liu, Hao Song, and Yu-An Chen
PRX Quantum 6, 020357 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025
Using a ring-theoretic approach, new quantum low-density parity-check codes are systematically constructed, and their performance under twisted boundary conditions is demonstrated.
Tijs Karman, Niccolò Bigagli, Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, Ian Stevenson, and Sebastian Will
PRX Quantum 6, 020358 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025
Double microwave shielding is theoretically established as a universal and tunable method to suppress losses and control interactions in ultracold polar molecules.
Emmanuel Gottlob, Dan S. Borgnia, Robert-Jan Slager, and Ulrich Schneider
PRX Quantum 6, 020359 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025
Quantized transport persists despite disorder and gap closing in a driven quasiperiodic system, revealing a robust route to engineer topological many-body states with high Chern numbers.
Niall F. Robertson, Bibek Pokharel, Bryce Fuller, Eric Switzer, Oles Shtanko, Mirko Amico, Adam Byrne, Andrea D’Urbano, Salome Hayes-Shuptar, Albert Akhriev, Nathan Keenan, Sergey Bravyi, and Sergiy Zhuk
PRX Quantum 6, 020360 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025
A hybrid algorithm leverages quantum hardware and tensor networks to suppress simulation errors, outperforming either method alone.
Maksim Lednev, Diego Fernández de la Pradilla, Frieder Lindel, Esteban Moreno, Francisco J. García-Vidal, and Johannes Feist
PRX Quantum 6, 020361 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025
A new computational method provides access to spatially resolved photon statistics in arbitrary electromagnetic environments, paving the way for quantum light engineering in complex nanophotonic systems.
K. E. Ballantine and J. Ruostekoski
PRX Quantum 6, 020901 (2025) - Published 16 April, 2025
Maxwell T. West, Jamie Heredge, Martin Sevior, and Muhammad Usman
PRX Quantum 6, 020902 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025