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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
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This article begins with an interdisciplinary review of a hydrodynamic approach to understanding the origins and nature of macroscopic quantum phenomena in high-temperature superconductivity, superfluidity, turbulence and biological systems. Building...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,276 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2019

Current computers are made of semiconductors. Semiconductor technology enables realization of microscopic quantum bits based on electron spins of individual electrons localized by gates in field effect transistors. This results in very fragile quantu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue (Quantum) Physical Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,747 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2022

Macroscopic quantum superposition is an important embodiment of the core of the quantum theory. The engineering of macroscopic quantum superposition states is the key to quantum communication and quantum computation. Thus, we present a theoretical pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Optics: Science and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,870 Views
12 Pages

Thermodynamics of Reduced State of the Field

  • Stefano Cusumano and
  • Łukasz Rudnicki

11 September 2021

Recent years have seen the flourishing of research devoted to quantum effects on mesoscopic and macroscopic scales. In this context, in Entropy 2019, 21, 705, a formalism aiming at describing macroscopic quantum fields, dubbed Reduced State of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Concepts in Open Quantum Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,169 Views
24 Pages

Cooling of Optically Levitated Particles: Principles, Implementations, and Applications

  • Jiaming Liu,
  • Yizhe Lin,
  • Han Cai,
  • Xingfan Chen and ,
  • Nan Li,
  • Huizhu Hu and
  • Cheng Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2025

Optically levitated particles in high vacuum offer an exceptionally isolated mechanical platform for photonic control. Effective cooling of their center-of-mass motion is essential not only for enabling ultrasensitive precision sensing but also for o...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,282 Views
36 Pages

A Macroscopic Quantum Three-Box Paradox: Finding Consistency with Weak Macroscopic Realism

  • Channa Hatharasinghe,
  • Manushan Thenabadu,
  • Peter D. Drummond and
  • Margaret D. Reid

4 December 2023

The quantum three-box paradox considers a ball prepared in a superposition of being in any one of three boxes. Bob makes measurements by opening either box 1 or box 2. After performing some unitary operations (shuffling), Alice can infer with certain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Correlations, Contextuality, and Quantum Nonlocality)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,799 Views
11 Pages

A protocol for realizing discrete-variable quantum teleportation in an optomagnonic system is provided. Using optical pulses, an arbitrary photonic qubit state encoded in orthogonal polarizations is transferred onto the joint state of a pair of magno...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,236 Views
6 Pages

28 October 2022

Quantum decoherence is crucial to understanding the emergence of the classical world from the underlying quantum reality. Decoherence dynamics are unitary, although they superselect a preferred eigenbasis. Decoherence dynamics result in stable macros...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Probability: From Foundations to Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,256 Views
13 Pages

9 January 2018

Quantum measurements have intrinsic properties that seem incompatible with our everyday-life macroscopic measurements. Macroscopic Quantum Measurement (MQM) is a concept that aims at bridging the gap between well-understood microscopic quantum measur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Foundations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,253 Views
10 Pages

The Evolution of Squeezing in Coupled Macroscopic Mechanical Oscillator Systems

  • Xin-Chang Liu,
  • Xiao-Dong Shi,
  • Xiao-Lei Zhang,
  • Ling-Xiao Chen and
  • Yi Zhang

Quantum squeezing in macroscopic oscillator systems plays a critical role in bridging quantum mechanics with classical-scale phenomena, enabling high-precision measurements and fundamental tests of quantum physics. In this work, we investigate the ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,638 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2024

Quantum and classical mechanics are fundamentally different theories, but the correspondence principle states that quantum particles behave classically in the appropriate limit. For high-energy periodic quantum systems, the emergence of the classical...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,877 Views
18 Pages

We perform an experimental test where we directly observe light-induced electron transitions with a macroscopic spatial discontinuity. The effect is related to the fundamental indivisibility of macroscopic orbit-like quantum states reminiscent of so-...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,807 Views
8 Pages

The present paper discusses the use of two information-theoretical quantities—namely, the classical and quantum Fisher information—in the context of molecular magnetism. These functions quantify the suitability of a given observable to the estimation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecules in Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,557 Views
13 Pages

