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Engineering Nanodiamonds for Quantum Sensing: Material Constraints at the Nanoscale

Ashutosh Rathi, Keisuke Oshimi, Kento Sasaki +6

Optically addressable solid-state spin defects have emerged as powerful multimodal quantum sensors, with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in bulk diamond providing benchmark quantum c…

quant-ph2026

Generation of squeezed optical states via stored classical pulses in a Bose gas

Sevilay Sevinçli, Dennis Rätzel, Markus Krutzik +2

We propose and analyze a scheme to generate squeezed light by storing a classical probe pulse in a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) and exploiting the nonlinear evolution caused by…

quant-ph2025

Waveguide-integrated colour centres in silicon carbide with broadband photonic crystal reflectors for efficient readout

Marcel Krumrein, Julian M. Bopp, Timo Steidl +5

Spin-active colour centres in 4H silicon carbide are promising candidates as building blocks for quantum information applications. To increase the photon count rate of the emitters…

quant-ph2025

The Casimir-Polder interaction between atoms and hollow-core fibers

Bettina Beverungen, Daniel Reiche, Kurt Busch +1

The Casimir-Polder force acts on polarizable particles due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field that are modified by the presence of material bodies. We investigate…

quant-ph2025

Software Framework for Optically Accessible Quantum Memory Using Group-IV Color Centers in Diamond

Yannick Strocka, Mohamed Belhassen, Tim Schröder +1

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum technology, the precise and detailed description of quantum components is not just a necessity but the foundation for advancing research, d…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Hybrid Trapping of Cold Atoms with Surface Forces and Blue-Detuned Evanescent Light on a Nanophotonic Waveguide

Riccardo Pennetta, Antoine Glicenstein, Philipp Schneeweiss +2

We demonstrate a novel hybrid nanophotonic trap for cold neutral atoms, leveraging surface forces for attraction and blue-detuned evanescent light for repulsion. We attribute the a…

quant-ph2025★ 6 cited

Secure authentication via Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions: a review

Pol Julià Farré, Vladlen Galetsky, Mohamed Belhassen +6

Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions (QPUFs) offer a physically grounded approach to secure authentication, extending the capabilities of classical PUFs. This review covers their…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Satellites promise global-scale quantum networks

Sumit Goswami, Sayandip Dhara, Neil Sinclair +10

Academia, governments, and industry around the world are on a quest to build long-distance quantum communication networks for a future quantum internet. Using air and fiber channel…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Controlled Displacement of Stored Light at Room Temperature

Arash Ahmadi, Yağız Murat, Pei-Chen Kuan +2

We report the demonstration of spatially translating a stored optical pulse at room temperature over distances exceeding one optical wavelength. By implementing an interferometric…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Cross-correlation scheme for quantum optical coherence tomography based on Michelson interferometer

Anna Romanova, Vadim Rodimin, Konstantin Katamadze

Quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT) offers a simple way to cancel dispersion broadening in a sample while also providing twice the resolution compared to classical OCT. How…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Light Storage in Light Cages: A Scalable Platform for Multiplexed Quantum Memories

Esteban Gómez-López, Dominik Ritter, Jisoo Kim +3

Quantum memories are essential for photonic quantum technologies, enabling long-distance quantum communication and serving as delay units in quantum computing. Hot atomic vapors us…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Jitter in photon-number-resolved detection by superconducting nanowires

Mariia Sidorova, Timon Schapeler, Alexej D. Semenov +5

By analyzing the physics of multi-photon absorption in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), we identify physical components of jitter. From this, we formulate…

quant-ph2025

Expressive equivalence of classical and quantum restricted Boltzmann machines

Maria Demidik, Cenk Tüysüz, Nico Piatkowski +2

Quantum computers offer the potential for efficiently sampling from complex probability distributions, attracting increasing interest in generative modeling within quantum machine…

quant-ph2025

Enantiosensitive exceptional points in open chiral systems

Nicola Mayer, Alexander Löhr, Nimrod Moiseyev +2

Exceptional points (EPs) are remarkable spectral degeneracies in a non-Hermitian system's parameter space, where both eigenvalues and eigenstates coalesce. Here, we show that in no…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Contextual Hypergraphs, Operators, Inequalities, and Applications in Higher Dimensions

Mladen Pavicic

Quantum contextuality plays a significant role in supporting quantum computation and quantum information theory. The key tools for this are the Kochen--Specker and non-Kochen--Spec…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Secure Quantum Key Distribution Using a Room-Temperature Quantum Emitter

Ömer S. Tapşın, Furkan Ağlarcı, Roberto G. Pousa +3

On-demand generation of single photons from solid-state quantum emitters is essential to build practical quantum networks and QKD systems by potentially enabling higher secure key…

quant-ph2024★ 152 cited

Advances in quantum imaging

Hugo Defienne, Warwick P. Bowen, Maria Chekhova +5

Modern imaging technologies are widely based on classical principles of light or electromagnetic wave propagation. They can be remarkably sophisticated, with recent successes rangi…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Standalone mobile quantum memory system

Martin Jutisz, Alexander Erl, Janik Wolters +2

We present the implementation and performance analysis of a portable, rack-mounted standalone warm vapor quantum memory system, that also includes the laser package, control electr…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Benchmarking Variational Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization in Practice

Tim Schwägerl, Yahui Chai, Tobias Hartung +2

Variational quantum algorithms and, in particular, variants of the varational quantum eigensolver have been proposed to address combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. Using only…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Imaginary Hamiltonian variational ansatz for combinatorial optimization problems

Xiaoyang Wang, Yahui Chai, Xu Feng +3

Obtaining exact solutions to combinatorial optimization problems using classical computing is computationally expensive. The current tenet in the field is that quantum computers ca…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Emergence of second-order coherence in superfluorescence

Constanze Bach, Felix Tebbenjohanns, Christian Liedl +2

We experimentally investigate the second-order quantum coherence function of a superradiant burst in a cascaded quantum system. We chirally (i.e. direction-dependently) couple roug…

quant-ph2024★ 16 cited

Predicting correlations in superradiant emission from a cascaded quantum system

Felix Tebbenjohanns, Christopher D. Mink, Constanze Bach +2

In recent experiments, a novel type of cascaded quantum system has been realized using nanofiber-coupled cold atomic ensembles. This setup has enabled the study of superradiant dec…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Ambiguous Resonances in Multipulse Quantum Sensing with Nitrogen Vacancy Centers

Lucas Tsunaki, Anmol Singh, Kseniia Volkova +4

Dynamical decoupling multipulse sequences can be applied to solid state spins for sensing weak oscillating fields from nearby single nuclear spins. By periodically reversing the pr…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Warm Start of Variational Quantum Algorithms for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problems

Yahui Chai, Karl Jansen, Stefan Kühn +2

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is widely used in near-term hardware. However, their performances remain limited by the poor trainability and are dependent on random paramete…