Measurement-induced population switching
Quantum information processing is a key technology in the ongoing second quantum revolution, with a wide variety of hardware platforms competing toward its realization. An indispensable component of such hardware is a measurement device, i.e., a quantum detector that is used to determine the outcome...
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2023-04-01
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| author | Michael S. Ferguson Leon C. Camenzind Clemens Müller Daniel E. F. Biesinger Christian P. Scheller Bernd Braunecker Dominik M. Zumbühl Oded Zilberberg |
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| description | Quantum information processing is a key technology in the ongoing second quantum revolution, with a wide variety of hardware platforms competing toward its realization. An indispensable component of such hardware is a measurement device, i.e., a quantum detector that is used to determine the outcome of a computation. The act of measurement in quantum mechanics, however, is naturally invasive as the measurement apparatus becomes entangled with the system that it observes. This always leads to a disturbance in the observed system, a phenomenon called quantum measurement backaction, which should solely lead to the collapse of the quantum wave function and the physical realization of the measurement postulate of quantum mechanics. Here we demonstrate that backaction can fundamentally change the quantum system through the detection process. For quantum information processing, this means that the readout alters the system in such a way that a faulty measurement outcome is obtained. Specifically, we report a backaction-induced population switching, where the bare presence of weak, nonprojective measurements by an adjacent charge sensor inverts the electronic charge configuration of a semiconductor double quantum dot system. The transition region grows with measurement strength and is suppressed by temperature, in excellent agreement with our coherent quantum backaction model. Our result exposes backaction channels that appear at the interplay between the detector and the system environments, and opens new avenues for controlling and mitigating backaction effects in future quantum technologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8b332cdbbf0432cae011cff735fccff2024-04-12T17:30:10ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642023-04-015202302810.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023028Measurement-induced population switchingMichael S. FergusonLeon C. CamenzindClemens MüllerDaniel E. F. BiesingerChristian P. SchellerBernd BrauneckerDominik M. ZumbühlOded ZilberbergQuantum information processing is a key technology in the ongoing second quantum revolution, with a wide variety of hardware platforms competing toward its realization. An indispensable component of such hardware is a measurement device, i.e., a quantum detector that is used to determine the outcome of a computation. The act of measurement in quantum mechanics, however, is naturally invasive as the measurement apparatus becomes entangled with the system that it observes. This always leads to a disturbance in the observed system, a phenomenon called quantum measurement backaction, which should solely lead to the collapse of the quantum wave function and the physical realization of the measurement postulate of quantum mechanics. Here we demonstrate that backaction can fundamentally change the quantum system through the detection process. For quantum information processing, this means that the readout alters the system in such a way that a faulty measurement outcome is obtained. Specifically, we report a backaction-induced population switching, where the bare presence of weak, nonprojective measurements by an adjacent charge sensor inverts the electronic charge configuration of a semiconductor double quantum dot system. The transition region grows with measurement strength and is suppressed by temperature, in excellent agreement with our coherent quantum backaction model. Our result exposes backaction channels that appear at the interplay between the detector and the system environments, and opens new avenues for controlling and mitigating backaction effects in future quantum technologies.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023028 |
| spellingShingle | Michael S. Ferguson Leon C. Camenzind Clemens Müller Daniel E. F. Biesinger Christian P. Scheller Bernd Braunecker Dominik M. Zumbühl Oded Zilberberg Measurement-induced population switching Physical Review Research |
| title | Measurement-induced population switching |
| title_full | Measurement-induced population switching |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement-induced population switching |
| title_short | Measurement-induced population switching |
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| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023028 |
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