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High-precision frequency estimation is an ubiquitous issue in fundamental physics and a critical task in spectroscopy. Here, we propose a quantum Ramsey interferometry to realize high-precision frequency estimation in spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Min Zhuang , Hongtao Huo , Yuxiang Qiu , Wenjie Liu , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

High-dimensional time-frequency encodings have the potential to significantly advance quantum information science; however, practical applications require precise knowledge of the encoded quantum states, which becomes increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Laura Serino , Markus Rambach , Benjamin Brecht , Jacquiline Romero , Christine Silberhorn

The time-frequency degree of freedom is a powerful resource for implementing high-dimensional quantum information processing. In particular, field-orthogonal pulsed temporal modes offer a flexible framework compatible with both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Vahid Ansari , John M. Donohue , Benjamin Brecht , Christine Silberhorn

We present a gradient-based method to construct high-fidelity, two-qubit quantum gates in a system consisting of two transmon qubits coupled via a tunable coupler. In particular, we focus on single flux quantum (SFQ) pulses as a promising…

The fractional Fourier transform (FrFT), a fundamental operation in physics that corresponds to a rotation of phase space by any angle, is also an indispensable tool employed in digital signal processing for noise reduction. Processing of…

The Fractional Fourier Transform (FRT) corresponds to an arbitrary-angle rotation in the phase space, e.g. the time-frequency (TF) space, and generalizes the fundamentally important Fourier Transform. FRT applications range from classical…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-06 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak

Capabilities of quantum optical SFG-gate seeded by squeezed light are investigated in the frame of frequency Schmidt modes. Methods to manage and manipulate extensively the properties and mode content of squeezed light are developed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Vladislav Sukharnikov , Polina Sharapova , Olga Tikhonova

High-fidelity gate operations are essential to the realization of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In addition, the physical resources required to implement gates must scale efficiently with system size. A longstanding goal of the…

We investigate the single mode operation of a quantum optical nonlinear \pi phase shift gate implemented by a single two-level atom in one-dimensional free space. Since the single mode property of the input photons at the atom is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kunihiro Kojima , Holger F. Hofmann , Shigeki Takeuchi , Keiji Sasaki

We introduce a novel quantum control method for superconducting transmon qubits that substantially outperforms conventional techniques in precision and robustness against coherent errors. Our approach leverages composite pulses (CP) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Hristo G. Tonchev , Boyan T. Torosov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

Advancements in photonic platforms have enabled the precise control of light's spectral and temporal degrees of freedom, a capability crucial for the development of scalable quantum information systems. In this work, we address the…

The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is of fundamental interest in photonic quantum information, yet the ability to scale it to high dimensions depends heavily on the physical encoding, with practical recipes lacking in emerging platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Hsuan-Hao Lu , Navin B. Lingaraju , Daniel E. Leaird , Andrew M. Weiner , Joseph M. Lukens

By projecting onto complex optical mode profiles, it is possible to estimate arbitrarily small separations between objects with quantum-limited precision, free of uncertainty arising from overlapping intensity profiles. Here we extend these…

Quantum Frequency Conversion (QFC) is a widely used technique to interface atomic systems with the telecom band in order to facilitate propagation over longer distances in fiber. Here we demonstrate the difference-frequency conversion from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Soeren Wengerowsky , Stefano Duranti , Lukas Heller , Hugues de Riedmatten

The propagation of ultrafast pulses in dispersion-engineered waveguides, exhibiting strong field confinement in both space and time, is a promising avenue towards single-photon nonlinearities in an all-optical platform. However, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Edwin Ng , Ryotatsu Yanagimoto , Marc Jankowski , M. M. Fejer , Hideo Mabuchi

How to effectively construct robust quantum gates for time-varying noise is a very important but still outstanding problem. Here we develop a systematic method to find pulses for quantum gate operations robust against both low- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Chia-Hsien Huang , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Frequency-multiplexed quantum communication usually requires a single-shot identification of the frequency mode of a single photon . In this paper, we propose a scheme that can identify the frequency mode with high-resolution even for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Daisuke Yoshida , Mayuka Ichihara , Takeshi Kondo , Feng-Lei Hong , Tomoyuki Horikiri

The selective number-dependent arbitrary phase (SNAP) gates form a powerful class of quantum gates, imparting arbitrarily chosen phases to the Fock states of a cavity. However, for short pulses, coherent errors limit the performance. Here…

Non-Gaussian operations are essential for most bosonic quantum technologies. Yet, realizable non-Gaussian gates are rather limited in type and generally suffer from accuracy-duration trade-offs. In this work, we propose to use quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pak-Tik Fong , Hoi-Kwan Lau

To reach the next frontier in multimode nonlinear optics, it is crucial to better understand the classical and quantum phenomena of systems with many interacting degrees of freedom -- both how they emerge and how they can be tailored to…