非耗散介观含源电路的量子力学效应

本文对非耗散介观含源电路的量子力学效应进行了详细研究.导出了非耗散介观含源电路在压缩真空态下其电荷和电流的量子零点涨落,并得到了该电路在绝对零度时的量子噪音.     

QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECTS OF A MESOSCOPIC CIRCUIT

The charge and current quantum zero-point fluctuations of an active RLC circuit with squeezed vacuum state are given, and the quantum noise of this circuit at absolute zero temperature is derived.     

Quantum mechanical effects of a nondissipative mesoscopic capacitance coupling circuit with source

The charge and current quantum zero-point fluctuations in a squeezed vacuum state of a nondissipative mesoscopic capacitance coupling circuit with source are given. The quantum noise of this circuit at absolute zero temperature is derived. It is found that there is a squeezing effect in this coupling circuit.     

介观互感耦合阻尼并联双谐振电路的量子涨落

对介观互感耦合阻尼并联电路作双模耦合阻尼谐振子处理,将其量子化.通过三次幺正变换,将体系的哈密顿量对角化.在此基础上给出了体系的本征能谱,研究了Fock态、真空态下各回路电流和电压的量子涨落.     

Emission and absorption quantum noise measurement with an on-chip resonant circuit

Using a quantum detector, a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction, we probe separately the emission and absorption noise in the quantum regime of a superconducting resonant circuit at equilibrium. At low temperature the resonant circuit exhibits only absorption noise related to zero point fluctuations, whereas at higher temperature emission noise is also present. By coupling a Josephson junction, biased above the superconducting gap, to the same resonant circuit, we directly measure the noise power of quasiparticles tunneling through the junction at two resonance frequencies. It exhibits a strong frequency dependence, consistent with theoretical predictions.     

Zero-point fluctuations and the quenching of the persistent current in normal metal rings

The ground state of a phase-coherent mesoscopic system is sensitive to its environment. We investigate the persistent current of a ring with a quantum dot which is capacitively coupled to an external circuit with a dissipative impedance. At zero temperature, zero-point quantum fluctuations lead to a strong suppression of the persistent current with decreasing external impedance. We emphasize the role of displacement currents in the dynamical fluctuations of the persistent current and show that with decreasing external impedance the fluctuations exceed the average persistent current.     

压缩真空态的激发态及其在非耗散介观含源电路的应用

借助逆算符的性质,提出了压缩真空态激发态的概念,作为应用,导出了非耗散介观含源电路在该激发态下其电荷和电流的量子零点涨落,数值计算表明,在不同的激发量子数下,电荷和电流均存在压缩效应,它们的不确定度之积分别趋向于一个最小值。     

感性神经元模型及其动力学特性研究

神经元的大小属于介观尺度范围,本文考虑神经元的电感特性,建立了由细胞膜电感、膜电容、钾离子忆阻器和氯离子电阻构成的神经元经典电路模型和介观电路模型.利用经典电路理论和介观电路的量子理论,推导了在外部冲击激励下神经元细胞膜电压响应的表达式.将枪乌贼神经元的电生理参数代入膜电压表达式并计算可知,两种模型下的膜电压均先增大后减小,最后达到零值的静息状态,且其能量主要集中在0—30 Hz的脑电频率范围内.进一步比较发现,介观电路模型下膜电压的峰值及达到峰值所需的时间(达峰时间)均低于经典电路模型下的值,并与枪乌贼轴突受到刺激后的实验结果更接近,说明介观电路模型更能反应神经元受到刺激后的生理特征.基于介观电路模型,随着外部激励强度的增加,膜电压的峰值增加且达峰时间变短.膜电压峰值及达峰时间等参数更易受神经元膜电容的影响.神经元的介观电路模型对于理解神经元受到刺激后的兴奋性,推动受大脑功能启发的量子神经网络的发展等具有重要意义.     

