Quantum Thermodynamics of Many-Body Driven Systems

Informazioni relative al progetto

QuoMoDys

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101031549

DOI

10.3030/101031549

Progetto concluso il 9 Gennaio 2024

Data della firma CE 3 Marzo 2021

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2022

Data di completamento 28 Marzo 2025

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Costo totale

€ 196 707,84

Contributo UE

€ 196 707,84

Coordinato da

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - QuoMoDys (Quantum Thermodynamics of Many-Body Driven Systems)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2022-06-01 al 2024-05-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

The project has addressed the problem of probing and characterizing quantum entanglement in quantum many-body systems, especially in the presence of drive and dissipation. A special focus has been placed on the study of exciton-polariton systems, which represent a very relevant experimental platform to investigate such fundamental questions.

In particular, we have :
- developed new methods of fundamental interest to quantum information science to detect quantum entanglement in many-body systems
- studied, in a joint theory-experiment collaboration, the prospects of exciton-polariton platforms to generated quantum-entangled photon pairs.

Quantum entanglement in many-body systems represent a key physical property in the context of quantum technologies, especially for quantum computing and sensing. Many fundamental questions remain to be addressed before quantum computing hardwares can find a route towards technology applications. The QuoMoDys project contributes to asking and answering such fundamental questions.

The main conclusions of the action are that:
- on the quantum information theory level, certification of relevant properties of quantum many-body systems is possible, even in the absence of full-state tomography. This is a key asset for quantum technologies given that full-state tomography is unfeasible beyond about a dozen of qubits.
- on the more specific platform of exciton-polaritons, the interplay of intrinsic quantum noise with the thermal noise of the solid-state lattice in which the system is embedded had been overlooked in previous works; our work lays the ground to future developments devoted to enhance the quantum contribution, given potentially rise to quantum entanglement among the photons leaving the system.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

The main results of the project are, more specifically :
- the development of a new algorithm to infer entanglement criteria tailored to large-spin atomic ensembles, going beyond spin-squeezing inequalities (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13547)
- the publication of a review on methods to probe quantum entanglement in many-body systems (https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00640)
- the publication of a joint theory-experiment work on exciton-polariton systems, which clarifies the interplay of quantum and thermal noise in such systems (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08677)
- the development of a new algorithm to certify the resource content of a quantum system for quantum metrology applications (https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12711)
- a fundamental breakthrough for the certification of quantum hardwares, at the intersection of quantum information science and condensed matter theory (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05844)

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

All the above-mentioned achievements go beyond the state of the art.
- We provide new ways to circumvent the "curse of dimensionality" for the certfication of quantum hardwares, namely the impossibility to fully characterize them because of the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension with the system size. We circumvent this issue by providing efficient ways to certify relevant properties of the system in view of their use in the context of quantum-technology application, without requiring quantum-state tomography. We achieve this by leveraging on fundamental breakthrough in quantum information science over the past decade, namely the use of so-called semidefinite programming approaches, which are special class of convex optimization methods developed by mathematicians, and more recently applied in quantum information theory.
- In the context of exciton-polariton systems, we clarify for the first time the key role played by thermal phonons of the solid-state crystal in which the system is embedded. This aspect had been overlooked in previous works, and our contribution is fundamental in that it clearly shows the parameter regime in which one can expect quantum entanglement to emerge in the system, which is a key step in view of future quantum technology applications.

Sketch of the two mechanisms creating Bogoliubov excitations in a quantum fluid of light