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Continuous-variable (CV) measurement-device-independent (MDI) quantum key distribution (QKD) is immune to imperfect detection devices, which can eliminate all kinds of attacks on practical detectors. Here we first propose a CV-MDI QKD…

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Arbitrary manipulation of light across multiple physical dimensions is essential for harnessing its parallelism in fundamental research and advanced applications, such as optical interconnects, computing, imaging, sensing, and quantum…

Continuous-variable measurement-independent-device quantum key distribution (CV-MDI-QKD) can offer high secure key rate at metropolitan distance and remove all side channel loopholes of detection as well. However, there is no complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Hua-Lei Yin , Wei Zhu , Yao Fu

Self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) are of great interest as components of optoelectronic devices that can operate at the quantum limit. The charge configuration, interdot coupling, and symmetry of complexes containing multiple QDs can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xinran Zhou , Matthew Doty

Integrated quantum optics has drastically reduced the size of table-top optical experiments to the chip-scale, allowing for demonstrations of large-scale quantum information processing and quantum simulation. However, despite these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Aseema Mohanty , Mian Zhang , Avik Dutt , Sven Ramelow , Paulo Nussenzveig , Michal Lipson

This paper introduces a novel approach to implementing non-unitary linear transformations of basis on quantum computational platforms, a significant leap beyond the conventional unitary methods. By integrating Singular Value Decomposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Guorui Zhu , Joel Bierman , Jianfeng Lu , Yingzhou Li

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) using a true local (located at the receiver) oscillator (LO) has been proposed to remove any possibility of side-channel attacks associated with transmission of the LO as well as reduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Brian P. Williams , Bing Qi , Muneer Alshowkan , Philip G. Evans , Nicholas A. Peters

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC) lie at the forefront of quantum machine learning research. Still, the use of quantum networks for real data processing remains challenging as the number of available qubits cannot accommodate a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 G. Maragkopoulos , A. Mandilara , A. Tsili , D. Syvridis

The use of multidimensional modulations can decrease the energy consumption of optical links. In this paper, we propose and study Mode Vector Modulation (MVM), a generalized polarization modulation scheme for transmission over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Jaroslaw Kwapisz , Ioannis Roudas , Eric Fink

We present an approach that enables complete control over the amplitude, phase and arbitrary polarization state on the Poincar\'e sphere of an optical beam in a 4-f system with a spatial light modulator (SLM). The beams can be constructed…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-29 Hao Chen , Tianxiang Huang , Jianping Ding , Guoqiang Li

The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has achieved its reputation by providing a multi-scale time-frequency representation of nonlinear and/or nonstationary signals. To extend this method to vector-valued signals (VvS) in multidimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Boqiang Huang , Angela Kunoth

Reconfigurable quantum circuits are fundamental building blocks for the implementation of scalable quantum technologies. Their implementation has been pursued in linear optics through the engineering of sophisticated interferometers. While…

Scalable, reliable quantum light sources are essential for increasing quantum channel capacity and advancing quantum protocols based on photonic qubits. Although recent developments in solid-state quantum emitters have enabled the…

Entanglement resources are key ingredients of future quantum technologies. If they could be efficiently integrated into a semiconductor platform a new generation of devices could be envisioned, whose quantum-mechanical functionalities are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Rinaldo Trotta , Johannes S. Wildmann , Eugenio Zallo , Oliver G. Schmidt , Armando Rastelli

Vortex beams are a type of structured light characterized by phase rotation around the propagation axis, resulting in orbital angular momentum. Their properties make them useful in various applications such as high-resolution microscopy,…

High-dimensional entanglement offers a variety of advantages for both fundamental and applied applications in quantum information science. A central building block for such applications is a programmable processor of entangled states, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Ohad Lib , Kfir Sulimany , Yaron Bromberg

Advances in nanotechnology provide techniques for the realisation of integrated quantum-optical circuits for on-chip quantum information processing(QIP). The indistinguishable single photons, required for such devices can be generated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 M. N. Makhonin , J. E. Dixon , R. J. Coles , B. Royall , E. Clarke , M. S. Skolnick , A. M. Fox

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are being regarded as the primary unit for a wide range of advanced and emerging technologies including electronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics and biosensing applications as well as the domain of q-bits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Subhrajit Sikdar , Basudev Nag Chowdhury , Rajib Saha , Sanatan Chattopadhyay

We demonstrate the capability to discretize the frequency spectrum of broadband energy-time entangled photons by means of a spatial light modulator to encode qudits in various bases. Exemplarily, we implement three different discretization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Bänz Bessire , Christof Bernhard , André Stefanov , Thomas Feurer

Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a promising approach to programmable photonics thanks to their nonvolatile, reversible phase transitions and high refractive index contrast. However, conventional designs are limited by…