18 July 2019

Macroscopic fields such as electromagnetic, magnetohydrodynamic, acoustic or gravitational waves are usually described by classical wave equations with possible additional damping terms and coherent sources. The aim of this paper is to develop a comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Entropies and Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,511 Views
15 Pages

Probing and Manipulating Fermionic and Bosonic Quantum Gases with Quantum Light

  • Thomas J. Elliott,
  • Gabriel Mazzucchi,
  • Wojciech Kozlowski,
  • Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez and
  • Igor B. Mekhov

2 September 2015

We study the atom-light interaction in the fully quantum regime, with the focus on off-resonant light scattering into a cavity from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. The detection of photons allows the quantum nondemolition (QND) measure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Ultracold Atoms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,565 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2020

It is generally accepted that the Copenhagen interpretation is inapplicable to quantum cosmology, by contrast with the many worlds interpretation. I shall demonstrate that the two basic principles of the Copenhagen interpretation, the principle of wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 17th Russian Gravitational Conference —International Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (RUSGRAV-17))
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,260 Views
5 Pages

20 November 2017

The letter submitted is an executive summary of our previous paper. To solve the Einstein Podolsky Rosen “paradox” the two boundary quantum mechanics is taken as self consistent interpretation of quantum dynamics. The difficulty with this interpretat...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,045 Views
11 Pages

Long-Range Quantum Gravity

  • Mariano Cadoni,
  • Matteo Tuveri and
  • Andrea P. Sanna

21 August 2020

It is a tantalising possibility that quantum gravity (QG) states remaining coherent at astrophysical, galactic and cosmological scales could exist and that they could play a crucial role in understanding macroscopic gravitational effects. We explore,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Quantum Gravity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,671 Views
137 Pages

27 February 2013

This paper is a review of our recent work on three notorious problems of non-relativistic quantum mechanics: realist interpretation, quantum theory of classical properties, and the problem of quantum measurement. A considerable progress has been achi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maximum Entropy and Bayes Theorem)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,553 Views
28 Pages

19 May 2025

We review quantum architectures for engineering the N00N state, a bipartite maximally entangled state essential in quantum metrology. These schemes transform the initial state |N⟩⊗|0⟩ into the N00N state, 12(|N⟩⊗|0&...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,192 Views
13 Pages

11 August 2023

Quantum entanglement in macroscopic systems plays an important role in quantum information processing. Here, we show that the steady-state entanglement between the two cavity modes in the macroscopic Laguerre–Gaussian (L–G) cavity optorot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,645 Views
43 Pages

15 March 2019

Quantum chaos is presented as a paradigm of information processing by dynamical systems at the bottom of the range of phase-space scales. Starting with a brief review of classical chaos as entropy flow from micro- to macro-scales, I argue that quantu...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,904 Views
10 Pages

Direct Parameter Estimations from Machine Learning-Enhanced Quantum State Tomography

  • Hsien-Yi Hsieh,
  • Jingyu Ning,
  • Yi-Ru Chen,
  • Hsun-Chung Wu and ,
  • Hua Li Chen,
  • Chien-Ming Wu and
  • Ray-Kuang Lee
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 April 2022

With the power to find the best fit to arbitrarily complicated symmetry, machine-learning (ML)-enhanced quantum state tomography (QST) has demonstrated its advantages in extracting complete information about the quantum states. Instead of using the r...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,681 Views
22 Pages

Variational Autoencoder Reconstruction of Complex Many-Body Physics

  • Ilia A. Luchnikov,
  • Alexander Ryzhov,
  • Pieter-Jan Stas,
  • Sergey N. Filippov and
  • Henni Ouerdane

7 November 2019

Thermodynamics is a theory of principles that permits a basic description of the macroscopic properties of a rich variety of complex systems from traditional ones, such as crystalline solids, gases, liquids, and thermal machines, to more intricate sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation with Entropy Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,703 Views
12 Pages

Quantized Microcavity Polariton Lasing Based on InGaN Localized Excitons

  • Huying Zheng,
  • Runchen Wang,
  • Xuebing Gong,
  • Junxing Dong and ,
  • Lisheng Wang,
  • Jingzhuo Wang,
  • Yifan Zhang,
  • Yan Shen,
  • Huanjun Chen and
  • Hai Zhu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

