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quant-ph2013★ 38 cited

Deriving tight error-trade-off relations for approximate joint measurements of incompatible quantum observables

Cyril Branciard

The quantification of the "measurement uncertainty" aspect of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle---that is, the study of trade-offs between accuracy and disturbance, or between acc…

quant-ph2013★ 59 cited

Proposal for demonstrating the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with matter waves

R. J. Lewis-Swan, K. V. Kheruntsyan

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is a striking demonstration of destructive quantum interference between pairs of indistinguishable bosons, realised so far only with massless photon…

quant-ph2013★ 28 cited

Generation and stabilization of a three-qubit entangled W state in circuit QED via quantum feedback control

Shang-Yu Huang, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Xin-Qi Li +1

Circuit cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) is proving to be a powerful platform to implement quantum feedback control schemes due to the ability to control superconducting qubits…

quant-ph2013★ 14 cited

Device-dependent and device-independent quantum key distribution without a shared reference frame

Joshua A. Slater, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner +1

Standard quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols typically assume that the distant parties share a common reference frame. In practice, however, establishing and maintaining a goo…

quant-ph2013★ 38 cited

Configurable unitary transformations and linear logic gates using quantum memories

G. T. Campbell, O. Pinel, M. Hosseini +3

We show that a set of optical memories can act as a configurable linear optical network operating on frequency-multiplexed optical states. Our protocol is applicable to any quantum…

quant-ph2013★ 278 cited

Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation

Igor Pikovski, Magdalena Zych, Fabio Costa +1

The physics of low-energy quantum systems is usually studied without explicit consideration of the background spacetime. Phenomena inherent to quantum theory on curved space-time,…

quant-ph2013★ 9 cited

Generation of distributed entangled coherent states over a lossy environment with inefficient detectors

A. P. Lund, T. C. Ralph, H. Jeong

Entangled coherent states are useful for various applications in quantum information processing but they are are sensitive to loss. We propose a scheme to generate distributed enta…

quant-ph2013★ 49 cited

Investigation of nonlinear effects in Josephson parametric oscillators used in circuit QED

Philip Krantz, Yarema Reshitnyk, Waltraut Wustmann +6

We experimentally study the behavior of a parametrically pumped nonlinear oscillator, which is based on a superconducting λ/4 resonator, and is terminated by a flux-tunable SQUID.…

quant-ph2013★ 14 cited

Experimental Verification of Quantum Discord in Continuous-Variable States

S. Hosseini, S. Rahimi-Keshari, J. Y. Haw +6

We introduce a simple and efficient technique to verify quantum discord in unknown Gaussian states and a certain class of non-Gaussian states. We show that any separation in the pe…

quant-ph2013

Reduced dimensionality and spatial entanglement in highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates

Alexandre B. Tacla, Carlton M. Caves

We investigate the reduced dimensionality of highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in connection to the entanglement between its spatial degrees of freedom. We argue…

quant-ph2013★ 227 cited

Entangling quantum and classical states of light

Hyunseok Jeong, Alessandro Zavatta, Minsu Kang +5

Entanglement between quantum and classical objects is of special interest in the context of fundamental studies of quantum mechanics and potential applications to quantum informati…

quant-ph2013★ 153 cited

Implementation of a Quantum Metamaterial

Pascal Macha, Gregor Oelsner, Jan-Michael Reiner +7

Manipulating the propagation of electromagnetic waves through sub-wavelength sized artificial structures is the core function of metamaterials. Resonant structures, such as split r…

quant-ph2013★ 121 cited

Spacetime effects on satellite-based quantum communications

David Edward Bruschi, Tim Ralph, Ivette Fuentes +2

We investigate the consequences of space-time being curved on space-based quantum communication protocols. We analyze tasks that require either the exchange of single photons in a…

quant-ph2013★ 124 cited

Joint quantum measurements with minimum uncertainty

Martin Ringbauer, Devon N. Biggerstaff, Matthew A. Broome +3

Quantum physics constrains the accuracy of joint measurements of incompatible observables. Here we test tight measurement-uncertainty relations using single photons. We implement t…

quant-ph2013★ 65 cited

Asymmetric Gaussian harmonic steering in second harmonic generation

M. K. Olsen

Intracavity second harmonic generation is one of the simplest of the quantum optical processes and is well within the expertise of most optical laboratories. It is well understood…

quant-ph2013★ 19 cited

An all-optical feedback assisted steady state of an optomechanical array

Chaitanya Joshi, Uzma Akram, G. J. Milburn

We explore the effect of all-optical feedback on the steady state dynamics of optomechanical arrays arising from various topologies. First we consider an array comprised of a pair…

quant-ph2013★ 104 cited

Quantum nondemolition detection of a propagating microwave photon

Sankar R. Sathyamoorthy, L. Tornberg, Anton F. Kockum +5

The ability to nondestructively detect the presence of a single, traveling photon has been a long-standing goal in optics, with applications in quantum information and measurement.…

quant-ph2013★ 125 cited

Spectral compression of single photons

Jonathan Lavoie, John M. Donohue, Logan G. Wright +2

Photons are critical to quantum technologies since they can be used for virtually all quantum information tasks: in quantum metrology, as the information carrier in photonic quantu…

quant-ph2013★ 41 cited

Optimal architecture for a non-deterministic noiseless linear amplifier

N. A. McMahon, A. P. Lund, T. C. Ralph

Non-deterministic quantum noiseless linear amplifiers are a new technology with interest in both fundamental understanding and new applications. With a noiseless linear amplifier i…

quant-ph2013★ 3 cited

Quantum-field-theoretical approach to phase-space techniques: Symmetric Wick theorem and multitime Wigner representation

L I Plimak, M K Olsen

In this work we present the formal background used to develop the methods used in earlier works to extend the truncated Wigner representation of quantum and atom optics in order to…

quant-ph2013★ 16 cited

Domain-wall melting in ultracold boson systems with holes and spin-flip defects

Jad C. Halimeh, Anton Wöllert, Ian P. McCulloch +2

Quantum magnetism is a fundamental phenomenon of nature. As of late, it has garnered a lot of interest because experiments with ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices could be…

quant-ph2013★ 34 cited

High-Effciency Cross-Phase Modulation in a Gas-Filled Waveguide

C. Perrella, P. S. Light, J. D. Anstie +4

Strong cross-Kerr non-linearities have been long sought after for quantum information applications. Recent work has shown that they are intrinsically unreliable in travelling wave…

quant-ph2013★ 26 cited

Dynamical Steady-States in Driven Quantum Systems

T. M. Stace, A. C. Doherty, D. J. Reilly

We derive dynamical equations for a driven, dissipative quantum system in which the environment- induced relaxation rate is comparable to the Rabi frequency, avoiding assumptions o…

quant-ph2013★ 57 cited

Quantum signalling in cavity QED

Robert H. Jonsson, Eduardo Martin-Martinez, Achim Kempf

We consider quantum signalling between two-level quantum systems in a cavity, in the pertubative regime of the earliest possible arrival times of the signal. We present two main re…