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Designing interferometers within a single optical beam
Bereneice Sephton, Rakhi Thomas, Carlo Schiano +8
Interferometry provides highly sensitive access to optical phase and is central to much of modern metrology and phase imaging methods. Conventional implementations, however, often…
Remote engineering of particle-like topologies to visualise entanglement dynamics
Fazilah Nothlawala, Bereneice Sephton, Pedro Ornelas +6
Skyrmions are a particle-like topology with a quantised skyrmion number, realised across condensed matter and photonic platforms alike. In quantum photonics, they constitute an eme…
Tunable Quantum Interference in Free Space with a Liquid-Crystal Metagrating
Maria Gorizia Ammendola, Italo Machuca Flores, Sneha Dey +9
Structured optical materials provide a promising platform for photonic quantum information processing in free space. Beam splitters, a fundamental building block of photonic circui…
Tailoring spatial correlations with quantum interference
Carlo Schiano, Bereneice Sephton, Elnaz Darsheshdar +3
Photon correlations represent a central resource in many quantum optics experiments, with applications ranging from quantum information protocols to sensing. Engineering such corre…
Light correcting light with nonlinear optics
Sachleen Singh, Bereneice Sephton, Wagner Tavares Buono +3
Structured light, where complex optical fields are tailored in all their degrees of freedom, has become highly topical of late, advanced by a sophisticated toolkit comprising both…
Engineering quantum states from a spatially structured quantum eraser
Carlo Schiano, Bereneice Sephton, Roberto Aiello +8
Quantum interference is a central resource in many quantum-enhanced tasks, from computation to communication protocols. While it usually occurs between identical input photons, qua…
Integrated quantum polariton interferometry
Davide Nigro, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Daniele Sanvitto +1
Exciton-polaritons are hybrid elementary excitations of light and matter that, thanks to their nonlinear properties, enable a plethora of physical phenomena ranging from room tempe…
Ultra-sensitive measurement of transverse displacements with structured light
Raouf Barboza, Amin Babazadeh, Lorenzo Marrucci +3
Accurately measuring mechanical displacements is essential for a vast portion of current technologies. Several optical techniques accomplish this task, allowing for non-contact sen…
Slow thermo-optomechanical pulsations in suspended 1D photonic crystal nanocavities
Piergiacomo Z. G. Fonseca, Irene Alda, Francesco Marino +4
We investigate the nonlinear optical response of suspended 1D photonic crystal nanocavities fabricated on a silicon nitride chip. Strong thermo-optical nonlinearities are demonstra…
Hyperentanglement in structured quantum light
Francesco Graffitti, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Massimiliano Proietti +5
Entanglement in high-dimensional quantum systems, where one or more degrees of freedom of light are involved, offers increased information capacities and enables new quantum protoc…
Enhancing Electric Fields in High-Index Resonators by Flux Conservation of the Displacement Current Density
Bruno Miranda, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Giovanni Miano +2
Concentrating light within subwavelength spatial regions is a central topic in nanophotonics. In this letter, we introduce a general principle for the subwavelength localization an…
Experimental study of nonclassical teleportation beyond average fidelity
Gonzalo Carvacho, Francesco Andreoli, Luca Santodonato +6
Quantum teleportation establishes a correspondence between an entangled state shared by two separate par- ties that can communicate classically and the presence of a quantum channe…
Tunable two-photon quantum interference of structured light
Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Gonzalo Carvacho, Iris Agresti +2
Structured photons are nowadays an interesting resource in classical and quantum optics due to the richness of properties they show under propagation, focusing and in their interac…
Single-photon quantum contextuality on a chip
Andrea Crespi, Marco Bentivegna, Ioannis Pitsios +7
In classical physics, properties of the objects exist independently on the context, i.e. whether and how measurements are performed. Quantum physics showed this assumption to be wr…
Quantum control of photonic entanglement with a single sub-wavelength structure
Alexander Büse, Mathieu L. Juan, Nora Tischler +4
Quantum entanglement is the basic resource for most quantum information schemes. A fundamental problem of using photonic states as carriers of quantum information is that they inte…
Birth and evolution of an optical vortex
Giuseppe Vallone, Anna Sponselli, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio +3
When a phase singularity is suddenly imprinted on the axis of an ordinary Gaussian beam, an optical vortex appears and starts to grow radially, by effect of diffraction. This radia…
Twin GHZ-states behave differently
Gonzalo Carvacho, Francesco Graffitti, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio +2
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states and their mixtures exhibit fascinating properties. A complete basis of GHZ-states can be constructed by properly choosing local basis rotat…
Thermally-Reconfigurable Quantum Photonic Circuits at Telecom Wavelength by Femtosecond Laser Micromachining
Fulvio Flamini, Lorenzo Magrini, Adil S. Rab +8
The importance of integrated quantum photonics in the telecom band resides on the possibility of interfacing with the optical network infrastructure developed for classical communi…
Testing noncontextuality inequalities that are building blocks of quantum correlations
Mauricio Arias, Gustavo Cañas, Esteban S. Gómez +6
Measurement scenarios containing events with relations of exclusivity represented by pentagons, heptagons, nonagons, etc., or their complements are the only ones in which quantum p…
Hybrid Entangled Entanglement in Vector Vortex Beams
Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Gonzalo Carvacho, Francesco Graffitti +4
Light beams having a vectorial field structure - or polarization - that varies over the transverse profile and a central optical singularity are called vector-vortex (VV) beams and…
Storage and retrieval of vector beams of light in a multiple-degree-of-freedom quantum memory
V. Parigi, V. D'Ambrosio, C. Arnold +3
The full structuration of light in the transverse plane, including intensity, phase and polarization, holds the promise of unprecedented capabilities for applications in classical…
Resilience of hybrid optical angular momentum qubits to turbulence
Osvaldo Jiménez Farías, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Caterina Taballione +6
Recent schemes to encode quantum information into the total angular momentum of light, defining rotation-invariant hybrid qubits composed of the polarization and orbital angular mo…
Generation of tunable entanglement and violation of a Bell-like inequality between different degrees of freedom of a single photon
Adam Valles, Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Martin Hendrych +4
We demonstrate a scheme to generate noncoherent and coherent correlations, i.e., a tunable degree of entanglement, between degrees of freedom of a single photon. Its nature is anal…
Device-independent certification of high-dimensional quantum systems
Vincenzo D'Ambrosio, Fabrizio Bisesto, Fabio Sciarrino +3
An important problem in quantum information processing is the certification of the dimension of quantum systems without making assumptions about the devices used to prepare and mea…