Continuous-variable quantum-computing is the most scalable implementation of QC to date
but requires non-Gaussian resources to allow exponential speedup and quantum correction …

Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SNSPDs) are promising
technologies with good comprehensive performance, especially their excellent temporal …

Superconducting nanostrip photon detectors have been used as single-photon detectors,
which can discriminate only photons' presence or absence. It has recently been found that …

Efficient and precise photon-number-resolving detectors are essential for optical quantum
information science. Despite this, very few detectors have been able to distinguish photon …

Abstract Properties of superconducting nanowires set the performance level for
superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). Reset time in commonly …

Photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors are a key enabling technology in photonic
quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the PNR capacity of conventional …

Cryogenic opto-electronic interconnects are gaining increasing interest as a means to
control and readout cryogenic electronic components. The challenge is to achieve sufficient …

The relaxation of energetic quasiparticles in superconducting nanostructures involves many
cascaded interactions between electrons, phonons and Cooper pairs. These dynamics are …

We apply principal component analysis (PCA) to a set of electrical output signals from a
commercially available superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) to …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) show near unity efficiency,
low dark count rate, and short recovery time. Combining these characteristics with temporal …