Many disordered systems show a superdiffusive dynamics, intermediate between the diffusive one, typical of a classical stochastic process, and the so-called ballistic behavior, which is generally expected for the spreading in a quantum process. We have experimentally investigated the superdiffusive behavior of a quantum walk, whose dynamics can be related to energy transport phenomena, with a resolution which is high enough to clearly distinguish between different disorder regimes. By our experimental setup, the region between ballistic and diffusive spreading can be effectively scanned by suitably setting few degrees of freedom and without applying any decoherence to the quantum walk evolution.
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October 2024
Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, Quebec Canada.
Quantum walks on photonic platforms represent a physics-rich framework for quantum measurements, simulations and universal computing. Dynamic reconfigurability of photonic circuitry is key to controlling the walk and retrieving its full operation potential. Universal quantum processing schemes based on time-bin encoding in gated fibre loops have been proposed but not demonstrated yet, mainly due to gate inefficiencies.
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Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China.
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January 2025
CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
The understanding of phenomena falling outside the Ginzburg-Landau paradigm of phase transitions represents a key challenge in condensed matter physics. A famous class of examples is constituted by the putative deconfined quantum critical points between two symmetry-broken phases in layered quantum magnets, such as pressurised SrCu(BO). Experiments find a weak first-order transition, which simulations of relevant microscopic models can reproduce.
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Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
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State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Nano-Biotechnology Key Lab of Hebei Province, College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China.
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