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20092026
most citedTwo-photon interference: the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect

217 citations · 1.2k across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Thermal Responses of Spin Density and Spin Current Induced by Bogoliubov Fermi Surfaces in Proximity Superconductors

Yingwen Zhang, Cong Xiao, Xiao Li

The emergence of Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces in s-wave proximity superconducting systems provides a unique platform for generating nontrivial spin responses in the presence of spin-o…

quant-ph2026

Attosecond delay metrology beyond the photon coherence time with spectrally resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry

Yingwen Zhang, Kyle Jordan, Duncan England +3

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometry enables delay estimation at the quantum precision limit but is traditionally constrained to path differences within the coherence time of the in…

quant-ph2026

Single-acquisition tomography of photonic qubits with structured media

Francesco Di Colandrea, Yingwen Zhang, John Grace +3

Quantum state tomography is an essential tool for characterizing quantum systems and underpins nearly every experimental realization of quantum technologies. Conventional tomograph…

quant-ph2026

Single-Image Entanglement Verification with Spatially Encoded Measurement Contexts

Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Yingwen Zhang +3

Entangled photon pairs produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion exhibit rich spatial entanglement structure that is often difficult to probe with conventional measurement…

quant-ph2026

Contrast enhanced imaging through weakly scattering media with spatially entangled photons

Alessio D'Errico, James Hubble, Rojan Abolhassani +4

Improving the image contrast of objects immersed in weakly scattering media can be achieved using various strategies. One common approach is to reject events associated with scatte…

quant-ph2026

Simultaneous amplitude and phase spectroscopy using two-photon interference

Kyle M. Jordan, Yingwen Zhang, Frédéric Bouchard +5

Quantum spectroscopy seeks to probe chemical systems using nonclassical light, which has properties that are qualitatively and quantitatively different than conventional light sour…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Optical Techniques for Biomedical Imaging

Vahid Salari, Yingwen Zhang, Sepideh Ahmadi +7

Quantum imaging is emerging as a transformative approach for biomedical applications, applying nonclassical properties of light, such as entanglement, squeezing, and quantum correl…

quant-ph2025

Spatial Mode Encoding for Quantum Key Distribution: From Hundreds to Thousands of Modes

Lukas Scarfe, Yingwen Zhang, Ebrahim Karimi

Here, we present a proof-of-principle high-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol utilizing the position and momentum entanglement of photon pairs. The protocol exploi…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Full-field mapping of spatially varying polarization entanglement generated from spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Cheng Li, Girish Kulkarni, Isaac Soward +6

Two-photon states generated from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can display entanglement in all degrees of freedom (DoFs) of light, including spatial, temporal, and…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Quantum enhanced beam tracking surpassing the Heisenberg uncertainty limit

Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England, Noah Lupu-Gladstein +5

Determining a beam's full trajectory requires tracking both its position and momentum (angular) information. However, the product of position and momentum uncertainty in a simultan…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Generation of the Complete Bell Basis via Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference

Xiaoqin Gao, Dilip Paneru, Francesco Di Colandrea +2

Optical vector modes (VMs), characterized by spatially varying polarization distributions, have become essential tools across microscopy, metrology, optical trapping, nanophotonics…

quant-ph2024

Diffraction of correlated biphotons through transparent samples

Nazanin Dehghan, Alessio D'Errico, Yingwen Zhang +2

Two-photon states generated through degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can exhibit sharp correlations in the transverse spatial coordinates. This property lea…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Quantitative phase gradient microscopy with spatially entangled photons

Yingwen Zhang, Paul-Antoine Moreau, Duncan England +2

We present an entanglement-based quantitative phase gradient microscopy technique that employs principles from quantum ghost imaging and ghost diffraction. In this method, a transp…

physics.optics2023★ 3 cited

Experimental emulator of pulse dynamics in fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Shilong Liu, Yingwen Zhang, Stéphane Virally +3

We present a nonlinear optical platform to emulate a nonlinear \textit{Lévy waveguide} that supports the pulse propagation governed by a generalized fractional nonlinear Schrödinge…

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Topological superconductivity with large Chern numbers in a ferromagnetic metal-superconductor heterostructure

Yingwen Zhang, Dao-Xin Yao, Zhi Wang

The ferromagnetic metal-superconductor heterostructure with interface Rashba spin-orbit hopping is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity. We study the interplay b…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Full spatial characterization of entangled structured photons

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D'Errico +3

Vector beams (VBs) are fully polarized beams with spatially varying polarization distributions, and they have found widespread use in numerous applications such as microscopy, metr…

quant-ph2023★ 38 cited

Intensity interferometry for holography with quantum and classical light

G. S. Thekkadath, D. England, F. Bouchard +3

As first demonstrated by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, it is possible to observe interference between independent light sources by measuring correlations in their intensities rather tha…

quant-ph2022★ 11 cited

Reconfigurable phase contrast microscopy with correlated photon pairs

Hazel Hodgson, Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England +1

A phase-sensitive microscopy technique is proposed and demonstrated that employs the momentum correlations inherent in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. One photon from a cor…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Quantum correlation light-field microscope with extreme depth of field

Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England, Antony Orth +2

Light-field microscopy (LFM) is a 3D microscopy technique whereby volumetric information of a sample is gained by simultaneously capturing both the position and momentum (angular)…

quant-ph2022★ 33 cited

Characterisation of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging

Victor Vidyapin, Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England +1

We show a simple yet effective method that can be used to characterize the per pixel quantum efficiency and temporal resolution of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging…

physics.optics2022★ 122 cited

Experimental realisations of the fractional Schrödinger equation in the temporal domain

Shilong Liu, Yingwen Zhang, Boris A. Malomed +1

The fractional Schrödinger equation (FSE) -- a natural extension of the standard Schrödinger equation -- is the basis of fractional quantum mechanics. It can be obtained by replaci…

physics.optics2022★ 24 cited

Snapshot hyperspectral imaging with quantum correlated photons

Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England, Benjamin Sussman

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has a wide range of applications from environmental monitoring to biotechnology. Current snapshot HSI techniques all require a trade-off between spatial…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence

Mohammadreza Rezaee, Yingwen Zhang, James L. Harden +1

A cavitation bubble inside a liquid, under a specific set of conditions, can get trapped in an antinode of the ultrasonically driven standing wave and periodically emits visible ph…

quant-ph2022★ 11 cited

Manipulating the symmetry of transverse momentum entangled biphoton states

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D'Errico +3

Bell states are a fundamental resource in photonic quantum information processing. These states have been generated successfully in many photonic degrees of freedom. Their manipula…