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Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Quantum technologies have surpassed classical systems by leveraging the unique properties of superposition and entanglement in photons and matter. Recent advancements in integrated quantum photonics, especially in silicon-based and lithium…

Controlling the photon statistics of light is paramount for quantum science and technologies. Recently, we demonstrated that transmitting resonant laser light past an ensemble of two-level emitters can result in a stream of single photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Martin Cordier , Max Schemmer , Philipp Schneeweiss , Jürgen Volz , Arno Rauschenbeutel

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

Quantum target detection is an emerging application that utilizes entanglement to enhance the sensing of the presence of an object. Although several experimental demonstrations for certain situations have been reported recently, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Feixiang Xu , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Liang Xu , Tao Jiang , Man-Hong Yung , Lijian Zhang

Quantum-enhanced optical systems operating within the 2- to 2.5-$\mu$m spectral region have the potential to revolutionize emerging applications in communications, sensing, and metrology. However, to date, sources of entangled photons have…

Linus Pauling contributions span structural biology, chemistry in its broadest definition, quantum mechanical theory, valence bond theory, and even nuclear physics. A principal tool developed and used by Pauling is Xray, and electron,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Cherif F. Matta , Lulu Huang , Lou Massa

Metasurfaces mold the flow of classical light waves by engineering sub-wavelength patterns from dielectric or metallic thin films. We describe and analyze a method in which quantum operator-valued reflectivity can be used to control both…

An experimental method for obtaining quantum interference signal in atomic ensemble using a bi-chromatic field is discussed. Here, the quantum interference signal is obtained by scanning the magnetic field rather than conventional method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Niladri Ghorui , Sudip Mandal , Swarupananda Pradhan

We show that quantum computational imaging is advantageous in the setting of low-dose electron microscopy of beam-sensitive specimens. Two qudits placed near the electron beam enable full transfer of quantum information between the electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Hiroshi Okamoto

We present experimental results demonstrating the quantum interference of two photons distinguishable in their transverse momenta, each entering the input ports of a balanced beam splitter. This counterintuitive interference effect is made…

We show that quantum frequency conversion (QFC) can overcome the spectral distinguishability common to inhomogeneously broadened solid-state quantum emitters. QFC is implemented by combining single photons from an InAs quantum dot (QD) at…

We theoretically investigate the quantum scattering of a single-photon pulse interacting with an ensemble of $\Lambda$-type three-level atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. With an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Guo-Zhu Song , Ewan Munro , Wei Nie , Fu-Guo Deng , Guo-Jian Yang , Leong-Chuan Kwek

We have shown that quantum interference in a driven quasi-degenerate two-level atomic system can be controlled by an externally applied magnetic field. We demonstrate that the mechanism of optical control is based on quantum interference,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Yu. M. Golubev , T. Yu. Golubeva , Yu. V. Rostovtsev , M. O. Scully

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Quantum correlation of two-photon states has been utilized to suppress the environmental noise in imaging down to the single-photon level. However, the size of the coherence area of photon pairs limits the applications of quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

Advances in micro-technology of the last years have made it possible to carry optics textbooks experiments over to atomic and molecular beams, such as diffraction by a double slit or transmission grating. The usual wave-optical approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Thorsten Koehler

We propose a probabilistic quantum algorithm that decides whether a monochrome picture matches a given template (or one out of a set of templates). As a major advantage to classical pattern recognition, the algorithm just requires a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Gernot Schaller , Ralf Schützhold

No imaging apparatus can produce perfect images: spatial resolution is limited by the Rayleigh diffraction bound that is a consequence of the imager's finite spatial extent. We show some N-photon strategies that permit resolution of details…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Using far field optical lithography, a single quantum dot is positioned within a pillar microcavity with a 50 nm accuracy. The lithography is performed in-situ at 10 K while measuring the quantum dot emission. Deterministic spectral and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-05 A. Dousse , L. Lanco , J. Suffczynski , E. Semenova , A. Miard , A. Lemaitre , I. Sagnes , C. Roblin , J. Bloch , P. Senellart