Quantum Optics Digest

New arXiv papers ranked each weekday morning against a written interest statement.

Ttheory   Eexperiment   TEboth   score ≥80 highlighted   Zotero…

Thursday 10 September 2026

Superconducting artificial atoms (10)

1. 84EExperimental realization of quantum-computing-enhanced sensing
   Yifang Xu, Hongwei Huang, Yilong Zhou et al. · 2026-09-07👍 👎+Z

   Runs Grover search inside a microwave cavity of 128+ photons, with a transmon sensor turning an unknown signal into the oracle.

2. 72TNon-Hermitian topology in driven-dissipative systems: correspondence with quantum correlations and a resource for entanglement
   Niladri Chakraborty, Clara C. Wanjura · 2026-09-08👍 👎+Z

   Shows non-Hermitian topological amplifiers produce exponentially growing correlations between modes while entanglement stays local.

3. 62TRecovering Readout-Limited Fisher Information in Superconducting-Qubit Magnetometry with Squeezed Microwaves
   M. -R. Yun, Y. -J. Qu, Zheng Shan et al. · 2026-09-08👍 👎+Z

   Computes how squeezed-microwave dispersive readout recovers Fisher information lost in qubit state assignment, 27 percent sensitivity gain.

4. 55TRobustness of Dynamical Casimir Effect-Induced Quantum Synchronization
   Sebastián Francisquez, Fernando C. Lombardo, Paula I. Villar · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

   Tests whether dynamical-Casimir-induced synchronization of two qubits survives realistic cQED loss, dephasing dominates.

5. 55TEStrong-Drive Limits in Josephson Circuits: From Chaos to an Unbound-Resonance Threshold
   Xinyuan You, Aniket Maiti, Yao Lu · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

   Maps chaos and unbound-resonance thresholds for strongly driven Josephson circuits and confirms the flux-bias dependence in a SQUID.

6. 45TKerr Induced Control of Synchronization and Quantum State Recovery in a Driven van der Pol Oscillator
   Amir Hossein Houshmand Almani, Ali Mortezapour, Alireza Nourmandipour · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

   Kerr nonlinearity shifts the synchronization boundary of a squeezed van der Pol oscillator, decoupled from photon statistics.

7. 42TGradient-based optimal control of the non-Hermitian skin effect in optomechanical arrays
   Juste Deuyekbe, Philippe Djorwé, A. -H. Abdel-Aty et al. · 2026-09-03👍 👎+Z

   Optimizes a two-chain non-reciprocal optomechanical ladder to separate amplification from noise, mapped to cQED parameters.

8. 40TResidual detuning in the laboratory-frame anti-Jaynes--Cummings model with a squeezed vacuum
   Onyango Stephen Okeyo · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

   Argues a laboratory-frame residual detuning in the anti-Jaynes-Cummings model cannot be cancelled by Kerr for squeezed vacuum.

9. 35TPulse-Controlled Topologically Protected Quantum Batteries
   Jin Yang, Biao Xiong, Jibing Liu et al. · 2026-09-03👍 👎+Z

   Proposes topologically protected long-distance energy transfer along a pulse-modulated superconducting qubit chain.

10. 30TTunable topological enhancement of covariant quantum Fisher information via non-Bloch skin effect in non-Hermitian SSH lattices
    Qi-Cheng Wu, Yan-Hui Zhou, Tong Liu et al. · 2026-09-03👍 👎+Z

    Extends covariant quantum Fisher information to non-Hermitian SSH lattices, skin effect gives 30x enhancement.

Quantum optics on other platforms (22)

1. 75EEfficient Conversion of Optical to Mechanical States Close to the Single-Quantum Level
   Alexander Rolf Korsch, Liu Chen, Pedro V. Pinho et al. · 2026-09-03👍 👎+Z

   Converts few-photon optical pulses to phonons at 76 percent efficiency in a millikelvin optomechanical crystal, HBT confirms coherence.

2. 70ESpin-to-polarization mapping with a coherent quantum dot-cavity receiver
   Adrià Medeiros, Vincent Vinel, Eliott Rambeau et al. · 2026-09-03👍 👎+Z

   A single reflected photon projects a quantum-dot spin with 95 percent fidelity via spin-dependent Kerr rotation.

3. 68ETelecom-Integrated Photonic Memory Operating Near the Mechanical Ground State
   Jindao Tang, Bo Jing, Liping Zeng et al. · 2026-09-06👍 👎+Z

   On-chip optomechanical memory stores telecom photons at 0.32 phonon occupancy with on-demand retrieval.

4. 58EDual-Trigger of Series Nanowire Detector for Event-Based Photon Number Assignment
   Stefanie Grotowski, Daniel Landes, Fabian Wietschorke et al. · 2026-09-08👍 👎+Z

   Rising and falling edge triggering on a series SNSPD assigns photon number 1 to 3 per event and shows jitter falls with n.

5. 55EGeneration of entanglement statistics with a large-scale integrated photonic-electronic circuit
   Volkan Gurses, Ali Hajimiri · 2026-09-06👍 👎+Z

   Mixes homodyne photocurrents from squeezed vacuum in a 32-channel RF network to certify two-mode entanglement electronically.

6. 55TTopological Edge States and Collective Radiation in a One-Dimensional Atomic Chain
   Arda Deniz İyican, Ahmet Levent Subaşı, Özgür Çakır · 2026-09-07👍 👎+Z

   Diatomic emitter chain in vacuum hosts topological edge states alongside sub- and superradiant modes, with far-field signatures.

7. 50TFinite-energy Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill state-enhanced optical interferometry
   Ashmita Roy, R. Srikanth, Deepak Pandey · 2026-09-07👍 👎+Z

   Finite-energy GKP input beats squeezed vacuum in SU(2) and SU(1,1) interferometers at fixed envelope width.

8. 50TFast universal parametric spin control in an acoustically modulated quantum dot
   Mateusz Kuniej, Michał Gawełczyk · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

   Parametric acoustic modulation of a dressed quantum-dot spin gives 155 ps X gates with arbitrary rotation axes.

9. 45TEMagic-free coexisting photonic and phononic moiré flat bands
   Ziming Chen, Kaiyu Cui, Ning Wu et al. · 2026-09-08👍 👎+Z

   Diffractive hybridization flattens photonic and phononic bands together in one moire optomechanical crystal.

10. 45EA photonic source with half-a-GHz single-photon flux
    P. Zahalka, S. Huijser, A. Pancaldi et al. · 2026-09-04👍 👎+Z

    Deterministic single-photon source reaches 500 MHz in-fibre flux, measurable with a power meter.

Superconducting quantum computing (held for Saturday) (19)