Metasurfaces for quantum photonics

AS Solntsev, GS Agarwal, YS Kivshar - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
Rapid progress in the development of metamaterials and metaphotonics allowed bulky
optical assemblies to be replaced with thin nanostructured films, often called metasurfaces …

Colloquium: Understanding quantum weak values: Basics and applications

J Dressel, M Malik, FM Miatto, AN Jordan… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Since its introduction 25 years ago, the quantum weak value has gradually transitioned from
a theoretical curiosity to a practical laboratory tool. While its utility is apparent in the recent …

Metasurface-assisted quantum nonlocal weak-measurement microscopy

J Liu, Q Yang, Y Shou, S Chen, W Shu, G Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In standard quantum weak measurements, preselection and postselection of quantum states
are implemented in the same photon. Here we go beyond this restrictive setting and …

Photonic spin Hall effect enabled refractive index sensor using weak measurements

X Zhou, L Sheng, X Ling - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In this work, we theoretically propose an optical biosensor (consists of a BK7 glass, a metal
film, and a graphene sheet) based on photonic spin Hall effect (SHE). We establish a …

Near-unity third-harmonic circular dichroism driven by a quasibound state in the continuum in asymmetric silicon metasurfaces

M Gandolfi, A Tognazzi, D Rocco, C De Angelis… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We use numerical simulations to demonstrate third-harmonic generation with near-unity
nonlinear circular dichroism (CD) and high conversion efficiency (10− 2 W− 2) in asymmetric …

Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector

M Malik, M Mirhosseini, MPJ Lavery, J Leach… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The measurement of a quantum state poses a unique challenge for experimentalists.
Recently, the technique of 'direct measurement'was proposed for characterizing a quantum …

Amplification of angular rotations using weak measurements

OS Magaña-Loaiza, M Mirhosseini, B Rodenburg… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We present a weak measurement protocol that permits a sensitive estimation of angular
rotations based on the concept of weak-value amplification. The shift in the state of a pointer …

Quantifying quantum coherence via Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability

A Budiyono, HK Dipojono - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability is a quantum analog of phase space probability of
classical statistical mechanics, allowing negative or/and nonreal values. It gives an …

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 …

Direct measurement of the density matrix of a quantum system

GS Thekkadath, L Giner, Y Chalich, MJ Horton… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
One drawback of conventional quantum state tomography is that it does not readily provide
access to single density matrix elements since it requires a global reconstruction. Here, we …