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Author Toyabe, Shoichi; Sagawa, Takahiro; Ueda, Masahito; Muneyuki, Eiro; Sano, Masaki openurl 
  Title Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 6 Issue 12 Pages 988-992  
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  Abstract In 1929, Leo Szilard invented a feedback protocol in which a hypothetical intelligence called Maxwell's demon pumps heat from an isothermal environment and transduces it to work. After an intense controversy that lasted over eighty years; it was finally clarified that the demon's role does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics, implying that we can convert information to free energy in principle. Nevertheless, experimental demonstration of this information-to-energy conversion has been elusive. Here, we demonstrate that a nonequilibrium feedback manipulation of a Brownian particle based on information about its location achieves a Szilard-type information-energy conversion. Under real-time feedback control, the particle climbs up a spiral-stairs-like potential exerted by an electric field and obtains free energy larger than the amount of work performed on it. This enables us to verify the generalized Jarzynski equality, or a new fundamental principle of “information-heat engine” which converts information to energy by feedback control.  
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Author Home, Jonathan openurl 
  Title Quantum entanglement: Watching correlations disappear Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 6 Issue 12 Pages 938-939  
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  Abstract Engineered decoherence enables tracking of multipartite entanglement as a quantum state decays.  
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Author Saffman, Mark openurl 
  Title Quantum computing: A quantum telecom link Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 6 Issue 11 Pages 838-839  
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  Abstract Converting data-carrying photons to telecommunication wavelengths enables distribution of quantum information over long distances.  
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Author Raussendorf, Robert openurl 
  Title Quantum computing: Shaking up ground states Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 6 Issue 11 Pages 840-841  
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  Abstract Measurement-based quantum computation with an Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki state is experimentally realized for the first time.  
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Author Buchanan, Mark openurl 
  Title Body of evidence Type Manuscript
  Year (down) 2010 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 6 Issue Pages  
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Author Hadfield, Robert H. doi  openurl
  Title Single-photon detectors for optical quantum information applications Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2009 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal Nature Photonics  
  Volume 3 Issue Pages 696-705  
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  Abstract The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in interest in new single-photon detector technologies. A major cause of this trend has undoubtedly been the push towards optical quantum information applications such as quantum key distribution. These new applications place extreme demands on detector performance that go beyond the capabilities of established single-photon detectors. There has been considerable effort to improve conventional photon-counting detectors and to transform new device concepts into workable technologies for optical quantum information applications. This Review aims to highlight the significant recent progress made in improving single-photon detector technologies, and the impact that these developments will have on quantum optics and quantum information science.  
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Author Zurek, Wojciech Hubert openurl 
  Title Quantum Darwinism Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2009 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 5 Issue 3 Pages 181-188  
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  Abstract Quantum Darwinism describes the proliferation, in the environment, of multiple records of selected states of a quantum system. It explains how the quantum fragility of a state of a single quantum system can lead to the classical robustness of states in their correlated multitude; shows how effective `wave-packet collapse' arises as a result of the proliferation throughout the environment of imprints of the state of the system; and provides a framework for the derivation of Born's rule, which relates the probabilities of detecting states to their amplitudes. Taken together, these three advances mark considerable progress towards settling the quantum measurement problem.  
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Author Shor, Peter W. openurl 
  Title Quantum information theory: The bits don't add up Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2009 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 5 Issue Pages 247 - 248  
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  Abstract A counterexample to the 'additivity question', the most celebrated open problem in the mathematical theory of quantum information, casts doubt on the possibility of finding a simple expression for the information capacity of a quantum channel.  
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Author Trabesinger, Andreas openurl 
  Title Quantum mechanics: Shaken foundations Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2009 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 5 Issue 12 Pages 863  
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Author Sahu, Mitrabhanu; Bae, Myung-Ho; Rogachev, Andrey; Pekker, David; Wei, Tzu-Chieh; Shah, Nayana; Goldbart, Paul M.; Bezryadin, Alexey doi  openurl
  Title Individual topological tunnelling events of a quantum field probed through their macroscopic consequences Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2009 Publication Nature Phys. Abbreviated Journal Nature Phys.  
  Volume 5 Issue Pages 503-508  
  Keywords phase slips, superconducting nanowires  
  Abstract Phase slips are topological fluctuations that carry the superconducting order-parameter field between distinct current-carrying states. Owing to these phase slips, superconducting nanowires acquire electrical resistance. In such wires, it is well known that at higher temperatures phase slips occur through the process of thermal barrier-crossing by the order-parameter field. At low temperatures, the general expectation is that phase slips should proceed through quantum tunnelling events, which are known as quantum phase slips. However, resistive measurements have produced evidence both for and against the occurrence of quantum phase slips. Here, we report evidence for the observation of individual quantum phase-slip events in homogeneous ultranarrow wires at high bias currents. We accomplish this through measurements of the distribution of switching currents for which the width exhibits a rather counter-intuitive, monotonic increase with decreasing temperature. Importantly, measurements show that in nanowires with larger critical currents, quantum fluctuations dominate thermal fluctuations up to higher temperatures.  
