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quant-ph2017★ 12 cited

Coherent Population Trapping with a controlled dissipation: applications in optical metrology

L. Nicolas, T. Delord, P. Jamonneau +4

We analyze the properties of a pulsed Coherent Population Trapping protocol that uses a controlled decay from the excited state in a -level scheme. We study this problem analyti…

quant-ph2017★ 12 cited

Quantum superiority for verifying NP-complete problems with linear optics

Juan Miguel Arrazola, Eleni Diamanti, Iordanis Kerenidis

Demonstrating quantum superiority for some computational task will be a milestone for quantum technologies and would show that computational advantages are possible not only with a…

quant-ph2017★ 36 cited

Spectroscopic study of hyperfine properties in Yb:YSiO

Alexey Tiranov, Antonio Ortu, Sacha Welinski +4

Rare-earth ion doped crystals are promising systems for quantum communication and quantum information processing. In particular, paramagnetic rare-earth centres can be utilized to…

quant-ph2017★ 112 cited

Simultaneous coherence enhancement of optical and microwave transitions in solid-state electronic spins

Antonio Ortu, Alexey Tiranov, Sacha Welinski +5

Solid-state electronic spins are extensively studied in quantum information science, as their large magnetic moments offer fast operations for computing and communication, and high…

quant-ph2017★ 22 cited

Efficient optical pumping using hyperfine levels in Nd:YSiO and its application to optical storage

Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Alexey Tiranov, Jonathan Lavoie +4

Efficient optical pumping is an important tool for state initialization in quantum technologies, such as optical quantum memories. In crystals doped with Kramers rare-earth ions, s…

quant-ph2017★ 48 cited

Coherent spin dynamics of ytterbium ions in yttrium orthosilicate

Hee-Jin Lim, Sacha Welinski, Alban Ferrier +2

We investigate the electron and nuclear spin coherence properties of ytterbium () ions with non-zero nuclear spin, within an yttrium orthosilicate (YSiO)…

quant-ph2017★ 17 cited

Light Scattering From an Atomic Array Trapped Near a One-Dimensional Nanoscale Waveguide: a Microscopic Approach

V. A. Pivovarov, A. S. Sheremet, L. V. Gerasimov +4

The coupling of atomic arrays and one-dimensional subwavelength waveguides gives rise to in- teresting photon transport properties, such as recent experimental demonstrations of la…

quant-ph2017★ 58 cited

All-optical control of long-lived nuclear spins in rare-earth doped nanoparticles

D. Serrano, J. Karlsson, A. Fossati +2

Nanoscale systems offer key capabilities for quantum technologies that include single qubit control and readout, multiple qubit gate operation, extremely sensitive and localized se…

quant-ph2017★ 73 cited

Dynamics of a qubit while simultaneously monitoring its relaxation and dephasing

Q. Ficheux, S. Jezouin, Z. Leghtas +1

Decoherence originates from the leakage of quantum information into external degrees of freedom. For a qubit the two main decoherence channels are relaxation and dephasing. Here, w…

quant-ph2017★ 25 cited

Efficient quantum pseudorandomness with simple graph states

Rawad Mezher, Joe Ghalbouni, Joseph Dgheim +1

Measurement based (MB) quantum computation allows for universal quantum computing by measuring individual qubits prepared in entangled multipartite states, known as graph states. U…

quant-ph2017★ 13 cited

Measure-independent anomaly of nonlocality

S. Camalet

We show that any Bell local state, with a hidden nonlocality that can be revealed by local filtering, is more, or equally, entangled than nonlocal states. More precisely, it can be…

quant-ph2017★ 55 cited

Versatile engineering of multimode squeezed states by optimizing the pump spectral profile in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Francesco Arzani, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps

We study the quantum correlations induced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) of a frequency comb. We derive a theoretical method to find the output state correspondin…

quant-ph2017★ 17 cited

Rates of multi-partite entanglement transformations and applications in quantum networks

A. Streltsov, C. Meignant, J. Eisert

The theory of the asymptotic manipulation of pure bipartite quantum systems can be considered completely understood: The rates at which bipartite entangled states can be asymptotic…

quant-ph2017★ 26 cited

Polarisation control of linear dipole radiation using spin-momentum locking of light

Maxime Joos, Chengjie Ding, Vivien Loo +5

We experimentally demonstrate that a linear dipole is not restricted to emit linearly polarised light, provided it is embedded in the appropriate nanophotonic environment. We obser…

quant-ph2017★ 13 cited

Third-order nonlinearity OPO: Schmidt Mode Decomposition And Tripartite Entanglement

C. González-Arciniegas, Nicolas Treps, P. Nussenzveig

We investigate quantum properties of light in optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based on four-wave mixing gain in media with third-order non-linearities. In spite of other comp…

quant-ph2017★ 18 cited

Classical multiparty computation using quantum resources

Marco Clementi, Anna Pappa, Andreas Eckstein +3

In this work, we demonstrate a new way to perform classical multiparty computing amongst parties with limited computational resources. Our method harnesses quantum resources to inc…

quant-ph2017★ 64 cited

Reconfigurable optical implementation of quantum complex networks

Johannes Nokkala, Francesco Arzani, Fernando Galve +5

Network theory has played a dominant role in understanding the structure of complex systems and their dynamics. Recently, quantum complex networks, i.e. collections of quantum syst…

quant-ph2017★ 41 cited

Statistical signatures of multimode single-photon added and subtracted states of light

Mattia Walschaers, Claude Fabre, Valentina Parigi +1

The addition or subtraction of a photon from a Gaussian state of light is a versatile and experimentally feasible procedure to create non-Gaussian states. In multimode setups, thes…

quant-ph2017★ 28 cited

A self-contained quantum harmonic engine

Brendan Reid, Simon Pigeon, Mauro Antezza +1

We propose a system made of three quantum harmonic oscillators as a compact quantum engine for producing mechanical work. The three oscillators play respectively the role of the ho…

quant-ph2017★ 17 cited

Spin-squeezed atomic crystal

Dariusz Kajtoch, Emilia Witkowska, Alice Sinatra

We propose a method to obtain a regular arrangement of two-level atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice with unit filling, where all the atoms share internal state coherence…

quant-ph2017★ 178 cited

Highly-Efficient Quantum Memory for Polarization Qubits in a Spatially-Multiplexed Cold Atomic Ensemble

P. Vernaz-Gris, K. Huang, M. Cao +2

Quantum memory for flying optical qubits is a key enabler for a wide range of applications in quantum information science and technology. A critical figure of merit is the overall…

quant-ph2017★ 11 cited

Experimental detection of steerability in Bell local states with two measurement settings

Adeline Orieux, Marc Kaplan, Vivien Venuti +3

Steering, a quantum property stronger than entanglement but weaker than non-locality in the quantum correlation hierarchy, is a key resource for one-sided device-independent quantu…

quant-ph2017★ 46 cited

Continuous-Variable Sampling from Photon-Added or Photon-Subtracted Squeezed States

Ulysse Chabaud, Tom Douce, Damian Markham +3

We introduce a new family of quantum circuits in Continuous Variables and we show that, relying on the widely accepted conjecture that the polynomial hierarchy of complexity classe…

quant-ph2017★ 78 cited

Slowing Quantum Decoherence by Squeezing in Phase Space

H. Le Jeannic, A. Cavaillès, K. Huang +2

Non-Gaussian states, and specifically the paradigmatic Schrödinger cat state, are well-known to be very sensitive to losses. When propagating through damping channels, these states…