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most citedReducing of a parametric down-conversion source via photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire detectors

39 citations · 45 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

quant-ph2026

Improving the Loss Tolerance of Heralded Photonic GHZ States for Long-Distance Device-Independent Conference Key Agreement

Yazeed K. Alwehaibi, Makoto Ishihara, Shakib Daryanoosh +6

Heralded multipartite entanglement distribution is a key requirement for device-independent conference key agreement (DI-CKA) over lossy quantum networks. Although locally equivale…

quant-ph2026

The trainability of photonic quantum circuits

Alexander Makarovskiy, Adam Taylor, Zhenghao Li +5

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading approach to near-term quantum computing, but their scalability can be limited by barren plateaus and the sampling cost of resolving sma…

quant-ph2026

Improving the loss threshold for quantum advantage in photonic sensors by complete photon counting

Gerard J. Machado, Yazeed K. Alwehaibi, Guillaume Thekkadath +9

Tolerance to imperfections is a defining performance criterion for quantum sensors. The threshold for achieving a quantum advantage depends on the input state, sensor configuration…

quant-ph2026

Displaced Gaussian Boson Sampling for enhanced max-clique search

Ewan Mer, Zhenghao Li, Shang Yu +2

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is capable of solving certain classes of graph problems owing to the samples produced by such a device having a connection to the hafnian matrix funct…

quant-ph2026

Photonic Quantum-Enhanced Knowledge Distillation

Kuan-Cheng Chen, Shang Yu, Chen-Yu Liu +10

Photonic quantum processors naturally produce intrinsically stochastic measurement outcomes, offering a hardware-native source of structured randomness that can be exploited during…

quant-ph2026

Machine learning of quantum data using optimal similarity measurements

Zhenghao Li, Hao Zhan, Shana H. Winston +11

Quantum machine learning seeks a computational advantage in data processing by evaluating functions of quantum states, such as their similarity, that can be classically intractable…

quant-ph2026

Extensible universal photonic quantum computing with nonlinearity

Shang Yu, Jinzhao Sun, Kuan-Cheng Chen +17

Universal quantum computing requires an architecture that supports both linear circuits and, crucially, strong nonlinear resources. For quantum photonic systems, integrating such n…

quant-ph2026

Below-shot-noise capacity in phase estimation using nonlinear interferometers

Cristofero Oglialoro, Gerard J. Machado, Felix Farsch +7

Over the past decade, several schemes for imaging and sensing based on nonlinear interferometers have been proposed and demonstrated experimentally. These interferometers exhibit t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

A Tractable Protocol for Detection-Loophole-Free Bell Tests over Long Distances

Yazeed K. Alwehaibi, Ewan Mer, Gerard J. Machado +3

Certifying genuine nonclassical correlations over long distances is crucial for device-independent (DI) quantum information protocols. However, in photonic platforms this remains t…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Boosting Photon-Number-Resolved Detection Rates of Transition-Edge Sensors by Machine Learning

Zhenghao Li, Matthew J. H. Kendall, Gerard J. Machado +7

Transition-Edge Sensors (TESs) are very effective photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors that have enabled many photonic quantum technologies. However, their relatively slow therm…

quant-ph2024

Shedding Light on the Future: Exploring Quantum Neural Networks through Optics

Shang Yu, Zhian Jia, Aonan Zhang +7

At the dynamic nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology, quantum neural networks (QNNs) play an important role as an emerging technology in the rapidly developing fi…

quant-ph2021★ 39 cited

Reducing of a parametric down-conversion source via photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire detectors

S. Sempere-Llagostera, G. S. Thekkadath, R. B. Patel +2

Multiphoton contributions pose a significant challenge for the realisation of heralded single-photon sources (HSPS) based on nonlinear processes. In this work, we improve the quali…