Modes and states in quantum optics

C Fabre, N Treps - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
A few decades ago, quantum optics stood out as a new domain of physics by exhibiting
states of light with no classical equivalent. The first investigations concerned single photons …

Advances in bosonic quantum error correction with gottesman–kitaev–preskill codes: Theory, engineering and applications

AJ Brady, A Eickbusch, S Singh, J Wu… - Progress in Quantum …, 2024 - Elsevier
Encoding quantum information into a set of harmonic oscillators is considered a hardware
efficient approach to mitigate noise for reliable quantum information processing. Various …

Schrödinger cat states of a 16-microgram mechanical oscillator

M Bild, M Fadel, Y Yang, U Von Lüpke, P Martin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
According to quantum mechanics, a physical system can be in any linear superposition of its
possible states. Although the validity of this principle is routinely validated for microscopic …

Non-Gaussian quantum states and where to find them

M Walschaers - PRX quantum, 2021 - APS
Gaussian states have played an important role in the physics of continuous-variable
quantum systems. They are appealing for the experimental ease with which they can be …

Quantum resource theories

E Chitambar, G Gour - Reviews of modern physics, 2019 - APS
Quantum resource theories (QRTs) offer a highly versatile and powerful framework for
studying different phenomena in quantum physics. From quantum entanglement to quantum …

Progress towards practical qubit computation using approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes

I Tzitrin, JE Bourassa, NC Menicucci, KK Sabapathy - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Encoding a qubit in the continuous degrees of freedom of an oscillator is a promising path to
error-corrected quantum computation. One advantageous way to achieve this is through …

Non-Gaussian quantum states of a multimode light field

YS Ra, A Dufour, M Walschaers, C Jacquard, T Michel… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Advanced quantum technologies require scalable and controllable quantum resources,.
Gaussian states of multimode light, such as squeezed states and cluster states, are scalable …

Observation of three-photon spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a superconducting parametric cavity

CWS Chang, C Sabín, P Forn-Díaz, F Quijandría… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has been a key enabling technology in
exploring quantum phenomena and their applications for decades. For instance, traditional …

General resource theories in quantum mechanics and beyond: Operational characterization via discrimination tasks

R Takagi, B Regula - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We establish an operational characterization of general convex resource theories—
describing the resource content of not only states but also measurements and channels …

Non-gaussianity as a signature of a quantum theory of gravity

R Howl, V Vedral, D Naik, M Christodoulou, C Rovelli… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Tabletop tests of quantum gravity (QG) have long been thought to be practically impossible.
However, remarkably, because of rapid progress in quantum information science (QIS), such …