Witnessing Quantum Coherence IWQSE 2013, NTU Oct. 15 (2013) Yueh-Nan Chen ( 陳岳男 ) Dep. of Physics, NCKU National Center for Theoretical Sciences (South)
Outline Coherence and entanglement Cavity QED The Leggett-Garg Inequalities Witnessing Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems
Quantum Information Teleportation Dense coding Secret sharing Key distribution Quantum Computation Algorithms coherence and entanglement
Bit : 0, 1 or +, - or boy, girl…. Any two-level system 1 0 time t0t0 t1t1 t2t2
Q-bit: Any two-level and physical system (Quantum bit) 0 Two-level atom time t0t0 t1t1 t2t
Two qbits : two spins Spin up Spin down interaction Schrodinger eq. Spin up Spin down - A B AB AB A B time t0t0 t entangled state
Entanglement A + a2 A ( a1 ) B + b2 B ( b1 ) Impossible to factory Symbol of connecting to independent system *.*?
薛丁格的貓: To be or not to be?
Cavity QED
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems" Serge HarocheDavid J. Wineland
Interaction between a two-level atom and the photon reservoir: In the interaction picture, the state vector :, where : an atom initially in the excited state : a photon of q in the radiation field Spontaneous emission of single two-level atom
Results : where is the decay rate represents the Lamb Shift The radiation intensity distribution :, where is the energy spacing
Two-level atom inside a cavity The interaction between the atom and single-mode cavity:
J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Haroche, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 565 (2001). Vacuum Rabi oscillations
Vacuum Rabi splitting
Gate-confined Double Quantum Dots
Quantum Coherence in Double Quantum Dots
K. D. Petersson, J. R. Petta, H. Lu, and A. C. Gossard, PRL 105, (2010)
Question: Are they truly quantum?
The Robotic Bugs
Quantum vs Classical Bell’s Inequality: Locality and Realism
The Bell-CHSH inequality
Predictions of QM for the singlet state
QM violates the Bell-CHSH inequality
Leggett-Garg Inequality (Bell’s inequality in time) Realism and non-invasive measurement Quantum mechanics versus macroscopic realism: Is the flux there when nobody looks? Leggett and Garg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 857–860 (1985)
Palacios-Laloy, A. et al. Nature Phys. 6, 442–447 (2010).
Distinguishing Quantum and Classical Transport through Nanostructures Transport Charge Inequality: N. Lambert, C. Emary, Y. N. Chen, and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, (2010)
Double Quantum Dot
Violation of charge inequality for DQD
Quantum Transport in Organism ?
The Quantum Dimension Of Photosynthesis
Reaction Center Pigments (BChl) Leggett-Garg inequality ?
Witnessing Quantum Coherence in FMO Complex C. M. Li*, N. Lambert*, Y. N. Chen*, G. Y. Chen and F. Nori, Scientific Reports 2, 885 (2012)
Avian Magnetoreception: a tale of two spins
Summary 1. Coherence and Entanglement 2. Cavity QED 3. The LG Inequalities 4. Quantumness in Biological Systems
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