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Yohei Kawakami

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arXiv2026

Change in bit-flip times of Kerr parametric oscillators caused by their interactions

We experimentally investigate how interactions between Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs) degrade their bit-flip times, where a bit flip is defined as a transition between the two degenerate ground states of a KPO. Interactions between KPOs cause quantum states of KPOs to leak outside the computational subspace, leading to bit flips. Bit flips degrade fidelity and pose a significant problem for KPO-based quantum information processing. We performed an experiment in which a weak microwave signal is injected into one KPO to emulate photon injection from another KPO, and find that the bit-flip time decreases by an order of magnitude due to induced excitations, depending on the frequency and power of the injected signal. Methods to mitigate the decrease in bit-flip times caused by interactions between KPOs are discussed, including adjusting the pump frequencies, coherent-state amplitudes, and couplings between KPOs. These findings provide valuable insights for scaling up KPO-based quantum computers.

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arXiv2025

Four-body interactions in Kerr parametric oscillator circuits

We theoretically present new unit circuits of Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs) with four-body interactions, which enable the scalable embedding of all-to-all connected logical Ising spins using the Lechner-Hauke-Zoller (LHZ) scheme. These unit circuits enable four-body interactions using linear couplers, making the circuit fabrication and characterization much simpler than those of conventional unit circuits with nonlinear couplers. Numerical calculations indicate that the magnitudes of the coupling constants can be comparable to those in conventional circuits. On the basis of this theory, we designed a four-KPO circuit and experimentally confirmed the four-body correlation by measuring the pump-phase dependence of the parity of the four-KPO states. We show that the choice of the pump frequencies are important not only to enable the four-body interaction, but to cancel the effects of other unwanted interactions. Using the circuit, we demonstrated the quantum annealing based on the LHZ scheme, where the strength of the interaction between the logical Ising spins is mapped to the local field and controlled by a coherent drive applied to each KPO.

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arXiv2025

Theoretical study of the Spectroscopic measurements of Kerr non-linear resonators with four-body interaction

Quantum annealing provides a promising way to solve combinational optimization problems where the solutions correspond to the ground state of the Ising Hamiltonian. We can implement quantum annealing using the Kerr non-linear resonators, with bifurcation phenomena emerging when subjected to a parametric drive. These bifurcated states can function as bases of qubits. Moreover, integrating four-body interactions between physical qubits enables the establishment of effective all-to-all long-range interactions between logical qubits, which is essential for practical quantum annealing. While theoretical proposals exist for creating four-body interactions within Kerr non-linear resonators, there has not been experimental verification through their spectroscopic signatures. In this paper, we theoretically investigate the spectroscopic measurements of Kerr non-linear resonators featuring four-body interaction. We identify six distinct frequencies exhibiting population changes by employing resonant driving on one resonator and weak driving on another. Analytical and numerical calculations validate these findings. Our study demonstrates the potential of spectroscopy in characterizing systems with four-body interactions, offering insights for realizing quantum annealing with Kerr parametric oscillators.

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arXiv2025

Resonance fluorescence spectra of a driven Kerr nonlinear resonator

Resonance fluorescence spectra of a driven Kerr nonlinear resonator is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. When the Kerr nonlinear resonator is driven strongly such that the induced Rabi frequency is comparable to or larger than the Kerr nonlinearity, the system cannot be approximated as a two-level system. We theoretically derive characteristic features in the fluorescence spectra such as the decrease of the center-peak intensity and the asymmetric sideband peaks in the presence of finite dephasing. Those features are consistently explained by the population of the initial dressed state and its transition matrix element to the final dressed state of the transition corresponding to each peak. Finally, we experimentally measure the resonance fluorescence spectra of a driven superconducting Kerr nonlinear resonator and find a quantitative agreement with our theory.

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arXiv2023

Spectroscopy of flux-driven Kerr parametric oscillators by reflection coefficient measurement

We report the spectroscopic characterization of a Kerr parametric oscillator (KPO) based on the measurement of its reflection coefficient under a two-photon drive induced by flux modulation. The measured reflection spectra show good agreement with numerical simulations in term of their dependence on the two-photon drive amplitude. The spectra can be interpreted as changes in system's eigenenergies, transition matrix elements, and the population of the eigenstates, although the linewidth of the resonance structure is not fully explained. We also show that the drive-amplitude dependence of the spectra can be explained analytically by using the concepts of Rabi splitting and the Stark shift. By comparing the experimentally obtained spectra with theory, we show that the two-photon drive amplitude at the device can be precisely determined, which is important for the application of KPOs in quantum information processing.

