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quant-ph2026

Quantum tomography of inelastic electron scattering \emph{via} orbital angular momentum states

Amir H. Tavabi, Alessio D'Errico, Paolo Rosi +10

The physical properties of a quantum system, whether pure or mixed, are described fully by its density matrix. Recovery of the density matrix through projective measurements -- ref…

quant-ph2026

Single-acquisition tomography of photonic qubits with structured media

Francesco Di Colandrea, Yingwen Zhang, John Grace +3

Quantum state tomography is an essential tool for characterizing quantum systems and underpins nearly every experimental realization of quantum technologies. Conventional tomograph…

quant-ph2026

Single-Image Entanglement Verification with Spatially Encoded Measurement Contexts

Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Yingwen Zhang +3

Entangled photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion exhibit rich spatial entanglement structure that is often difficult to probe with conventional measurement…

quant-ph2026

Three-fold coincidence by stimulated parametric down-conversion

Yishai Klein, Alessio D'Errico, Farid Ghobadi +4

Parametric down-conversion is a widely used source of nonclassical light in quantum optics and photonic quantum technologies. While stimulated parametric down-conversion with stron…

quant-ph2026

Contrast enhanced imaging through weakly scattering media with spatially entangled photons

Alessio D'Errico, James Hubble, Rojan Abolhassani +4

Improving the image contrast of objects immersed in weakly scattering media can be achieved using various strategies. One common approach is to reject events associated with scatte…

quant-ph2025

Imaging Walk-Off Driven Distortions in EPR Photon Pair Correlations

Christian Howard, Roohollah Ghobadi, Nazanin Dehghan +2

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion is the primary source of position-correlated and momentum-anticorrelated photon pairs that form the canonical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) s…

quant-ph2025

Investigating the Performance of Adaptive Optics on Different Bases of Spatial Modes in Turbulent Channels

Rojan Abolhassani, Lukas Scarfe, Francesco Di Colandrea +3

Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows secure key exchange based on the principles of quantum mechanics, with higher-dimensional photonic states offering enhanced channel capacity a…

quant-ph2025

Programmable photonic quantum walks on lattices with cyclic, toroidal, and cylindrical topology

Alessio D'Errico, Nazanin Dehghan, Maria Gorizia Ammendola +5

Photonic implementations of unitary processes on lattice structures, such as quantum walks, have been demonstrated across various architectures. However, few platforms offer the co…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Tutorial: Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with Structured Photons

Tareq Jaouni, Xuemei Gu, Mario Krenn +2

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, an effective two-photon interference phenomenon, is a cornerstone of quantum optics and a key tool for linear optical quantum information processin…

quant-ph2024

Engineering qubit dynamics in open systems with photonic synthetic lattices

Francesco Di Colandrea, Tareq Jaouni, John Grace +4

The evolution of a quantum system interacting with an environment can be described as a unitary process acting on both the system and the environment. In this framework, the system…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Nonlocal transfer of high-dimensional unitary operations

Dilip Paneru, Francesco Di Colandrea, Alessio D'Errico +1

Highly correlated biphoton states are powerful resources in quantum optics, both for fundamental tests of the theory and practical applications. In particular, high-dimensional spa…

quant-ph2024

Diffraction of correlated biphotons through transparent samples

Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Yingwen Zhang +2

Two-photon states generated through degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can exhibit sharp correlations in the transverse spatial coordinates. This property lea…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

Biphoton State Reconstruction via Phase Retrieval Methods

Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Francesco Di Colandrea +1

The complete measurement of the quantum state of two correlated photons requires reconstructing the amplitude and phase of the biphoton wavefunction. We show how, by means of spati…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Fourier Quantum Process Tomography

Francesco Di Colandrea, Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico +1

The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcom…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Fast Adaptive Optics for High-Dimensional Quantum Communications in Turbulent Channels

Lukas Scarfe, Felix Hufnagel, Manuel F. Ferrer-Garcia +3

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) promises a provably secure method to transmit information from one party to another. Free-space QKD allows for this information to be sent over great…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Full spatial characterization of entangled structured photons

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D'Errico +3

Vector beams (VBs) are fully polarized beams with spatially varying polarization distributions, and they have found widespread use in numerous applications such as microscopy, metr…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states

Danilo Zia, Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico +2

High-dimensional biphoton states are promising resources for quantum applications, ranging from high-dimensional quantum communications to quantum imaging. A pivotal task is fully…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Super-resolution enhancement in bi-photon spatial mode demultiplexin

Florence Grenapin, Dilip Paneru, Alessio D'Errico +3

Imaging systems measuring intensity in the far field succumb to Rayleigh's curse, a resolution limitation dictated by the finite aperture of the optical system. Many proof-of-princ…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Topological transitions of the generalized Pancharatnam-Berry phase

Manuel F. Ferrer-Garcia, Kyrylo Snizhko, Alessio D'Errico +3

Distinct from the dynamical phase, in a cyclic evolution, a system's state may acquire an additional component, a.k.a. geometric phase. The latter is a manifestation of a closed pa…

quant-ph2022★ 11 cited

Manipulating the symmetry of transverse momentum entangled biphoton states

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D'Errico +3

Bell states are a fundamental resource in photonic quantum information processing. These states have been generated successfully in many photonic degrees of freedom. Their manipula…

quant-ph2021★ 18 cited

High-speed imaging of spatiotemporal correlations in Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D'Errico +2

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect lies at the heart of many emerging quantum technologies whose performance can be significantly enhanced with increasing numbers of entangled…

quant-ph2021★ 20 cited

Full-mode Characterisation of Correlated Photon Pairs Generated in Spontaneous Downconversion

Alessio D'Errico, Felix Hufnagel, Filippo Miatto +2

Spontaneous parametric downconversion is the primary source to generate entangled photon pairs in quantum photonics laboratories. Depending on the experimental design, the generate…

quant-ph2018★ 86 cited

Two-dimensional topological quantum walks in the momentum space of structured light

Alessio D'Errico, Filippo Cardano, Maria Maffei +7

Quantum walks are powerful tools for quantum applications and for designing topological systems. Although they are simulated in a variety of platforms, genuine two-dimensional real…