Quantum Optics, Quantum Information Science, Quantum Computing

High-fidelity parallel entangling gates on a neutral-atom quantum computer. S. J. Evered, D. Bluvstein, M. Kalinowski, S. Ebadi, T. Manovitz, H. Zhou, S.H. Li, A.A. Geim, T. T. Wang, N. Maskara, H. Levine, G. Semeghini, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Nature 622, 268–272 (2023).
Landau-Forbidden Quantum Criticality in Rydberg Quantum Simulators. J.Y. Lee, J. Ramette, M.A. Metlitski, V. Vuletić, W.W. Ho, and S. Choi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083601 (2023).
Probing Topological Spin Liquids on a Programmable Quantum Simulator. Semeghini, H. Levine, A. Keesling, S. Ebadi, T. T. Wang, D. Bluvstein, R. Verresen, H. Pichler, M. Kalinowski, R. Samajdar, A. Omran, S. Sachdev, A. Vishwanath, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Science 374, 1242-1247 (2021).
Fast Preparation and Detection of a Rydberg Qubit using Atomic Ensembles. W. Xu, A.V. Venkatramani, S.H. Cantu, V. Klüsener, T. Šumarac, M.D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050501 (2021);
Entanglement transport and a nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers. T. Djordjevic, P. Samutpraphoot, P.L. Ocola, H. Bernien, B. Grinkemeyer, I. Dimitrova, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Science 373, 1511-1514 (2021) .
Controlling many-body dynamics with driven quantum scars in Rydberg atom arrays. D. Bluvstein, A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling, G. Semeghini, S. Ebadi, T. T. Wang, A. A. Michailidis, N. Maskara, W. W. Ho, S. Choi, M. Serbyn, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Science 371, 1355–1359 (2021.
Quantum Phases of Matter on a 256-Atom Programmable Quantum Simulator. Ebadi, T.T. Wang, Levine, A. Keesling, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, D. Bluvstein, R. Samajdar, H. Pichler, W.W. Ho, S. Choi, S. Sachdev, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Nature 595, 227-232 (2021).
Repulsive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium. S.H. Cantu, A.V. Venkatramani, W. Xu, L. Zhou, B. Jelenković, M.D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, Nature Physics 16, 921–925 (2020); supplemental information.
Heralded Interaction Control between Quantum Systems. Y. Duan, M. Hosseini, K.M. Beck, and V. Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 223602 (2020); supplemental information.
Strong Coupling of Two Individually Controlled Atoms via a Nanophotonic Cavity. P. Samutpraphoot, T. Djordjevic, P.L. Ocola, H. Bernien, C. Senko, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063602 (2020); supplemental information.
Integrating Neural Networks with a Quantum Simulator for State Reconstruction. G. Torlai, B. Timar, E.P.L. van Nieuwenburg, H. Levine, A. Omran, A. Keesling, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, M.D. Lukin, R.G. Melko, M. Endres, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 230504 (2019); supplemental information.
Parallel implementation of high-ﬁdelity multi-qubit gates with neutral atoms. H. Levine, A. Keesling, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, T. T. Wang, S. Ebadi, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, H. Pichler, and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170503 (2019); supplemental information. Selected for Physics Synopsis; Editor’s suggestion,
Generation and manipulation of Schrodinger cat states in Rydberg atom arrays. A. Omran, H. Levine, A. Keesling, G. Semeghini, T. Wang, S. Ebadi, H. Bernien, A. S. Zibrov, H. Pichler, S. Choi, J. Cui, M. Rossignolo, P. Rembold, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M. D. Lukin, Science 365, 570-574 (2019); supplemental information.
Quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism and critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator. A. Keesling, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, H. Pichler, S. Choi, R. Samajdar, S. Schwartz, P. Silvi, S. Sachdev, P. Zoller, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Nature 568, 207 (2019).
High-Fidelity Control and Entanglement of Rydberg-Atom Qubits. H. Levine, A. Keesling, A. Omran, H. Bernien, S. Schwartz, A. S. Zibrov, M. Endres, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M.D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123603 (2018), supplemental information.
Observation of three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium. Q.-Y. Liang, A.V. Venkatramani, S.H. Cantu,T.L. Nicholson, M.J. Gullans, A.V. Gorshkov, J.D. Thompson, C. Chin, M.D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, Science 359, 783-786 (2018), supplemental information.
Symmetry-protected collisions between strongly interacting photons. J.D. Thompson, T.L. Nicholson, Q.-Y. Liang, S.H. Cantu, A.V. Venkatramani, S. Choi, I.A. Fedorov, D. Viscor, T. Pohl, M.D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, Nature doi:10.1038/nature20823 (2017), supplemental information.
Effective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons. M. J. Gullans, Y. Wang, J. D. Thompson, Q.-Y. Liang, V. Vuletić, M. D. Lukin, and A. V. Gorshkov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 113601 (2016), supplemental material.
Large conditional single-photon cross-phase modulation. Kristin M. Beck, Mahdi Hosseini, Yiheng Duan, and Vladan Vuletić, PNAS 113, 9740–9744 (2016).
Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons. Mahdi Hosseini, Kristin M. Beck, Yiheng Duan, Wenlan Chen, and Vladan Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033602 (2016), supplemental material.