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Author Li, Mo; Pernice, W. H. P.; Xiong, C.; Baehr-Jones, T.; Hochberg, M.; Tang, H. X. url  doi
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  Title Harnessing optical forces in integrated photonic circuits Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Nature Abbreviated Journal Nature  
  Volume 456 Issue 7221 Pages 480-484  
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Author Kawano, Yukio; Ishibashi, Koji url  doi
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  Title An on-chip near-field terahertz probe and detector Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal Nature Photon  
  Volume 2 Issue 10 Pages 618-621  
  Keywords single molecule, terahertz, THz, near-field, microscopy, imaging, 2DEG, GaAs/AlGaAs, detector, applications  
  Abstract The advantageous properties of terahertz waves, such as their transmission through objects opaque to visible light, are attracting attention for imaging applications. A promising approach for achieving high spatial resolution is the use of near-field imaging. Although this method has been well established in the visible and microwave regions, it is challenging to perform in the terahertz region. In the terahertz techniques investigated to date, detectors have been located remotely from the probe, which degrades sensitivity, and the influence of far-field waves is unavoidable. Here we present a new integrated detection device for terahertz near-field imaging in which all the necessary detection components — an aperture, a probe and a terahertz detector — are integrated on one semiconductor chip, which is cryogenically cooled. This scheme allows highly sensitive, high-resolution detection of the evanescent field alone and promises new capabilities for high-resolution terahertz imaging.  
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Author Wei, Jian; Olaya, David; Karasik, Boris S.; Pereverzev, Sergey V.; Sergeev, Andrei V.; Gershenson, Michael E. url  doi
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  Title Ultrasensitive hot-electron nanobolometers for terahertz astrophysics Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Nature Nanotechnology Abbreviated Journal Nature Nanotech  
  Volume 3 Issue 8 Pages 496-500  
  Keywords HEB, Ti/NbN, single terahertz photons, detection  
  Abstract The submillimetre or terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum contains approximately half of the total luminosity of the Universe and 98% of all the photons emitted since the Big Bang. This radiation is strongly absorbed in the Earth's atmosphere, so space-based terahertz telescopes are crucial for exploring the evolution of the Universe. Thermal emission from the primary mirrors in these telescopes can be reduced below the level of the cosmic background by active cooling, which expands the range of faint objects that can be observed. However, it will also be necessary to develop bolometers – devices for measuring the energy of electromagnetic radiation—with sensitivities that are at least two orders of magnitude better than the present state of the art. To achieve this sensitivity without sacrificing operating speed, two conditions are required. First, the bolometer should be exceptionally well thermally isolated from the environment;

second, its heat capacity should be sufficiently small. Here we demonstrate that these goals can be achieved by building a superconducting hot-electron nanobolometer. Its design eliminates the energy exchange between hot electrons and the leads by blocking electron outdiffusion and photon emission. The thermal conductance between hot electrons and the thermal bath, controlled by electron–phonon interactions, becomes very small at low temperatures (10-16 WK-1 at 40 mK). These devices, with a heat capacity of 10-19 J K-1, are sufficiently sensitive to detect single terahertz photons in submillimetre astronomy and other applications based on quantum calorimetry and photon counting.
 
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Author Pirandola, Stefano; Mancini, Stefano; Lloyd, Seth; Braunstein, Samuel L. openurl 
  Title Continuous-variable quantum cryptography using two-way quantum communication Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Nature Physics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Phys.  
  Volume 4 Issue 9 Pages 726-730  
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  Abstract Quantum cryptography has recently been extended to continuous-variable systems, such as the bosonic modes of the electromagnetic field possessing continuous degrees of freedom. In particular, several cryptographic protocols have been proposed and experimentally implemented using bosonic modes with Gaussian statistics. These protocols have shown the possibility of reaching very high secret key rates, even in the presence of strong losses in the quantum communication channel. Despite this robustness to loss, their security can be affected by more general attacks where extra Gaussian noise is introduced by the eavesdropper. Here, we show a `hardware solution' for enhancing the security thresholds of these protocols. This is possible by extending them to two-way quantum communication where subsequent uses of the quantum channel are suitably combined. In the resulting two-way schemes, one of the honest parties assists the secret encoding of the other, with the chance of a non-trivial superadditive enhancement of the security thresholds. These results should enable the extension of quantum cryptography to more complex quantum communications.  
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Author Tang, Liang; Kocabas, Sukru Ekin; Latif, Salman; Okyay, Ali K.; Ly-Gagnon, Dany-Sebastien; Saraswat, Krishna C.; Miller, David A. B. openurl 
  Title Nanometre-scale germanium photodetector enhanced by a near-infrared dipole antenna Type Journal Article
  Year (down) 2008 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue Pages 226-229  
  Keywords optical antennas  
  Abstract A critical challenge for the convergence of optics and electronics is that the micrometre scale of optics is significantly larger than the nanometre scale of modern electronic devices. In the conversion from photons to electrons by photodetectors, this size incompatibility often leads to substantial penalties in power dissipation, area, latency and noise. A photodetector can be made smaller by using a subwavelength active region; however, this can result in very low responsivity because of the diffraction limit of the light. Here we exploit the idea of a half-wave Hertz dipole antenna (length approx 380 nm) from radio waves, but at near-infrared wavelengths (length approx 1.3 microm), to concentrate radiation into a nanometre-scale germanium photodetector. This gives a polarization contrast of a factor of 20 in the resulting photocurrent in the subwavelength germanium element, which has an active volume of 0.00072 microm3, a size that is two orders of magnitude smaller than previously demonstrated detectors at such wavelengths.  
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