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Publications (17)

quant-ph2019

Single-Photon Distillation via a Photonic Parity Measurement Using Cavity QED

Severin Daiss, Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker +2

Single photons with tailored temporal profiles are a vital resource for future quantum networks. Here we distill them out of custom-shaped laser pulses that reflect from a single a…

physics.optics2026

High-NA vectorial hologram optimization

Michael Wischert, Fiona Hellstern, Paul Uerlings +3

We present a vectorial phase-only framework for the gradient-based optimization of computer-generated holograms. Our approach addresses a critical limitation in high numerical aper…

quant-ph2019

Deterministic creation of entangled atom-light Schrödinger-cat states

Bastian Hacker, Stephan Welte, Severin Daiss +4

Quantum physics allows for entanglement between microscopic and macroscopic objects, described by discrete and continuous variables, respectively. As in Schrödinger's famous cat g…

quant-ph2017

A photon-photon quantum gate based on a single atom in an optical resonator

Bastian Hacker, Stephan Welte, Gerhard Rempe +1

Two photons in free space pass each other undisturbed. This is ideal for the faithful transmission of information, but prohibits an interaction between the photons as required for…

quant-ph2024

Low-excitation transport and separation of high-mass-ratio mixed-species ion chains

Francesco Lancellotti, Stephan Welte, Matteo Simoni +6

We demonstrate low-excitation transport and separation of two-ion crystals consisting of one beryllium and one calcium ion, with a high mass ratio of . The full separation inv…

quant-ph2024

A quantum-network register assembled with optical tweezers in an optical cavity

Lukas Hartung, Matthias Seubert, Stephan Welte +2

Quantum computation and quantum communication are expected to provide users with capabilities inaccessible by classical physics. However, scalability to larger systems with many qu…

quant-ph2017

Cavity Carving of Atomic Bell States

Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Severin Daiss +2

We demonstrate entanglement generation of two neutral atoms trapped inside an optical cavity. Entanglement is created from initially separable two-atom states through carving with…

quant-ph2024

A nondestructive Bell-state measurement on two distant atomic qubits

Stephan Welte, Philip Thomas, Lukas Hartung +5

One of the most fascinating aspects of quantum networks is their capability to distribute entanglement as a nonlocal communication resource. In a first step, this requires network-…

quant-ph2026

Error Correction of Beamsplitter-Generated Entangled GKP States

Moritz Fontboté-Schmidt, Jeremy Metzner, Florence Berterottière +8

To be useful, quantum computers will be required to successfully correct errors occurring at the hardware level. Bosonic codes provide a hardware-efficient option for error correct…

quant-ph2021

A Quantum-Logic Gate between Distant Quantum-Network Modules

Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, Stephan Welte +5

The big challenge in quantum computing is to realize scalable multi-qubit systems with cross-talk free addressability and efficient coupling of arbitrarily selected qubits. Quantum…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Teleportation between Remote Qubit Memories with Only a Single Photon as a Resource

Stefan Langenfeld, Stephan Welte, Lukas Hartung +5

Quantum teleportation enables the deterministic exchange of qubits via lossy channels. While it is commonly believed that unconditional teleportation requires a preshared entangled…

quant-ph2021

Detecting an Itinerant Optical Photon Twice without Destroying It

Emanuele Distante, Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld +5

Nondestructive quantum measurements are central for quantum physics applications ranging from quantum sensing to quantum computing and quantum communication. Employing the toolbox…

quant-ph2024

Modular variable laser cooling for efficient entropy extraction

Brennan de Neeve, Thanh-Long Nguyen, Alexander Ferk +5

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for laser cooling an oscillator based on sequences of spin-state-dependent displacements followed by spin repumping. For a therma…

quant-ph2024

Two-qubit operations for finite-energy Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill encodings

Ivan Rojkov, Paul Moser Röggla, Martin Wagener +4

We present techniques for performing two-qubit gates on Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes with finite energy, and find that operations designed for ideal infinite-energy codes…

quant-ph2018

Photon-Mediated Quantum Gate between Two Trapped Neutral Atoms in an Optical Cavity

Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Severin Daiss +2

Quantum logic gates are fundamental building blocks of quantum computers. Their integration into quantum networks requires strong qubit coupling to network channels, as can be real…

quant-ph2025

Tweezer-assisted subwavelength positioning of atomic arrays in an optical cavity

Matthias Seubert, Lukas Hartung, Stephan Welte +2

We present an experimental technique that enables the preparation of defect-free arrays of 87Rb atoms within a microscopic high-finesse optical standing-wave cavity. By employing o…

physics.atom-ph2026

Two-dimensional shelving spectroscopy of ultraviolet ground state transitions in dysprosium

Kevin S. H. Ng, Paul Uerlings, Fiona Hellstern +5

The open inner-shell electronic structure of lanthanides with large magnetic moments gives rise to a rich spectrum of transitions available for laser cooling, trapping, and coheren…