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N00N states -- maximally path-entangled states of N photons -- exhibit spatial interference patterns sharper than any classical interference pattern. This is known as super-resolution. However, even with perfectly efficient number-resolving…

Free electrons provide a powerful tool to probe material properties at atomic-scale spatial resolution. Recent advances in ultrafast electron microscopy enable the manipulation of free electron wavefunctions using laser pulses. It would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ron Ruimy , Alexey Gorlach , Chen Mechel , Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Stepan Balybin , Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili

Quantum metrology employs quantum effects to attain a measurement precision surpassing the limit achievable in classical physics. However, it was previously found that the precision returns the shot-noise limit (SNL) from the ideal Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Kai Bai , Zhen Peng , Hong-Gang Luo , Jun-Hong An

Macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as observed in superfluids and superconductors, have led to promising technological advancements and some of the most important tests of fundamental physics. At present, quantum detection of light is…

In the context of quantum integrated photonics, this work investigates the quantum properties of light generated by silicon and silicon nitride micro-resonators pumped in pulsed regime. The developed theoretical model, performed in terms of…

The standard quantum limit (SQL), also known as the shot-noise limit, defines how quantum fluctuations of light constrain measurement precision. In a benchmark experiment using the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), where a coherent state…

We propose a technique to obtain sub-wavelength resolution in quantum imaging with potentially 100% contrast using incoherent light. Our method requires neither path-entangled number states nor multi-photon absorption. The scheme makes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Thiel , T. Bastin , J. Martin , E. Solano , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

Photon number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) are the ultimate optical sensors. Superconducting-nanostrip photon detectors (SNSPDs), traditionally known as ON-OFF detectors, have recently been found to have photon number resolving capability…

We present an advanced quantum super-resolution imaging technique based on photon statistics measurement and its accurate modeling. Our reconstruction algorithm adapts to any kind of non-Poissonian emitters, outperforming the corresponding…

The interaction of photons and coherent quantum systems can be employed to detect electromagnetic radiation with remarkable sensitivity. We introduce a quantum radiometer based on the photon-induced-dephasing process of a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhixin Wang , Mingrui Xu , Xu Han , Wei Fu , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Hong X. Tang , S. Shankar , M. H. Devoret

We suggest a new method for quantum optical control with nanoscale resolution. Our method allows for coherent far-field manipulation of individual quantum systems with spatial selectivity that is not limited by the wavelength of radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-10 Alexey V. Gorshkov , Liang Jiang , Markus Greiner , Peter Zoller , Mikhail D. Lukin

Multi-photon entangled states such as `N00N states' have attracted a lot of attention because of their possible application in high-precision phase measurements. So far, N00N states have been generated by spontaneous parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-04 Markus Müller , Hüseyin Vural , Peter Michler

Super-resolution is a machine-learning technique in image processing which generates high-resolution images from low-resolution images. Inspired by this approach, we perform a numerical experiment of quantum machine learning, which takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rei Sakuma , Yutaro Iiyama , Lento Nagano , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

The principles of quantum optics have yielded a plethora of ideas to surpass the classical limitations of sensitivity and resolution in optical microscopy. While some ideas have been applied in proof-of-principle experiments, imaging a…

A novel method of macroscopically entangled light-pair generation is presented for a quantum laser using randomness-based deterministic phase control of coherent light in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). Unlike the particle nature-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Byoung S. Ham

The quantum eraser effect exemplifies the distinct properties of quantum mechanics that challenge classical intuition and expose the wave-particle duality of light. This effect has been extensively explored in various experiments; most of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ye Yang , Chengyuan Wang , Yun Chen , Jianyi Xv , Xin Yang , Jinwen Wang , Shuwei Qiu , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Quantum tomography is an essential experimental tool for testing any quantum technology implementations. Transverse spatial quantum states of light play a key role in many experiments in the field of quantum information as well as in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 K. S. Kravtsov , A. K. Zhutov , S. P. Kulik

We demonstrate phase super-resolution in the absence of entangled states. The key insight is to use the inherent time-reversal symmetry of quantum mechanics: our theory shows that it is possible to \emph{measure}, as opposed to prepare,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Resch , K. L. Pregnell , R. Prevedel , A. Gilchrist , G. J. Pryde , J. L. O'Brien , A. G. White

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are building blocks of quantum technologies. Defect engineering of 2D materials is ideal to fabricate SPEs, wherein spatially deterministic and quality-preserving fabrication methods are critical for…