Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing

C Couteau, S Barz, T Durt, T Gerrits, J Huwer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …

Quantum optical microcombs

M Kues, C Reimer, JM Lukens, WJ Munro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A key challenge for quantum science and technology is to realize large-scale, precisely
controllable, practical systems for non-classical secured communications, metrology and …

Realization of a multinode quantum network of remote solid-state qubits

M Pompili, SLN Hermans, S Baier, HKC Beukers… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The distribution of entangled states across the nodes of a future quantum internet will unlock
fundamentally new technologies. Here, we report on the realization of a three-node …

Generation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states in Rydberg atom arrays

A Omran, H Levine, A Keesling, G Semeghini, TT Wang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Quantum entanglement involving coherent superpositions of macroscopically distinct states
is among the most striking features of quantum theory, but its realization is challenging …

Entanglement-based quantum information technology: a tutorial

Z Zhang, C You, OS Magaña-Loaiza… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Entanglement is a quintessential quantum mechanical phenomenon with no classical
equivalent. First discussed by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen and formally introduced by …

High quality entangled photon pair generation in periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

J Zhao, C Ma, M Rüsing, S Mookherjea - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
A thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide was designed and fabricated which
generates entangled photon pairs at telecommunications wavelengths with high …

12-photon entanglement and scalable scattershot boson sampling with optimal entangled-photon pairs from parametric down-conversion

HS Zhong, Y Li, W Li, LC Peng, ZE Su, Y Hu, YM He… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Entangled-photon sources with simultaneously near-unity heralding efficiency and
indistinguishability are the fundamental elements for scalable photonic quantum …

Photonic source of heralded Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states

H Cao, LM Hansen, F Giorgino, L Carosini, P Zahálka… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Generating large multiphoton entangled states is of main interest due to enabling universal
photonic quantum computing and all-optical quantum repeater nodes. These applications …

Entanglement certification from theory to experiment

N Friis, G Vitagliano, M Malik, M Huber - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Entanglement is an important resource for quantum technologies. There are many ways
quantum systems can be entangled, ranging from the two-qubit case to entanglement in …

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion

C Couteau - Contemporary Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC), also known as parametric
fluorescence, parametric noise, parametric scattering and all various combinations of the …