Publications

Kurt Jacobs

1. Quantum Manipulation of Low-Frequency Ffluctuators by Superconducting Resonator
   L. Tian and K. Jacobs
   Phys. Rev. A 79, 144503 (2009) arXiv:0903.0193
   
   
2. Comment on ‘‘Non-monotonicity in the Quantum-Classical Transition: Chaos Induced by Quantum Effects’’
   J. Finn, K. Jacobs and Bala Sundaram
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 119401 (2009) arXiv:0903.3417
   
   
3. The Equations of Quantum Feedback Control in the Regime of Good Control
   J. li and K. Jacobs
   Quantum Inform. Compu. 9, 395 (2009) arXiv:0901.2152
   
   
4. A Monte Carlo method for modeling thermal damping: Beyond the Brownian motion master equation
   K. Jacobs
   EPL 85, 40002 (2009) arXiv:0807.4211
   
   
5. Engineering Superposition States and Tailored Probes for Nanoresonators via Open-Loop Control
   K. Jacobs, L. Tian, and J. Finn
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057208 (2009) arXiv:0807.5132
   
   
6. Quantum Feedback Control: How to Use Verification Theorems and Viscosity Solutions to Find Optimal Protocols 
   K. Jacobs and A. Shabani 
   Contemp. Phys. 49, 435 (2008) arXiv:0808.1102 
   
   
7. Locally Optimal Control of Quantum Systems with Strong Feedback
   A. Shabani and K. Jacobs 
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230403 (2008) arXiv:0803.2705
   
   
8. Back-action Evasion and Squeezing of a Mechanical Resonator Using a Cavity Detector
   A. A. Clerk, F. Marquardt, and K. Jacobs  
   New. J. Phys. 10, 095010 (2008) arXiv:0802.1842
   
   
9. Rapid Measurement of Quantum Systems Using Feedback Control
   J. Combes, H. M. Wiseman, and K. Jacobs 
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160503 (2008) arXiv:0712.3620
   
   
10. Trade-off between extractable mechanical work, accessible entanglement, and ability to act as a reference system, under... 
    J. A. Vaccaro, F. Anselmi, H. M. Wiseman, and K. Jacobs  
    Phys. Rev. A 77, 032114 (2008) quant-ph/0501121
    
    
11. Energy measurements and preparation of canonical phase states of a nanomechanical resonator
    K. Jacobs, A. N. Jordan and E. K. Irish
    Europhys. Lett. 82, 18003 (2008) arXiv:0707.3803
    
    
12. Rapid-Purification Protocols for Optical Homodyning
    A. Chiruvelli and K. Jacobs
    Phys. Rev. A 77, 012102 (2008) arXiv:0709.3867
    
    
13. Emergent quantum jumps in a nano-electro-mechanical system
    K. Jacobs and P. Lougovski  
    J. Phys. A: Math Theor. 40, F987 (2007) quant-ph/0606060
    
    
14. Conditions for the quantum-to-classical transition: Trajectories versus phase-space distributions
    B. Greenbaum, K. Jacobs and B. Sundaram  
    Phys. Rev. E 76, 036213 (2007) arXiv:0705.2227
    
    
15. Engineering Quantum States of a Nanoresonator via a Simple Auxiliary System
    K. Jacobs  
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 117203 (2007) arXiv:0707.1348
    
    
16. Feedback Control of Non-linear Quantum Systems: a Rule of Thumb
    K. Jacobs and A. P. Lund 
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020501 (2007) quant-ph/0701036
    
    
17. Quantum communication via a continuously monitored dual spin chain
    K. Shizume, K. Jacobs, D. Burgarth and S. Bose
    Phys. Rev. A 75, 062328 (2007) quant-ph/0702029
    
    
18. Readout of solid-state charge qubits using a single-electron pump
    C. Hines, K. Jacobs, and J. B. Wang
    J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, F609 (2007). arXiv:0705.2312
    
    
19. Continuous Measurement of the Energy Eigenstates of a Nano-Mechanical Resonator Without a Non-Demolition Probe
    K. Jacobs, P. Lougovski and M. Blencowe
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 147201 (2007) quant-ph/0607102
    
