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Optical metasurfaces open new avenues for precise wavefront control of light for integrated quantum technology. Here, we demonstrate a hybrid integrated quantum photonic system that is capable to entangle and disentangle two-photon spin…

Wave-particle duality epitomizes the counterintuitive character of quantum physics. A striking illustration is the quantum delay-choice experiment, which is based on Wheeler's classic delayed-choice gedanken experiment, but with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Kai Wang , Qian Xu , Shining Zhu , Xiao-song Ma

High-quality photonic Bell state measurements (BSMs) enable scalable universal quantum computing and long distance quantum communication. However, when implemented with linear optics, BSMs are fundamentally probabilistic, introducing…

It is demonstrated a two-photon interfering technique based on polarization-resolved measurements for the simultaneous estimation with the maximum sensitivity achievable in nature of multiple parameters associated with the polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 L. Maggio , D. Triggiani , P. Facchi , V. Tamma

One of the basic lessons of quantum theory is that one cannot obtain information on an unknown quantum state without disturbing it. Hence, by performing a certain measurement, we limit the other possible measurements that can be effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Erkka Haapasalo , Teiko Heinosaari , Takayuki Miyadera

Quantum coherence can be used to infer the presence of a detector without triggering it. Here we point out that, according to quantum mechanics, such interaction-free measurements cannot be perfect, i.e., in a single-shot experiment one has…

Photons are bosons, and yet, when prepared in specific entangled states, they can exhibit non-bosonic behaviour. While this phenomenon has so far been studied in two-photon systems, exchange symmetries and interference effects in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Shreya Kumar , Alex E Jones , Daniel Bhatti , Stefanie Barz

Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) and symmetric informationally complete (SIC) positive operator-valued measurements (POVMs) are two related topics in quantum information theory. They are generalized to mutually unbiased measurements (MUMs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Lu Liu , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

We are concerned with numerical simulations of quantum optical circuits under certain realistic conditions, specifically that photon quantum states are not perfectly indistinguishable. The partial photon distinguishability presents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Javier Osca , Jiri Vala

Quantum systems exhibit particle-like or wave-like behaviour depending on the experimental apparatus they are confronted by. This wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics, and is fully captured in Wheeler's famous delayed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Alberto Peruzzo , Peter J. Shadbolt , Nicolas Brunner , Sandu Popescu , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Wave-particle duality is one of the most intriguing counterfactual concepts in quantum theory. In our common sense, the wave and particle properties of a quantum object are inseparable. However, the recent studies based on Quantum Cheshire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yusuf Turek , Yi-Fang Ren

We show a hitherto unexplored consequence of the property of identicity in quantum mechanics. If two identical objects, distinguished by a dynamical variable A, are in certain entangled states of another dynamical variable B, then, for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bose , D. Home

Two particles are identical if all their intrinsic properties, such as spin and charge, are the same, meaning that no quantum experiment can distinguish them. In addition to the well known principles of quantum mechanics, understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Alessio Benavoli , Alessandro Facchini , Marco Zaffalon

This thesis reports advances in the theory of design, characterization and simulation of multi-photon multi-channel interferometers. I advance the design of interferometers through an algorithm to realize an arbitrary discrete unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Ish Dhand

Interference experiments provide a simple yet powerful tool to unravel fundamental features of quantum physics. Here we engineer an RF-driven, time-dependent bilinear coupling that can be tuned to implement a robust 50:50 beamsplitter…

We address the problem of interference using the Heisenberg picture and highlight some new aspects through the use of pre-selection, post-selection, weak measurements, and modular variables, We present a physical explanation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeff Tollaksen , Yakir Aharonov , Aharon Casher , Tirzah Kaufherr , Shmuel Nussinov

Quantum interference takes center stage in the realm of quantum particles, playing a crucial role in revealing their wave-like nature and probabilistic behavior. It relies on the concept of superposition, where the probability amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sajad Ahmadi , Mohsen Akbari , Shahpoor Saeidian , Ali Motazedifard

Extracting meaningful information about unknown quantum states without performing a full tomography is an important task. Low-dimensional projections and random measurements can provide such insight but typically require careful crafting.…

The effect known as ``induced coherence without induced emission'' has spawned a field dedicated to imaging with undetected photons (IUP), where photons from two distinct photon-pair sources interfere if their outputs are made…

Quantum imaging with undetected photons (QIUP) is a promising technique for non-invasive imaging, particularly at wavelengths where detectors are inefficient or unavailable. Recent studies have investigated the role of polarization in QIUP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Gaytri Arya , Paolo Bianchini , Alberto Diaspro