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## Left-handed superlattice metamaterials for circuit QED

Author(s): A. Messinger, B. G. Taketani, and F. K. Wilhelm
Quantum simulation is a promising field where a controllable system is used to mimic another system of interest, whose properties one wants to investigate. One of the key issues for such simulation is the ability to control the environment the system couples to, be it to isolate the system or to eng...
[Phys. Rev. A 99, 032325] Published Mon Mar 18, 2019

## Parameter estimation of atmospheric continuous-variable quantum key distribution

Author(s): Geng Chai, Zhengwen Cao, Weiqi Liu, Shiyu Wang, Peng Huang, and Guihua Zeng
Atmospheric effects are the chief threats to the quantum properties of propagating quantum signals and may degrade the performance of quantum key distribution seriously. As one of the most important parts of continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD), a parameter estimation method has not ...
[Phys. Rev. A 99, 032326] Published Mon Mar 18, 2019

## Continuous-variable quantum key distribution with non-Gaussian quantum catalysis

Author(s): Ying Guo, Wei Ye, Hai Zhong, and Qin Liao
The non-Gaussian operation can be used not only to enhance and distill the entanglement between Gaussian entangled states, but also to improve the performance of quantum communications. In this paper, we propose a non-Gaussian continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) by using quantum cat...
[Phys. Rev. A 99, 032327] Published Mon Mar 18, 2019

## Certifying Nonclassical Behavior for Negative Keldysh Quasiprobabilities

Author(s): Patrick P. Potts
We introduce an experimental test for ruling out classical explanations for the statistics obtained when measuring arbitrary observables at arbitrary times using individual detectors. This test requires some trust in the measurements, represented by a few natural assumptions on the detectors. In qua...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 110401] Published Mon Mar 18, 2019

## Determining system Hamiltonian from eigenstate measurements without correlation functions. (arXiv:1903.06569v1 [quant-ph])

For a local Hamiltonian $H=\sum_i c_i A_i$, with $A_i$s being local
operators, it is known that $H$ could be encoded in a single (non-degenerate)
eigenstate $|\psi\rangle$ in certain cases. One case is that the system
satisfies the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), where the local
reduced density matrix asymptotically become equal to the thermal reduced
density matrix [PRX \textbf{8}, 021026 (2018)]. In this case, one can reproduce
$H$ (i.e. $c_i$s) from local measurement results

## Solving Quantum Chemistry Problems with a D-Wave Quantum Annealer. (arXiv:1811.05256v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED)

Quantum annealing devices have been subject to various analyses in order to
classify their usefulness for practical applications. While it has been
successfully proven that such systems can in general be used for solving
combinatorial optimization problems, they have not been used to solve chemistry
applications. In this paper we apply a mapping, put forward by Xia et al. (The
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122.13 (2017): 3384-3395.), from a quantum
chemistry Hamiltonian to an Ising spin glass formulation and find the ground

## Sigma models on quantum computers. (arXiv:1903.06577v1 [hep-lat])

We formulate a discretization of sigma models suitable for simulation by
quantum computers. Space is substituted by a lattice, as usually done in
lattice field theory, while the target space (a sphere) is replaced by the
"fuzzy sphere", a construction well known from non-commutative geometry.
Contrary to more naive discretizations of the sphere, in this construction the
exact $O(3)$ symmetry is maintained, which suggests that the discretized model
is in the same universality class as the continuum model. That would allow for

## Equilibrium Fluctuations in Maximally Noisy Extended Quantum Systems. (arXiv:1811.09427v3 [cond-mat.stat-mech] UPDATED)

We introduce and study a class of models of free fermions hopping between
neighbouring sites with random Brownian amplitudes. These simple models
describe stochastic, diffusive, quantum, unitary dynamics. We focus on periodic
boundary conditions and derive the complete stationary distribution of the
system. It is proven that the generating function of the latter is provided by
the Harish-Chandra-Itzykson-Zuber integral which allows us to access all
fluctuations of the system state. The steady state is characterized by non

## Robust quantum many-body scars in fracton systems. (arXiv:1903.06173v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech])

We study a one-dimensional translation-invariant Floquet quantum circuit
model constrained to conserve a $U(1)$ charge and its dipole moment. We
demonstrate that the Floquet spectrum contains quantum many-body scars, a small
set of localized states in an otherwise thermalizing spectrum. These states are
directly experimentally relevant due to their high overlap with easily-prepared
product states. Moreover, the model is quite generic, since the Floquet

## Bloch-Messiah reduction for twin beams of light. (arXiv:1903.06578v1 [quant-ph])

We study the Bloch-Messiah reduction of parametric downconversion of light in
the pulsed regime with a nondegenerate phase matching providing generation of
twin beams. We find that in this case every squeezing eigenvalue has
multiplicity at least two. We discuss the problem of ambiguity in the
definition of the squeezing eigenmodes in this case and develop two approaches
to unique determination of the latter. First, we show that the modal functions
of the squeezing eigenmodes can be tailored from the Schmidt modes of the