Experimental observation of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quantum phase transition

Spontaneous symmetry breaking(SSB)plays a central role in understanding a large variety of phenomena associated with phase transitions,such as superfluid and superconductivity.So far,the transition from a symmetric vacuum to a macroscopically ordered phase has been substantially explored.The process bridging these two distinct phases is critical to understanding how a classical world emerges from a quantum phase transition,but so far remains unexplored in experiment.We here report an experimental demonstration of such a process with a quantum Rabi model engineered with a superconducting circuit.We move the system from the normal phase to the superradiant phase featuring two symmetry-breaking field components,one of which is observed to emerge as the classical reality.The results demonstrate that the environment-induced decoherence plays a critical role in the SSB.

Quantum nonlocality evolution for two entangled mesoscopic fields under decoherence

Investigation of the nonlocality evolution of entangled mesoscopic fields under decoherence not only is important for understanding the quantum–classical transition,but also has relevance to quantum communication and quantum computation protocols based on continuous variables.According to previous formulations of Bell inequalities,the system loses nonlocal features far before the disappearance of entanglement.We here construct a new version of Bell signal based on rotated and displaced on–off correlations,with which the Bell inequality is violated as long as there remains entanglement and the field state components keep quasiorthogonal.Consequently,the nonlocal character revealed by our formulation decays much slower compared with those based on previous ones.More importantly,there exists a wide regime where the Bell inequality is restored with previous formulations but remains to be violated based on our correlation operators.

Non-adiabatic holonomic quantum operations in continuous variable systems

Quantum operations by utilizing the underlying geometric phases produced in physical systems are favoured due to their potential robustness.When a system in a non-degenerate eigenstate undergoes an adiabatically cyclic evolution dominated by its Hamiltonian,it will get a geometric phase,referred to as the Berry Phase.While a non-adiabatically cyclic evolution produces an Aharonov-Anandan geometric phase.The two types of Abelian geometric phases are extended to the non-Abelian cases,where the phase factors become matrix-valued and the transformations associated with different loops are non-commutable.Abelian and non-Abelian(holonomic)operations are prevalent in discrete variable systems,whose limited(say,two)energy levels,form the qubit.While their developments in continuous systems have also been investigated,mainly due to that,bosonic modes(in,such as,cat states)with large Hilbert spaces,provide potential advantages in fault-tolerant quantum computation.Here we propose a feasible scheme to realize non-adiabatic holonomic quantum logic operations in continuous variable systems with cat codes.We construct arbitrary single-qubit(two-qubit)gates with the combination of single-and two-photon drivings applied to a Kerr Parametric Oscillator(KPO)(the coupled KPOs).Our scheme relaxes the requirements of the previously proposed quantum geometric operation strategies in continuous variable systems,providing an effective way for quantum control.

Criticality-enhanced quantum sensing in the anisotropic quantum Rabi model

Quantum systems that undergo quantum phase transitions exhibit divergent susceptibility and can be exploited as probes to estimate physical parameters.We generalize the dynamic framework for criticality-enhanced quantum sensing by the quantum Rabi model(QRM)to its anisotropic counterpart and derive the correspondingly analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information(QFI).We find that the contributions of the rotating-wave and counterrotating-wave interaction terms are symmetric at the limit of the infinite ratio of qubit frequency to field frequency,with the QFI reaching a maximum for the isotropic QRM.At finite frequency scaling,we analytically derive the inverted variance of higher-order correction and find that it is more affected by the rotating-wave coupling than by the counterrotating-wave coupling.

大流量工况下离心泵断电过渡过程特性研究

离心泵断电后内部流场异常复杂,特性参数随时间波动较大,严重威胁到泵系统的安全稳定运行。该文基于ANSYS CFX二次开发,通过添加用户自定义程序计算瞬时转速,研究了大流量工况下离心泵断电过渡过程的特性参数变化规律和内流演变特性。通过试验得到的外特性和飞逸参数数据验证了数值计算方法的准确性。离心泵断电后,过渡过程主要有四种工况,分别为水泵工况、制动工况、水轮机工况和飞逸工况。相比文献[29]中的设计工况,该文离心泵断电后特性参数变化时间相对较晚但总体值较小,从而导致工况过渡时间除飞逸工况外均出现一定延迟,且内流场存在复杂多涡演变,压力波动较为剧烈。研究成果为了解大流量工况下离心泵断电后的流动特性提供参考。

RIP1 （ROP Interactive Partner 1）/ICR1 Marks Pollen Germination Sites and May Act in the ROP1 Pathway in the Control of Polarized Pollen Growth

Rho family small GTPases are universal signaling switches in the control of cell polarity in eukaryotic cells. Their polar distribution to the cell cortex is critical for the execution of their functions, yet the mechanism for this distribution is poorly understood. Using a yeast two-hybrid method, we identified RIP1 （ROP interactive partner 1）, which belongs to a family of five members of novel proteins that share a C-terminal region that interacts with ROP. When expressed in Arabidopsis pollen, green fluorescence protein GFP-tagged RIP1 was localized to the nucleus of mature pollen. When pollen grains were hydrated in germination medium, GFP-RIP1 switched from the nucleus to the cell cortex at the future pollen germination site and was maintained in the apical cortex of germinating pollen and growing pollen tubes. RIP1 was found to interact with ROP1 in pollen tubes, and the cortical RIP1 localization was influenced by the activity of ROP1. Overexpression of RIP1 induced growth depolarization in pollen tubes, a phenotype similar to that induced by ROP1 overexpression. Interestingly, RIP1 overexpression enhanced GFP-ROP1 recruitment to the plasma membrane （PM） of pollen tubes. Based on these observations, we hypothesize that RIP1 is involved in the positive feedback regulation of ROP1 localization to the PM, leading to the establishment of a polar site for pollen germination and pollen tube growth.

External control of qubit-photon interaction and multi-qubit reset in a dissipative quantum network

A quantum network is a promising quantum many-body system because of its tailored geometry and controllable interaction. Here,we propose an external control scheme for the qubit-photon interaction and multiqubit reset in a dissipative quantum network,which comprises superconducting circuit chains with microwave drives and filter-filter couplings. The traditional multiqubit reset of the quantum network requires physically disconnected qubits to prevent their entanglement. However, we use an original effect of dissipation, i.e., consuming the entanglement generated by qubits’ interaction, to achieve an external control of the multiqubit reset in an always-connected superconducting circuit. The reset time is independent of the number of qubits in the quantum network. Our proposal can tolerate considerable fluctuations in the system parameters and can be applicable to higherdimensional quantum networks.