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Orthogonal temporal modes (TMs) form a field-orthogonal, continuous-variable degree of freedom that is in principle infinite dimensional, and create a promising resource for quantum information science and technology. The ideal quantum…

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We demonstrate a new technique for characterizing two-photon quantum states based on joint temporal correlation measurements using time resolved single photon detection by femtosecond upconversion. We measure for the first time the joint…

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An accurate treatment of electronic spectra in large systems with a technique such as time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is computationally challenging. Due to the Nyquist sampling theorem, direct real time simulations must be…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthias Kick , Ezra Alexander , Anton Beiersdorfer , Troy Van Voorhis

In wave propagation theories, many problems of multi-sensor systems utilize time delay in their solution in signal processing. This technique finds great utility in seismic exploration and static correction (low-velocity weathering), which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ashraf H. Yahia , El-Sayed El-Dahshan , Albert K. Guirguis

Recent advances in engineering and control of nanoscale quantum sensors have opened new paradigms in precision metrology. Unfortunately, hardware restrictions often limit the sensor performance. In nanoscale magnetic resonance probes, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 A. Ajoy , Y. X. Liu , K. Saha , L. Marseglia , J. -C. Jaskula , U. Bissbort , P. Cappellaro

Balancing high sensitivity with a broad dynamic range is a fundamental challenge in measurement science, as improving one often compromises the other. While traditional quantum metrology has prioritized enhancing local sensitivity, a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Qi Liu , Ming Xue , Matthew Radzihovsky , Xinwei Li , Denis V. Vasilyev , Ling-Na Wu , Vladan Vuletić

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) enables two remote parties to establish information-theoretically secure keys and offers high practical feasibility due to its compatibility with mature coherent optical communication…

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Dynamical decoupling pulse sequences have been used to extend coherence times in quantum systems ever since the discovery of the spin-echo effect. Here we introduce a method of recursively concatenated dynamical decoupling pulses, designed…

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In the last years several estimation strategies have been formulated to determine the value of an unknown parameter in the most precise way, taking into account the presence of noise. These strategies typically rely on the use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Andrea Smirne , Andreas Lemmer , Martin B. Plenio , Susana F. Huelga

We consider the certification of temporal quantum correlations using the pseudo-density matrix (PDM), an extension of the density matrix to the time domain, where negative eigenvalues are key indicators of temporal correlations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Hongfeng Liu , Zhenhuan Liu , Shu Chen , Xinfang Nie , Xiangjing Liu , Dawei Lu

Time-resolution protocol of quantum sensing aims to measure the fast temporal variation of an external field and demands a high field sensitivity in a short interrogation time $\tau$. Since any operation that evolves the quantum state takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Chungwei Lin , Qi Ding , Yanting Ma

Coherent one photon pulses are sent with four possible time delays with respect to a reference. Ambiguity of the photon time detection resulting from pulses overlap combined with interferometric measurement allows for secure key exchange.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Debuisschert , William Boucher

Resilience to noise and to decoherence processes is an important ingredient for the implementation of quantum information processing, and quantum technologies. To this end, techniques such as pulsed and continuous dynamical decoupling have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Itsik Cohen , Nati Aharon , Alex Retzker

Quantum metrology enables parameter estimation beyond classical limits by exploiting nonclassical resources such as squeezing and entanglement. In distributed quantum sensing, Heisenberg scaling has been extended from $1/N^2$ to $1/(NM)^2$…

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This study investigates quantum-enhanced parameter estimation through continuous monitoring in open quantum systems that exhibit a dissipative time crystal phase. We first analytically derive the global quantum Fisher information (QFI) rate…

Quantum tomography is an essential method of the photonic technology toolbox and is routinely used for evaluation of experimentally prepared states of light and characterization of devices transforming such states. The tomography procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Radim Hošák , Robert Stárek , Miroslav Ježek

Today's high-power laser systems are capable of reaching photon intensities up to $10^{22}$ W/cm^2, generating plasmas when interacting with material. The high intensity and ultrashort laser pulse duration (fs) make direct observation of…

Quantum sensing is one of the arenas that exemplifies the superiority of quantum technologies over their classical counterparts. Such superiority, however, can be diminished due to unavoidable noise and decoherence of the probe. Thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 V. Montenegro , M. G. Genoni , A. Bayat , M. G. A. Paris

We present a microresonator-based system capable of simultaneously producing time-advanced and time-delayed pulses. The effect is based on the combination of a sharp spectral feature with two orthogonally-polarized propagating waveguide…

Decoherence is the process via which quantum superpositions states are reduced to classical mixtures. Decoherence has been predicted for relativistically accelerated quantum systems, however examples to date have involved restricting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Daiqin Su , Timothy C. Ralph