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The advent of quantum computers has significantly challenged the security of traditional cryptographic systems, prompting a surge in research on quantum key distribution (QKD). Among various QKD approaches, continuous-variable QKD (CVQKD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Xiaojuan Liao , Yuehan Xu , Qijun Zhang , Peng Huang , Tao Wang , Kaizhi Wang , Guihua Zeng

We investigate the interplay between gravity and the quantum coherence present in the state of a pulse of light propagating in curved spacetime. We first introduce an operational way to distinguish between the overall shift in the pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Edward Bruschi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Frank K. Wilhelm , Andreas W. Schell

The effect of a random phase screen on laser beam wander in a turbulent atmosphere is studied theoretically. The method of photon distribution function is used to describe the photon kinetics of both weak and strong turbulence. By bringing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. P. Berman , A. A. Chumak , V. N. Gorshkov

A controlled decoherence environment is studied experimentally by free electron interaction with semiconducting and metallic plates. The results are compared with physical models based on decoherence theory to investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Peter J. Beierle , Liyun Zhang , Herman Batelaan

In this work, we propose and demonstrate a turbulence-resilient scheme for free-space quantum communication. By leveraging the phase conjugation property of stimulated parametric down-conversion, our scheme enables all-optical dynamic…

Quantum channel discrimination is used to test quantum field theory in non-inertial frames. We search for optimal strategies which can best see the thermality of the Unruh effect. We find that the usual strategy of counting particles in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Jason Doukas , Gerardo Adesso , Stefano Pirandola , Andrzej Dragan

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Shihan Sajeed , Thomas Jennewein

We study the fidelity of quantum teleportation for the situation in which quantum logic gates are used to provide the long distance entanglement required in the protocol, and where the effect of a noisy environment is modeled by means of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel G Carlo , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

We study the spreading of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a noisy potential, and analyze the emergence of classical diffusion from the quantum dynamics due to decoherence. We consider a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ariel Amir , Yoav Lahini , Hagai B. Perets

Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum gravity. In this paper, we show how these effects can be modelled for atmospheric neutrinos and illustrate how the standard oscillation picture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley , Jurgen Brunner , Lee F. Thompson

Understanding symmetry-breaking states of materials is a major challenge in the modern physical sciences. Quantum atmosphere proposed recently sheds light on the hidden world of these symmetry broken patterns. But the requirements for…

Quantum communication holds a promise for absolutely secure transmission of secret messages and faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photonic channels appear to be very attractive for physical implementation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lu-Ming Duan , Mikhail Lukin , Ignacio Cirac , Peter Zoller

The study of quantum channels is the fundamental field and promises wide range of applications, because any physical process can be represented as a quantum channel transforming an initial state into a final state. Inspired by the method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Shi-Jie Wei , Tao Xin , Gui-Lu Long

Long-distance communication is one of the main bottlenecks in the development of quantum communication networks. Free-space communication is a way to circumvent exponential fiber loss and to allow longer communication distances. Satellite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Ilektra Karakosta-Amarantidou , Raja Yehia , Matteo Schiavon

Simulating quantum physical processes has been one of the major motivations for quantum information science. Quantum channels, which are completely positive and trace preserving processes, are the standard mathematical language to describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Hang Li , Kai Wang , Shijie Wei , Fan Yang , Xinyu Chen , Barry C. Sanders , Dong-Sheng Wang , Gui-Lu Long

Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information-theoretic security and satellite-based quantum key distribution (SatQKD) has demonstrated the potential to extend this communication security to intercontinental scales. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yaoxuan Yang , Ivi Afxenti , Majid Safari

Continuous Variable-Based Quantum Cryptography (CV-QKD) is an emerging field in quantum information science, offering unprecedented security for communication protocols by harnessing the principles of quantum mechanics. However, ocean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Ramniwas Meena , Subhashish Banerjee

In this paper, the authors compare the security bounds for different quantum communication protocols with the numerically evaluated losses in the transmission channel, due to the interaction between the atmosphere and the photon, which is…

Optics · Physics 2008-01-02 N. Antonietti , M. Mondin , G. Catastini , G. Brida , M. Genovese

Network tomography refers to the use of inference techniques for inferring internal network states from end-to-end probes. Quantum probes, implemented by sending blocks of $n$ coherent-state pulses augmented with continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yufei Zheng , Zihao Gong , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley