Photonic quantum transport in a nonlinear optical fiber (2009)
Hafezi, Mohammad, Chang, Darrick E., Gritsev, Vladimir, Demler, Eugene, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We theoretically study the transmission of few-photon quantum fields through a strongly nonlinear optical medium. We develop a general approach to investigate non-equilibrium quantum transport of...
Fast Entanglement Distribution with Atomic Ensembles and Fluorescent Detection (2009)
Brask, Jonatan B., Jiang, Liang, Gorshkov, Alexey V., Vuletic, Vladan, Sorensen, Anders S., Lukin, Mikhail D.
Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensemble quantum memories are promising candidates for achieving scalable distribution of entanglement over long distances. Recently, important experimental progress...
Adiabatic preparation of many-body states in optical lattices (2009)
Sorensen, Anders S., Altman, Ehud, Gullans, Michael, Porto, J. V., Lukin, Mikhail D., Demler, Eugene
We analyze a technique for the preparation of low entropy many body states of atoms in optical lattices based on adiabatic passage. In particular, we show that this method allows preparation of...
Near-field Electrical Detection of Optical Plasmons and Single Plasmon Sources (2009)
Falk, Abram L., Koppens, Frank H. L., Yu, Chun L., Kang, Kibum, Snapp, Nathalie De Leon, Akimov, Alexey V., ...
Photonic circuits can be much faster than their electronic counterparts, but they are difficult to miniaturize below the optical wavelength scale. Nanoscale photonic circuits based on surface plasmon...
Cappellaro, Paola, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We propose a strategy to generate a many-body entangled state in a collection of randomly placed, dipolarly coupled electronic spins in the solid state. By using coherent control to restrict the...
McCutcheon, Murray W., Chang, Darrick E., Zhang, Yinan, Lukin, Mikhail D., Loncar, Marko
Motivated by developments in quantum information science, much recent effort has been directed toward coupling individual quantum emitters to optical microcavities. Such systems can be used to...
Alkaline-Earth-Metal Atoms as Few-Qubit Quantum Registers (2008)
Gorshkov, Alexey V., Rey, Ana Maria, Daley, Andrew J., Boyd, Martin M., Ye, Jun, Zoller, Peter, ...
We propose and analyze a novel approach to quantum information processing, in which multiple qubits can be encoded and manipulated using electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom associated with...
Preparation of Decoherence Free Cluster States with Optical Superlattices (2008)
Jiang, Liang, Rey, Ana Maria, Romero-Isart, Oriol, Garcia-Ripoll, Juan Jose, Sanpera, Anna, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We present a protocol to prepare decoherence free cluster states using ultracold atoms loaded in a two dimensional superlattice. The superlattice geometry leads to an array of 2*2 plaquettes, each of...
Coherent Quantum Optical Control with Subwavelength Resolution (2007)
Gorshkov, Alexey V., Jiang, Liang, Greiner, Markus, Zoller, Peter, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We suggest a new method for quantum optical control with nanoscale resolution. Our method allows for coherent far-field manipulation of individual quantum systems with spatial selectivity that is not...
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Lattices (2007)
Hafezi, Mohammad, Sorensen, Anders S., Demler, Eugene, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We analyze a recently proposed method to create fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of atoms confined in optical lattices [A. S{\o}rensen {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94} 086803 (2005)]....
Characterization of topological states on a lattice with Chern number (2007)
Hafezi, Mohammad, Sorensen, Anders S., Lukin, Mikhail D., Demler, Eugene
We study Chern numbers to characterize the ground state of strongly interacting systems on a lattice. This method allows us to perform a numerical characterization of bosonic fractional quantum Hall...
Spin-Photon Entangling Diode (2007)
Flindt, Christian, Sorensen, Anders S., Lukin, Mikhail D., Taylor, Jacob M.
We propose a semiconductor device that can electrically generate entangled electron spin-photon states, providing a building block for entanglement of distant spins. The device consists of a p-i-n...
Quantum optical interface for gate-controlled spintronic devices (2006)
Engel, Hans-Andreas, Taylor, Jacob M., Lukin, Mikhail D., Imamoglu, Atac
We describe an opto-electronic structure in which charge and spin degrees of freedom in electrical gate-defined quantum dots can be coherently coupled to light. This is achieved via electron-electron...
Fractional quantum Hall states of atoms in optical Lattices (2004)
Sorensen, Anders S., Demler, Eugene, Lukin, Mikhail D.
We describe a method to create fractional quantum Hall states of atoms confined in optical lattices. We show that the dynamics of the atoms in the lattice is analogous to the motion of a charged...