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most citedQuasiprobability representation of quantum coherence

50 citations · 134 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum sampling in hybrid light-matter systems with mixed statistics

Franziska Barkhausen, Laura Ares, Stefan Schumacher +1

Boson sampling is one of the most prominent methods to verify quantum advantage, harnessing the computational complexity of the permanent of a network matrix. Similar quantum sampl…

quant-ph2026

Bounding Kirkwood-Dirac negativity of Gaussian processes

Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi, Riccardo Cioli +1

The Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability provides an operational representation of a quantum state, whose negativity serves as a measure of nonclassicality. Despite its fundamental impo…

quant-ph2026

Demonstration of unpartible entanglement

Philip Held, Laura Ares, Federico Pegoraro +4

We report on the first experimental verification of mode-independent entanglement. Commonly, the entanglement of a state is firmly based on pre-defined parties that are correlated,…

quant-ph2026

Learning to detect optical nonclassicality

Martina Jung, Suchitra Krishnaswamy, Timon Schapeler +4

Nonclassicality, defined in the quantum optical sense, serves as a resource for photon-based quantum technologies. Therefore, certifying the nonclassicality of a quantum state is c…

quant-ph2026

Observable nonclassicality witnesses for multiplexed detection systems

Suchitra Krishnaswamy, Martina Jung, Laura Ares +2

We address the problem of constructing witnesses for nonclassical light that are applicable in state-of-the-art photon-counting devices. The key ingredient for the criteria we deri…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Assessing the classicality of photon echo from excitons in lead halide perovskite nanocrystals

George Alkhalil, Hendrik Rose, Artur V. Trifonov +9

Photon echo (PE) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for probing decoherence mechanisms and charge carrier dynamics in semiconductor systems. Beyond traditional coherence measurem…

quant-ph2026

Universal entanglement-inspired correlations

Elizabeth Agudelo, Laura Ares, Jan Sperling

Quantum correlations, crucial for the advantage and advancement of quantum science and technology, arise from the impossibility of expressing a quantum state as a tensor product ov…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Numerical approaches to entangling dynamics from variational principles

Christian Offen, Boris Wembe, Laura Ares +2

In this work, we address the numerical identification of entanglement in dynamical scenarios. To this end, we consider different programs based on the restriction of the evolution…

quant-ph2025

Quasiprobabilities from incomplete and overcomplete measurements

Jan Sperling, Laura Ares, Elizabeth Agudelo

We discuss the (re-)construction of quasiprobability representations from generic measurements, including noisy ones. Based on the measurement under study, quasiprobabilities and t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Unified boson sampling

Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi, Laura Ares +2

Boson sampling is a key candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage, and has already yielded significant advances in quantum simulation, machine learning, and graph theory. In th…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Resource-efficient universal photonic processor based on time-multiplexed hybrid architectures

Jonas Lammers, Laura Ares, Federico Pegoraro +4

For the ever-growing field of quantum information processing, large-scale, efficient multi-port interferometers serving as photonic processors are required. In this context, the su…

physics.optics2025

Exceptional rings in nonlinear non-Hermitian planar optical microcavities: implementation, signal enhancement, and topology

Jan Wingenbach, Laura Ares, Xuekai Ma +4

Non-Hermitian systems hosting exceptional points (EPs) exhibit signal enhancement and unconventional mode dynamics. Going beyond isolated EPs, here we report on the existence of ex…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Multiphoton, multimode state classification for nonlinear optical circuits

Denis A. Kopylov, Christian Offen, Laura Ares +5

We introduce a new classification of multimode states with a fixed number of photons. This classification is based on the factorizability of homogeneous multivariate polynomials an…

physics.optics2025

Universal Topology of Exceptional Points in Nonlinear Non-Hermitian Systems

N. H. Kwong, Jan Wingenbach, Laura Ares +4

Exceptional points (EPs) are non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, giving rise to unusual physical effects across scientific disciplines. The conc…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Pre-detection squeezing as a resource for high-dimensional Bell-state measurements

Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi, Jan Sperling +1

Bell measurements, entailing the projection onto one of the Bell states, play a key role in quantum information and communication, where the outcome of a variety of protocols cruci…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Entanglement between dependent degrees of freedom: Quasiparticle correlations

Franziska Barkhausen, Laura Ares Santos, Stefan Schumacher +1

Common notions of entanglement are based on well-separated subsystems. However, obtaining such independent degrees of freedom is not always possible because of physical constraints…

quant-ph2024

Photonic Entanglement and Polarization Nonclassicality: Two Manifestations, One Nature

Laura Ares, Nidhin Prasannan, Elizabeth Agudelo +4

We demonstrate in theory and experiment the strict equivalence between nonclassical polarization and the entanglement of indistinguishable photons, thereby unifying these two pheno…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Quantum walks and entanglement in cavity networks

Christian Di Fidio, Laura Ares, Jan Sperling

For harnessing the full potential of quantum phenomena, light-matter interfaces and complexly connected quantum networks are required, relying on the joint quantum operation of dif…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Experimental retrieval of photon statistics from click detection

Suchitra Krishnaswamy, Fabian Schule, Laura Ares +5

We utilize click-counting theory for the reconstruction of photon statistics. Our approach employs an analytic pseudo-inversion method to estimate photon counts from measured click…

quant-ph2018★ 50 cited

Quasiprobability representation of quantum coherence

J. Sperling, I. A. Walmsley

We introduce a general method for the construction of quasiprobability representations for arbitrary notions of quantum coherence. Our technique yields a nonnegative probability di…

quant-ph2016★ 35 cited

Characterizing maximally singular phase-space distributions

J. Sperling

Phase-space distributions are widely applied in quantum optics to access the nonclassical features of radiations fields. In particular, the inability to interpret the Glauber-Sudar…

quant-ph2014★ 27 cited

Continuous sampling of the squeezed state nonclassicality

E. Agudelo, J. Sperling, W. Vogel +3

We report the direct -- continuous in phase -- sampling of a regularized function, the so-called nonclassicality quasiprobability, for squeezed light. Through their negativitie…