Applications of single photons in quantum metrology, biology and the foundations of quantum physics

C Couteau, S Barz, T Durt, T Gerrits, J Huwer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
With the development of photonic quantum technologies, single photons have become key
for various applications including quantum communication and quantum computing …

Macroscopic quantum states: Measures, fragility, and implementations

F Fröwis, P Sekatski, W Dür, N Gisin… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Large-scale quantum effects have always played an important role in the foundations of
quantum theory. With recent experimental progress and the aspiration for quantum …

Nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation with cat-state qubits via invariant-based reverse engineering

YH Kang, YH Chen, X Wang, J Song, Y **a… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We propose a protocol to realize nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation of small-
amplitude Schrödinger cat qubits via invariant-based reverse engineering. We consider a …

Quantum key distribution and 1 Gbps data encryption over a single fibre

P Eraerds, N Walenta, M Legré, N Gisin… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform quantum key distribution (QKD) over a single fibre in the presence of four
classical channels in a C-band dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) …

Test of local realism into the past without detection and locality loopholes

MH Li, C Wu, Y Zhang, WZ Liu, B Bai, Y Liu, W Zhang… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Inspired by the recent remarkable progress in the experimental test of local realism, we
report here such a test that achieves an efficiency greater than (78%) 2 for entangled photon …

Observation of micro–macro entanglement of light

AI Lvovsky, R Ghobadi, A Chandra, AS Prasad… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involves a (macroscopic) cat whose quantum
state becomes entangled with that of a (microscopic) decaying nucleus. The creation of such …

Displacement of entanglement back and forth between the micro and macro domains

N Bruno, A Martin, P Sekatski, N Sangouard, RT Thew… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Quantum theory is often presented as the theory describing the microscopic world, and
admittedly, it has done this extremely well for decades. Nonetheless, the question of whether …

[Књига][B] Quantum objects

G Jaeger - 2014 - Springer
The conceptual elements of quantum theory that now underlie our picture of the physical
world include objective chance, quantum interference, and the objective indefiniteness of …

Bell test over extremely high-loss channels: towards distributing entangled photon pairs between earth and the moon

Y Cao, YH Li, WJ Zou, ZP Li, Q Shen, SK Liao, JG Ren… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Quantum entanglement was termed “spooky action at a distance” in the well-known paper
by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. Entanglement is expected to be distributed over longer …

Psychophysical modulation of fringe visibility in a distant double-slit optical system

D Radin, L Michel, A Delorme - Physics Essays, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
To investigate von Neumann's proposal that an “extra-physical process” is involved in the
measurement of a quantum system, an online experiment was conducted using a double-slit …