感性神经元模型及其动力学特性研究

神经元的大小属于介观尺度范围,本文考虑神经元的电感特性,建立了由细胞膜电感、膜电容、钾离子忆阻器和氯离子电阻构成的神经元经典电路模型和介观电路模型.利用经典电路理论和介观电路的量子理论,推导了在外部冲击激励下神经元细胞膜电压响应的表达式.将枪乌贼神经元的电生理参数代入膜电压表达式并计算可知,两种模型下的膜电压均先增大后减小,最后达到零值的静息状态,且其能量主要集中在0—30 Hz的脑电频率范围内.进一步比较发现,介观电路模型下膜电压的峰值及达到峰值所需的时间(达峰时间)均低于经典电路模型下的值,并与枪乌贼轴突受到刺激后的实验结果更接近,说明介观电路模型更能反应神经元受到刺激后的生理特征.基于介观电路模型,随着外部激励强度的增加,膜电压的峰值增加且达峰时间变短.膜电压峰值及达峰时间等参数更易受神经元膜电容的影响.神经元的介观电路模型对于理解神经元受到刺激后的兴奋性,推动受大脑功能启发的量子神经网络的发展等具有重要意义.     

Giant charge relaxation resistance in the Anderson model

We investigate the dynamical charge response of the Anderson model viewed as a quantum RC circuit. Applying a low-energy effective Fermi liquid theory, a generalized Korringa-Shiba formula is derived at zero temperature, and the charge relaxation resistance is expressed solely in terms of static susceptibilities which are accessible by Bethe ansatz. We identify a giant charge relaxation resistance at intermediate magnetic fields related to the destruction of the Kondo singlet. The scaling properties of this peak are computed analytically in the Kondo regime. We also show that the resistance peak fades away at the particle-hole symmetric point.     

Anomalous Josephson current in junctions with spin polarizing quantum point contacts

We consider a ballistic Josephson junction with a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The point contact acts as a spin filter when embedded in a circuit with normal electrodes. We show that with an in-plane external magnetic field an anomalous supercurrent appears even for zero phase difference between the superconducting electrodes. In addition, the external field induces large critical current asymmetries between the two flow directions, leading to supercurrent rectifying effects.     

The Squeezing Effect in a Mesoscopic RLC Circuit

Using the path integral method we derive quantum wave function and quantum fluctuations of charge andcurrent in the mesoscopic RLC circuit. We find that the quantum fluctuation of charge decreases with time, oppositely,the quantum fluctuation of current increases with time monotonously. Therefore there is a squeezing effect in the circuit.If some more charge devices are used in the mesoscopic-damped circuit, the quantum noise can be reduced. We also findthat uncertainty relation of charge and current periodically varies with the period π/2 in the under-damped case.     

Quantum RLC circuits: Charge discreteness and resonance

In a recent article [C.A. Utreras-Díaz, Phys. Lett. A 372 (2008) 5059], we have advanced a semiclassical theory of quantum circuits with discrete charge and electrical resistance. In this work, we present a few elementary applications of this theory. For the zero resistance inductive circuit, we obtain the Stark ladder energies in yet another way; for the circuit driven by a combination d.c. plus a.c. electromotive force (emf) we generalize earlier results by Chandía et al. [K. Chandía, J.C. Flores, E. Lazo, Phys. Lett. A 359 (2006) 693]. As a second application, we investigate the effect of electrical resistance and charge discreteness, in the resonance conditions of a series RLC quantum circuit.     

Quantum Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Inductance Coupling Circuit

Starting from the equation of motion of a mesoscopic inductance coupling circuit,the quantum fluctuations of charge and current in the circuit are investigated inboth the eigenstates of the system and the squeezed vacuum state. The resultsshow that there exist quantum fluctuations of the charge and current in bothcases, and the fluctuations in each component circuit are connected.     

Superconducting qubit with Purcell protection and tunable coupling

We present a superconducting qubit for the circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture that has a tunable qubit-resonator coupling strength g. This coupling can be tuned from zero to values that are comparable with other superconducting qubits. At g = 0, the qubit is in a decoherence-free subspace with respect to spontaneous emission induced by the Purcell effect. Furthermore, we show that in this decoherence-free subspace, the state of the qubit can still be measured by either a dispersive shift on the resonance frequency of the resonator or by a cycling-type measurement.     

Quantum Effect in a Diode Included Nonlinear Inductance-Capacitance Mesoscopic Circuit

The mesoscopic nonlinearinductance-capacitance circuit is a typical anharmonicoscillator, due to diodes included in the circuit. In this paper, using the advanced quantum theory of mesoscopic circuits, which based on the fundamental fact that the electric charge takes discrete value, the diode included mesoscopic circuit is firstly studied. Schrödinger equation of the system is a four-order difference equation in \hat{p} representation.Using the extended perturbative method, the detail energy spectrumand wave functions are obtained and verified, as an application ofthe results, the current quantum fluctuation in the ground state iscalculated. Diode is a basis component in a circuit, its quantization would popularize the quantum theory of mesoscopic circuits. The methods to solve the high order difference equation are helpful to the application of mesoscopic quantum theory.     

