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The heralded generation of entangled states is a long-standing goal in quantum information processing, because it is indispensable for a number of quantum protocols. Polarization entangled photon pairs are usually generated through…

In this review we present the potentialities and the achievements of the use of non-classical photon number correlations in twin beams (TWB) states for many applications, ranging from imaging to metrology. Photon number correlations in the…

Communication in quantum networks suffers notoriously from photon loss. Resulting errors can be mitigated with a suitable measurement herald at the receiving node. However, waiting for a herald and communicating the measurement result back…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gianvito Chiarella , Tobias Frank , Leart Zuka , Pau Farrera , Gerhard Rempe

Filtering is commonly used in quantum optics to reject noise photons, and also to enable interference between independent photons. However, filtering the joint spectrum of photon pairs can reduce the inherent coincidence probability or…

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 present the first experimental demonstration of quantum-enhanced detection at x-ray wavelengths. We show that x-ray pairs that are generated by spontaneous down-conversion can be used for the generation of heralded x-ray photons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 S. Sofer , E. Strizhevsky , A. Schori , K. Tamasaku , S. Shwartz

Imaging with non-classically correlated photon-pairs takes advantages over classical limits in terms of sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. However, it is still a challenge to achieve a strong resilience to background noise and losses…

In this Letter, the quantum correlation measurement technique as a method of power noise monitoring is investigated. Its principal idea of correlating two photodetector signals is introduced and contrasted to the conventional approach,…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Jasper Robert Venneberg , Benno Willke

Quantum correlated, highly non-degenerate photons can be used to synthesize disparate quantum nodes and link quantum processing over incompatible wavelengths, thereby constructing heterogeneous quantum systems for otherwise unattainable…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yong Meng Sua , Heng Fan , Amin Shahverdi , Jia-Yang Chen , Yu-Ping Huang

Correlated photon-pair sources are key components for quantum computing, networking, and sensing applications. Integrated photonics has enabled chip-scale sources using nonlinear processes, producing high-rate entanglement with sub-100…

We study photon, phonon statistics and the cross-correlation between photons and phonons in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. Photon blockade, phonon blockade and strongly anticorrelated photons and phonons can be observed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Xun-Wei Xu , Hai-Quan Shi , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

We investigate two-color photon correlations in the light emitted by strongly coupled two-level emitters. Spectral filtering allows us to manipulate the collected light statistics and we show that the resonances induced by dipole-dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Elnaz Darsheshdar , Mathilde Hugbart , Romain Bachelard , Celso Jorge Villas-Boas

It is thought that schemes for quantum imaging are fragile against realistic environments in which the background noise is often stronger than the nonclassical signal of the imaging photons. Unfortunately, it is unfeasible to produce…

High-visibility quantum interference between independent photons is essential for demonstrating multi-photon quantum information processing, and it is closely linked to the spectral purity of correlated photon pairs. In this study, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Hsin-Pin Lo , Kai Asaoka , Hiroki Takesue

We investigate performances of pure continuous variable states in discriminating thermal and identity channels by comparing their M-copy error probability bounds. This offers us a simplified mathematical analysis for quantum target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

We report on a new kind of correlated photon-pair source based on a waveguide integrated on a Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate substrate. Using a pump laser of a few micro-Watts at 657 nm, we generate degenerate photon-pairs at 1314 nm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tanzilli , H. de Riedmatten , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden , P. Baldi , M. de Micheli , D. B. Ostrowsky , N. Gisin

We explore the possibility of detecting entangled photon pairs from cosmic microwave background or other cosmological sources coming from two patches of the sky. The measurements use two detectors with different photon polarizer directions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Shou-Huang Dai , Debaprasad Maity , Sichun Sun , Yun-Long Zhang

We use a single trapped 40Ca+ ion as a resonant, polarization-sensitive absorber to detect and characterize the entanglement of tunable narrowband photon pairs from a spontaneous parametric down-conversion source. Single-photon absorption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 J. Huwer , J. Ghosh , N. Piro , M. Schug , F. Dubin , J. Eschner

We theoretically explore the properties of heralded number states including up to three photons that are generated from single-mode twin beams. We investigate the effects of different parameters involved in the state preparation by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Daniel Borrero Landazabal , Kaisa Laiho

Generation of nonclassical light is an essential tool for quantum optics research and applications in quantum information technology. We present realization of the source of nonclassically correlated photon pairs based on the process of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 L. Podhora , P. Obšil , I. Straka , M. Ježek , L. Slodička