    
20. Rapid state-purification protocols for a Cooper-pair box
    E. J. Griffith, C. D. Hill, J. F. Ralph, H. M. Wiseman, and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. B 75, 014511 (2007) quant-ph/0610044
    
    
21. Feedback control for communication with non-orthogonal states
    K. Jacobs,
    Quantum Inform. Compu. 7, 127 (2007) quant-ph/0601162
    
    
22. A Straightforward Introduction to Continuous Quantum Measurement
    K. Jacobs and D.A. Steck
    Contemporary Physics 47, 279 (2006) quant-ph/0611067
    
    
23. Concatenated beam splitters, optical feed-forward and the nonlinear sign gate
    K. Jacobs and J. Dowling
    Phys. Rev. A 74, 064304(BR) (2006) quant-ph/0606217
    
    
24. Feedback cooling of atomic motion in cavity QED
    D.A. Steck K. Jacobs, H. Mabuchi S. Habib and T. Bhattacharya,
    Phys. Rev. A 74, 012322 (2006) quant-ph/0509039
    
    
25. Rapid State-Reduction of Quantum Registers Using Feedback Control
    J. Combes and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010504 (2006) quant-ph/0508007
     
    
26. A bound on the mutual information, and properties of entropy reduction, for quantum
    channels with inefficient measurements
    K. Jacobs,
    J. Math. Phys. 47, 012102 (2006) quant-ph/0412006
     
    
27. Emergence of Chaos in Quantum Systems Far from the Classical Limit 
    S. Habib, K. Jacobs and K. Shizume,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010403 (2006) quant-ph/0412159
     
    
28. A simple formula for pooling knowledge about a quantum system
    K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 72, 044101(BR) (2005) quant-ph/0503193
     
    
29. An Entangled Web of Crime: Bell's Theorem as a Parable
    K. Jacobs and H.M. Wiseman,
    Am. J. Phys. 73, 932 (2005) quant-ph/0504192
     
    
30. Classical Robustness of Quantum Unravellings
    D.J. Atkins, Z. Brady, K. Jacobs and H.M. Wiseman,
    Europhysics Lett. 69, 163 (2005) quant-ph/0408080
     
    
31. Quantum error correction for continuously detected errors
    with any number of error channels per qubit
    C. Ahn, H.M. Wiseman and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 70, 024302(BR) (2004) quant-ph/0402067
     
32. Optimal feedback control for rapid preparation of a qubit
    K. Jacobs,
    Proc. of SPIE 5468, 355 (2004) quant-ph/0410018
     
33. A practical scheme for error control using feedback
    M. Sarovar, C. Ahn, K. Jacobs, G.J. Milburn,
    Phys. Rev. A 69, 052324 (2004) quant-ph/0402017
     
34. Quantum Feedback Control of Atomic Motion in an Optical Cavity
    D.A. Steck, K. Jacobs, H. Mabuchi, S. Habib and T. Bhattacharya,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 223004 (2004) quant_ph/0310153
     
35. Efficient Measurements, Purification, and Bounds on the Mutual Information
    K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 68, 054302(BR) (2003) quant_ph/0306039
     
36. Feedback Cooling of a Nano-Mechanical Resonator
    A. Hopkins, K. Jacobs, S. Habib and K. Schwab,
    Phys. Rev. B 68, 235328 (2003) quant_ph/0302529
     
37. Recovering Classical Dynamics from Coupled Quantum Systems through Continuous Measurement
    S. Ghose, P. Alsing, I. Deutsch, T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 67, 052102 (2003) quant_ph/0208064
     
38. How to Project Qubits Faster Using Quantum Feedback
    K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 67, 030301(R) (2003) quant_ph/0301056
     
39. `Continuous Quantum Measurement and the Quantum to Classical Transition' 
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 67, 042103 (2003) quant_ph/0211036
     
40. How Do Two Observers Pool Their Knowledge About a Quantum System?
    K. Jacobs,
    Quantum Information Processing 1, 73 (2002) quant_ph/0201096
     
41. Quantum Feedback Control: How can we control quantum systems without disturbing them?
    S. Habib, K. Jacobs and Hideo Mabuchi,
    Los Alamos Science 27, 126 (2002) [pdf]
     
42. The Emergence of Classical Dynamics in a Quantum World
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Los Alamos Science 27, 110 (2002) [pdf]
     
43. The Delta-Kicked Rotor: Momentum Diffusion and the Quantum-Classical Boundary
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib, K. Jacobs and K. Shizume,
    Phys. Rev. A 65, 032115 (2002) quant_ph/0105086
     
44. The quantum classical transition in non-linear dynamical systems
    S. Habib, K. Jacobs, H. Mabuchi, R. Ryne, K. Shizume and B. Sundaram,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 040402 (2002) quant_ph/0010093
     
45. Information, disturbance and Hamiltonian quantum feedback control
    A. Doherty, K. Jacobs and G. Jungman,
    Phys. Rev. A 63, 062306 (2001) quant_ph/0006013
     
46. Information-tradeoff relations for finite-strength quantum measurements
    C. Fuchs and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. A 63, 062305 (2001) quant_ph/0009101
     
47. Robust control in the quantum domain
    A. Doherty, John Doyle, K. Jacobs, S. Habib and H. Mabuchi,
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol.1, 949-954 (2000) quant-ph/0105018
     
48. Continuous quantum measurement and the emergence of classical chaos
    T. Bhattacharya, S. Habib and K. Jacobs,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4852-4855 (2000) quant_ph/9906092
     
49. Optimal local implementation of non-local quantum gates
    J. Eisert, K. Jacobs, P. Papadopoulos and M.B. Plenio,
    Phys. Rev. A 62, 052317 (2000) quant_ph/0005101
     
50. Quantum feedback control and classical control theory
    A. Doherty, S. Habib, K. Jacobs, H. Mabuchi and S.M. Tan,
    Phys. Rev. A 62, 012105 (2000) quant_ph/9912107
     
51. Feedback-control of quantum systems using continuous state-estimation
    A. Doherty and K. Jacobs,
    Phys Rev. A 60, 2700-2710 (1999) quant_ph/9812004
     
52. Quantum noise in the position measurement of a cavity mirror undergoing Brownian motion
    K. Jacobs, I. Tittonen, H.M. Wiseman and S. Schiller,
    Phys Rev. A 60, 538-548 (1999) quant_ph/9902040
     
53. A scheme to probe the decoherence of a macroscopic object
    S. Bose, K. Jacobs and P.L. Knight,
    Phys Rev. A 59, 3204-3210 (1999) quant_ph/9712017
     
54. Linear quantum trajectories: applications to continuous projection measurements
    K. Jacobs and P.L. Knight,
    Phys Rev. A 57, 2301-2310 (1998) quant_ph/9801042
     
55. Statistical inference, destingiushability of quantum states, and quantum entanglement
    V. Vedral, M. B. Plenio, K. Jacobs and P.L. Knight,
    Phys Rev. A 56, 4452-4455 (1997) quant_ph/9703025
     
56. Preparation of non-classical states in a cavity with a moving mirror
    S. Bose, K. Jacobs and P.L. Knight,
    Phys Rev. A 56, 4175 (1997) quant_ph/9708002
     
57. Determining the State of a Single Cavity Mode from Photon Statistics
    K. Jacobs, P.L. Knight and V. Vedral,
    J. Mod. Opt., 44, 2427-2439 (1997).
     
58. A Model for the Production of Regular Fluorescent Light from Coherently Driven Atoms
    K. Jacobs,
    J. Mod. Opt. 44, 1475-1484 (1997) quant_ph/9711017
     
59. Conditional Probabilities for a Single Photon at a Beam Splitter
    K.Jacobs and P.L. Knight, 
    Phys Rev. A 54, R3738-R3741 (1996).
     
60. Force Measurement via Dark State Cooling
    K. Jacobs, M.J. Collet, H.M. Wiseman, S.M. Tan and D.F. Walls,
    Phys. Rev. A 54, 2260-2270 (1996).
     
61. Quantum Limited Measurements with the Atomic Force Microscope
    G.J. Milburn, K. Jacobs and D.F. Walls,
    Phys. Rev. A 50, 5256-5263 (1994).
     
62. A QND Measurement of Photon Number using Radiation Pressure
    K. Jacobs, P. Tombesi, M.J. Collett and D.F. Walls,
    Phys. Rev. A 49, 1961-1966, (1994).