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We present a modular design for integrated programmable multimode sources of arbitrary Gaussian states of light. The technique is based on current technologies, in particular recent demonstrations of on-chip photon manipulation and…

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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…

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Quantum light sources with configurable photon lifetimes are essential for large-scale quantum circuits, enabling applications in programmable quantum computing, various quantum key distribution protocols, and quantum tomography techniques.…

Sources of non-classical light are of paramount importance for future applications in quantum science and technology such as quantum communication, quantum computation and simulation, quantum sensing and quantum metrology. In this review we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 Rahul Trivedi , Kevin Fischer , Jelena Vuckovic , Kai Muller

Nonclassical states of light are fundamental in various applications, spanning quantum computation to enhanced sensing. Fast free electrons, which emit light into photonic structures through the mechanism of spontaneous emission, represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Valerio Di Giulio , Rudolf Haindl , Claus Ropers

In this manuscript, we demonstrate the ability of nonlinear light-atom interactions to produce tunably non-Gaussian, partially self-healing optical modes. Gaussian spatial-mode light tuned near to the atomic resonances in hot rubidium vapor…

The recent progress in the quantum optical formulation of the process of high harmonic generation has reached a point where the successful semi-classical model shows its limitations. So far the light source which drives the process was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Philipp Stammer

Controlling the various degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of structured light at both quantum and classical levels is of paramount importance in optics. It is a conventional paradigm to treat diverse DoFs separately in light shaping. While, the…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-14 Yijie Shen , Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán

We present a model to detect a classical state mixed with an idler photon from a polarization-entangled pair. A weak coherent light with a well-defined polarization, matched in wavelength to the idler photon, is injected into the idler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kim Fook Lee , Prem Kumar

The multiphoton-subtracted thermal states are an interesting example of quantum states of light which are both classical and non-Gaussian. All the properties of such states can be described by just two parameters of compound-Poisson photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 G. V. Avosopiants , K. G. Katamadze , Yu. I. Bogdanov , S. P. Kulik

Conventional nonlinear spectroscopy uses classical light to detect matter properties through the variation of its response with frequencies or time delays. Quantum light opens up new avenues for spectroscopy by utilizing parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Konstantin E. Dorfman , Frank Schlawin , Shaul Mukamel

The distributed quantum information processing and hybridization of quantum platforms raises increasing demands on the quality of light-matter interaction and realization of efficient quantum interfaces. This becomes particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Jaromír Mika , Lukáš Lachman , Tomáš Lamich , Radim Filip , Lukáš Slodička

Structured light has become a practical tool for controlling matter by applying tailored, space- and time-dependent electromagnetic fields. We show that Laguerre-Gaussian pulses imprint non-collinear magnetic textures via the spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yuefei Liu , Tien-Tien Yeh , Alexander V. Balatsky

Quantum optical fields offer numerous control knobs which are not available with classical light and may be used for monitoring the properties of matter by novel types of spectroscopy. It has been recently argued that such quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Shaul Mukamel , Konstantin E. Dorfman

We show that a pulsed stimulus can be used to generate many-body quantum coherences in light-matter systems of general size. Specifically, we calculate the exact real-time evolution of a driven, generic out-of-equilibrium system comprising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 F. J. Gomez-Ruiz , O. L. Acevedo , F. J. Rodriguez , L. Quiroga , N. F. Johnson

Nonclassical states of light play a central role in many quantum information protocols. Their quantum features have been exploited to improve the readout of information from digital memories, modelled as arrays of microscopic beam splitters…

We propose the use of collective states of matter as a resource for the deterministic generation of quantum states of light, which are fundamental for quantum information technologies. Our minimal model consists of three emitters coupled to…

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Narrow-band multiphoton entanglement sources serve as a core enabling resource for advanced quantum information technologies. Recently, researchers have directly generated energy-time entangled triphoton W states in a hot atomic medium via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Da Zhang , Yu Zhang

Quantum entanglement is known as a unique quantum feature that cannot be obtained by classical physics. Over the last several decades, however, such an understanding on quantum entanglement might have confined us in a limited world of weird…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 B. S. Ham

We study the production of entangled two- and N-mode quantum states of light in optical waveguides. To this end, we propose a quantum photonic circuit that produces a reconfigurable superposition of photon subtraction on two single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 David Barral , Jesús Liñares , Daniel Balado