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Combining decoherence protection with directional photon emission in a single waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) device remains an open challenge. Here we show that an artificial giant molecule -- strongly interacting artificial atoms…

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Local control of the generation and interaction of indistinguishable single photons is a key requirement for photonic quantum networks. Waveguide-based architectures, in which embedded quantum emitters act as both highly coherent single…

We present a basic building block of a quantum network consisting of a quantum dot coupled to a source cavity, which in turn is coupled to a target cavity via a waveguide. The single photon emission from the high-Q/V source cavity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Englund , Andrei Faraon , Bingyang Zhang , Yoshihisa Yamamoto , Jelena Vuckovic

Chiral quantum systems have received intensive attention in fundamental physics and applications in quantum information processing including optical isolation and photon unidirectional emission. Here, we design an on-chip emitter-resonator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Lei Tang , Jiangshan Tang , Weidong Zhang , Guowei Lu , Han Zhang , Yong Zhang , Keyu Xia , Min Xiao

We develop a new approach for controllable single-photon transport between two remote one-dimensional coupled-cavity arrays, used as quantum registers, mediated by an additional one-dimensional coupled-cavity array, acting as a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Wei Qin , Franco Nori

Time-frequency entangled photons constitute an important resource for a plethora of applications across the diverse quantum technology landscape. Thus, efficient and tunable setups for the generation of entangled photons are requisite for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Eugene Stolyarov

Single and two-mode multiphoton states are the cornerstone of many quantum technologies, e.g., metrology. In the optical regime these states are generally obtained combining heralded single-photons with linear optics tools and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 V. Paulisch , H. J. Kimble , J. I. Cirac , A. González-Tudela

Photon polarization serves as an essential quantum information carrier in quantum information and measurement applications. Routing of arbitrarily polarized single photons and polarization-entangled photons is a crucial technology for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Pengfei Wang , Soyoung Baek , Masahiro Yabuno , Shigehito Miki , Hirotaka Terai , Fumihiro Kaneda

We present recursive multiport schemes for implementing quantum Fourier transforms and the inversion step in Grover's algorithm on an integrated linear optics device. In particular, each scheme shows how to execute a quantum operation on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-18 Gelo Noel M. Tabia

Electromagnetic signals in circuits consist of discrete photons, though conventional voltage sources can only generate classical fields with a coherent superposition of many different photon numbers. While these classical signals can…

Single photons constitute a main platform in quantum science and technology: they carry quantum information over extended distances in the future quantum internet and can be manipulated in advanced photonic circuits enabling scalable…

Heralded single-photon sources are a fundamental building block for optical quantum technologies. These sources need to be unfiltered and integrated to have good scalability and avoid unnecessary losses. To attain this goal, it is necessary…

In this article, we consider a realistic waveguide implementation of a quantum network that serves as a testbed to show how to maximize the storage and manipulation of quantum information in QED setups. We analyze two approaches using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Guillermo F. Peñas , Ricardo Puebla , Juan José García-Ripoll

Strongly correlated multi-photon states are indispensable resources for advanced quantum technologies, yet their deterministic generation remains challenging due to the inherent weak nonlinearity in most optical systems. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jia-Qi Li , Anton Frisk Kockum , Xin Wang

Electromagnetic signals are always composed of photons, though in the circuit domain those signals are carried as voltages and currents on wires, and the discreteness of the photon's energy is usually not evident. However, by coupling a…

Chiral quantum optics has become a burgeoning field due to its potential applications in quantum networks or quantum simulation of many-body physics. Current implementations are based on the interplay between local polarization and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo , Chao Wan , David Zueco , Alejandro González-Tudela

We present a fully passive method for implementing a quantum phase gate between two photons travelling in a one-dimensional wave guide. The gate is based on chirally coupled emitters in a three-level $V$ configuration, which only interact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Björn Schrinski , Miren Lamaison , Anders S. Sørensen

We propose a scheme for performing quantum key distribution (QKD) which has the potential to beat schemes based on the direct transmission of photons between the communicating parties. In our proposal, the communicating parties exchange…

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