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arXiv2020

Suppression of decay widths in singly heavy baryons induced by the $U_A (1)$ anomaly

We study strong and radiative decays of excited singly heavy baryons (SHBs) using an effective chiral Lagrangian based on the diquark picture proposed in Ref. [1]. The effective Lagrangian contains a $U_A (1)$ anomaly term, which induces an inverse mass ordering between strange and non-strange SHBs with spin-parity $1/2^-$. We find that the effect of the $U_A (1)$ anomaly combined with flavor-symmetry breaking modifies the Goldberger-Treiman relation for the mass difference between the ground state $Λ_Q (1/2^+)$ and its chiral partner $Λ_Q (1/2^-)$, and $Λ_Q (1/2^-) Λ_Q (1/2^+) η$ coupling, which results in suppression of the decay width of $Λ_Q (1/2^-) \to Λ_Q (1/2^+) η$. We also investigate the other various decays such as $Λ_Q (1/2^-) \to Σ_Q (1/2^+, \, 3/2^+) ππ$, $Λ_Q (1/2^-) \to Σ_Q (1/2^+) π$, $Λ_Q (1/2^-) \to Σ_Q (1/2^+, \, 3/2^+) γ$, and $Λ_Q (1/2^-) \to Λ_Q (1/2^+) π^0$ for wide range of mass of $Λ_Q (1/2^-)$.

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arXiv2019

Single heavy baryons with chiral partner structure in a three-flavor chiral model

We construct an effective hadronic model including single heavy baryons (SHBs) belonging to the $(\mathbf{3},\mathbf{3})$ representation under $\mbox{SU}(3)_L \times \mbox{SU}(3)_R$ symmetry, respecting the chiral symmetry and heavy-qaurk spin-flavor symmetry. When the chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken, the SHBs are divided into the baryons with negative parity of $\bar{\mathbf 3}$ representation under $\mbox{SU}(3)$ flavor symmetry which is the chiral partners to the ones with positive parity of ${\mathbf 6}$ representation. We determine the model parameters from the available experimental data for the masses and strong decay widths of $Σ_c^{(\ast)}$, $Λ_c (2595)$, $Ξ_c (2790)$, and $Ξ_c (2815)$. Then, we predict the masses and strong decay widths of other baryons including $Ξ_b$ with negative parity. We also study radiative decays of SHBs including $Ω_c^\ast$ and $Ω_b^\ast$ with positive parity.

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arXiv2018

Strong light-field effects driven by nearly single-cycle 7-fs light field in correlated organic conductors

We have demonstrated transient charge localization effects with a driving high-frequency field of 7-fs, 1.5-cycle near infrared light in correlated organic conductors. In a layered organic conductor alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 (BEDT-TTF: bis[ethylenedithio]-tetrathiafulvalene), a transient short-range charge order (CO) state is induced in a metallic phase. In contrast to such drastic change in the electronic state from the metal to the transient CO in alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3, dynamics of a field-induced reduction of a transfer integral are captured as a red shift of the plasma-like reflectivity edge in a quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor (TMTTF)2AsF6 (TMTTF: tetramethyltetrathiafulvalene). These studies on the field-induced charge localization have been motivated by the theory of dynamical localization on the basis of tight-binding models with no electron correlation under a strong continuous field. However, the results of pump-probe transient reflectivity measurements using nearly single-cycle 7-fs, 11 MV/cm pulses and the theoretical studies which are presented in this review indicate that the pulsed field contributes to the similar phenomenon with the help of a characteristic lattice structure and Coulomb repulsion.

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arXiv2018

Analysis of $Λ_c(2595)$, $Λ_c(2625)$, $Λ_b(5912)$, $Λ_b(5920)$ based on a chiral partner structure

We construct an effective hadronic model including $Λ_c(2595)$, $Λ_c(2625)$, $Λ_b(5912)$ and $Λ_b(5920)$ regarding them as chiral partners to $Σ_c(2455)$, $Σ_c(2520)$, $Σ_b$ and $Σ_b^\ast$, respectively, with respecting the chiral symmetry and heavy-quark spin-flavor symmetry. We determine the model parameters from the experimental data for relevant masses and decay widths of $Σ_c^{(\ast)}$ and $Λ_c(2595)$. Then, we study the decay widths of $Λ_c(2625)$, $Λ_b(5912)$ and $Λ_b(5920)$. We find that, although the decay of $Λ_c(2595)$ is dominated by the resonant contribution through $Σ_c(2455)$, non-resonant contributions are important for $Λ_c(2625)$, $Λ_b(5912)$ and $Λ_b(5920)$, which reflects the chiral partner structure. We also study the radiative decays of the baryons, and show that each of their widths is determined from the radiative decay width of their chiral partners.

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arXiv2015

Optical freezing of charge motion in an organic conductor

Dynamical localization, i.e., reduction of the intersite electronic transfer integral t by an alternating electric field, E(omega) , is a promising strategy for controlling strongly correlated systems with a competing energy balance between t and the Coulomb repulsion energy. Here we describe a charge localization induced by the 9.3 MV/cm instantaneous electric field of a 1.5 cycle (7 fs) infrared pulse in an organic conductor alpha-(bis[ethylenedithio]-tetrathiafulvelene)_2I_3. A large reflectivity change of > 25% and a coherent charge oscillation along the time axis reflect the opening of the charge ordering gap in the metallic phase. This optical freezing of charges, which is the reverse of the photoinduced melting of electronic orders, is attributed to the 10% reduction of t driven by the strong, high-frequency (omega>t/h_bar) electric field.

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