FACT-E: Causality-Inspired Evaluation for Trustworthy Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has improved LLM reasoning, but models often generate explanations that appear coherent while containing unfaithful intermediate steps. Existing self-evaluation approaches are prone to inherent biases: the model may confidently endorse coherence even when the step-to-step implication is not valid, leading to unreliable faithfulness evaluation. We propose FACT-E, a […]


Continue.. FACT-E: Causality-Inspired Evaluation for Trustworthy Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Frequency resolved optical gating using parametric amplification for characterizing ultrafast temporally multimode squeezed states

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | Summary:Temporally multimode squeezed states have been a topic of recent interest due to their applications in quantum communication, information processing, and sensing. Characterizing the mode shapes is crucial for effectively manipulating these states, but current mode shape and state characterization techniques necessitate constraining assumptions and complicated experimental setups. Here, we […]


Continue.. Frequency resolved optical gating using parametric amplification for characterizing ultrafast temporally multimode squeezed states

Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network

Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | Summary:A quantum network’s purpose is to enable users to execute applications on end nodes. This requires the network to provide the service of creating entangled links between those nodes. Users of mature networks, such as the internet or the telephone network expect accepted service demands to be met reliably. We […]


Continue.. Arqon: A suite of control applications enabling a reliable quantum network

Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe

Kavli Affiliate: James Analytis| Summary:Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a distinct class of collinear antiferromagnets that break time-reversal symmetry, exhibiting a host of novel properties. Applied strain has attracted particular attention as a key tuning parameter for altermagnets. Although several experimental studies have demonstrated the preparation of single-domain states through a combination of applied strain […]


Continue.. Strain continuously rotates the Néel vector in altermagnetic MnTe

Quantum Frequency Resolved Optical Gating of Few-Cycle Squeezed Vacuum

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | Summary:Offering terahertz of bandwidths and femtosecond timescales, ultrafast optics is enabling both the study of fundamental quantum optical phenomena and the advancement of quantum-enhanced applications. However, unlocking the full potential of ultrafast quantum optics requires accessing the temporal characteristics of ultrashort quantum pulses across ultrabroad bandwidths. This is particularly important […]


Continue.. Quantum Frequency Resolved Optical Gating of Few-Cycle Squeezed Vacuum

Ten-Second Electron-Spin Coherence in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

Kavli Affiliate: Tim H. Taminiau | Summary:Solid-state spin defects are a promising platform for quantum networks. A key requirement is to combine long ground-state spin-coherence times with a coherent optical transition for spin-photon entanglement. Here, we investigate the spin and optical coherence of single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in (111)-grown isotopically engineered diamond. Our diamond-growth process […]


Continue.. Ten-Second Electron-Spin Coherence in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

Quantum coherent transceivers toward Holevo-limited communications

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Hajimiri | Summary:The Holevo limit bounds the channel capacity of a communication channel in which information is encoded in quantum states in a Hilbert space at the transmitter and decoded using quantum measurements at the receiver. Saturating the Holevo limit requires quantum-limited transceivers that either generate quantum states of light or employ […]


Continue.. Quantum coherent transceivers toward Holevo-limited communications

Topochemically-engineered coexistence of charge and spin orders in intercalated endotaxial heterostructures

Kavli Affiliate: Kwabena Bediako| Summary:Correlated electron systems that host multiple electronic orders offer routes to multifunctional quantum materials, but strong competition between these orders often prevents their coexistence. Here we show that nanoscale, metastable intercalated heterostructures can stabilize a rare combination of long-range magnetism and a commensurate charge density wave (C-CDW) order in a single […]


Continue.. Topochemically-engineered coexistence of charge and spin orders in intercalated endotaxial heterostructures

Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates

Kavli Affiliate: Dimitri Mawet| Summary:We present the discovery of a low-mass companion located at $ρ$ $sim$ 0farcs85 ($r_rm proj approx 62~au$) from the early-type 1.2 Gyr-old star HIP 53005 using direct imaging data from the Subaru and Keck Telescopes and astrometry from the Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations. The companion, HIP 53005 C, is a component […]


Continue.. Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Accelerating Star HIP 53005 with Strongly Conflicting Mass Estimates

Remotely Preparing Many Qubits with a Single Photon

Kavli Affiliate: Stephanie Wehner | Summary:A single photon in a superposition of $d$ modes naturally encode a $d$-dimensional quantum system, a so-called qudit. We show that such superpositions can be leveraged to achieve a quantum speed-up of remote remote state preparation (RSP): a primitive for several quantum network protocols. For a superposition over $dgeq 2$ […]


Continue.. Remotely Preparing Many Qubits with a Single Photon