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We obtain the standard quadrature-phase positive operator-valued measure (POVM) for homodyne detection directly and rigorously from the POVM for photon counting without directly employing the mean field approximation for the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Tyc , Barry C. Sanders

Optical parametric down-conversion is a common source for the generation of non-classical correlated photonic states. Using a parametric down-conversion source and photon-number resolving detectors, we measure the two-mode photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 L. Dovrat , M. Bakstein , D. Istrati , E. Megidish , A. Halevy , H. S. Eisenberg

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) offers the possibility to control the fabrication of non-Gaussian states such as Fock states. However, in conventional PDC sources energy and momentum conservation introduce strict frequency and photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Laiho , K. N. Cassemiro , Ch. Silberhorn

Drawing inspiration from gradient-descent methods developed for data processing in quantum state tomography [\href{https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/ae0baa}{Quantum Sci.~Technol.~\textbf{10} 045055 (2025)}] and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Akshay Gaikwad , Manuel Sebastian Torres , Anton Frisk Kockum

Two-photon time-frequency entanglement is a valuable resource in quantum information. Resolving the wavepacket of ultrashort pulsed single-photons, however, is a challenge. Here, we demonstrate remote spectral shaping of single photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Vahid Ansari , John M. Donohue , Benjamin Brecht , Christine Silberhorn

The ability to determine the joint spectral properties of photon pairs produced by the processes of spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) and spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) is crucial for guaranteeing the usability of heralded…

Conventional tomographic techniques are becoming increasingly infeasible for reconstructing the operators of quantum devices of growing sophistication. We describe a novel tomographic procedure using coherent states which begins by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 L. Zhang , A. Datta , H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge , X. -M. Jin , J. Eisert , M. B. Plenio , I. A. Walmsley

The objective of this work is to develop a recursive, discrete time quantum filtering equation for a system that interacts with a probe, on which measurements are performed according to the Positive Operator Valued Measures (POVMs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Ram A. Somaraju , Alain Sarlette , Hugo Thienpont

A promising result from optical quantum metrology is the ability to achieve sub-shot-noise performance in transmission or absorption measurements. This is due to the significantly lower uncertainty in light intensity of quantum beams with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Agustina G. Magnoni , Laura T. Knoll , Miguel A. Larotonda

We present a detailed account of the two-photon states generated by SPDC in both type I and type II phase matching, including the effects of anisotropy of the nonlinear medium and the frequency spread of the down-converted fields. Accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 A. G. da Costa Moura , W. A. T. Nogueira , S. P. Walborn , C. H. Monken

We propose a feasible experimental scheme to direct measure heat and work in cold atomic setups. The method is based on a recent proposal which shows that work is a positive operator valued measure (POVM). In the present contribution, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-25 G. De Chiara , A. J. Roncaglia , J. P. Paz

Cavity-enhanced Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is capable of efficient generation of single photons with suitable spectral properties for interfacing with the atoms. However, beside the remarkable progress of this technique,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Amir Moqanaki , Francesco Massa , Philip Walther

Recent work using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has made possible investigations of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in its original (position-momentum) form. We propose an experiment that uses SPDC photon pairs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Altschul , B. Altschul

Optical vortex beams are profiled as helical wavefronts with a phase singularity carrying an orbital angular momentum (OAM) associated with their spatial distribution. The transverse intensity distribution of a conventional optical vortex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Ali Anwar , Shashi Prabhakar , R. P. Singh

It is crucial for various quantum information processing tasks that the state of a quantum system can be determined reliably and efficiently from general quantum measurements. One important class of measurements for this purpose is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Gelo Noel M. Tabia

The long spin coherence times in ambient conditions of color centers in solids, such as nitrogen-vacancy (NV$^{-}$) centers in diamond, make these systems attractive candidates for quantum sensing. Quantum sensing provides remarkable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 N. J. Harmon , M. E. Flatté

An implementation of the positive operator valued measure (POVM) is given. By using this POVM one can realize the probabilistic teleportation of an unknown two-particle state.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng-Li Yan , Ting Gao , You-Cheng Li

Various quantum technology applications require high-purity single photons with high generation rate. Although different methods are employed to generate such photons, heralded single photons from spontaneous parametric down-conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 A. Padhye , K. Muhammed Shafi , C. M. Chandrashekar

A Positive Operator Valued Measure (POVM) is a map $F:\mathcal{B}(X)\to\mathcal{L}_s^+(\mathcal{H})$ from the Borel $\sigma$-algebra of a topological space $X$ to the space of positive self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Roberto Beneduci

We propose, analyze, and evaluate a technique for the joint measurement of time-frequency entanglement between two photons. In particular, we show that the frequency sum and time difference of two photons could be simultaneously measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Han Liu , Amr S. Helmy