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Subtracting accidental coincidences is a common practice quantum optics experiments. For zero mean Gaussian states, such as squeezed vacuum, we show that if one removes accidental coincidences the measurement results are quantitatively the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Eric Lantz , Fabrice Devaux , Serge Massar

Quantum interference is a central resource in many quantum-enhanced tasks, from computation to communication protocols. While it usually occurs between identical input photons, quantum interference can be enabled by projecting the quantum…

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

The framework of measurement operators plays a fundamental role in extracting information about quantum systems. Recently, techniques based on induced coherence have been developed to access the same information for undetected photons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jaroslav Kysela , Markus Gräfe , Jorge Fuenzalida

We provide a theoretical framework to study the effect of dephasing on the quantum indistinguishability of single photons emitted from a coherently driven cavity QED $\Lambda$-system. We show that with a large excited-state detuning, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Santori , David Fattal , Kai-Mei C. Fu , Paul E. Barclay , Raymond G. Beausoleil

Bosonic interference is a fundamental physical phenomenon, and it is believed to lie at the heart of quantum computational advantage. It is thus necessary to develop practical tools to witness its presence, both for a reliable assessment of…

Gaussian boson sampling is a promising scheme for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage using photonic states that are accessible in a laboratory and, thus, offer scalable sources of quantum light. In this contribution, we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 D. S. Phillips , M. Walschaers , J. J. Renema , I. A. Walmsley , N. Treps , J. Sperling

Entanglement verification and measurement is essential for experimental tests of quantum mechanics and also for quantum communication and information science. Standard methods of verifying entanglement in a bipartite mixed state require…

We report on a quantum interference experiment to probe the coherence between two photons coming from non degenerate photon pairs at telecom wavelength created in spatially separated sources. The two photons are mixed on a beam splitter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. de Riedmatten , I. Marcikic , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden , N. Gisin

In the problem of asymptotic binary i.i.d. state discrimination, the optimal asymptotics of the type I and the type II error probabilities is in general an exponential decrease to zero as a function of the number of samples; the set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Gergely Bunth , Gábor Maróti , Milán Mosonyi , Zoltán Zimborás

We demonstrate quantum interference of three photons that are distinguishable in time, by resolving them in the conjugate parameter, frequency. We show that the multiphoton interference pattern in our setup can be manipulated by tuning the…

Interference is conventionally attributed to path-accumulated phase differences, with measurement treated as a passive readout. Here we demonstrate that single-particle interference is governed by the relative phase between the prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

The indistinguishability of non-identical photons is dependent on detection system in quantum physics. If two photons with different wavelengths are indistinguishable for a detection system, there can be two-photon interference when these…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-02 Jianbin Liu , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Hui Chen , Fu-Li Li , Zhuo Xu

We relate the the distinguishability of quantum states with their robustness of the entanglement, where the robustness of any resource quantifies how tolerant it is to noise. In particular, we identify upper and lower bounds on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Debarupa Saha , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

The first quantum technologies to solve computational problems that are beyond the capabilities of classical computers are likely to be devices that exploit characteristics inherent to a particular physical system, to tackle a bespoke…

In this paper, we study some quantum properties of a superposition of displaced squeezed two-mode vacuum and single-photon states, such as the second-order correlation function, the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, quadrature squeezing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Faisal A. A. El-Orany , A-S. F. Obada , Zafer M. Asker , J. Perina

Trapped atomic ions embedded in optical cavities are a promising platform to enable long-distance quantum networks and their most far-reaching applications. Here we achieve and analyze photon indistinguishability in a telecom-converted…

We study the fundamental limit on single-photon indistinguishability imposed by decoherence due to phonon interactions in semiconductor quantum dot-cavity QED systems. Employing an exact diagonalization approach we find large differences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 P. Kaer , P. Lodahl , A. -P. Jauho , J. Mork

We consider the distinguishability of Gaussian states from the view point of continuous-variable quantum cryptography using post-selection. Specifically, we use the probability of error to distinguish between two pure coherent (squeezed)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Weedbrook , Daniel J. Alton , Thomas Symul , Ping Koy Lam , Timothy C. Ralph

This paper provides a systematic study of the operational idea that a quantum ``state'' is only defined up to what can be distinguished by a chosen family of observables. Concretely, any von Neumann algebra of observables $\mathscr{M}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Jan van Neerven , Marijn Waaijer