How to utilize a Grover search in general programming

It is widely believed that quantum computers (if realized) will be more powerful than today’s computers from the viewpoint of computational complexity. However, it is not obvious how to utilize quantum computers in practical situations. For practical purposes, a Grover search may be one of the most promising quantum algorithms known so far. Thus, in this paper, we propose an efficient framework where we can use Grover search for general programming. Our framework has the following steps. (1) A programmer writes a program by using standard C++ programming language. (2) Some if expressions within for loops in the C++ source code are chosen as candidates to be performed as a Grover search on a quantum computer. (3) The framework automatically generates a corresponding quantum circuit for each Grover search chosen in (2). Unlike the existing quantum circuit design methods, we can treat large problems in our quantum circuit design. (4) By evaluating the number of primitive quantum gates in the quantum circuit generated in (3), the framework determines whether the processing time of the quantum circuit is faster than the processing time of the corresponding if expression on a classical computer. If the framework determines that the quantum circuit is faster, it generates some interface source codes for a classical computer. Thus, in our framework, a programmer can use a Grover search with almost no effort.     

Improvement in performance of traveling wave electroabsorption modulator with asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells the active region, segmented transmission-line and mushroom-type waveguide

In this paper, asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells structure (AICD-SQW), segmented transmission-line and mushroom-type waveguide that improve the performance of traveling wave electroabsorption modulators (TWEAM) are presented. The AICD-SQW structure shows that electroabsorption modulator properties such as large change in absorption, high extinction ratio, large Stark shift, very low insertion loss, zero chirp, and higher figures of merit are possible to be achieved simultaneously as compared with intra-step quantum well (IQW). The segmented transmission-line method allows us to design a TWEAM with above 25 Ω impedance and very high bandwidth. Furthermore, increasing the width of p-cladding layer with the same active layer to reduce the resistance in p-i-n mushroom-type waveguide of TWEAM based on AICD-SQW improve the microwave propagation loss and thus the high-speed electro-optical response. For this purpose, the transmission-line microwave properties of TWEAM such as microwave index, microwave loss, and characteristic impedance are obtained for active and passive segments of transmission-line. Then equivalent circuit model elements are extracted. The modulation response of segmented transmission-line mushroom-type TWEAM is obtained by HSPICE simulation and compared to circuit model simulation results of conventional mushroom-type TWEAM counterpart. The analysis results indicate that the segmented transmission-line mushroom-type TWEAM can achieve much wider bandwidth than the conventional mushroom-type TWEAM counterpart, with a small penalty in electro-optic conversion gain due to AICD-SQW structure.     

0.7 Structure and zero bias anomaly in ballistic hole quantum wires

We study the anomalous conductance plateau around G=0.7(2e2/h) and the zero bias anomaly in ballistic hole quantum wires with respect to in-plane magnetic fields applied parallel B parallel and perpendicular B perpendicular to the quantum wire. As seen in electron quantum wires, the magnetic fields shift the 0.7 structure down to G=0.5(2e2/h) and simultaneously quench the zero bias anomaly. However, these effects are strongly dependent on the orientation of the magnetic field, owing to the highly anisotropic effective Landé g-factor g* in hole quantum wires. Our results highlight the fundamental role that spin plays in both the 0.7 structure and zero bias anomaly.     

Heisenberg-Type Quantum Steering by Continuous Weak Measurement in Circuit QED *

Quantum steering has attracted great interest in the last decade, especially in the celebrated optomechanical, cold atom, and quantum optical systems. However, there is still a lack of studies on quantum steering in circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED), which provides a useful experimental platform for revealing novel quantum phenomena. In this work, we investigate the steering of qubit by continuous weak measurement in a circuit QED system and establish a set of multiplicative steering inequalities based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Different from the widely studied systems mentioned above, multiplicative steering inequalities in the circuit QED system are in various forms. We find that only a portion of them can be used to show the detection dependence of the qubit state and we also analyze the reason. Furthermore, we discuss several conditions for the violation of a typical steering inequality, including the measurement strength and methods in detecting the cavity field as well as the quantum efficiency of the detector. This preliminary work could be helpful to quantum steering experiments in circuit QED systems.