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Tomographic reconstruction of quantum states plays a fundamental role in benchmarking quantum systems and accessing information encoded in quantum-mechanical systems. Among the informationally complete sets of quantum measurements, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Victor Gonzalez Avella , Jakub Czartowski , Dardo Goyeneche , Karol Życzkowski

Solid-state quantum emitters have emerged as a leading quantum memory for quantum networking applications. However, standard optical characterization techniques are neither efficient nor repeatable at scale. In this work, we introduce and…

We demonstrate a novel concept for measuring time-varying electric field transients of petahertz-scale photons down to a single-photon regime. We observe a clear transition from classical to quantum nature of light that agrees with our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Dmitry A. Zimin , Arjun Ashoka , Florentin Reiter , Akshay Rao

We show how to achieve full spectral characterization of general multiaxis additive noise. Our pulsed spectral estimation technique is based on sequence repetition and frequency-comb sampling and is applicable even to models where a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Gerardo A. Paz-Silva , Leigh M. Norris , Félix Beaudoin , Lorenza Viola

The light reflectance and absorbance are calculated for a quantum well (QW) the width of which is comparable with the light wave length. The difference of the refraction coefficients of the quantum well and barriers is taken into account.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 I. G. Lang , S. T. Pavlov

Quantum state tomography (QST), the process through which the density matrix of a quantum system is characterized from measurements of specific observables, is a fundamental pillar in the fields of quantum information and computation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 J. L. Montenegro Ferreira , B. de Lima Bernardo

This paper presents premier and innovative time-domain multi-scale method for shape identification in electro-sensing using pulse-type signals. The method is based on transform-invariant shape descriptors computed from filtered polarization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Habib Ammari , Han Wang

The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcomes of different projective measurements to deliver a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Francesco Di Colandrea , Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

The characterization of mixtures of non-interacting, spectroscopically similar quantum components has important applications in chemistry, biology, and materials science. We introduce an approach based on quantum tracking control that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Alicia B. Magann , Gerard McCaul , Herschel A. Rabitz , Denys I. Bondar

The description of excited state dynamics in multichromophoric systems constitutes both a theoretical and experimental challenge in modern physical chemistry. An experimental protocol which can systematically characterize both coherent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-31 Joel Yuen-Zhou , Jacob J. Krich , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum technologies promise profound advances in communication security, sensing and computing. The underpinning hardware must be engineered to generate, manipulate and detect quantum phenomena with exceptional performance, whilst being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 R. N. Clark , B. Puzio , O. M. Green , S. T. Pradyumna , O. Trojak , A. Politi , J. C. F. Matthews

Pulsed parametric downconversion (PDC) processes generate photon pairs with a rich spectral-temporal structure, which offer an attractive potential for quantum information and communication applications. In this paper, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Benjamin Brecht , Christine Silberhorn

Light carrying spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) makes possible new types of optical vortices arising from transverse OAM. ST-OAM pulses exhibit novel properties during propagation, transmission, refraction, diffraction, and…

Quantum light pulses (QLPs) can be described by spatio-temporal modes, each of which is associated with a quantum state. In the mid-infrared spectral range, electro-optic sampling (EOS) provides a means to characterize quantum fluctuations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Geehyun Yang , Sandeep Sharma , Andrey S. Moskalenko

Quantum imaging with undetected light has recently emerged as a technique in which quantum correlations and nonlinear interferometry are combined to decouple illumination and detection paths. This approach has been more recently extended…

Quantum state tomography (QST) is a universal tool for the design and optimization of entangled-photon sources. It typically requires single-photon detectors and coincidence measurements. Recently, it was suggested that the information…

We propose a novel strategy to reconstruct the quantum state of dark systems, i.e., degrees of freedom that are not directly accessible for measurement or control. Our scheme relies on the quantum control of a two-level probe that exerts a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Yu Liu , Jiazhao Tian , Ralf Betzholz , Jianming Cai

Inspired by the recent developments in the research of atom-photon quantum interface and energy-time entanglement between single photon pulses, we propose to establish the concept of a special energy-time entanglement between a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Yuan Sun , Chang Liu , Bao-Quan Ou , Ping-Xing Chen

Inspired by the classical phenomenon of random walk, the concept of quantum walk has emerged recently as a powerful platform for the dynamical simulation of complex quantum systems, entanglement production and universal quantum computation.…

We measure the dynamics of a non-classical optical field using two-time second-order correlations in conjunction with pulsed excitation. The technique quantifies single-photon purity and coherence during the excitation-decay cycle of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Edward B. Flagg , Sergey V. Polyakov , Tim Thomay , Glenn S. Solomon