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It is not clear if the performance of a quantum lidar or radar, without an idler and only using Gaussian resources, could exceed the performance of a semiclassical setup based on coherent states and homodyne detection. Here we prove this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola

We analyze the statistics of photons originating from amplified spontaneous emission generated by a quantum dot superluminescent diode. Experimentally detectable emission properties are taken into account by parametrizing the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Hartmann , F. Friedrich , A. Molitor , M. Reichert , W. Elsäßer , R. Walser

We propose a strictly local quantum tomography protocol for a bipartite system. We show that the joint density matrix of an arbitrary two-mode Gaussian state, entangled or not, is obtained via local operations and classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gustavo Rigolin , Marcos C. de Oliveira

In this paper we examine the N-photon absorption properties of "N00N" states, a subclass of path entangled number states. We consider two cases. The first involves the N-photon absorption properties of the ideal N00N state, one that does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 William N. Plick , Christoph F. Wildfeuer , Petr M. Anisimov , Jonathan P. Dowling

In this work, we introduce a non-Gaussian quantum state named excited squeezed vacuum state (ESVS), which can be ustilized to describe quantum light field emitted from the multiphoton quantum process occurred in some restricted quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xubing Tang , Fang Gao , Yaoxiong Wan , Jianguang Wu , Feng Shuang

Quantum technologies, encompassing communication, computation, and metrology, rely on the generation and control of non-Gaussian states of light. These states enable secure quantum communication, fault-tolerant quantum computation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Ozlem Erkilic , Aritra Das , Biveen Shajilal , Ping Koy Lam , Timothy C. Ralph , Syed M. Assad

The ability to generate quantum entangled photon pairs through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) is playing a pivotal role in many applications in quantum technologies, including quantum communications, quantum computation, and…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tongmiao Fan , Jihua Zhang , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Measures of quantum properties are essential to understanding the fundamental differences between quantum and classical systems as well as quantifying resources for quantum technologies. Here two broad classes of bosonic phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Benjamin Kühn , Werner Vogel , Valérian Thiel , Sofiane Merkouche , Brian J. Smith

We investigate the excitation of a three-level ladder-type atom by a unidirectional field with a pair of indistinguishable photons. Starting from an analytical expression for the two-photon absorption probability, we determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Masood Valipour , Gniewomir Sarbicki , Karolina Słowik , Anita Dąbrowska

Low-decoherence regime plays a key role in constructing multi-particle quantum systems and has therefore been constantly pursued in order to build quantum simulators and quantum computers in a scalable fashion. Quantum error correction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Yao Wang , Xiao-Ling Pang , Yong-Heng Lu , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

The photon statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) exhibit dependencies on wavelength, pump power, and coincidence time. Notably, the average photon numbers were found to asymmetrically increase with increasing pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Jeffrey Carvalho , Chiran Wijesundara , Tim Thomay

Multi-photon absorption processes have a nonlinear dependence on the amplitude of the incident optical field i.e. the number of photons. However, multi-photon absorption is generally weak and multi-photon events occur with extremely low…

We present an event-ready procedure that is capable of distilling Gaussian two-mode entangled states from a supply of weakly entangled states that have become mixed in a decoherence process. This procedure relies on passive optical elements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Eisert , D. E. Browne , S. Scheel , M. B. Plenio

Quantum entangled states of light are essential for quantum technologies and fundamental tests of physics. While quantum information science has relied on systems with entanglement in 2D degrees of freedom, e.g. quantum bits with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-06 Matthew Reichert , Hugo Defienne , Jason W. Fleischer

We study the generalized Young's double-slit interference for the beam produced in the spontaneously parametric down-conversion (SPDC). We find that the sub-wavelength lithography can occur macroscopically in both the two-photon intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

Squeezed states of light have been improving the sensitivity of gravitational-wave observatories and are nonclassical resources of quantum cryptography and envisioned photonic quantum computers. The higher the squeeze factor is, the higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Stephan Grebien , Julian Goettsch , Boris Hage , Jaromir Fiurasek , Roman Schnabel

Accurately establishing the state of large-scale quantum systems is an important tool in quantum information science; however, the large number of unknown parameters hinders the rapid characterisation of such states, and reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Francesco Tonolini , Susan Chan , Megan Agnew , Alan Lindsay , Jonathan Leach

We generate single-photon catalyzed coherent states (SPCCSs) by means of quantum-optical catalysis based on the beam splitter (BS) or the parametric amplifier (PA). These states are obtained in one of the BS (or PA) output channels if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xue-xiang Xu , Hong-chun Yuan

Coherent interactions between quantum emitters in tailored photonic structures is a fundamental building block for future quantum technologies, but remains challenging to observe in complex solid-state environments, where the role of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xiao-Liu Chu , Vasiliki Angelopoulou , Peter Lodahl , Nir Rotenberg

Quantum illumination with asymmetric strategy is examined by making use of the three-mode maximally entangled Gaussian state, which involves one signal and two idler beams. It is shown that this scenario gives less-error probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Mi-Ra Hwang , DaeKil Park