Efficient fiber-optical interface for nanophotonic devices. Tobias G. Tiecke, K.P. Kayak, Jeff. D. Thompson, Thibault Peyronel, Natalie de Leon, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Optica 2, 70-75 (2014).
Cross Modulation of Two Laser Beams at the Individual-Photon Level. Kristin Beck, Wenlan Chen, Michael Gullans, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 113603 (2014), supplemental information.
Quantum Nonlinear Optics – Photon by Photon. Darrick Chang, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Nature Photonics 8, 685-694 (2014).
Quantum nanophotonic phase switch with a single atom. Tobias G. Tiecke, Jeff D. Thompson, Natalie de Leon, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Nature 508, 241-244 (2014); accompanying MIT news story.
Attractive Photons in a Quantum Nonlinear Medium. Ofer Firstenberg, Thibault Peyronel, Qiyu Liang, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletić, Nature 502, 71 (2013).
All-Optical Switch and Transistor Gated by One Stored Photon. Wenlan Chen, Kristin M. Beck, Robert Bücker, Michael Gullans, Mikhail D. Lukin, Haruka Tanji-Suzuki, and Vladan Vuletić, Science 341, 768 (2013), accompanying Science Perspectives by J. Volz and A. Rauschenbeutel; accompanying MIT news story.
Coupling of a Single Trapped Atom to a Nanoscale Optical Cavity. Jeff D. Thompson, Tobias G. Tiecke, Natalie P. de Leon, Johannes Feist, Alexei V. Akimov, Michael Gullans, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Science 340, 1202 (2013), accompanying Science Perspectives by M. Keller.
Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms. Thibault Peyronel, Ofer Firstenberg, Qiyu Liang, Sebastian Hofferberth, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Thomas Pohl, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletić, Nature 488, 57 (2012), accompanying News&Views article by T. Walker.
Vacuum-Induced Transparency. Haruka Tanji, Wenlan Chen, Renate Landig, Jonathan Simon, and Vladan Vuletić, Science 333, 1266 (2011), accompanying Science Perspectives by Michael Fleischhauer, accompanying MIT News Story.
Ion crystal transducer for strong coupling between single ions and single photons . Lucas Lamata, David R. Leibrandt, Isaac Chuang, J. Ignacio Cirac, Mikhail D. Lukin, Vladan Vuletić, and Susanne F. Yelin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030501 (2011).
Interaction between Atomic Ensembles and Optical Resonators: Classical Description . Haruka Tanji-Suzuki, Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, Marko Cetina, Andrew T. Grier, Jonathan Simon, and Vladan Vuletić, Adv. At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 60, 201 (2011), quant-ph/1104.3594.
Laser-cooled atoms in side a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Thibault Peyronel, Vlatko Balic, Qiyu Liang, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063830 (2011); accompanying Physics Synopsis.
Fast Entanglement Distribution with Atomic Ensembles and Fluorescent Detection. J.B. Brask, L. Jiang, A.V. Gorshkov, V. Vuletić, A.S. Sorensen, and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. A 81, 020303 (2010), supplemental information.
Few-photon switching with slow light in hollow fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, published in: Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7226 (Advances in Slow and Fast Light II), 722609 (2009).
Trapping and Manipulation of Isolated Atoms Using Nanoscale Plasmonic Structures. Darrick E. Chang, James D. Thompson, Hongkun Park, Vladan Vuletić, Alexander S. Zibrov, Peter Zoller, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123004 (2009).
Switching of light with light using cold atoms inside a hollow optical fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Thibault Peyronel, Vlatko Balic, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, published in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2009, Hokkaido, Japan), edited by H. Katori.
Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States . Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Jonathan Simon, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043601 (2009);
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, accompanying Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 62 (2009).
Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber . Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009);
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, accompanying Viewpoint commentary Physics 2, 41 (2009).
Heralded atomic-ensemble quantum memory for photon polarization states . Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletić, Phys. Scr. T134, 014010 (2009).
Few-photon switching with slow light in hollow fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin, published in: Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7226 (Advances in Slow and Fast Light II), 722609 (2009).
Switching of light with light using cold atoms inside a hollow optical fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Thibault Peyronel, Vlatko Balic, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and V. Vuletić, published in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2009, Hokkaido, Japan), edited by H. Katori.
Simplified measurement of the Bell parameter of two photons within quantum mechanics. H. Tanji, J. Simon, S. Ghosh, and V. Vuletić, quant-phys/0801.4549 (1/2008).
Crystallization of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical fiber . Darrick E. Chang, Vladimir Gritsev, Giovanna Morigi, Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler, Nature Physics 4, 884 (2008).
Single-Photon Bus between Spin-Wave Quantum Memories. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, and Vladan Vuletić, Nature Physics 3, 765 (2007) .
Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, James K. Thompson, and V. Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183601 (2007).
A High-Brightness Source of Narrowband, Identical-Photon Pairs. James K. Thompson, Jonathan Simon, Huanqian Loh, and Vladan Vuletić, Science 313, 74 (2006), supporting material.
When Superatoms Talk Photons, Vladan Vuletić, Nature Physics 2, 801 (2006), article on many-particle superatoms.
On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency. Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133601 (2005).