Two-tooth bosonic quantum comb for temporal-correlation sensing

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Main Authors: Zhu, Shaojiang, You, Xinyuan, Romanenko, Alexander, Grassellino, Anna
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author Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
author_facet Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
contents We introduce a two-tooth bosonic quantum comb that captures the sequential interactions between a thermal absorber and a long-lived coherent probe. The comb provides a causal, multi-time description of coherence transport, tracking how the probe records both instantaneous fluctuations and their temporal correlations. Using a process-tensor formulation, we derive closed form expressions showing that interference between the two interaction windows generates a non-monotonic memory response that reflects a fundamental competition between the absorbers thermal population and its dynamical correlations. By sweeping the temporal separation between the interaction windows, the probe directly samples the absorbers population correlator, enabling bosonic noise spectroscopy that discriminates Markovian temperature noise from slow or spectrally structured fluctuations. The approach is readily compatible with circuit-QED platforms and offers a general method for probing fluctuating bosonic environments.
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spellingShingle Two-tooth bosonic quantum comb for temporal-correlation sensing
Zhu, Shaojiang
You, Xinyuan
Romanenko, Alexander
Grassellino, Anna
Quantum Physics
We introduce a two-tooth bosonic quantum comb that captures the sequential interactions between a thermal absorber and a long-lived coherent probe. The comb provides a causal, multi-time description of coherence transport, tracking how the probe records both instantaneous fluctuations and their temporal correlations. Using a process-tensor formulation, we derive closed form expressions showing that interference between the two interaction windows generates a non-monotonic memory response that reflects a fundamental competition between the absorbers thermal population and its dynamical correlations. By sweeping the temporal separation between the interaction windows, the probe directly samples the absorbers population correlator, enabling bosonic noise spectroscopy that discriminates Markovian temperature noise from slow or spectrally structured fluctuations. The approach is readily compatible with circuit-QED platforms and offers a general method for probing fluctuating bosonic environments.
title Two-tooth bosonic quantum comb for temporal-correlation sensing
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10916