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The controlled interaction between a single, trapped, laser-driven atom and the mode of a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the generation of temporally separated, entangled light pulses. Entanglement between the photon-number…

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Stationary entanglement between the motion of macroscopic objects and light is a long-standing goal of quantum optomechanics, with implications for both fundamental tests of quantum physics and emerging quantum technologies. We report the…

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We propose a scheme for the generation of two-mode entangled states between two spatially separated cavities. It utilizes a two-level atom sequentially coupling to two high-Q cavities with a strong classical driving field. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pengbo Li

A strategy for generating entanglement in two separated optomechanical oscillators is analysed, using entangled radiation produced from downconversion and stored in an initiating cavity. We show that the use of pulsed entanglement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 S. Kiesewetter , R. Y. Teh , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

Nanoparticles trapped in optical tweezers emerged as an interesting platform for investigating fundamental effects in quantum physics. The ability to shape the optical trapping potential using spatial light modulation and quantum control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Anil Kumar Chauhan , Ondřej Černotík , Radim Filip

We study an optomechanical system in which the mechanical motion of a single trapped ion is coupled to a cavity field for the realization of a strongly quantum correlated two-mode system. We show that for large pump intensities the steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Aranya B. Bhattacherjee

In recent development of quantum technologies, a frequency conversion of quantum signals has been studied widely. We investigate the optic-microwave entanglement that is generated by applying an electro-optomechanical frequency conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Yonggi Jo , Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Dongkyu Kim , Zaeill Kim , Duk Y. Kim

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical fields can produce free-electron compression and push the temporal resolution of ultrafast electron microscopy to the attosecond regime. However, a large electron-light interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Cruz I. Velasco , F. Javier García de Abajo

We theoretically investigate the ability of free electrons to yield information on the nonlinear Floquet dynamics of atomic systems subject to intense external illumination. By applying a quantum-mechanical formalism to describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Eduardo Arqué López , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

We inspect different quantum optical setups from the viewpoint of entanglement generation and detection. As a first step we consider a planar semiconductor microcavity and optimize the Bell-type correlations and their robustness against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 D. Pagel , H. Fehske

Entangled photons are pivotal elements in emerging quantum information technologies. While several schemes are available for the production of entangled photons, they typically require the assistance of cumbersome optical elements to couple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

We propose a cavity-QED scheme for the controlled generation of sequences of entangled single-photon wavepackets. A photon is created inside a cavity via an active medium, such as an atom, and decays into the continuum of radiation modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. M. Gheri , C. Saavedra , P. Toermae , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

It is a long-standing goal to generate robust deterministic states of light with unique quantum properties, such as squeezing, sub-Poissonian statistics and entanglement. It is of interest to consider whether such quantum states of light…

Nonlinear optical phenomena such as parametric amplification and frequency conversion are typically driven by external optical fields. Free electrons can also act as electromagnetic sources, offering unmatched spatial precision. Combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Leila Prelat , Eduardo J. C. Dias , F. Javier García de Abajo

The interaction between molecular (atomic) electron(s) and the vacuum field of a reflective cavity generates a significant interest thanks to the rapid developments in nanophotonics. Such interaction which lies within the realm of cavity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander Semenov , Abraham Nitzan

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum theory as well as a key resource for quantum computing and quantum communication, but the entanglement mechanism has not been found at present. We think when the two subsystems exist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Xiang-Yao Wu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Jing-Bin Lu , Tian-Shun Li , Si-Qi Zhang , Yu Liang , Ji Ma , Hong Li

When connecting a voltage-biased Josephson junction in series to several microwave cavities, a Cooper-pair current across the junction gives rise to a continuous emission of strongly correlated photons into the cavity modes. Tuning the bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Simon Dambach , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold

Optically generated electron-hole pairs can probe strongly correlated electronic matter, or, by forming exciton-polaritons within an optical cavity, give rise to photonic nonlinearities. The present paper theoretically studies the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Tobias Graß , Ovidiu Cotlet , Atac İmamoğlu , Mohammad Hafezi

Optical polaritons appear when a material excitation strongly couples to the optical mode. Such strong coupling between molecular transitions and optical cavities results in far-reaching opportunities in modifying fundamental properties of…

Entanglement, a key resource of emerging quantum technologies, describes correlations between particles that defy classical physics. It has been studied extensively on various platforms, but has remained elusive in electron microscopy.…