Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates

We apply modern techniques from quantum optics and quantum information science to Bose–Einstein condensates(BECs)in order to study, for the first time, the quantum decoherence of phonons of isolated BECs. In the last few years, major advances in the manipulation and control of phonons have highlight...

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Main Authors: Howl, Richard, Sabín, Carlos, Hackermüller, Lucia, Fuentes, Ivette
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Published: Institute of Physics 2017
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Sabín, Carlos
Hackermüller, Lucia
Fuentes, Ivette
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Fuentes, Ivette
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description We apply modern techniques from quantum optics and quantum information science to Bose–Einstein condensates(BECs)in order to study, for the first time, the quantum decoherence of phonons of isolated BECs. In the last few years, major advances in the manipulation and control of phonons have highlighted their potential as carriers of quantum information in quantum technologies, particularly in quantum processing and quantum communication. Although most of these studies have focused on trapped ion and crystalline systems, another promising system that has remained relatively unexplored is BECs. The potential benefits in using this system have been emphasized recently with proposals of relativistic quantum devices that exploit quantum states of phonons in BECs to achieve, in principle, superior performance over standard non-relativistic devices. Quantum decoherence is often the limiting factor in the practical realization of quantum technologies, but here we show that quantum decoherence of phonons is not expected to heavily constrain the performance of these proposed relativistic quantum devices.
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spelling nottingham-484432020-05-04T19:20:05Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48443/ Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates Howl, Richard Sabín, Carlos Hackermüller, Lucia Fuentes, Ivette We apply modern techniques from quantum optics and quantum information science to Bose–Einstein condensates(BECs)in order to study, for the first time, the quantum decoherence of phonons of isolated BECs. In the last few years, major advances in the manipulation and control of phonons have highlighted their potential as carriers of quantum information in quantum technologies, particularly in quantum processing and quantum communication. Although most of these studies have focused on trapped ion and crystalline systems, another promising system that has remained relatively unexplored is BECs. The potential benefits in using this system have been emphasized recently with proposals of relativistic quantum devices that exploit quantum states of phonons in BECs to achieve, in principle, superior performance over standard non-relativistic devices. Quantum decoherence is often the limiting factor in the practical realization of quantum technologies, but here we show that quantum decoherence of phonons is not expected to heavily constrain the performance of these proposed relativistic quantum devices. Institute of Physics 2017-11-29 Article PeerReviewed Howl, Richard, Sabín, Carlos, Hackermüller, Lucia and Fuentes, Ivette (2017) Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 51 (1). 015303. ISSN 1361-6455 quantum decoherence quantum technology Bose–Einstein condensates phonons gravitational waves http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6455/aa9622/meta doi:10.1088/1361-6455/aa9622 doi:10.1088/1361-6455/aa9622
spellingShingle quantum decoherence
quantum technology
Bose–Einstein condensates
phonons
gravitational waves
Howl, Richard
Sabín, Carlos
Hackermüller, Lucia
Fuentes, Ivette
Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title_full Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title_fullStr Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title_full_unstemmed Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title_short Quantum decoherence of phonons in Bose–Einstein condensates
title_sort quantum decoherence of phonons in bose–einstein condensates
topic quantum decoherence
quantum technology
Bose–Einstein condensates
phonons
gravitational waves
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