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most citedContinuous variable quantum key distribution with two-mode squeezed states

245 citations · 902 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Practical Limits on Integrated Squeezers

Devin J. Dean, Taewon Park, Lars S. Madsen +12

Recent experiments have demonstrated the successful generation and detection of moderately squeezed vacuum states with integrated photonics. However, in order to benefit from the r…

quant-ph2026

Bright Pulsed Squeezed Light for Quantum-Enhanced Precision Microscopy

Alex Terrasson, Lars Madsen, Joel Grim +1

Squeezed states of light enable enhanced measurement precision by reducing noise below the standard quantum limit. A key application of squeezed light is nonlinear microscopy, wher…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 49 cited

Ultrafast viscosity measurement with ballistic optical tweezers

Lars S. Madsen, Muhammad Waleed, Catxere A. Casacio +3

Viscosity is an important property of out-of-equilibrium systems such as active biological materials and driven non-Newtonian fluids, and for fields ranging from biomaterials to ge…

physics.optics2020★ 8 cited

Quantum correlations overcome the photodamage limits of light microscopy

Catxere A. Casacio, Lars S. Madsen, Alex Terrasson +5

State-of-the-art microscopes use intense lasers that can severely disturb biological processes, function and viability. This introduces hard limits on performance that only quantum…

physics.pop-ph2019★ 15 cited

The sounds of science: a symphony for many instruments and voices

Gerianne Alexander, Roland E. Allen, Anthony Atala +15

This paper is a celebration of the frontiers of science. Goodenough, the maestro who transformed energy usage and technology through the invention of the lithium ion battery, opens…

quant-ph2019★ 8 cited

Quantum noise limited nanoparticle detection with exposed-core fiber

Nicolas P. Mauranyapin, Lars S. Madsen, Larnii Booth +5

Label-free biosensors are important tools for clinical diagnostics and for studying biology at the single molecule level. The development of optical label-free sensors has allowed…

physics.optics2018

Quantum enhanced optomechanical magnetometry

Bei-Bei Li, Jan Bilek, Ulrich B. Hoff +7

The resonant enhancement of both mechanical and optical response in microcavity optomechanical devices allows exquisitely sensitive measurements of stimuli such as acceleration, ma…

quant-ph2017★ 20 cited

A Quantum Heat Machine from Fast Optomechanics

James S. Bennett, Lars S. Madsen, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop +1

We consider a thermodynamic machine in which the working fluid is a quantized harmonic oscillator that is controlled on timescales that are much faster than the oscillator period.…

quant-ph2017★ 39 cited

Deterministic phase measurements exhibiting super-sensitivity and super-resolution

Clemens Schäfermeier, Miroslav Ježek, Lars S. Madsen +2

Phase super-sensitivity is obtained when the sensitivity in a phase measurement goes beyond the quantum shot noise limit, whereas super-resolution is obtained when the interference…

physics.optics2016★ 4 cited

Evanescent single-molecule biosensing with quantum limited precision

N. P. Mauranyapin, L. S. Madsen, M. A. Taylor +2

Sensors that are able to detect and track single unlabelled biomolecules are an important tool both to understand biomolecular dynamics and interactions at nanoscale, and for medic…

physics.optics2016★ 20 cited

Non-destructive profilometry of optical nanofibres

Lars S. Madsen, Christopher Baker, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop +1

Single-mode optical nanofibres are a central component of a broad range of applications and emerging technologies. Their fabrication has been extensively studied over the past deca…

quant-ph2015★ 14 cited

Parsing Squeezed Light into Polarization Manifolds

C. R. Müller, L. S. Madsen, A. Klimov +4

We investigate polarization squeezing in squeezed coherent states with varying coherent amplitudes. In contrast to the traditional characterization based on the full Stokes paramet…

quant-ph2015★ 37 cited

A Quantum Optomechanical Interface Beyond the Resolved Sideband Limit

James S. Bennett, Kiran Khosla, Lars S. Madsen +3

Mechanical oscillators which respond to radiation pressure are a promising means of transferring quantum information between light and matter. Optical--mechanical state swaps are a…

quant-ph2014★ 31 cited

Complete elimination of information leakage in continuous-variable quantum communication channels

Christian S. Jacobsen, Lars S. Madsen, Vladyslav C. Usenko +2

In all lossy communication channels realized to date, information is inevitably leaked to a potential eavesdropper. Here we present a communication protocol that does not allow for…

quant-ph2014★ 41 cited

Coherent control and feedback cooling in a remotely-coupled hybrid atom-optomechanical system

James S. Bennett, Lars S. Madsen, Mark Baker +2

Cooling to the motional ground state is an important first step in the preparation of nonclassical states of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators. Light-mediated coupling to a remote…

quant-ph2013★ 34 cited

Gaussian error correction of quantum states in a correlated noisy channel

Mikael Lassen, Adriano Berni, Lars S. Madsen +2

Noise is the main obstacle for the realization of fault tolerant quantum information processing and secure communication over long distances. In this work, we propose a communicati…

quant-ph2013★ 72 cited

Quantum-enhanced micro-mechanical displacement sensitivity

Ulrich B. Hoff, Glen I. Harris, Lars S. Madsen +5

We report on a hitherto unexplored application of squeezed light: for quantum-enhancement of mechanical transduction sensitivity in microcavity optomechanics. Using a toroidal sili…

quant-ph2012★ 11 cited

Experimental determination of the degree of quantum polarisation of continuous variable states

Christian Kothe, Lars Skovgaard Madsen, Ulrik Lund Andersen +1

We demonstrate excitation-manifold resolved polarisation characterisation of continuous-variable (CV) quantum states. In contrast to traditional characterisation of polarisation th…

quant-ph2012★ 65 cited

Experimental Investigation of the Evolution of Gaussian Quantum Discord in an Open System

Lars S. Madsen, Adriano Berni, Mikael Lassen +1

Gaussian quantum discord is a measure of quantum correlations in Gaussian systems. Using Gaussian discord we quantify the quantum correlations of a bipartite entangled state and a…

quant-ph2011★ 245 cited

Continuous variable quantum key distribution with two-mode squeezed states

Lars S. Madsen, Vladyslav C. Usenko, Mikael Lassen +2

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables two remote parties to grow a shared key which they can use for unconditionally secure communication [1]. The applicable distance of a QKD pro…

quant-ph2010★ 33 cited

Assessing the Polarization of a Quantum Field from Stokes Fluctuation

A. B. Klimov, G. Bjork, J. Soderholm +8

We propose an operational degree of polarization in terms of the variance of the projected Stokes vector minimized over all the directions of the Poincaré sphere. We examine the pr…

quant-ph2010★ 28 cited

Experimental Demonstration of Squeezed State Quantum Averaging

Mikael Lassen, Lars Skovgaard Madsen, Metin Sabuncu +2

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a universal quantum averaging process implementing the harmonic mean of quadrature variances. The harmonic mean protocol can be used to ef…

physics.atom-ph2009★ 80 cited

High quality anti-relaxation coating material for alkali atom vapor cells

M. V. Balabas, K. Jensen, W. Wasilewski +5

We present an experimental investigation of alkali atom vapor cells coated with a high quality anti-relaxation coating material based on alkenes. The prepared cells with single com…

quant-ph2009★ 48 cited

Single mode quadrature entangled light from room temperature atomic vapour

W. Wasilewski, T. Fernholz, K. Jensen +4

We analyse a novel squeezing and entangling mechanism which is due to correlated Stokes and anti-Stokes photon forward scattering in a multi-level atom vapour. Following the propos…