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Quantum correlations and entanglement shared among multiple quantum modes are important for both fundamental science and the future development of quantum technologies. This development will also require an efficient quantum interface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Zhongzhong Qin , Leiming Cao , Hailong Wang , A. M. Marino , Weiping Zhang , Jietai Jing

We investigate the prospects of using two-mode intensity squeezed twin-beams, generated in Rb vapor, to improve the sensitivity of spectroscopic measurements by engaging two-photon Raman transitions. As a proof of principle demonstration,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Nikunjkumar Prajapati , Ziqi Niu , Irina Novikova

We experimentally investigate the propagation of optical pulses through a fast-light medium with competing absorption and gain. The combination of strong absorption and optical amplification in a potassium-based four-wave mixing process…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Jon D. Swaim , Ryan T. Glasser

We develop a non-perturbative description of squeezed light generation in an arbitrary lossy structure consisting of multiple coupled microring resonators. This is applied to two ring photonic molecules where the interference of the fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 M. Sloan , J. E. Sipe

Single quantum emitters like atoms are well-known as non-classical light sources which can produce photons one by one at given times, with reduced intensity noise. However, the light field emitted by a single atom can exhibit much richer…

Spatially splitting nonclassical light beams is in principle prohibited due to noise contamination during beam splitting. We propose a platform based on thermal motion of atoms to realize spatial multiplexing of squeezed light. Light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Jian Sun , Weizhi Qu , Eugeniy Mikhailov , Irina Novikova , Heng Shen , Yanhong Xiao

The observation of spatial quantum noise reduction, or spatial squeezing, with a large number of photons can lead to a significant advantage in quantum imaging and quantum metrology due to the scaling of the signal-to-noise ratio with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ashok Kumar , Alberto M. Marino

Quantum light sources such as squeezed light are essential for quantum information science and technologies, but the scalable production of multiple beams of them remains a challenge. Here,we experimentally demonstrate a novel approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lin Wang , Xichang Zhang , Konstantin Manannikov , Nir Davidson , Ying Hu , Dongdong Hao , Yanhong Xiao

We present an analytical quantum theoretic model for non-resonant molecular two-photon absorption (TPA) of broadband, spectrally multi-mode squeezed vacuum, including low-gain (isolated entangled photon pairs or EPP) and high-gain (bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Michael G. Raymer , Tiemo Landes

We report demonstrations of both quadrature squeezed vacuum and photon number difference squeezing generated in an integrated nanophotonic device. Squeezed light is generated via strongly driven spontaneous four-wave mixing below threshold…

Proper characterization of quantum correlations in a multimode optical state is critical for applications in quantum information science; however, the most common entanglement measurements can lead to an incomplete state reconstruction.…

By colliding two Bose-Einstein condensates we have observed strong bosonic stimulation of the elastic scattering process. When a weak input beam was applied as a seed, it was amplified by a factor of 20. This large gain atomic four-wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Vogels , K. Xu , W. Ketterle

We closely replicated and extended a recent experiment ("Spatial properties of entangled two-photon absorption," Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183601, 2022) that reportedly observed enhancement of two-photon absorption rates in molecular samples by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Tiemo Landes , Brian J. Smith , Michael G. Raymer

We report on the generation of non separable beams produced via the interaction of a linearly polarized beam with a cloud of cold cesium atoms placed in an optical cavity. We convert the squeezing of the two linear polarization modes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent Josse , Aurelien Dantan , Alberto Bramati , Elisabeth Giacobino

It has been shown elsewhere that two spatially separated atoms can jointly absorb one photon, whose frequency is equal to the sum of the transition frequencies of the two atoms. We describe this process in the presence of an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Vincenzo Macrí , Franco Nori , Salvatore Savasta , David Zueco

Four-wave mixing (4WM) is a known source of intense non-classical twin beams. It can be generated when an intense laser beam (the pump) and a weak laser beam (the seed) overlap in a $\chi^{(3)}$ medium (here cesium vapor), with frequencies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 G. Adenier , D. Calonico , S. Micalizio , N. Samantaray , I. P. Degiovanni , I. Ruo Berchera

We show that a simple scheme based on nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a hot atomic vapor behaves like a near-perfect phase-insensitive optical amplifier, which can generate bright twin beams with a measured quantum noise reduction in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. F. McCormick , A. M. Marino , V. Boyer , P. D. Lett

Quantum squeezed states enable precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit, but conventional solid-state media fundamentally limit pump intensities to the ionization threshold. We demonstrate that plasma waves can mediate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Kenan Qu , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Multipartite entanglement is an important resource for quantum information processing. It has been shown that it is possible to employ alkali atoms to implement single device multipartite entanglement by using nonlinear processes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 H. M. Florez

We propose a scheme generating robust squeezed light by using double cavity optomechanical system driven by a blue detuned laser in one cavity and by a red detuned laser in the other. This double cavity system is shown to mimic effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Kenan Qu , G. S. Agarwal