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Optically addressing single rare-earth ions in a nanophotonic cavity
Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, John G. Bartholomew +8
We demonstrate optical probing of spectrally resolved single Nd rare-earth ions in yttrium orthovanadate. The ions are coupled to a photonic crystal resonator and show strong enhan…
Entanglement between more than two hundred macroscopic atomic ensembles in a solid
P. Zarkeshian, C. Deshmukh, N. Sinclair +12
We create a multi-partite entangled state by storing a single photon in a crystal that contains many large atomic ensembles with distinct resonance frequencies. The photon is re-em…
Heralded single photons based on spectral multiplexing and feed-forward control
M. Grimau Puigibert, G. H. Aguilar, Q. Zhou +6
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel approach to a heralded single photon source based on spectral multiplexing (SMUX) and feed-forward-based spectral manipulation of…
A cost-effective measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution system for quantum networks
Raju Valivarthi, Qiang Zhou, Caleb John +6
We experimentally realize a measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) system based on cost-effective and commercially available hardware such as distributed…
High-efficiency WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum state engineering in the near infrared
H. Le Jeannic, V. B. Verma, A. Cavaillès +6
We report on high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on amorphous WSi and optimized at 1064 nm. At an operating temperature of 1.8 K, we demonstrated…
Temporal multimode storage of entangled photon pairs
Alexey Tiranov, Peter C. Strassmann, Jonathan Lavoie +10
Multiplexed quantum memories capable of storing and processing entangled photons are essential for the development of quantum networks. In this context, we demonstrate the simultan…
Quantum teleportation across a metropolitan fibre network
Raju Valivarthi, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Qiang Zhou +7
If a photon interacts with a member of an entangled photon pair via a so-called Bell-state measurement (BSM), its state is teleported over principally arbitrary distances onto the…
A multiplexed light-matter interface for fibre-based quantum networks
Erhan Saglamyurek, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Qiang Zhou +8
Processing and distributing quantum information using photons through fibre-optic or free-space links is essential for building future quantum networks. The scalability needed for…
Experimental quantum state engineering with time-separated heraldings from a continuous-wave light source: a temporal-mode analysis
K. Huang, H. Le Jeannic, V. B. Verma +7
Conditional preparation is a well-established technique for quantum state engineering of light. A general trend is to increase the number of heralding detection events in such real…
A strong loophole-free test of local realism
Lynden K. Shalm, Evan Meyer-Scott, Bradley G. Christensen +31
We present a loophole-free violation of local realism using entangled photon pairs. We ensure that all relevant events in our Bell test are spacelike separated by placing the parti…
Heralded amplification of photonic qubits
Natalia Bruno, Vittorio Pini, Anthony Martin +11
We demonstrate heralded qubit amplification for Time-Bin and Fock-state qubits in an all-fibre, telecom-wavelength, scheme that highlights the simplicity, the stability and potenti…
A telecom-wavelength atomic quantum memory in optical fiber for heralded polarization qubits
Jeongwan Jin, Erhan Saglamyurek, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert +5
Photon-based quantum information processing promises new technologies including optical quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and distributed quantum networks. Polarization-enco…
Entanglement swapping with quantum-memory-compatible photons
Jeongwan Jin, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Lambert Giner +8
We report entanglement swapping with time-bin entangled photon pairs, each constituted of a 795 nm photon and a 1533 nm photon, that are created via spontaneous parametric down con…
Pulsed excitation dynamics of an optomechanical crystal resonator near its quantum ground-state of motion
Sean M. Meenehan, Justin D. Cohen, Gregory S. MacCabe +3
Using pulsed optical excitation and read-out along with single phonon counting techniques, we measure the transient back-action, heating, and damping dynamics of a nanoscale silico…
Optical synthesis of large-amplitude squeezed coherent-state superpositions with minimal resources
K. Huang, H. Le Jeannic, J. Ruaudel +10
We propose and experimentally realize a novel versatile protocol that allows the quantum state engineering of heralded optical coherent-state superpositions. This scheme relies on…
Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution: from idea towards application
Raju Valivarthi, Itzel Lucio-Martinez, Philip Chan +13
We assess the overall performance of our quantum key distribution (QKD) system implementing the measurement-device-independent (MDI) protocol using components with varying capabili…
Storage of hyperentanglement in a solid-state quantum memory
Alexey Tiranov, Jonathan Lavoie, Alban Ferrier +11
Two photons can simultaneously share entanglement between several degrees of freedom such as polarization, energy-time, spatial mode and orbital angular momentum. This resource is…
Efficient Bell state analyzer for time-bin qubits with fast-recovery WSi superconducting single photon detectors
Raju Valivarthi, Itzel Lucio-Martinez, Allison Rubenok +9
We experimentally demonstrate a high-efficiency Bell state measurement for time-bin qubits that employs two superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with short dead-times,…
Phonon counting and intensity interferometry of a nanomechanical resonator
Justin D. Cohen, Sean M. Meenehan, Gregory S. MacCabe +5
Using an optical probe along with single photon detection we have performed effective phonon counting measurements of the acoustic emission and absorption processes in a nanomechan…
Spectral Correlation Measurements at the Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Dip
Thomas Gerrits, Francesco Marsili, Varun Verma +4
We present an efficient tool capable of measuring the spectral correlations between photons emerging from a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. We show that for our spectrally factoriza…
Quantum storage of entangled telecom-wavelength photons in an erbium-doped optical fibre
Erhan Saglamyurek, Jeongwan Jin, Varun B. Verma +5
The realization of a future quantum Internet requires processing and storing quantum information at local nodes, and interconnecting distant nodes using free-space and fibre-optic…
Direct generation of three-photon polarization entanglement
Deny R. Hamel, Lynden K. Shalm, Hannes Hübel +7
Non-classical states of light are of fundamental importance for emerging quantum technologies. All optics experiments producing multi-qubit entangled states have until now relied o…
Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory
Felix Bussieres, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov +11
In quantum teleportation, the state of a single quantum system is disembodied into classical information and purely quantum correlations, to be later reconstructed onto a second sy…
Single-photon detectors based on ultra-narrow superconducting nanowires
F. Marsili, F. Najafi, E. Dauler +5
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) perform single-photon counting with exceptional sensitivity and time resolution at near-infrared wavelengths. State-of-the…