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There are a number of different strategies to measure the phase shift between two pathways of light more efficiently than suggested by the standard quantum limit. One way is to use highly entangled photons. Another way is to expose photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Lewis A. Clark , Adam Stokes , M. Mubashir Khan , Gangcheng Wang , Almut Beige

We numerically analyze the use of intense entangled twin beams for ultra-sensitive spectroscopic measurements in chemical and biological systems. The examined scheme makes use of intense frequency-modulated (chirped) entangled beams to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Jiří Svozilík , Jan Peřina , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

Invariant entangled states remain unchanged under simultaneous identical unitary transformations of all their subsystems. We experimentally generate and characterize such invariant two-, four-, and six-photon polarization entangled states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Magnus Radmark , Marcin Wiesniak , Marek Zukowski , Mohamed Bourennane

Quantum hypothesis testing has been greatly advanced for the binary discrimination of two states, or two channels. In this setting, we already know that quantum entanglement can be used to enhance the discrimination of two bosonic channels.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Quntao Zhuang , Stefano Pirandola

We demonstrate a Fock-state filter which is capable of preferentially blocking single photons over photon pairs. The large conditional nonlinearities are based on higher-order quantum interference, using linear optics, an ancilla photon,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 K. J. Resch , J. L. O'Brien , T. J. Weinhold , K. Sanaka , A. G. White

We generalize a new approach to entanglement conditions for light of undefined photons numbers given in [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 95}, 042113 (2017)] for polarization correlations to a broader family of interferometric phenomena. Integrated optics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Junghee Ryu , Marcin Marciniak , Marcin Wieśniak , Marek Żukowski

By amplifying photonic qubits it is possible to produce states that contain enough photons to be seen with a human eye, potentially bringing quantum effects to macroscopic scales [1]. In this paper we theoretically study quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Pavel Sekatski , Bruno Sanguinetti , Enrico Pomarico , Nicolas Gisin , Christoph Simon

Entanglement is the quintessential quantum mechanical phenomenon understood to lie at the heart of future quantum technologies and the subject of fundamental scientific investigations. Mixture, resulting from noise, is often an unwanted…

We propose a method for preparing maximal path entanglement with a definite photon number N, larger than two, using projective measurements. In contrast with the previously known schemes, our method uses only linear optics. Specifically, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Nicolas J. Cerf , Jonathan P. Dowling

Encoding information in the time-frequency domain is demonstrating its potential for quantum information processing. It offers a novel scheme for communications with large alphabets, computing with large quantum systems, and new approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Marco Barbieri

Quantum entanglement offers powerful opportunities for enhancing measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits, with optical atomic clocks serving as a leading platform for such advances. This chapter introduces the principles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Kaubruegger , Adam M. Kaufman

Tomographic analysis demonstrates that the polarization state of pairs of photons emitted from a biexciton decay cascade becomes entangled when spectral filtering is applied. The measured density matrix of the photon pair satisfies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Akopian , N. H. Lindner , E. Poem , Y. Berlatzky , J. Avron , D. Gershoni , B. D. Gerardot , P. M. Petroff

Quantum lithography achieves phase super-resolution using fragile, experimentally challenging entangled states of light. We propose a scalable scheme for creating features narrower than classically achievable, with reduced use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shamir Rosen , Itai Afek , Yonatan Israel , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

Quantum approaches relying on entangled photons have been recently proposed to increase the efficiency of optical measurements. We demonstrate here that, surprisingly, the use of classical light with entangled degrees of freedom can also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Falk Töppel , Andrea Aiello , Christoph Marquardt , Elisabeth Giacobino , Gerd Leuchs

Precision interferometry with quantum states has emerged as an essential tool for experimentally answering fundamental questions in physics. Optical quantum interferometers are of particular interest due to mature methods for generating and…

Multiparticle entangled states generated via interaction between narrow-band light and an ensemble of identical two-level atoms are considered. Depending on the initial photon statistics, correlation between atoms and photons can give rise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Gorbachev , A. I. Trubilko

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

Frequency non-degenerate entangled photon pairs have been employed in quantum communication, imaging, and sensing. To characterize quantum entangled state with long-wavelength (infrared, IR or even terahertz, THz) photon, one needs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Zhang , Xiao-Song Ma

In quantum metrology schemes, one generally needs to prepare $m$ copies of $N$ entangled particles, such as entangled photon states, and then they are detected in a destructive process to estimate an unknown parameter. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu-Ran Zhang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan

The study of entangled states has greatly improved the basic understanding about two-photon interferometry. Two-photon interference is not the interference of two photons but the result of superposition among indistinguishable two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giuliano Scarcelli , Alejandra Valencia , Yanhua Shih