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Sub-picosecond coincidence timing from nonlocal intensity interference of entangled photons allows quantum interferometry for plasmas. Using a warm plasma dispersion relation, we correlate phase measurement sensitivity with different plasma…

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With the advancement of non-classical light sources such as single-photon and entangled-photon sources, innovative microscopy based on the quantum principles has been proposed over traditional microscopy. This paper introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

The more information a measurement provides about a quantum system's position statistics, the less information a subsequent measurement can provide about the system's momentum statistics. This information trade-off is embodied in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Gregory A. Howland , James Schneeloch , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

Two-photon states generated through degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can exhibit sharp correlations in the transverse spatial coordinates. This property leads to unique free-space propagation features. Here, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Yingwen Zhang , Benjamin Sussman , Ebrahim Karimi

We investigate two-photon quantum interference in an opaque scattering medium that intrinsically supports $10^6$ transmission channels. By adaptive spatial phase-modulation of the incident wavefronts, the photons are directed at targeted…

Quantum imaging with spatially entangled photons offers advantages such as enhanced spatial resolution, robustness against noise, and counter-intuitive phenomena, while a biphoton spatial aberration generally degrades its performance.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yi Zheng , Zhao-Di Liu , Jian-Shun Tang , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Structured photons are nowadays an interesting resource in classical and quantum optics due to the richness of properties they show under propagation, focusing and in their interaction with matter. Vectorial modes of light in particular, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Vincenzo D'Ambrosio , Gonzalo Carvacho , Iris Agresti , Lorenzo Marrucci , Fabio Sciarrino

The recent surface plasmon entanglement experiment [E. Altewischer et al., Nature (London) 418, 304 (2002)] is theoretically analyzed. The entanglement preservation upon transmission in the non-focused case is found to provide information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Esteban Moreno , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , Daniel Erni , J. Ignacio Cirac , L. Martin-Moreno

We study the transverse propagation of photons in a magnetized vacuum considering radiative corrections in the one-loop approximation. The dispersion equation is modified due to the magnetized photon self-energy in the transparency region…

We implement a double-pixel, compressive sensing camera to efficiently characterize, at high resolution, the spatially entangled fields produced by spontaneous parametric downconversion. This technique leverages sparsity in spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Gregory A. Howland , John C. Howell

We present the experimental realization of spatial quantum correlations of photons that are induced by multiple scattering of squeezed light. The quantum correlation relates photons propagating along two different light trajectories through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Stephan Smolka , Alexander Huck , Ulrik L. Andersen , Ad Lagendijk , Peter Lodahl

Entanglement verification and measurement is essential for experimental tests of quantum mechanics and also for quantum communication and information science. Standard methods of verifying entanglement in a bipartite mixed state require…

Scattering in complex media scrambles light, thus obscuring images and limiting applications from astronomy to microscopy. Existing computational and wavefront-shaping methods treat scattering as a linear optical-wave inversion problem that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chloé Vernière , Raphaël Guitter , Baptiste Courme , Hugo Defienne

We report experimental studies of the multi-photon quantum interference of a two-mode three-photon entangled Fock state $|2, 1\rangle$ + $|1, 2\rangle$ impinging on a two-port balanced beam splitter. When the distinguishability between the…

Partially coherent quantum-entangled beams combine quantum entanglement with partial coherence, allowing them to maintain quantum characteristics while being more resistant to distortions caused by random media during propagation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Sakshi Rao , Bhaskar Kanseri

The state of a two-particle system is called entangled when its quantum mechanical wave function cannot be factorized in two single-particle wave functions. Entanglement leads to the strongest counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Altewischer , M. P. van Exter , J. P. Woerdman

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

Based on two-photon entanglement, quantum remote sensing enables the measurement and detection to be done non-locally and remotely. However, little attention has been paid to implement a noncontact way to sense a real objects angular…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-30 Wuhong Zhang , Dongkai Zhang , Xiaodong Qiu , Lixiang Chen

Superposition is one of the most distinct features of quantum theory and has been demonstrated in numerous realizations of Young's classical double-slit interference experiment and its analogues. However, quantum entanglement - a…

The effect of turbulence on a pair of photons propagating together through the same medium is analyzed. The behavior is compared to the case where these photons propagate separately through different turbulent media. The analysis is done…

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