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Probabilistic entangling measurements are key operations in linear-optical quantum technologies, enabling the generation and manipulation of high-dimensional quantum states. While prior research has focused predominantly on specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 A. A. Melkozerov , M. Yu. Saygin , S. S. Straupe

This is a short overview explaining how building a large-scale, silicon-photonic quantum computer has been reduced to the creation of good sources of 3-photon entangled states (and may simplify further). Given such sources, each photon need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Terry Rudolph

The generation of quantum entangled states of many particles is a central goal of quantum information science. Characterizing such states is a complex task that demands exponentially large resources as particles are being added. Previously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 E. Megidish , A. Halevy , Y. Pilnyak , A. Slapa , H. S. Eisenberg

We theoretically demonstrate a method for producing the maximally path-entangled state (1/Sqrt[2]) (|N,0> + exp[iN phi] |0,N>) using intensity-symmetric multiport beamsplitters, single photon inputs, and either photon-counting postselection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Pryde , A. G. White

The ability to generate entangled states of light is a key primitive for quantum communication and distributed quantum computation. Continuously driven sources, including those based on spontaneous parametric downconversion, are usually…

In this work, a theoretical generalization of Lloyd's quantum illumination to signal beams described by two entangled photon states is developed. It is shown that the new protocol offers a method to find the range of the target, reduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel , Peter Knott

Entanglement has evolved from an enigmatic concept of quantum physics to a key ingredient of quantum technology. It explains correlations between measurement outcomes that contradict classical physics, and has been widely explored with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Philip Thomas , Leonardo Ruscio , Olivier Morin , Gerhard Rempe

Optical photons are powerful carriers of quantum information, which can be delivered in free space by satellites or in fibers on the ground over long distances. Entanglement of quantum states over long distances can empower quantum…

Multi-photon entangled graph states are a fundamental resource in quantum communication networks, distributed quantum computing, and sensing. These states can in principle be created deterministically from quantum emitters such as optically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Bikun Li , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

We describe a protocol capable of preparing an arbitrary state of two photons in several spatial modes using pairs of photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, linear optical elements and single-photon detectors or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karel Lemr , Jaromir Fiurasek

Current photon entangling schemes require resources that grow with the photon number. We present a new approach that generates quantum entanglement between many photons, using only a single source of entangled photon pairs. The different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 E. Megidish , T. Shacham , A. Halevy , L. Dovrat , H. S. Eisenberg

We present a theoretical framework to describe the collective emission of light by entangled atomic states. Our theory applies to the low excitation regime, where most of the atoms are initially in the ground state, and relies on a bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Porras , J. I. Cirac

Entangled photons can be used to make measurements with an accuracy beyond that possible with classical light. While most implementations of quantum metrology have used states made up of a single colour of photons, we show that entangled…

Hybrid bosonic codes combining bosonic codes with photon states offer a promising pathway for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, the efficient generation of such states in optical setups remains technically challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Shohei Kiryu , Yohji Chin , Masahiro Takeoka , Kosuke Fukui

Quantum phenomena such as entanglement can improve fundamental limits on the sensitivity of a measurement probe. In optical interferometry, a probe consisting of $N$ entangled photons provides up to a $\sqrt{N}$ enhancement in phase…

We suggest an efficient scheme for quantum computation with linear optical elements utilizing "linked" photon states. The linked states are designed according to the particular quantum circuit one wishes to process. Once a linked-state has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nadav Yoran , Benni Reznik

Precision measurements of optical phases have many applications in science and technology. Entangled multi-photon states have been suggested for performing such measurements with precision that significantly surpasses the shot-noise limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Giora Peniakov , Zu-En Su , Ayal Beck , Dan Cogan , Or Amar , David Gershoni

Quantum state engineering of light is of great interest for quantum technologies, particularly generating non-classical states of light, and is often studied through quantum conditioning approaches. Recently, we demonstrated that such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 J. Rivera-Dean , Th. Lamprou , E. Pisanty , M. F. Ciappina , P. Tzallas , M. Lewenstein , P. Stammer

This paper proposes a machine learning method to characterize photonic states via a simple optical circuit and data processing of photon number distributions, such as photonic patterns. The input states consist of two coherent states used…

Entangling photons is a critical challenge for photonic quantum information processing: entanglement is a crucial resource for quantum communication and computation but can only be performed in a probabilistic manner when using linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Grégoire de Gliniasty , Paul Bagourd , Sébastien Draux , Boris Bourdoncle