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Spatially entangled twin photons provide both promising resources for modern quantum information protocols, because of the high dimensionality of transverse entanglement, and a test of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(EPR) paradox in its…

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Cold atomic ensembles can mediate the generation of entanglement between pairs of photons. Photons with specific directions of propagation are detected, and the entanglement can reside in any of the degrees of freedom that describe the…

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We report the first experimental demonstration of two-photon imaging with a pseudo-thermal source. Similarly to the case of entangled states, a two-photon Gaussian thin lens equation is observed, indicating EPR type correlation in position.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alejandra Valencia , Giuliano Scarcelli , Milena D'Angelo , Y. Shih

Polarization-entangled photon pairs generated from second-order nonlinear optical media have been extensively studied for both fundamental research and potential applications of quantum information. In spontaneous parametric down-conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 B. S. Ham

We report the efficient creation and detection of hybrid entanglement between one photon's polarization and another photon's complex transverse polarization pattern. The polarization measurement of the first photon triggers a polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Robert Fickler , Radek Lapkiewicz , Sven Ramelow , Anton Zeilinger

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entanglement is of special importance not only for fundamental research in quantum mechanics, but also for quantum information processing. Establishing EPR entanglement between two memory systems, such as…

Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro

We present the experimental observation of polarization entanglement for three spatially separated photons. Such states of more than two entangled particles, known as GHZ states, play a crucial role in fundamental tests of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dik Bouwmeester , Jian-Wei Pan , Matthew Daniell , Harald Weinfurter , Anton Zeilinger

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

Spatially entangled photon pairs (biphotons) generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion offer unique opportunities for quantum imaging, but image-plane biphoton correlations are difficult to observe with camera-based detectors.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 David McFadden , Rainer Heintzmann

Detecting object with low reflectivity embedded within a noisy background is a challenging task. Quantum correlations between pairs of quantum states of light, though are highly sensitive to background noise and losses, offer advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 K. Muhammed Shafi , A. Padhye , C. M. Chandrashekar

We establish a quantum theory of computational ghost imaging and propose quantum projection imaging where object information can be reconstructed by quantum statistical correlation between a certain photon number of bucket signal and DMD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 De-Zhong Cao , Su-Heng Zhang , Ya-Nan Zhao , Cheng Ren , Jun Zhang , Baolai Liang , Baoqing Sun , Kaige Wang

Ghost imaging was first demonstrated with entangled photon pairs and well-known for its peculiar properties. The signal beam that illuminates the object possesses no spatial resolution, whereas the reference beam, which never interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Meixue Chen , Yiqi Song , Yu Gu , Huafan Zhang , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

Quantum imaging has been demonstrated since 1995 by using entangled photon pairs. The physics community named these experiments "ghost image", "quantum crypto-FAX", "ghost interference", etc. Recently, Bennink et al. simulated the "ghost"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Milena D'Angelo , Yanhua Shih

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entanglement introduced in 1935 deals with two particles that are entangled in their positions and momenta. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of EPR position-momentum entanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jong-Chan Lee , Kwang-Kyoon Park , Tian-Ming Zhao , Yoon-Ho Kim

We extend entangled coincidence (ghost) imaging to fluorescent samples. Given the entangled photon correlation, one photon of the pair carries information on where the other photon has been absorbed and has produced fluorescence in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giuliano Scarcelli , Seok Hyun Yun

Quantum imaging with undetected photons spatially transfers amplitude and phase information from one spectral region of physical interest to another spectral region that is easy to detect. The photon energy of the two spectral regions can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mirco Kutas , Felix Riexinger , Jens Klier , Daniel Molter , Georg von Freymann

Quantum entanglement is central to both the foundations of quantum mechanics and the development of new technologies in information processing, communication, and sensing. Entanglement has been realised in a variety of physical systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Jan-Wilke Henke , Hao Jeng , Murat Sivis , Claus Ropers

Ghost imaging is an unconventional optical imaging technique that reconstructs the shape of an object combining the measurement of two signals: one that interacted with the object, but without any spatial information, the other containing…