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We theoretically demonstrate via numerical modeling that fully degenerate triple-photon states generated by three-mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion can be categorized into four distinct states: 0-phase, $\pi$/2-phase, $\pi$-phase,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Da Zhang , Yu Zhang , Juan Gao

Among the possibly most intriguing aspects of quantum entanglement is that it comes in "free" and "bound" instances. Bound entangled states require entangled states in preparation but, once realized, no free entanglement and therefore no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 J. DiGuglielmo , A. Samblowski , B. Hage , C. Pineda , J. Eisert , R. Schnabel

We discuss quantum random walk of two photons using linear optical elements. We analyze the quantum random walk using photons in a variety of quantum states including entangled states. We find that for photons initially in separable Fock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. K. Pathak , G. S. Agarwal

We propose a scheme for the generation and reconstruction of entangled states between the internal and external (motional) degrees of freedom of a trapped electron. Such states also exhibit quantum coherence at a mesoscopic level.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michol Massini , Mauro Fortunato , Stefano Mancini , Paolo Tombesi

Even though Gaussian quantum states of multimode light are promising quantum resources due to their scalability, non-Gaussianity is indispensable for quantum technologies, in particular to reach quantum computational advantage. However,…

We discuss the notion of bound entanglement (BE) for continuous variables (CV). We show that the set of non--distillable states (NDS) for CV is nowhere dense in the set of all states, i.e., the states of infinite--dimensional bipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Horodecki , J. Ignacio Cirac , Maciej Lewenstein

We introduce the entangled coherent state representation, which provides a powerful technique for efficiently and elegantly describing and analyzing quantum optics sources and detectors while respecting the photon number superselection rule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Sanders , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Peter L. Knight

We demonstrate that quantum field excitations can generate packaged entangled states, in which all internal quantum numbers (IQNs) (e.g., electric charge, flavor, and color) are inseparably entangled and constrained to irreducible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Rongchao Ma

We propose a universal scheme for the probabilistic generation of an arbitrary multimode entangled state of light with finite expansion in Fock basis. The suggested setup involves passive linear optics, single photon sources, strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Fiurasek , S. Massar , N. J. Cerf

Projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) constitute a powerful variational ansatz for capturing ground state physics of two-dimensional quantum systems. However, accurately computing and minimizing the energy expectation value remains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-15 Wei Tang , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Jutho Haegeman

We introduce a protocol for generating a broad class of non-Gaussian (nG) quantum states via postselected weak measurement techniques. The scheme involves injecting an arbitrary quantum state and a single photon into the signal and idler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Xiao-Xi Yao , Yusuf Turek

Entanglement potentials (EPs) enable the characterization and quantification of the nonclassicality of single-mode optical fields by measuring the entanglement generated through beam splitting. We experimentally generated single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Josef Kadlec , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr , Adam Miranowicz

We demonstrate that a single-photon field modulated with n different pseudorandom phase sequences (PPSs) can constitute a 2^n-dimensional Hilbert space that contains tensor product structure. By using the single photon field modulated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jian Fu , Yi Hu , Shuo Sun

Entanglement distillation is an essential ingredient for long distance quantum communications. In the continuous variable setting, Gaussian states play major roles in quantum teleportation, quantum cloning and quantum cryptography. However,…

We introduce a feasible protocol for generating non-Gaussian (nG) states via postselected von Neumann measurement for continuous-variable quantum information processing. The method uses a two-level system coupled to a Gaussian pointer state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Xiao-Xi Yao , Yusuf Turek

Maximally entangled photon pairs with a spatial degree of freedom is a potential way for realizing high-capacity quantum computing and communication. However, methods to generate such entangled states with high quality, high brightness, and…

We propose a setup that transforms a photon pair in arbitrary rank-four mixed state, which could also be unknown, to a Bell state. The setup involves two linear optical circuits processing the individual photons and a parity gate working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Bing He , Yuhang Ren , Janos A. Bergou

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

Multipartite entanglement and nonclassicality of four-mode Gaussian states generated in two simultaneous nonlinear processes involving parametric down-conversion and frequency up-conversion are analyzed assuming the vacuum as the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Jan Peřina , Ondřej Haderka , Alessia Allevi , Maria Bondani

Efficient characterization of higher dimensional many-body physical states presents significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a new class of Project Entangled Pair State (PEPS) that incorporates two isometric conditions. This new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Xie-Hang Yu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Pavel Kos , Georgios Styliaris