High-rate, high-fidelity entanglement of qubits across an elementary quantum network

LJ Stephenson, DP Nadlinger, BC Nichol, S An… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate remote entanglement of trapped-ion qubits via a quantum-optical fiber link
with fidelity and rate approaching those of local operations. Two Sr+ 88 qubits are entangled …

Demonstration of two-atom entanglement with ultrafast optical pulses

JD Wong-Campos, SA Moses, KG Johnson… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We demonstrate quantum entanglement of two trapped atomic ion qubits using a sequence
of ultrafast laser pulses. Unlike previous demonstrations of entanglement mediated by the …

Pure single photons from a trapped atom source

DB Higginbottom, L Slodička, G Araneda… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Single atoms or atom-like emitters are the purest source of single photons, they are
intrinsically incapable of multi-photon emission. To demonstrate this degree of photon …

Superresolution microscopy of cold atoms in an optical lattice

M McDonald, J Trisnadi, KX Yao, C Chin - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Superresolution microscopy has revolutionized the fields of chemistry and biology by
resolving features at the molecular level. In atomic physics, such a scheme can be applied to …

Adaptive tip-enhanced nano-spectroscopy

DY Lee, C Park, J Choi, Y Koo, M Kang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tip-enhanced nano-spectroscopy, such as tip-enhanced photoluminescence (TEPL) and tip-
enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), generally suffers from inconsistent signal …

Wavelength-scale errors in optical localization due to spin–orbit coupling of light

G Araneda, S Walser, Y Colombe, DB Higginbottom… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
Far-field optical imaging techniques allow the determination of the position of point-like
emitters and scatterers 1, 2, 3. Although the optical wavelength sets a fundamental limit to …

Metasurface-mediated quantum entanglement

PK Jha, N Shitrit, J Kim, X Ren, Y Wang, X Zhang - ACS Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Entanglement-based quantum science exploits subtle properties of quantum mechanics into
applications such as quantum computing, sensing, and metrology. The emerging route for …

Super-resolution microscopy of single atoms in optical lattices

A Alberti, C Robens, W Alt, S Brakhane… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on image processing techniques and experimental procedures to determine the
lattice-site positions of single atoms in an optical lattice with high reliability, even for limited …

Using all transverse degrees of freedom in quantum communications based on a generic mode sorter

Y Zhou, M Mirhosseini, S Oliver, J Zhao… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The dimension of the state space for information encoding offered by the transverse
structure of light is usually limited by the finite size of apertures. The widely used orbital …