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Scattering in complex media scrambles light, thus obscuring images and limiting applications from astronomy to microscopy. Existing computational and wavefront-shaping methods treat scattering as a linear optical-wave inversion problem that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chloé Vernière , Raphaël Guitter , Baptiste Courme , Hugo Defienne

We analytically show that it is possible to perform coherent imaging by using the classical correlation of two beams obtained by splitting incoherent thermal radiation. The case of such two classically correlated beams is treated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandra Gatti , Enrico Brambilla , Morten Bache , Luigi Lugiato

A beam splitter is a basic linear optical element appearing in many optics experiments and is frequently used as a continuous-variable entangler transforming a pair of input modes from a separable Gaussian state into an entangled state.…

We propose and analyze a nanomechanical architecture where light is used to perform linear quantum operations on a set of many vibrational modes. Suitable amplitude modulation of a single laser beam is shown to generate squeezing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Michael Schmidt , Max Ludwig , Florian Marquardt

By using a generalization of the optical tomography technique we describe the dynamics of a quantum system in terms of equations for a purely classical probability distribution which contains complete information about the system.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Mancini , V. I. Man'ko , P. Tombesi

All-quantum signal processing techniques are at the core of the successful advancement of most information-based quantum technologies. This paper develops coherent and comprehensive methodologies and mathematical models to describe Fourier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Mohammad Rezai , Jawad A. Salehi

The ability to manipulate light at the level of single photons, its elementary excitation quanta, has recently made it possible to produce a rich variety of tailor-made quantum states and arbitrary quantum operations, of high interest for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Nicola Biagi , Saverio Francesconi , Alessandro Zavatta , Marco Bellini

Beam splitters are not-free operations with regard to quantum coherence. As a consequence, they can create coherence from both coherent and incoherent states. We investigate the increase in coherence produced by cascades of beam splitters.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Guillermo Díez , Laura Ares , Alfredo Luis

We call attention on the fact that recent unprecedented technological achievements, in particular in the field of quantum optics, seem to open the way to new experimental tests which might be relevant both for the foundational problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 GianCarlo Ghirardi

Within the second-quantization framework, we develop a formalism for describing a spatially multimode optical field diffracted through a spatial mask and show that this process can be described as an effective interaction between various…

The purpose of quantum technologies is to explore how quantum effects can improve on existing solutions for the treatment of information. Quantum photonics sensing holds great promises for reaching a more efficient trade-off between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Marco Barbieri

Quantum computers are expected to be able to solve mathematical problems that cannot be solved using conventional computers. Many of these problems are of practical importance, especially in the areas of cryptography and secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. B. Pittman , B. C. Jacobs , J. D. Franson

At the dynamic nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology, quantum neural networks (QNNs) play an important role as an emerging technology in the rapidly developing field of quantum machine learning. This development is set to…

A model for a controlled single-photon beam-splitter is proposed and analysed. It consists of two crossed optical-cavities with overlapping waists, dynamically coupled to a single flying atom. The system is shown to route a single photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gaurav Gautam , Santosh Kumar , Saikat Ghosh , Deepak Kumar

Light shaping facilitates the preparation and detection of optical states and underlies many applications in communications, computing, and imaging. In this Letter, we generalize light shaping to the quantum domain. We show that patterns of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W. Fleischer

We propose a method to build quantum memristors in quantum photonic platforms. We firstly design an effective beam splitter, which is tunable in real-time, by means of a Mach-Zehnder-type array with two equal 50:50 beam splitters and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 M. Sanz , L. Lamata , E. Solano

Applications of Integrated Optics to quantum sources, detectors, interfaces, memories and linear optical quantum computing are described in this review. By their inherent compactness, efficiencies, and interconnectability, many of the…

In this paper, we develop a direct method for the characterization of dark modes. The results can be used to construct a transformation that separates dark and bright modes, through the decomposition of system dynamics. We also study a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Yu Pan , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen

We are concerned with numerical simulations of quantum optical circuits under certain realistic conditions, specifically that photon quantum states are not perfectly indistinguishable. The partial photon distinguishability presents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Javier Osca , Jiri Vala

In this brief report we present a feasible scheme to split quantum information in the realm of traveling waves. An oversimplified scheme is also proposed for the generation of a class of W states useful for perfect teleportation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 W. B. Cardoso , N. G. de Almeida , A. T. Avelar , B. Baseia