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Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of spatial and spectral precision through the analysis of electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 F. Javier García de Abajo , Valerio Di Giulio

The question of whether entanglement between photons is equivalent to entanglement between their characteristic field modes, specifically, the single-particle wavefunctions that are composed and superposed to describe particles in such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Aniruddha Bhattacharya

Entanglement between optical mode and microwave mode is a critical issue in illumination systems. Traditionally, optomechanical systems are applied to couple the optical mode to microcavity modes. However, due to some restrictions of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Ahmad Salmanogli , Dincer Gokcen , H. Selcuk Gecim

The observation that free electrons can interact coherently with quantized electromagnetic fields and matter systems has led to a plethora of proposals leveraging the unique quantum properties of free electrons. At the heart of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Aviv Karnieli , Charles Roques-Carmes , Nicholas Rivera , Shanhui Fan

The emerging field of free-electron quantum optics enables electron-photon entanglement and holds the potential for generating nontrivial photon states for quantum information processing. Although recent experimental studies have entered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Zetao Xie , Zeling Chen , Hao Li , Qinghui Yan , Hongsheng Chen , Xiao Lin , Ido Kaminer , Owen D. Miller , Yi Yang

An atom that couples to two distinct leaky optical cavities is driven by an external optical white noise field. We describe how entanglement between the light fields sustained by two optical cavities arises in such a situation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. B. Plenio , S. F. Huelga

Free-electron interactions with light and matter have long served as a cornerstone for exploring the quantum and ultrafast dynamics of material excitation. In recent years, this paradigm has evolved from a classical description of radiation…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fatemeh Chahshouri , Sven Ebel , Mitja Funk , Nahid Talebi

We study the remote entanglement generation between macroscopic microwave magnon modes in a coupled cavity system. The cavities are connected via an optical fiber, which necessitates the use of a frequency conversion inside the cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Da-Wei Luo , Xiao-Feng Qian , Ting Yu

The cavity-optomechanical radiation pressure interaction provides the means to create entanglement between a mechanical oscillator and an electromagnetic field interacting with it. Here we show how we can utilize this entanglement within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Sebastian G. Hofer , Klemens Hammerer

Microwave-optics entanglement is a vital component for building hybrid quantum networks. Here, a new mechanism for preparing stationary entanglement between microwave and optical cavity fields in a cavity optomagnomechanical system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Zhi-Yuan Fan , Liu Qiu , Simon Gröblacher , Jie Li

We propose a scheme able to generate stationary continuous variable entanglement between an optical and a microwave cavity mode by means of their common interaction with a micro-mechanical resonator. We show that when both cavities are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Sh. Barzanjeh , D. Vitali , P. Tombesi , G. J. Milburn

The outstanding progress in nanostructure fabrication and cooling technologies allows what was unthinkable a few decades ago: bringing single-mode mechanical vibrations to the quantum regime. The coupling between photon and phonon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 H. Flayac , M. Minkov , V. Savona

We study entanglement dynamics in dispersive optomechanical systems consisting of two optical modes and a mechanical oscillator inside an optical cavity. The two optical modes interact with the mechanical oscillator, but not directly with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Igor Brandão , Bruno Suassuna , Bruno Melo , Thiago Guerreiro

Entanglement engineering plays a central role in quantum-enhanced technologies, with potential physical platforms that outperform their classical counterparts. However, free electrons remain largely unexplored despite their great capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Shahaf Asban , Javier García de Abajo

The novel quantum effects induced by the free-electron-photons interaction have attracted increasing interest due to their potential applications in ultrafast quantum information processing. Here, we propose a scheme to generate optical cat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Feng-Xiao Sun , Yiqi Fang , Qiongyi He , Yunquan Liu

We study entanglement of the cavity modes in a double-cavity optomechanical system in strong-coupling regime. The system consists of two optomechanical systems coupled by a single photon hopping between them. With the radiation pressure of…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-29 Ding-Shan Liu , Pu-Tong Wang , Ming Jin , Miao Yin

We study theoretically the entanglement of two-photon states in the ground state of the intersubband cavity system, the so-called polariton vacuum. The system consists of a sequence of doped quantum wells located inside a microcavity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Adrian Auer , Guido Burkard

Quantum entanglement in macroscopic systems is not only essential for practical quantum information processing, but also valuable for the study of the boundary between quantum and classical world. However, it is very challenge to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Guoyao Li , Zhang-qi Yin

Since its inception, research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has extended our understanding of light-matter interactions and our ability to utilize them. Thus far, all the work in this field has been focused on light interacting…

We suggest that atoms undergoing Bragg deflection from a cavity field introduce entanglement between their external degrees of freedom. The atoms interact with an electromagnetic cavity field which is far detuned from atomic transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Aeysha Khalique , Farhan Saif