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An inexpensive and portable approach to measure the time an experimental event occurs as measured by a specific electronic clock is presented. The clock resets in active synchronization with the experimental AC-power cycle. This allows an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 W. J. Llope , N. Adams , K. K. Kainz

The use of multiplexed atomic quantum memories (MAQM) can significantly enhance the efficiency to establish entanglement in a quantum network. In the previous experiments, individual elements of a quantum network, such as the generation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chang Li , Nan Jiang , Yukai Wu , Wei Chang , Yunfei Pu , Sheng Zhang , Luming Duan

Clock synchronisation relies on time-frequency transfer procedures which involve quantum fields. We use the conformal symmetry of such fields to define as quantum operators the time and frequency exchanged in transfer procedures and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

Multi-photon and quantum communication experiments such as loophole-free Bell tests and device independent quantum key distribution require entangled photon sources which display high coupling efficiency. In this paper we put forward a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 T. Guerreiro , A. Martin , B. Sanguinetti , N. Bruno , H. Zbinden , R. T. Thew

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 demonstrate a point-to-point clock synchronization protocol based on bidirectionally propagating photons generated in a single spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) source. Tight timing correlations between photon pairs are used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Jianwei Lee , Lijiong Shen , Adrian Nugraha Utama , Christian Kurtsiefer

Quantum networks are composed of nodes which can send and receive quantum states by exchanging photons. Their goal is to facilitate quantum communication between any nodes, something which can be used to send secret messages in a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonio Acin , J. Ignacio Cirac , Maciej Lewenstein

We develop an ultrafast frequency-resolved Raman spectroscopy with entangled photons for polyatomic molecules in condensed phases, to probe the electronic and vibrational coherences. Using quantum correlation between the photons, the signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Zhedong Zhang , Tao Peng , Xiaoyu Nie , Girish S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

Clock synchronisation is conventional when inertial systems are involved. This statement is no longer true in accelerated systems. A demonstration is given in the case of a rotating platform. We conclude that theories based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 François Goy

Semiconductor quantum dots, as promising solid-state platform, have exhibited deterministic photon pair generation with high polarization entanglement f\textcompwordmark idelity for quantum information applications. However, due to temporal…

Time-bin entangled photons are ideal for long-distance quantum communication via optical fibers. Here we present a source where, even at high creation rates, each excitation pulse generates at most one time-bin entangled pair. This is…

Recent developments in atomic physics have enabled the experimental generation of many-body entangled states to boost the performance of quantum sensors beyond the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). This limit is imposed by the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Simone Colombo , Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel , Vladan Vuletić

In ``Distributed quantum sensing with mode-entangled spin-squeezed atomic states" Nature (2022), Malia et. al. claim to improve the precision of a network of clocks by using entanglement. In particular, by entangling a clock network with up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Liam P. McGuinness

Photonic interconnects between quantum processing nodes are likely the only way to achieve large-scale quantum computers and networks. The bottleneck in such an architecture is the interface between well-isolated quantum memories and flying…

We create pairs of non-degenerate time-bin entangled photons at telecom wavelengths with ultra-short pump pulses. Entanglement is shown by performing Bell kind tests of the Franson type with visibilities of up to 91%. As time-bin…

We demonstrate the distribution of single-photon-level pulses from a mode-locked laser source over a phase-stable fiber link, achieving an optical timing jitter of less than 100 as over 10 minutes of data accumulation. This stability…

We have experimentally demonstrated a clock comparison scheme utilizing time-correlated photon pairs generated from the spontaneous parametric down conversion process of a laser pumped beta-barium borate crystal. The coincidence of…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-30 Shi-Wei Zhang , Jia-Zheng Song , Yin-Ping Yao , Ren-Gang Wan , Tong-Yi Zhang

In the same manner that free-space propagation and curved glass lenses are used to shape the spatial properties of light, a combination of chromatic dispersion and devices known as time lenses may be used to reshape its temporal properties.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 John M. Donohue , Morgan Mastrovich , Kevin J. Resch

We investigate quantum synchronization phenomenon within the complex network constituted by coupled optomechanical systems and prove the unknown identical quantum states can be shared or distributed in the quantum network even though the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wenlin Li , Chong Li , Heshan Song