Entangling ions with engineered light gradients

This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a scalable, high-fidelity two-qubit gate scheme for trapped-ion quantum processors that utilizes transverse, time-dependent structured-light forces to suppress spectral crowding errors while maintaining single-ion addressing.

Tommaso Faorlin, Lorenz Panzl, Phoebe Grosser, Pablo Viñas, Alan Kahan, Walter Joseph Hörmann, Yannick Weiser, Giovanni Cerchiari, Thomas Feldker, Alexander Erhard, Juris Ulmanis, Rainer Blatt, Alejandro Bermudez, Thomas Monz2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Thermal and chemical response from entanglement entropy

This paper argues that in interacting quantum field theories at finite density, the derivative of entanglement entropy with respect to subregion size converges to the thermal entropy density in the large-subregion limit, thereby establishing a universal link between entanglement and thermodynamics that allows for the extraction of equation-of-state information, as demonstrated nonperturbatively in the three-dimensional O(4) model.

Niko Jokela, Aatu Rajala, Tobias Rindlisbacher2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Black-Hole Signatures in the Finite-Temperature Critical Ising Chain

This paper demonstrates that the finite-temperature critical transverse-field Ising chain exhibits quantitative signatures of black-hole physics, such as universal antipodal transport, exponential relaxation via quasi-normal modes, and a Hawking-Page-like entropy minimum, thereby establishing it as an experimentally accessible platform for probing quantum black hole dynamics within the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Zuo Wang, Liang He2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Comment on "On the emergence of preferred structures in quantum theory" by Soulas, Franzmann, and Di Biagio

This paper argues that Soulas et al.'s proposed construction of a unique tensor product structure fails as a counterexample to Stoica's impossibility proof because it cannot simultaneously maintain invariance and compatibility with physical observations, thereby confirming the trilemma that preferred structures cannot emerge solely from the Hamiltonian and state vector.

Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Fractional Topological Phases, Flat Bands, and Robust Edge States on Finite Cyclic Graphs via Single-Coin Split-Step Quantum Walks

This paper reports the first realization of fractional topological phases, characterized by ±12\pm \frac{1}{2} winding numbers and robust edge states, in a fully unitary, noninteracting single-coin split-step quantum walk on finite cyclic graphs, demonstrating how step-dependent protocols enable the engineering of flat bands and unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence in small-scale synthetic quantum systems.

Dinesh Kumar Panda, Colin Benjamin2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Geometry-Controlled Excitonic Emission Engineering in Monolayer MoS2 Using Plasmonic Hollow Nanocavities

This study numerically demonstrates that vertically oriented hollow gold nanocavities coupled to monolayer MoS2 can spectrally tune and significantly enhance A and B excitonic emission through geometry-controlled plasmon resonance, achieving up to 144-fold photoluminescence increases and enabling precise engineering of excitonic peak ratios for advanced valleytronic and sensing applications.

Abdullah Efe Yildiz, Emre Ozan Polat2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Resonances in light scattering from nonequilibrium dipoles pairs

This paper demonstrates that light scattering from pairs of point-like dipoles exhibits exact resonances when the dipoles violate the optical theorem (indicating nonequilibrium or active conditions), leading to potentially infinite scattering amplitudes, while similar but finite resonances in equilibrium systems can still yield significant amplification factors.

Vanik E. Mkrtchian, Armen E. Allahverdyan, Mikayel Khanbekyan2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Lindbladian Learning with Neural Differential Equations

This paper introduces a Lindbladian learning method that combines maximum-likelihood estimation on transient Pauli measurements with a neural differential equation framework to robustly infer open-system quantum dynamics, including dissipative mechanisms, across various hardware platforms and noise conditions with high efficiency.

Timothy Heightman, Roman Aseguinolaza Gallo, Edward Jiang, JRM Saavedra, Antonio Acín, Marcin Płodzien2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

The Dirac sea of phase: Unifying phase paradoxes and Talbot revivals in multimode waveguides

This paper proposes a unified theoretical framework that extends the action-angle formalism to the Helmholtz-Schrödinger equation using Hardy space to resolve phase paradoxes via a "Dirac sea" of negative energy states, thereby explaining Talbot revivals and fractal interference patterns in multimode waveguides with anharmonic refractive indices.

N. Korneev, I. Ramos-Prieto, H. M. Moya-Cessa2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Symmetric Trotterization in digital quantum simulation of quantum spin dynamics

This paper demonstrates that on current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, second-order symmetric Trotterization fails to outperform first-order methods in simulating transverse-field Ising model dynamics due to hardware errors dominating over the theoretical Trotter error, suggesting that higher-order decompositions should be used cautiously in early-stage quantum simulations.

Yeonghun Lee2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph