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Coherent manipulation of quantum states of light is key to photonic quantum information processing. In this Letter, we show that a passive two-level nonlinearity suffices to implement non-Gaussian quantum operations on propagating field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Mads M. Lund , Fan Yang , Victor Rueskov Christiansen , Danil Kornovan , Klaus Mølmer

Single-photon detectors and nanoscale superconducting devices are two major candidates for realizing quantum technologies. Superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) comprise these two solid-state and optic aspects enabling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-24 Itamar Holzman , Yachin Ivry

Even though heralded single-photon sources have been generated routinely through the spontaneous parametric down conversion, vacuum and multiple photon states are unavoidably involved. With machine-learning, we report the experimental…

Photon-number resolving detectors with hundreds of pixels are now readily available, while the characterization of these detectors using detector tomography is computationally intensive. Here, we present a modified detector tomography model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Dong-Sheng Liu , Jia-Qi Wang , Chang-Ling Zou , Xi-Feng Ren , Guang-Can Guo

We consider the quantum teleportation of continuous variables modeled by Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to a common quantum field initially in the Minkowski vacuum. An unknown coherent state of an Unruh-DeWitt detector is teleported from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Shih-Yuin Lin , Kazutomu Shiokawa , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu

The measurement procedures used in quantum teleportation are analyzed from the viewpoint of the general theory of quantum-mechanical measurements. It is shown that to find the teleported state one should only know the identity resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Molotkov , S. S. Nazin

Squeezed states of light are one of the most important fundamental resources for quantum optics, optical quantum information processing and quantum sensing. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that the squeezing of single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jaromír Fiurášek , Stephan Grebien , Roman Schnabel

We propose a novel approach to the important fundamental problem of detecting weak optical fields at the few photon level. The ability to detect with high efficiency (>99%), and to distinguish the number of photons in a given time interval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel James , Paul Kwiat

We have demonstrated efficient production of triggered single photons by coupling a single semiconductor quantum dot to a three-dimensionally confined optical mode in a micropost microcavity. The efficiency of emitting single photons into a…

We experimentally demonstrate a new measurement scheme for the discrimination of two coherent states. The measurement scheme is based on a displacement operation followed by a photon number resolving detector, and we show that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Christoffer Wittmann , Ulrik L. Andersen , Masahiro Takeoka , Denis Sych , Gerd Leuchs

The reconstruction of density matrices from measurement data (quantum state tomography) is the most comprehensive method for assessing the accuracy and performance of quantum devices. Existing methods to reconstruct two-photon density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Salini Rajeev , Mayukh Lahiri

We apply input-output theory with quantum pulses [AH Kiilerich, K M\o lmer, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 123}, 123604 (2019)] to a model of a new type of two-photon detector consisting of one molecule that can detect two photons arriving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Saumya Biswas , S. J. van Enk

The eavesdropper technique nowadays is already improved from the theoretical perspective to the experimental perspective. The technique now more focusing on the loopholes of the components used such as modulator, laser, and detector. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Norshamsuri Ali

We demonstrate the design of an integrated conditional quantum teleportation circuit and a readout circuit using a two-dimensional photonic crystal single chip. Fabrication and testing of the proposed quantum circuit can be accomplished…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Durdu Ö. Güney , David A. Meyer

Single-photon detectors have typically consisted of macroscopic materials where both the photon absorption and transduction to an electrical signal happen. Newly proposed designs suggest that large arrays of nanoscale detectors could…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-05 Catalin D. Spataru , François Léonard

In this paper, we analyze how multi-photon subtraction operations in a feedback-assisted interferometer can enhance measurement precision for single-parameter and two-parameter estimation under both ideal and photon-loss conditions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Qisi Zhou , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu , Sanqiu Liu

We propose an experimental protocol to realize discrete variable quantum teleportation using optomechanical devices. The photonic polarization superposition state of a single photon is teleported to a phononic superposition of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel Pautrel , Zakari Denis , Jérémy Bon , Adrien Borne , Ivan Favero

The superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) is a quantum-limit superconducting optical detector based on the Cooper-pair breaking effect by a single photon, which exhibits a higher detection efficiency, lower dark count…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-02 Lixing You

We present a gated silicon single photon detector based on a commercially available avalanche photodiode. Our detector achieves a photon detection efficiency of 45\pm5% at 808 nm with 2x 10^-6 dark count per ns at -30V of excess bias and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Lunghi , E. Pomarico , C. Barreiro , D. Stucki , B. Sanguinetti , H. Zbinden

A scheme is presented for the teleportation of an unknown atomic state between two separated cavities. The scheme involves two interaction-detection cycles and uses resonantly coupled atoms with an additional ground state not coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Shi-Biao Zheng