14 July 2024

Exciton–polaritons, which are bosonic quasiparticles with an extremely low mass, play a key role in understanding macroscopic quantum effects related to Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) in solid-state systems. The study of trapped polarit...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanophotonics Materials and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,326 Views
19 Pages

Coherent Superpositions of Photon Creation Operations and Their Application to Multimode States of Light

  • Nicola Biagi,
  • Saverio Francesconi,
  • Alessandro Zavatta and
  • Marco Bellini

31 July 2021

We present a concise review of recent experimental results concerning the conditional implementation of coherent superpositions of single-photon additions onto distinct field modes. Such a basic operation is seen to give rise to a wealth of interesti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Quantum Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,783 Views
24 Pages

The Quantum Ratio

  • Kenichi Konishi and
  • Hans-Thomas Elze

4 April 2024

The concept of quantum ratio has emerged from recent efforts to understand how Newton’s equations appear for the center of mass (CM) of an isolated macroscopic body at finite body temperatures as a first approximation of quantum mechanical equa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Mechanics: Concepts, Symmetries, and Recent Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,037 Views
14 Pages

30 August 2023

Quantum entanglement will play an important role in future quantum technologies. Here, we theoretically study the steady-state entanglement between a cavity field and a macroscopic rotating mirror in a Laguerre–Gaussian-(LG)-cavity optomechanic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,441 Views
13 Pages

The Two-Time Interpretation and Macroscopic Time-Reversibility

  • Yakir Aharonov,
  • Eliahu Cohen and
  • Tomer Landsberger

12 March 2017

The two-state vector formalism motivates a time-symmetric interpretation of quantum mechanics that entails a resolution of the measurement problem. We revisit a post-selection-assisted collapse model previously suggested by us, claiming that unlike t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Limits to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Experiment and Theory)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
12,909 Views
26 Pages

Carbon Nanotube Devices for Quantum Technology

  • Andrey Baydin,
  • Fuyang Tay,
  • Jichao Fan,
  • Manukumara Manjappa and ,
  • Weilu Gao and
  • Junichiro Kono
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 February 2022

Carbon nanotubes, quintessentially one-dimensional quantum objects, possess a variety of electrical, optical, and mechanical properties that are suited for developing devices that operate on quantum mechanical principles. The states of one-dimensiona...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,706 Views
41 Pages

18 December 2023

By utilizing a generalized version of the Madelung quantum hydrodynamic framework that incorporates noise, we derive a solution using the path integral method to investigate how a quantum superposition of states evolves over time. This exploration se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Optics: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,386 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2021

The ground state, magnetization scenario and the local bipartite quantum entanglement of a mixed spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg model in a magnetic field on planar lattices formed by identical corner-sharing bipyramidal plaquettes is examined by com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Quantum Phase Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,269 Views
12 Pages

26 September 2023

In this paper, we propose a scheme for measurement-based control of hybrid Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) entanglement and steering between distant macroscopic mechanical oscillator and yttrium iron garnet (YIG) sphere in a system of an el...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,555 Views
33 Pages

21 December 2023

The violation of a Leggett–Garg inequality confirms the incompatibility between quantum mechanics and the combined premises (called macro-realism) of macroscopic realism (MR) and noninvasive measurability (NIM). Arguments can be given that the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Correlations, Contextuality, and Quantum Nonlocality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,232 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2021

In this study, we develop quantum measurement theory for quantum systems described by C∗-algebras. This is the first step to establish measurement theory for interacting quantum fields with off-shell momenta. Unlike quantum mechanics (i.e., quantum s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Fields and Off-Shell Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,774 Views
12 Pages

Magnetic Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystals Formed by Graphene Nanoclusters and Embedded Atoms of the Transition Metals

  • Vladislav O. Cheranovskii,
  • Viktor V. Slavin,
  • Elena V. Ezerskaya,
  • Andrei L. Tchougréeff and
  • Richard Dronskowski

15 May 2019

Using the density-matrix renormalization group method and quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we studied numerically the energy spectrum and thermodynamics of the quantum Heisenberg spin model for narrow graphene nanoribbons and their derivatives with pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,406 Views
45 Pages

20 June 2024

The simulation analogy presented in this work enhances the accessibility of abstract quantum theories, specifically the stochastic hydrodynamic model (SQHM), by relating them to our daily experiences. The SQHM incorporates the influence of fluctuatin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,958 Views
9 Pages

