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In this paper, we write down the separable Werner state in a two-qubit system explicitly as a convex combination of product states, which is different from the convex combination obtained by Wootters' method. The Werner state in a two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroo Azuma , Masashi Ban

The ability to engineer pairs of entangled photons is essential to quantum information science, and generating these states using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nano- and micrometer-scale materials offers numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nicholas J. Sorensen , Vitaliy Sultanov , Maria V. Chekhova

We derive frequency correlation and exit probability expressions for photons generated via spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) in nonlinear waveguides that exhibit linear scattering loss. Such loss is included within a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 L. G. Helt , J. E. Sipe , M. J. Steel

We have studied theoretical un-symmetric multi-photon subtracted twin beam state and demonstrated a method for generating states that resembles to high photon number states with the increase in the number of subtracted photons through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 N. Samantaray , J. C. F. Matthews , J. G. Rarity

We demonstrate the novel effect of gain-induced spectral shifts in the type-II parametric down-conversion (PDC) process, which results in a transition from degenerate to non-degenerate PDC with increasing parametric gain. This effect,…

Schr\"odinger-cat (SC) states are an important resource for continuous-variable quantum computing and quantum metrology. In our previous work [JOSA B, 42, 2 (2025)], we proposed a probabilistic protocol for generating bright squeezed SC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. L. Gorshenin

I investigate the properties of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) involving co-linear Gaussian spatial modes for the pump and the photon collection optics. Approximate analytical and numerical results are obtained for the peak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Ryan S. Bennink

We propose an optical parametric down conversion (PDC) scheme that does not suffer a trade-off between the state-purity of single-photon wave-packets and the rate of packet production. This is accomplished by modifying the PDC process by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. G. Raymer , Jaewoo Noh , K. Banaszek , I. A. Walmsley

In this paper, we theoretically study spectral and temporal properties of pulsed spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) generated in lossy waveguides. Our theoretical approach is based on the formalism of Gaussian states and the…

We study the process of multimode Spontaneous Parametric Down--Conversion (SPDC) in the lossy, one dimensional waveguide. We propose a description using first order Correlation Functions (CF) in the fluorescence fields, as a very fruitful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Radoslaw Chrapkiewicz , Wojciech Wasilewski

Two-photon states entangled in continuous variables such as wavevector or frequency represent a powerful resource for quantum information protocols in higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces. At the same time, there is a problem of addressing…

We show deterministic generation of Werner states as a steady state of the collective decay dynamics of a pair of neutral atom coupled to a leaky cavity and strong coherent drive. We also show how the scheme can be extended to generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Girish S. Agarwal , Kishore T. Kapale

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a widely used source for photonic entanglement. Years of focused research have led to a solid understanding of the process, but a cohesive analytical description of the paraxial biphoton…

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a widely used process to prepare entangled photon pairs. In SPDC, a second-order nonlinear crystal is pumped by a coherent laser beam to generate photon pairs. The photon pairs are usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Richard Bernecker , Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Stephan Fritzsche

Multi-dimensional entangled states have been proven to be more powerful in some quantum information process. In this paper, down-converted photons from spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC) are used to engineer multi-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xi-Feng Ren , Guo-Ping Guo , Jian Li , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) is one of the most widely used methods to create pure single-photon states for quantum information applications. However little attention has been paid to higher-order photon components in the PDC process,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Andreas Christ , Christine Silberhorn

Photon sources based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) are central to experimental quantum optics and quantum technologies. Their performance is commonly quantified by three metrics: pair-collection probability, heralding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Carlos Sevilla-Gutiérrez , Varun Raj Kaipalath , Fabian Steinlechner

The decompositions of separable Werner state, and also isotropic state, are well-known tough issues in quantum information theory, in this work we investigate them in the Bloch vector representation, exploring the symmetric informationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Ma-Cheng Yang , Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

The process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nonlinear crystals makes it fairly easy to generate entangled photon states. It has been known for some time that the conversion efficiency can be improved by employing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jonas Soderholm , Keiichi Hirano , Shigehiko Mori , Shuichiro Inoue , Sunao Kurimura

Two-photon states generated from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can display entanglement in all degrees of freedom (DoFs) of light, including spatial, temporal, and polarization. The coupling between different DoFs of a…