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Inspired by the unique nonclassical character of two-photon interactions induced by entangled photons, we develop a new comprehensive F\"orster-type formulation for entangled two-photon resonance energy transfer (E2P-RET) mediated by…

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By using a quantized input light, we theoretically revisit the coherent two-color photo-association process in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. Under the single-mode approximations, we show two interesting regimes of the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hui Jing , Ming-Sheng Zhan

Recently different experimental schemes have been proposed to study the elusive phenomenon of entangled two-photon absorption (ETPA) in nonlinear materials. The attempts to detect ETPA using transmission-based schemes have led to results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Freiman Triana-Arango , Roberto Ramírez-Alarcón , Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz

A single linear optical set-up is used to observe an entire family of four-photon entangled states. This approach breaks with the inflexibility of present linear-optical set-ups usually designed for the observation of a particular…

We are the first to show with clear experimental results that photons that have energy lower than the transition energy between quantum dots states and valance band can still contribute greatly to the photocurrent via both one-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tian Li , Mario Dagenais

Spectroscopy is an important tool for probing the properties of materials, chemicals and biological samples. We design a practical transmitter-receiver system that exploits entanglement to achieve a provable quantum advantage over all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Haowei Shi , Zheshen Zhang , Stefano Pirandola , Quntao Zhuang

Sub-picosecond coincidence timing from nonlocal intensity interference of entangled photons allows quantum interferometry for plasmas. Using a warm plasma dispersion relation, we correlate phase measurement sensitivity with different plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

Analogous to Coulomb blockade for electrons, photon blockade is a key quantum optical effect in which the presence of one photon prevents the transmission of subsequent ones through a nonlinear medium. Beyond its fundamental interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Lijuan Dong , Aanal Jayesh Shah , Peter Kirton , Hadiseh Alaeian , Simone Felicetti

Entangled photon pairs-discrete light quanta that exhibit non-classical correlations-play a central role in quantum information and quantum communication technologies. It is a natural demand from technological applications on the intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Zheng Li

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

In 1935 EPR used the assumption of local realism to conclude in a Gedankenexperiment with two entangled particles that quantum mechanics is not complete. Based on this idea Bell constructed an inequality whereby experimental tests could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Markus Weber

We image with cameras entangled photon light transmitted through a random medium. Near-field and far-field spatial quantum correlations show that entangled photon pairs (bi-photons) generated by spontaneous optical parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Soro Gnatiessoro , Alexis Mosset , Eric Lantz , Fabrice Devaux

Entanglement between two macroscopic atomic ensembles induced by measurement on an ancillary light system has proven to be a powerful method for engineering quantum memories and quantum state transfer. Here we investigate the feasibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-16 Julia Stasińska , Carles Rodó , Simone Paganelli , Gerhard Birkl , Anna Sanpera

We construct an entangled photon polarimeter capable of monitoring a two-qubit quantum state in real time. Using this polarimeter, we record a nine frames-per-second video of a two-photon state's transition from separability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joseph B. Altepeter , Neal N. Oza , Milja Medic , Evan R. Jeffrey , Prem Kumar

The paper by K. Sengupta et al. (Opt. Express 32, 40150-40164, 2024) explores quantum illumination using polarization-entangled photon pairs for object detection in noisy environments. In this comment, we highlight fundamental flaws in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Artur Czerwinski , Jakub J. Borkowski

We formulate quantum optics to include frequency dependence in the modeling of optical networks. Entangled light pulses available for quantum cryptography are entangled not only in polarization but also, whether one wants it or not, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 John M. Myers

Light incident upon molecules trigger fundamental processes in diverse systems present in nature. However, under natural conditions, such as sunlight illumination, it is impossible to assign known times for photon arrival owing to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yuta Fujihashi , Ryosuke Shimizu , Akihito Ishizaki

We theoretically investigate up-conversion process of entangled two photons on a dimer molecule, which is coupled by a cavity or nanoscale metallic structure. Within one-dimensional input-output theory, the propagators of the photons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Yoshiki Osaka , Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Masatoshi Nakatani , Hajime Ishihara

We report on theoretical and experimental demonstration of high-efficiency coupling of two-photon entangled states produced in the nonlinear process of spontaneous parametric down conversion into a single-mode fiber. We determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. A. Bovino , P. Varisco , A. M. Colla , G. Castagnoli , G. Di Giuseppe , A. V. Sergienko

Energy-time entangled photons are critical in many quantum optical phenomena and have emerged as important elements in quantum information protocols. Entanglement in this degree of freedom often manifests itself on ultrafast timescales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Jean-Philippe W. MacLean , John M. Donohue , Kevin J. Resch