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20202026
most citedRecent advances and future perspectives of single-photon avalanche diodes for quantum photonics applications

158 citations · 776 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

quant-ph2026

In-orbit operation of a programmable quantum photonic processor

Simon Steiner, Peter Schiansky, Antonius Scherer +17

Quantum technologies promise computational capabilities beyond the reach of classical systems. A forward-looking application lies in satellite missions, which increasingly depend o…

physics.optics2025★ 6 cited

Laser-written reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit directly coupled to a single-photon avalanche diode array

Giulio Gualandi, Simone Atzeni, Marco Gardina +8

To date, most integrated quantum photonics experiments rely on single-photon detectors operating at cryogenic temperatures coupled to photonic integrated circuits (PICs) through si…

quant-ph2025

Time-series forecasting with multiphoton quantum states and integrated photonics

Rosario Di Bartolo, Simone Piacentini, Francesco Ceccarelli +4

Quantum machine learning algorithms have very recently attracted significant attention in photonic platforms. In particular, reconfigurable integrated photonic circuits offer a pro…

quant-ph2025

A scalable advantage in multi-photon quantum machine learning

Yong Wang, Zhenghao Yin, Tobias Haug +6

Photons are promising candidates for quantum information technology due to their high robustness and long coherence time at room temperature. Inspired by the prosperous development…

quant-ph2025

Optimal distillation of photonic indistinguishability

Francesco Hoch, Anita Camillini, Giovanni Rodari +13

Imperfect photons' indistinguishability limits the performance of photonic quantum communication and computation . Distillation protocols, inspired by entanglement purification, en…

quant-ph2025

Experimental data re-uploading with provable enhanced learning capabilities

Martin F. X. Mauser, Solène Four, Lena Marie Predl +7

The last decades have seen the development of quantum machine learning, stemming from the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning. This field is particularly promisi…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Observation of Lie algebraic invariants in Quantum Linear Optics

Giovanni Rodari, Tommaso Francalanci, Eugenio Caruccio +12

Over the past few years, various methods have been developed to engineeer and to exploit the dynamics of photonic quantum states as they evolve through linear optical networks. Rec…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

A low-loss, 24-mode laser-written universal photonic processor in a glass-based platform

Andrea Barzaghi, Maëlle Bénéfice, Francesco Ceccarelli +10

We report the fabrication of the first 24-mode universal photonic processor (UPP) realized through femtosecond laser writing (FLW), marking the most complex UPP demonstrated to dat…

quant-ph2025★ 5 cited

Photonic Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks with Adaptive State Injection

Léo Monbroussou, Beatrice Polacchi, Verena Yacoub +14

Linear optical architectures have been extensively investigated for quantum computing and quantum machine learning applications. Recently, proposals for photonic quantum machine le…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Experimental verification of Threshold Quantum State Tomography on a fully-reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit

Eugenio Caruccio, Diego Maragnano, Giovanni Rodari +12

Reconstructing the state of a complex quantum system represents a pivotal task for all quantum information applications, both for characterization purposes and for verification of…

quant-ph2025

Experimental neuromorphic computing based on quantum memristor

Mirela Selimović, Iris Agresti, Michał Siemaszko +8

Machine learning has recently developed novel approaches, mimicking the synapses of the human brain to achieve similarly efficient learning strategies. Such an approach retains the…

quant-ph2025★ 34 cited

Quantum machine learning with Adaptive Boson Sampling via post-selection

Francesco Hoch, Eugenio Caruccio, Giovanni Rodari +18

The implementation of large-scale universal quantum computation represents a challenging and ambitious task on the road to quantum processing of information. In recent years, an in…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Analog-to-Digital Converter for Phase Estimation

Eugenio Caruccio, Simone Roncallo, Valeria Cimini +9

Traditional quantum metrology assesses precision using the figures of merit of continuous-valued parameter estimation. Recently, quantum digital estimation was introduced: it evalu…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching

Giovanni Rodari, Carlos Fernandes, Eugenio Caruccio +14

Bosonic bunching is a term used to describe the well-known tendency of bosons to bunch together, and which differentiates their behaviour from that of fermions or classical particl…

quant-ph2024★ 12 cited

Modular Quantum-to-Quantum Bernoulli Factory in an Integrated Photonic Processor

Francesco Hoch, Taira Giordani, Luca Castello +9

Generation and manipulation of randomness is a relevant task for several applications of information technology. It has been shown that quantum mechanics offers some advantages for…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

Variational approach to photonic quantum circuits via the parameter shift rule

Francesco Hoch, Giovanni Rodari, Taira Giordani +9

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, variational quantum algorithms are promising approaches for solving optimization tasks by training parameterized quantum c…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Demonstration of Hardware Efficient Photonic Variational Quantum Algorithm

Iris Agresti, Koushik Paul, Peter Schiansky +10

Quantum computing has brought a paradigm change in computer science, where non-classical technologies have promised to outperform their classical counterpart. Such an advantage was…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Experimental quantum-enhanced kernels on a photonic processor

Zhenghao Yin, Iris Agresti, Giovanni de Felice +9

Recently, machine learning had a remarkable impact, from scientific to everyday-life applications. However, complex tasks often imply unfeasible energy and computational power cons…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer

Francesco Hoch, Giovanni Rodari, Eugenio Caruccio +13

A seminal task in quantum information theory is to realize a device able to produce copies of a generic input state with the highest possible output fidelity, thus realizing an \te…

physics.optics2024

Integrated thermo-optic phase shifters for laser-written photonic circuits operating at cryogenic temperatures

Francesco Ceccarelli, Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi +3

Integrated photonics offers compact and stable manipulation of optical signals in miniaturized chips, with the possibility of changing dynamically their functionality by means of i…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Semi-device independent characterization of multiphoton indistinguishability

Giovanni Rodari, Leonardo Novo, Riccardo Albiero +15

Multiphoton indistinguishability is a central resource for quantum enhancement in sensing and computation. Developing and certifying large scale photonic devices requires reliable…

physics.optics2023★ 30 cited

High-fidelity and polarization insensitive universal photonic processors fabricated by femtosecond laser writing

Ciro Pentangelo, Niki Di Giano, Simone Piacentini +4

Universal photonic processors (UPPs) are fully programmable photonic integrated circuits that are key components in quantum photonics. With this work, we present a novel platform f…

quant-ph2023★ 29 cited

Variational quantum algorithm for experimental photonic multiparameter estimation

Valeria Cimini, Mauro Valeri, Simone Piacentini +5

Variational quantum metrology represents a powerful tool for optimizing generic estimation strategies, combining the principles of variational optimization with the techniques of q…

physics.optics2023★ 17 cited

Toward Higher Integration Density in Femtosecond-Laser-Written Programmable Photonic Circuits

Riccardo Albiero, Ciro Pentangelo, Marco Gardina +3

Programmability in femtosecond-laser-written integrated circuits is commonly achieved with the implementation of thermal phase shifters. Recent work has shown how such phase shifte…