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We present measurements of the second-order coherence function on emission from single GaN quantum dots. In some cases a large degree of photon antibunching is observed, demonstrating isolation of a single quantum system. For a selected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles Santori , Stephan Gotzinger , Yoshihisa Yamamoto , Satoshi Kako , Katsuyuki Hoshino , Yasuhiko Arakawa

We report the first entanglement generation experiment using an on-chip slow light device. With highly efficient spontaneous four-wave mixing enhanced by the slow light effect in a coupled resonator optical waveguide based on a silicon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Hiroki Takesue , Nobuyuki Matsuda , Eiichi Kuramochi , Masaya Notomi

Ultracompact chip-integrated single-photon sources of collimated beams with polarizationencoded states are crucial for integrated quantum technologies. However, most of currently available single-photon sources rely on external bulky…

Nanophotonic entangled-photon sources are a critical building block of chip-scale quantum photonic architecture and have seen significant development over the past two decades. These sources generate photon pairs that typically span over a…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-10 Usman A. Javid , Jingwei Ling , Jeremy Staffa , Mingxiao Li , Yang He , Qiang Lin

Single-photon sources based on semiconductor quantum dots find several applications in quantum information processing due to their high single-photon indistinguishability, on-demand generation, and low multiphoton emission. In this context,…

Entangled photons are fundamental resources for quantum communication, computing, and networking. Among them, polarization-entangled photon pairs play an important role due to their straightforward state manipulation and direct use in…

We demonstrate a bright, narrowband, compact, quasi-phase-matched single-crystal source generating path-polarization-entangled photon pairs at 810 nm and 1550 nm at a maximum rate of 3 Mcounts/(s THz mW) after coupling to single-mode fiber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sauge , M. Swillo , M. Tengner , A. Karlsson

Deterministic generation of single photons is essential for many quantum information technologies. A bulk optical nonlinearity emitting a photon pair, where the measurement of one of the photons heralds the presence of the other, is…

Entanglement is a fundamental resource in quantum information processing. Several studies have explored the integration of sources of entangled states on a silicon chip but the sources demonstrated so far require millimeter lengths and pump…

Tantalum is a promising platform for superconducting quantum circuits, yet coherence times remain limited by dielectric losses from interfacial two-level systems (TLS), exacerbated by native oxide regrowth. Here, we implement molecular…

Scalable quantum technologies may be applied in prospective architectures employing traditional information processing elements, such as transistors, rectifiers, or switches modulated by low-power inputs. In this respect, recently developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Davide Rinaldi , Davide Nigro , Dario Gerace

We propose the use of weakly nonlinear passive materials for prospective applications in integrated quantum photonics. It is shown that strong enhancement of native optical nonlinearities by electromagnetic field confinement in photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Ferretti , V. Savona , D. Gerace

We demonstrate the full functionality of a circuit that generates single microwave photons on demand, with a wave packet that can be modulated with a near-arbitrary shape. We achieve such a high tunability by coupling a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 P. Forn-Díaz , C. W. Warren , C. W. S. Chang , A. M. Vadiraj , C. M. Wilson

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

Estimating the quality of a single-photon source is crucial for its use in quantum technologies. The standard test for semiconductor sources is a value of the second-order correlation function of the emitted field below $1/2$ at zero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Jorge Rolando Chavez-Mackay , Peter Grünwald , Blas Manuel Rodríguez-Lara

A normal metal - superconductor hybrid single-electron trap with tunable barrier is utilized as a tool for spectrum analysis at the extremely low signal levels, using only well filtered cryogenic microwave background as a photon source in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-26 J. S. Lehtinen , E. Mykkänen , A. Kemppinen , D. Golubev , S. V. Lotkhov , A. J. Manninen

The prospect of using the quantum nature of light for secure communication keeps spurring the search and investigation of suitable sources of entangled-photons. Semiconductor quantum dots are arguably the most attractive. They can generate…

We propose an efficient microwave-photonic modulator as a resource for stationary entangled microwave-optical fields and develop the theory for deterministic entanglement generation and quantum state transfer in multi-resonant electro-optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Alfredo Rueda , William Hease , Shabir Barzanjeh , Johannes M. Fink

We demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on thin-film lithium niobate (LN). Using a 250 um-long NbN superconducting nanowire lithographically defined on top of a 125 um-long LN nanowaveguide,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Ayed Al Sayem , Risheng Cheng , Sihao Wang , Hong X. Tang

Single photon detection is a requisite technique in quantum-optics experiments in both the optical and the microwave domains. However, the energy of microwave quanta are four to five orders of magnitude less than their optical counterpart,…