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Entangled photons exhibit non-classical light-matter interactions that create new opportunities in materials and molecular science. For example, in entangled two-photon absorption, the intensity-dependence scales linearly as if only one…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-15 Szilard Szoke , Hanzhe Liu , Bryce P. Hickam , Manni He , Scott K. Cushing

It is controversial what is the true role of entanglement in two-photon virtual-state spectroscopy [Saleh et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3483, 1998], a two-photon absorption spectroscopic technique that can retrieve information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. de J. León-Montiel , J. Svozilík , L. J. Salazar-Serrano , J. P. Torres

We experimentally demonstrate shaping of the two-photon wavefunction of entangled photon-pairs, utilizing coherent pulse-shaping techniques. By performing spectral-phase manipulations we tailor the two-photon wavefunction exactly like a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Avi pe'er , Barak Dayan , Asher A. Friesem , Yaron Silberberg

Vector beams (VBs) are fully polarized beams with spatially varying polarization distributions, and they have found widespread use in numerous applications such as microscopy, metrology, optical trapping, nano-photonics, and communications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Xiaoqin Gao , Yingwen Zhang , Alessio D'Errico , Alicia Sit , Khabat Heshami , Ebrahim Karimi

The study of dynamic systems at the nanometer scale can benefit from the loss and background resilience offered by quantum two-photon interference. However, fast measurements with the required resolution are difficult to realize. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Colin P. Lualdi , Joshua Rapp , Spencer J. Johnson , Michael Vayninger , Paul G. Kwiat

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown that squeezed states of light can be engineered to enhance the resolution of nonlinear optical measurements. Here, we analyze non-degenerate two-photon absorption signals obtained from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Gaurav Shukla , Shahram Panahiyan , Devendra Kumar Mishra , Frank Schlawin

Two-photon processes are crucial in applications like microscopy and microfabrication, but their low cross-section requires intense illumination and limits, e.g., the penetration depth in nonlinear microscopy. Entangled states have been…

Two-photon interference is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and optical quantum computing, underpinning precision measurements, scalable entanglement distribution, and the operation of photonic circuits and quantum network…

A broadband squeezed vacuum photon field is characterized by a complex squeezing function. We show that by controlling the wavelength dependence of its phase it is possible to change the dynamics of the atomic polarization interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-11 Itay Rabinak , Eran Ginossar , Shimon Levit

Quantum entanglement offers an incredible resource for enhancing the sensing and spectroscopic probes. Here we develop a microscopic theory for the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) using entangled photons. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Mingran Zhang , Jiahao Joel Fan , Frank Schlawin , Zhedong Zhang

Quantum light spectroscopy, providing novel molecular information non-accessible by classical light, necessitates new computational tools when applied for complex molecular systems. We introduce two computational protocols for the molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Bing Gu , Daniel Keefer , Shaul Mukamel

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

Multimode bright squeezed vacuum is a non-classical state of light hosting a macroscopic photon number while offering promising capacity for encoding quantum information in its spectral degree of freedom. Here, we employ an accurate model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Inbar Hurvitz , Aviv Karnieli , Ady Arie

Pairs of photons entangled in their time-frequency degree of freedom are of great interest in quantum optics research and applications, due to their relative ease of generation and their high capacity for encoding information. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Sofiane Merkouche , Valérian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

Entangled photon pairs have been promised to deliver a substantial quantum advantage for two-photon absorption spectroscopy. However, recent work has challenged the previously reported magnitude of quantum enhancement in two-photon…

We present an entanglement-based quantitative phase gradient microscopy technique that employs principles from quantum ghost imaging and ghost diffraction. In this method, a transparent sample is illuminated by both photons of an entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yingwen Zhang , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Duncan England , Ebrahim Karimi , Benjamin Sussman

The ability to use the temporal and spatial degrees of freedom of quantum states of light to encode and transmit information is crucial for the implementation of a robust and efficient quantum network. In particular, the large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Gaurav Nirala , Siva T. Pradyumna , Ashok Kumar , Alberto M. Marino

In molecular aggregates, multiple delocalized exciton states interact with phonons, making the state-resolved spectroscopic monitoring of dynamics challenging. We propose a protocol that combines photon-entanglement-enhanced narrowband…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Arunangshu Debnath , Shaul Mukamel

Quantum imaging can beat classical resolution limits, imposed by diffraction of light. In particular, it is known that one can reduce the image blurring and increase the achievable resolution by illuminating an object by entangled light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 A. Mikhalychev , P. Novik , I. Karuseichyk , D. A. Lyakhov , D. L. Michels , D. Mogilevtsev

We explore the advantages offered by twin light beams produced in parametric down-conversion for precision measurement. The symmetry of these bipartite quantum states, even under losses, suggests that monitoring correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Hugo Cable , Gabriel A. Durkin