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We have implemented an optical quantum eraser with the aim of studying this phenomenon in the context of state discrimination. An interfering single photon is entangled with another one serving as a which-path marker. As a consequence, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L Neves , G Lima , J Aguirre , F A Torres-Ruiz , C Saavedra , A Delgado

We discuss a parameter estimation problem using quantum decoherece in the double-slit interferometer. We consider a particle coupled to a massive scalar field after the particle passing through the double slit and solve the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Akira Matsumura , Taishi Ikeda , Shingo Kukita

Quantum interference is a central resource in many quantum-enhanced tasks, from computation to communication protocols. While it usually occurs between identical input photons, quantum interference can be enabled by projecting the quantum…

We address the problem of completely characterizing multi-particle states including loss of information to unobserved degrees of freedom. In systems where non-classical interference plays a role, such as linear-optics quantum gates, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. B. A. Adamson , L. K. Shalm , M. W. Mitchell , A. M. Steinberg

Controlling the depolarization of light is a long-standing open problem. In recent years, many demonstrations have used the polarization of single photons to encode quantum information. The depolarization of these photons is equivalent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Shaham , H. S. Eisenberg

We show that the first experiment with double-slits and twin photons detected in coincidence can be understood as a quantum eraser. The ``which path'' information is erased by transverse indistinguishability obtained by means of mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. H. Souto Ribeiro , S. Padua , C. H. Monken

Polarization state of biphoton light generated via collinear frequency-degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion is considered. A biphoton is described by a three-component polarization vector, its arbitrary transformations relating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Burlakov , M. V. Chekhova , O. A. Karabutova , D. N. Klyshko , S. P. Kulik

Controlling the photon statistics of light is paramount for quantum science and technologies. Recently, we demonstrated that transmitting resonant laser light past an ensemble of two-level emitters can result in a stream of single photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Martin Cordier , Max Schemmer , Philipp Schneeweiss , Jürgen Volz , Arno Rauschenbeutel

We review different attempts to show the decoherence process in double-slit-like experiments both for charged particles (electrons) and neutral particles with permanent dipole moments. Interference is studied when electrons or atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

The dynamics of a decohering two-level system driven by a suitable control Hamiltonian is studied. The control procedure is implemented as a sequence of radiofrequency pulses that repetitively flip the state of the system, a technique that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lorenza Viola , Seth Lloyd

We analyze the decoherence induced on a single qubit by the interaction with a two-level boson system with critical internal dynamics. We explore how the decoherence process is affected by the presence of quantum phase transitions in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Relano , J. M. Arias , J. Dukelsky , J. E. Garcia-Ramos , P. Perez-Fernandez

We study the dynamics of spontaneous generation of coherence and photon spin-qubit entanglement or "flying qubits" in a $\Lambda$ system with non-degenerate lower levels. The cases of entanglement in frequency only and frequency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Daniel Boyanovsky

We propose a scheme to explore two-photon high-dimensional entanglement associated with a transverse pattern by means of two-photon interference in a beamsplitter. We find that the topological symmetry of the angular spectrum of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gui-Fang Dang , Li-Ping Deng , Kaige Wang

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

We describe how quantum information may be transferred from photon polarization to electron spin in a semiconductor device. The transfer of quantum information relies on selection rules for optical transitions, such that two superposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rutger Vrijen , Eli Yablonovitch

This paper considers a theoretical model of the double-slit experiment with electrons whose paths are monitored. This monitoring, inspired by a recent text by Maudlin, is performed by the Coulomb scattering of the electron by a proton. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Frederick W. Strauch

Conventional polarimetry, including schemes leveraging entangled light, characterizes optical samples through linear transformations of polarization states. We introduce a two-photon probing approach in which both photons of an entangled…

Double-slits provide incoming photons with a choice. Those that survive the passage have chosen from two possible paths which interfere to distribute them in a wave-like manner. Such wave-particle duality continues to be challenged and…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-30 B. King , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel

Control of spatial quantum correlations in bi-photons is one of the fundamental principles of Quantum Imaging. Up to now, experiments have been restricted to controlling the state of a single bi-photon, by using linear optical elements. In…

Techniques to control the quantum state of light play a crucial role in a wide range of fields, from quantum information science to precision measurements. While for electrons in solid state materials complex quantum states can be created…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-18 Christian Kurtscheid , David Dung , Erik Busley , Frank Vewinger , Achim Rosch , Martin Weitz