Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as th...Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as the research object and focuses on the whaling ship Pequod in particular.By applying the theory of neo-tribalism proposed by Michel Maffesoli,this paper analyzes how the neo-tribe is formed by the crew members of Pequod during the voyage and how it is bonded together by Ahab’s obsession with revenge.It pays attention to the collective resonance of the crew’s“undirected”being-together and analyzes the role of the whaling ship as a special space in this process,finally unveiling the underlying forces and vitalism that work behind neo-tribalism.展开更多
The anisotropic Dicke model offers a platform for the exploration of numerous quantum many-body phenomena.Here,we propose a Floquet-engineered scheme to realize such a system with strong dipole-dipole interactions usi...The anisotropic Dicke model offers a platform for the exploration of numerous quantum many-body phenomena.Here,we propose a Floquet-engineered scheme to realize such a system with strong dipole-dipole interactions using Rydberg atom arrays in an optical cavity.By periodically modulating the microwave fields,the anisotropic parameter can be precisely controlled and tuned between zero and one,enabling the system to transition smoothly from being purely dominated by rotating-wave terms to being exclusively governed by counter-rotating wave excitations.Leveraging this tunability,we demonstrate enhanced preparation of adiabatic superradiant and superradiant solid phases where symmetryprotected energy gaps suppress undesired level crossings.Our approach,combining Rydberg interactions and cavitymediated long-range correlations,establishes a versatile framework for the quantum simulation of light-matter interactions and the exploration of exotic many-body phases.展开更多
本研究基于Dicke模型,探讨了激发态量子相变(ESQPT)对系统非平衡热力学性质的影响。具体来说,通过细致分析量子功分布的性质,深入探究了一阶和二阶激发态量子相变在功分布中体现。我们的结果表明,尽管功分布的特定性质可以很好地刻画Di...本研究基于Dicke模型,探讨了激发态量子相变(ESQPT)对系统非平衡热力学性质的影响。具体来说,通过细致分析量子功分布的性质,深入探究了一阶和二阶激发态量子相变在功分布中体现。我们的结果表明,尽管功分布的特定性质可以很好地刻画Dicke模型中二阶激发态量子相变,但一阶激发态量子相变无法通过功分布得到揭示。该研究一方面表明了功分布在激发态量子相变的研究中具有重要的作用,另一方面也表明了复杂多体模型中激发态量子相变研究的困难性。由于Dicke模型可以在不同的实验平台上得到实现,因而,我们的研究还将进一步促进更多的关于激发态量子相变的实验研究。In this study, by employing the Dicke model, we investigate the impacts of the excited-state quantum phase transitions on the nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties, Specifically, by performing a detailed examination on the features of the quantum work distribution, we investigate how the first- and second-order ESQPTs in the Dicke model manifest themselves in the work distribution. Our results show that the presence of the second-order ESQPT in the Dicke model can be detected by certain properties of the work distribution. However, all our considered features of the work distribution are unable to probe the occurrence of the first-order ESQPT. On the one hand, our findings verify the usefulness of the work distribution in the studies of the ESQPTs. On the other hand, the results of our study also indicate the difficult for analyzing the ESQPTs in complex quantum many-body systems. As the Dicke model can be realized by several experimental platforms, we expect that our studies could motivate more experimental explorations of the signatures of ESQPTs.展开更多
We present a robust quantum optimal control framework for implementing fast entangling gates on ion-trap quantum processors.The framework leverages tailored laser pulses to drive the multiple vibrational sidebands of ...We present a robust quantum optimal control framework for implementing fast entangling gates on ion-trap quantum processors.The framework leverages tailored laser pulses to drive the multiple vibrational sidebands of the ions to create phonon-mediated entangling gates and,unlike the state of the art,requires neither weakcoupling Lamb-Dicke approximation nor perturbation treatment.With the application of gradient-based optimal control,it enables finding amplitude-and phase-modulated laser control protocols that work without the Lamb-Dicke approximation,promising gate speeds on the order of microseconds comparable to the characteristic trap frequencies.Also,robustness requirements on the temperature of the ions and initial optical phase can be conveniently included to pursue high-quality fast gates against experimental imperfections.Our approach represents a step in speeding up quantum gates to achieve larger quantum circuits for quantum computation and simulation,and thus can find applications in near-future experiments.展开更多
基金Supported by the Beijing Social Science Fund Project“A Study of Imperial Consciousness in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century American Novels”(Project No.20WXB005).