Quantum Transport of Dirac Fermions in HgTe Gapless Quantum Wells

  • Gennady M. Gusev,
  • Alexander D. Levin,
  • Dmitry A. Kozlov,
  • Ze D. Kvon and
  • Nikolay N. Mikhailov

14 June 2022

We study the transport properties of HgTe quantum wells with critical well thickness, where the band gap is closed and the low energy spectrum is described by a single Dirac cone. In this work, we examined both macroscopic and micron-sized (mesoscopi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Nanostructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,947 Views
21 Pages

20 December 2018

If the reality underlying classical physics is quantum in nature, then it is reasonable to assume that the transformations of fields, currents, energy, and momentum observed macroscopically are the result of averaging of symmetry groups acting in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Estate Quantistica Conference - Recent Developments in Gravity, Cosmology, and Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,946 Views
33 Pages

On Magnetic Models in Wavefunction Ensembles

  • Leonardo De Carlo and
  • William D. Wick

25 March 2023

In a wavefunction-only philosophy, thermodynamics must be recast in terms of an ensemble of wavefunctions. In this perspective we study how to construct Gibbs ensembles for magnetic quantum spin models. We show that with free boundary conditions and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,468 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2024

We theoretically studied the quantum dynamics of a cavity–Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) system in a gravitational field, which is composed of a Fabry–Pérot cavity and a BEC. We also show how to deterministically generate the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,439 Views
15 Pages

10 May 2022

In this review paper, we first introduce the basic concept of quantum computer-resistant cryptography, which is the cornerstone of security technology for the network of a new era. Then, we will describe the positioning of mathematical cryptography a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Communication, Quantum Radar, and Quantum Cipher)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,811 Views
20 Pages

Thermality versus Objectivity: Can They Peacefully Coexist?

  • Thao P. Le,
  • Andreas Winter and
  • Gerardo Adesso

13 November 2021

Under the influence of external environments, quantum systems can undergo various different processes, including decoherence and equilibration. We observe that macroscopic objects are both objective and thermal, thus leading to the expectation that b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Darwinism and Friends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
20 Pages

We propose a proposal to achieve strong mechanical squeezing in an optomechanical system through the joint effect of a weak squeezed vacuum field and Duffing nonlinearity. The squeezing of the cavity field induced by the squeezed vacuum field is tran...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Views
11 Pages

Correspondence Principle Approach to Time-Dependent Decaying Quantized Fields

  • Irán Ramos-Prieto,
  • Nikolai Korneev and
  • Héctor M. Moya-Cessa

21 October 2026

We present a correspondence principle framework that maps a classical field-amplitude decay law Γ(t) onto a vacuum-loss quantum master equation for a single bosonic mode. Under the strict assumption that an initially coherent state remains pure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Fundamental Fields to Information and Emergent Phenomena: Theory and Applications of Quantum Electrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,124 Views
13 Pages

29 June 2023

The Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger version of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox is widely regarded as a conclusive logical argument that rules out the possibility of reproducing the predictions of Quantum Mechanics within the framework of any ph...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Mechanics: Concepts, Symmetries, and Recent Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,973 Views
11 Pages

Magic Numbers and Mixing Degree in Many-Fermion Systems

  • D. Monteoliva,
  • A. Plastino and
  • A. R. Plastino

14 August 2023

We consider an N fermion system at low temperature T in which we encounter special particle number values Nm exhibiting special traits. These values arise when focusing attention upon the degree of mixture (DM) of the pertinent quantum states. Given...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonadditive Entropies and Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics—Dedicated to Professor Constantino Tsallis on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,713 Views
25 Pages

24 June 2022

Thermodynamic uncertainty principles make up one of the few rare anchors in the largely uncharted waters of nonequilibrium systems, the fluctuation theorems being the more familiar. In this work we aim to trace the uncertainties of thermodynamic quan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Processes and Phenomena)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,527 Views
11 Pages

4 August 2020

In this paper we outline a certain way of understanding of macroscopically uncontrollable emergence of the so called Mannesmann effect by means of its induced controllable quantum-mechanical background. In other words, we factually present a modus op...

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