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We introduce a fascinating problem of light detection and ranging measurement without necessitating the return of the photon directed towards the target or object. We approach this challenging problem using quantum entanglement - an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Mohit Khurana

Realising a global quantum network requires combining individual strengths of different quantum systems to perform universal tasks, notably using flying and stationary qubits. However, transferring coherently quantum information between…

Losses should be accounted for in a complete description of quantum imaging systems, and yet they are often treated as undesirable and largely neglected. In conventional quantum imaging, images are built up by coincidence detection of…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Matthew Reichert , Hugo Defienne , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

We investigate direct observation of quantum nonlocality without reference to theoretical models (including Bell theorem) except quantum mechanics, with a bipartite polarization-entangled state in which one photon immediately reduces into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Boya Xie , Peng Yang , Guanyang Zhang , Lei Nie , Zhongsheng Zhai , Xuanze Wang , Sheng Feng

For a wide range of applications a fast, non-destructive, remote, and sensitive identification of samples with predefined characteristics is preferred instead of their full characterization. Here, we report on the experimental…

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

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear crystals, by sharing a coherent pump and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Mayukh Lahiri , Sven Ramelow , Radek Lapkiewicz , William Plick

Together with photon emission, the absorption of a single photon by a single atom is a fundamental process in matter-light interaction that manifests its quantum mechanical nature. As an experimentally controlled process, it is a key tool…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Nicolas Piro , Jürgen Eschner

We describe a protocol capable of preparing an arbitrary state of two photons in several spatial modes using pairs of photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, linear optical elements and single-photon detectors or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karel Lemr , Jaromir Fiurasek

Quantum Entanglement is widely regarded as one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and quantum information science. Although, photonic entanglement is routinely studied in many experiments nowadays, its signature has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Robert Fickler , Mario Krenn , Radek Lapkiewicz , Sven Ramelow , Anton Zeilinger

We propose a nonlinear imaging scheme with undetected photons that overcomes the diffraction limit by transferring near-field information at one wavelength to far-field information of a correlated photon with a different wavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Elkin A. Santos , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Sina Saravi

We report on the the experimental realization of hyper-entangled two photon states, entangled in polarization and momentum. These states are produced by a high brilliance parametric source of entangled photon pairs with peculiar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cinelli , M. Barbieri , F. De Martini , P. Mataloni

We present a quantum interference phenomenon in which four-photon quantum states generated by two independent sources are used to create a two-photon interference pattern without detecting two of the photons. Contrary to the common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Chandler Tarrant , Mayukh Lahiri

Invariant entangled states remain unchanged under simultaneous identical unitary transformations of all their subsystems. We experimentally generate and characterize such invariant two-, four-, and six-photon polarization entangled states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Magnus Radmark , Marcin Wiesniak , Marek Zukowski , Mohamed Bourennane

Two photons can simultaneously share entanglement between several degrees of freedom such as polarization, energy-time, spatial mode and orbital angular momentum. This resource is known as hyperentanglement, and it has been shown to be an…

Entangled-photon coincidence imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting a pair of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system, respectively. The image of the object can be extracted from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

A photon linear collider, the two-photon collision mode of an $e^+e^-$ linear collider, uses high-energy laser photons backscattered off the incoming electrons and positrons. The colliding-photon polarization is fully controllable through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Seong Youl Choi , Dong Woo Kang , Jae Sik Lee , Chan Beom Park

High-dimensional entanglement is a valuable resource for quantum communication, and photon pairs entangled in orbital angular momentum are commonly used for encoding high-dimensional quantum states. However, methods for preparation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Egor Kovlakov , Stanislav Straupe , Sergey Kulik

The measurement of quantum states is one of the most important problems in quantum mechanics. We introduce a quantum state tomography technique in which the state of a qubit is reconstructed, while the qubit remains undetected. The key…