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It has been claimed that ``the use of entangled photons in an imaging system can exhibit effects that cannot be mimicked by any other two-photon source, whatever strength of the correlations between the two photons'' [A. F. Abouraddy, B. E.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunnar Bjork , Jonas Soderholm , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

The purpose of this paper is to propose quantum filters for a two-level atom driven by two continuous-mode counter-propagating photons and under continuous measurements. Two scenarios of multiple measurements, 1) homodyne detection plus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Zhiyuan Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Nina H. Amini

The use of entangled photons in an imaging system can exhibit effects that cannot be mimicked by any other two-photon source, whatever the strength of the correlations between the two photons. We consider a two-photon imaging system in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ayman F. Abouraddy , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Alexander V. Sergienko , Malvin C. Teich

In this article, we propose the two-photon interference imaging based on two-photon interference mechanism with thermal light source. Theoretical and experimental results show that the imaging quality and imaging speed of two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

The reaction $pp \to pp2\gamma$, proposed earlier to probe for the NN--decoupled dibaryon resonances, has been studied by the DIB$2\gamma$ Collaboration (JINR) and their preliminary data seem to give evidence for the resonance effect at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Gerasimov

The rapid advancement of quantum information technology has increased the demand for precise testing and calibration of quantum modules, especially in optical quantum circuits where module reliability directly impacts system performance. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xiaoqian Zhang , Maolin Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

For a number of basic experiments on two-photon intensity correlations it is pointed out that the results, which are usually explained in terms of the formalism of canonical field quantization, can also be explained in terms of quantum wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Arthur Jabs

The aim of this review paper is to enlighten some recent progresses in quantum optical metrology in the part of quantum efficiency measurements of photo-detectors performed with bi-photon states. The intrinsic correlated nature of entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Brida , M. Genovese , M. Gramegna

Multi-photon absorption processes have a nonlinear dependence on the amplitude of the incident optical field i.e. the number of photons. However, multi-photon absorption is generally weak and multi-photon events occur with extremely low…

Photosynthesis is the basic process used by plants to convert light energy in reaction centers into chemical energy. The high efficiency of this process is not yet understood today. Using the formalism for the description of open quantum…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Hichem Eleuch , Ingrid Rotter

We investigate the effect of a cavity on nonlinear two-photon transitions of a molecular system and how such an effect depends on the cavity quality factor, the field enhancement and the possibility of dephasing. We find that the molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Zeyu Zhou , Hsing-Ta Chen , Maxim Sukharev , Joseph E. Subotnik , Abraham Nitzan

We calculate the resonance fluorescence signal of a two-level system coupled to a quantized phonon mode. By treating the phonons in the independent boson model and not performing any approximations in their description, we also have access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Thilo Hahn , Daniel Groll , Hubert J. Krenner , Tilmann Kuhn , Paweł Machnikowski , Daniel Wigger

Quantum metrology deals with improving the resolution of instruments that are otherwise limited by shot noise and it is therefore a promising avenue for enabling scientific breakthroughs. The advantage can be even more striking when quantum…

Two photon collisions offer a variety of physics studies that can be performed at the future electron-positron colliders. Using the planned CEPC parameters as a benchmark we consider several topics to be studied in the two-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 I. R. Boyko , V. V. Bytev , A. S. Zhemchugov

A two-level quantum system can absorb or emit not more than one photon at a time. Using this fundamental property, we demonstrate how a superconducting quantum system strongly coupled to a transmission line can be used as a sensor of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 T. Hönigl-Decrinis , R. Shaikhaidarov , S. E. de Graaf , V. N. Antonov , O. V. Astafiev

Multiphoton interference is an important phenomenon in modern quantum mechanics and experimental quantum optics, and it is fundamental for the development of quantum information science and technologies. Over the last three decades, several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Heonoh Kim , Osung Kwon , Han Seb Moon

The purpose of this paper is to study the interaction between a two-level system and two continuous-mode photons. Two scenarios are investigated: Case 1, how a two-level system changes the pulse shapes of two input photons propagating in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Zhiyuan Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Nina H. Amini

A two-photon process leading to coherent transitions between the two circularly polarized exciton states in a quantum dot is studied. It is shown that optical flipping of the exciton polarization is possible with picosecond laser pulses.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-24 P. Machnikowski

We present the first observation of two-photon polarization interference structure in the second-order Glauber's correlation function of two-photon light generated via type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion. In order to obtain this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Brida , M. V. Chekhova , M. Genovese , M. Gramegna , L. A. Krivitsky

We report results of two-photon quantum holography where spatial information stored in phase holograms is retrieved by measuring quantum spatial correlations between two images formed by spatially entangled twin photons with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Fabrice Devaux , Alexis Mosset , Florent Bassignot , Eric Lantz