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Hyperentangled photonic states - exhibiting nonclassical correlations in several degrees of freedom - offer improved performance of quantum optical communication and computation schemes. Experimentally, a hyperentanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak

In this Letter, we propose a new approach to process high-dimensional quantum information encoded in a photon frequency domain. In contrast to previous approaches based on nonlinear optical processes, no active control of photon energy is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Chaohan Cui , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Saikat Guha , Linran Fan

We propose a quantum information processing platform that utilizes the ultrafast time-bin encoding of photons. This approach offers a pathway to scalability by leveraging the inherent phase stability of collinear temporal interferometric…

In classical optical interferometry, loss and background complicate achieving fast nanometer-resolution measurements with illumination at low light levels. Conversely, quantum two-photon interference is unaffected by loss and background,…

In general, the state of a quantum system represented by density operator and its determination is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics. A method of direct measurement of matrix element of density operator of a single two dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Yusuf Turek

The ability to detect quantum superpositions lies at the heart of fundamental and applied aspects of quantum mechanics. The time-frequency degree of freedom of light enables encoding and transmitting quantum information in a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Adam Widomski , Maciej Ogrodnik , Michał Karpiński

Frequency-bin entangled photons can be efficiently produced on-chip which offers a scalable, robust and low-footprint platform for quantum communication, particularly well-suited for resource-constrained settings such as mobile or…

The advantage of attosecond measurements is the possibility of time-resolving ultrafast quantum phenomena of electron dynamics. Many such measurements are of interferometric nature, and therefore give access to the phase. Likewise, weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Philipp Stammer , Javier Rivera-Dean , Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein

Wavefunction is a fundamental concept of quantum theory. Recent studies have shown surprisingly that wavefunction can be directly reconstructed via the measurement of weak value. The weak value based direct wavefunction reconstruction not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng ZHang

Entangling independent photons is not only of fundamental interest but also of crucial importance for quantum information science. Two-photon interference is a major method to entangle independent identical photons. If two photons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Tian-Ming Zhao , Han Zhang , Jian Yang , Zi-Ru Sang , Xiao Jiang , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

Recent theoretical studies in quantum spectroscopy have emphasized the potential of non-classical correlations in entangled photon pairs for selectively targeting specific nonlinear optical processes in nonlinear optical responses. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuta Fujihashi , Ozora Iso , Ryosuke Shimizu , Akihito Ishizaki

We present a method for measuring quantum states encoded in the temporal modes of photons. The basis for the multilevel quantum states is defined by the use of modes propagating in a dispersive medium, which is a fiber in this case. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Karolina Sedziak-Kacprowicz , Artur Czerwinski , Piotr Kolenderski

We investigate the capabilities of loss-tolerant quantum state characterization using a photon-number resolving, time-multiplexed detector (TMD). We employ the idea of probing the Wigner function point-by-point in phase space via photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K Laiho , M Avenhaus , K N Cassemiro , Ch Silberhorn

The paper presents a system for measuring photon statistics and photon timing in the few-photon regime down to the single-photon level. The measurement system is based on superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 N. Lusardi , J. W. N. Los , R. B. M. Gourgues , G. Bulgarini , A. Geraci

Interaction of light with media often occurs with a femtosecond response time. Its measurement by conventional techniques requires the use of femtosecond lasers and sophisticated time-gated optical detection1-3. Here we demonstrate that by…

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

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Conventional absorption spectroscopy relies on coherent laser sources, and in turn suffers from the inherent limitation of shot noise, especially in estimating weak absorption. Here we propose a measurement strategy with correlated photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhucheng Zhang , Xue Zhang , Jing Liu , Hui Dong

Fast and broadband spectrum sensing is an essential component in cognitive radio systems, intelligent transportation systems, electronic warfare systems, etc. However, traditional electronic-based solutions have a trade-off among the…

Engineering apparatus that harness quantum theory offers practical advantages over current technology. A fundamentally more powerful prospect is the long-standing prediction that such quantum technologies could out-perform any future…