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The quantum entanglement between two qubits is crucial for applications in the quantum communication. After the entanglement of photons was experimentally realized, much effort has been taken to exploit the entangled electrons in…

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We describe a Josephson device composed of two superconductors separated by two interacting quantum dots in parallel, as a probe for Cooper pair splitting. In addition to sequential tunneling of electrons through each dot, an additional…

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The numerical analysis of the diffraction features rendered by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) typically relies either on classical approximations (Monte Carlo simulations) or quantum paraxial tomography (the multislice method and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-20 Samantha Rudinsky , Angel S. Sanz , Raynald Gauvin

We suggest a way to characterize the coherence of the split Cooper pairs emitted by a double-quantum-dot based Cooper pair splitter (CPS), by studying the radiative response of such a CPS inside a microwave cavity. The coherence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Audrey Cottet , Takis Kontos , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

The two electrons of a Cooper pair in a conventional superconductor form a singlet and therefore a maximally entangled state. Recently, it was demonstrated that the two particles can be extracted from the superconductor into two spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 J. Schindele , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

We are suggesting an electronic method for Cooper pair mass spectroscopy of thin superconducting films. The method can be applied, for example, for 100 nm thin high-T_c films grown on insulator substrate 10 mm X 10 mm. In Corbino geometry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-09-17 T. M. Mishonov , M. V. Stoev

The interplay between unconventional Cooper pairing and quantum states associated with atomic scale defects is a frontier of research with many open questions. So far, only a few of the high-temperature superconductors allow this intricate…

The advent of quantum optical techniques based on superconducting circuits has opened new regimes in the study of the non-linear interaction of light with matter. Of particular interest has been the creation of non-classical states of…

Careful filtering is necessary for observations of quantum phenomena in superconducting circuits at low temperatures. Measurements of coherence between quantum states requires extensive filtering to protect against noise coupled from room…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-30 Luigi Longobardi , Douglas A. Bennett , Vijay Patel , Wei Chen , James E. Lukens

We present the design and implementation of a side entry laser system designed for an ultra-high vacuum scanning transmission electron microscope. This system uses a versatile probe design enclosed in a vacuum envelope such that parts can…

We propose and examine the use of biphoton pairs, such as those created in parametric down conversion or four-wave mixing, to enhance the precision and the resolution of measuring optical displacements by position-sensitive detection. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Kevin Lyons , Shengshi Pang , Paul G. Kwiat , Andrew N. Jordan

Donors in silicon, conceptually described as hydrogen atom analogues in a semiconductor environment, have become a key ingredient of many "More-than-Moore" proposals such as quantum information processing [1-5] and single-dopant electronics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba , André Saraiva , Dominik Heiss , Maria J. Calderón , Belita Koiller , Andrew J. Ferguson

In situ electron microscopy is a key tool for understanding the mechanisms driving novel phenomena in 2D structures. Unfortunately, due to various practical challenges, technologically relevant 2D heterostructures prove challenging to…

Optical superresolution microscopy is an important field, where nonlinear optical processes or prior information is used to defeat the classical diffraction limit of light. Quantum correlation microscopy uses photon arrival statistics from…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

One of the astounding consequences of quantum mechanics is that it allows the detection of a target using an incident probe, with only a low probability of interaction of the probe and the target. This 'quantum weirdness' could be applied…

We employ ptychography, a phase-retrieval imaging technique, to show experimentally for the first time that a partially coherent high-energy matter (electron) wave emanating from an extended source can be decomposed into a set of mutually…

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Polarized light microscopy using path-entangled $N$-photon states (i.e., the N00N states) has been demonstrated to surpass the shot-noise limit at very low light illumination. However, the microscopy images suffer from divergence of phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 G. R. Jin , W. Yang , C. P. Sun

By scanning a fine open-ended coaxial probe above an operating microwave device, we image local electric fields generated by the device at microwave frequencies. The probe is sensitive to the electric flux normal to the face of its center…

Entanglement, being at the heart of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox, is a necessary ingredient in processing quantum information. Cooper pairs in superconductors - being composites of two fully entangled electrons - can be split…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Anindya Das , Yuval Ronen , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Andrey V. Kretinin , Hadas Shtrikman

We develop a theoretical description of a device for coherent conversion of microwave to optical photons. For the device, dopant ions in a crystal are used as three-level systems, and interact with the fields inside overlapping microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Peter S. Barnett , Jevon J. Longdell