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Lasers serve as the fundamental workhorses of photonic quantum technologies, with perfectly coherent light fields being essential for many protocols that generate nonclassical light, implement coherent control schemes, and initialize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yannik Brune , Marius Cizauskas , Marc Aßmann

The relations between quantum coherence and quantum interference are discussed. A general method for generation of quantum coherence through interference-induced state selection is introduced and then applied to `simple' atomic systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Claude Garreau

This article introduces a novel approach to perform the simulation of a single qubit quantum algorithm using laser beams. Leveraging the polarization states of photonic qubits, and inspired by variational quantum eigensolvers, we develop a…

The production of pairs of entangled photons simply by focusing a laser beam onto a crystal with a non-linear optical response was used to test quantum mechanics and to open new approaches in imaging. The development of the latter was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

Recent advances in optical imaging and communication increasingly involve high-dimensional, partially coherent light, creating a growing need for scalable tools to measure and manipulate coherence. Here, we demonstrate the automatic…

Coincidence detection is a key technique used in nonlocal quantum-correlation measurements to test Bell inequality violation between remotely separated local detectors. With individual uniform intensity of local measurements, the nonlocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 B. S. Ham

The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifying so-called quantum macroscopicity is fraught with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Benjamin Yadin , Matteo Fadel

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, coherence and Bell nonlocality have been individually examined through many experiments. In this Letter, we systematically characterize all of this quantumness in a unified manner. We first construct…

Quantum entanglement between two or more bipartite entities is a core concept in quantum information areas limited to microscopic regimes directly governed by Heisenberg uncertainty principle via quantum superposition, resulting in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Byoung S. Ham

Quantum entanglement is one of the core features of quantum theory. While it is typically revealed by measurements along carefully chosen directions, here we review different methods based on so-called random or randomized measurements.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Lukas Knips

Quantum interferometry methods exploit quantum resources, such as photonic entanglement, to enhance phase estimation beyond classical limits. Nonlinear optics has served as a workhorse for the generation of entangled photon pairs, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Romain Dalidet , Anthony Martin , Grégory Sauder , Laurent Labonté , Sébastien Tanzilli

A photon linear collider, the two-photon collision mode of an $e^+e^-$ linear collider, uses high-energy laser photons backscattered off the incoming electrons and positrons. The colliding-photon polarization is fully controllable through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Seong Youl Choi , Dong Woo Kang , Jae Sik Lee , Chan Beom Park

We investigate coherence in one- and two-photon optical systems, both theoretically and experimentally. In the first case, we develop the density operator representing a single photon state subjected to a non-dissipative coupling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew J. Berglund

We theoretically and experimentally investigate quantum features of an interacting light-matter system from a multidisciplinary perspective, unifying approaches from semiconductor physics, quantum optics, and quantum information science. To…

Optical entanglement is a key requirement for many quantum communication protocols. Conventionally entanglement is formed between two distinct beams, with the quantum correlations being measured at separate locations. We show entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 J. Janousek , K. Wagner , J-F. Morizur , N. Treps , P. K. Lam , C. C. Harb , H-A. Bachor

Entanglement is a key resource for fundamental tests of physics and emerging quantum technologies. In quantum optics, two perspectives on entanglement coexist. In the continuous-variable framework, entanglement is understood as holding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Dorian Schiffer , Marcus Huber , Elizabeth Agudelo

Quantum information science and intense laser matter interaction are two apparently unrelated fields. Here, we introduce the notion of quantum information theory to intense laser driven processes by providing the quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Philipp Stammer

We introduce a procedure based on quantum expectation values of measurement observables to characterize quantum coherence. Our measure allows one to quantify coherence without having to perform tomography of the quantum state, and can be…

Developments in the foundations of quantum mechanics have identified several attributes and tests associated with the "quantumness" of systems, including entanglement, nonlocality, quantum erasure, Bell test, etc. Here we introduce and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Torsten Scholak , Paul Brumer

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…