文摘Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as the research object and focuses on the whaling ship Pequod in particular.By applying the theory of neo-tribalism proposed by Michel Maffesoli,this paper analyzes how the neo-tribe is formed by the crew members of Pequod during the voyage and how it is bonded together by Ahab’s obsession with revenge.It pays attention to the collective resonance of the crew’s“undirected”being-together and analyzes the role of the whaling ship as a special space in this process,finally unveiling the underlying forces and vitalism that work behind neo-tribalism.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12274045)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12347101)the Program of the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices(Grant No.KF202211).
文摘The anisotropic Dicke model offers a platform for the exploration of numerous quantum many-body phenomena.Here,we propose a Floquet-engineered scheme to realize such a system with strong dipole-dipole interactions using Rydberg atom arrays in an optical cavity.By periodically modulating the microwave fields,the anisotropic parameter can be precisely controlled and tuned between zero and one,enabling the system to transition smoothly from being purely dominated by rotating-wave terms to being exclusively governed by counter-rotating wave excitations.Leveraging this tunability,we demonstrate enhanced preparation of adiabatic superradiant and superradiant solid phases where symmetryprotected energy gaps suppress undesired level crossings.Our approach,combining Rydberg interactions and cavitymediated long-range correlations,establishes a versatile framework for the quantum simulation of light-matter interactions and the exploration of exotic many-body phases.
文摘本研究基于Dicke模型,探讨了激发态量子相变(ESQPT)对系统非平衡热力学性质的影响。具体来说,通过细致分析量子功分布的性质,深入探究了一阶和二阶激发态量子相变在功分布中体现。我们的结果表明,尽管功分布的特定性质可以很好地刻画Dicke模型中二阶激发态量子相变,但一阶激发态量子相变无法通过功分布得到揭示。该研究一方面表明了功分布在激发态量子相变的研究中具有重要的作用,另一方面也表明了复杂多体模型中激发态量子相变研究的困难性。由于Dicke模型可以在不同的实验平台上得到实现,因而,我们的研究还将进一步促进更多的关于激发态量子相变的实验研究。In this study, by employing the Dicke model, we investigate the impacts of the excited-state quantum phase transitions on the nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties, Specifically, by performing a detailed examination on the features of the quantum work distribution, we investigate how the first- and second-order ESQPTs in the Dicke model manifest themselves in the work distribution. Our results show that the presence of the second-order ESQPT in the Dicke model can be detected by certain properties of the work distribution. However, all our considered features of the work distribution are unable to probe the occurrence of the first-order ESQPT. On the one hand, our findings verify the usefulness of the work distribution in the studies of the ESQPTs. On the other hand, the results of our study also indicate the difficult for analyzing the ESQPTs in complex quantum many-body systems. As the Dicke model can be realized by several experimental platforms, we expect that our studies could motivate more experimental explorations of the signatures of ESQPTs.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12441502,12122506,12204230,and 12404554)the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2024ZD0300404)+6 种基金Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2021B1515020070)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(Grant No.RCYX20200714114522109)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(CPSF)(2024M762114)Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(GZC20231727)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.92165206 and 11974330)Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology(Grant No.2021ZD0301603)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘We present a robust quantum optimal control framework for implementing fast entangling gates on ion-trap quantum processors.The framework leverages tailored laser pulses to drive the multiple vibrational sidebands of the ions to create phonon-mediated entangling gates and,unlike the state of the art,requires neither weakcoupling Lamb-Dicke approximation nor perturbation treatment.With the application of gradient-based optimal control,it enables finding amplitude-and phase-modulated laser control protocols that work without the Lamb-Dicke approximation,promising gate speeds on the order of microseconds comparable to the characteristic trap frequencies.Also,robustness requirements on the temperature of the ions and initial optical phase can be conveniently included to pursue high-quality fast gates against experimental imperfections.Our approach represents a step in speeding up quantum gates to achieve larger quantum circuits for quantum computation and simulation,and thus can find applications in near-future experiments.
