Interaction-free, single-pixel quantum imaging with undetected photons

Y Yang, H Liang, X Xu, L Zhang, S Zhu… - npj Quantum Information, 2023 - nature.com
A typical imaging scenario requires three basic ingredients:(1) a light source that emits light,
which in turn interacts and scatters off the object of interest;(2) detection of the light being …

Scaling waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detector solutions to large numbers of independent optical channels

M Häußler, R Terhaar, MA Wolff, H Gehring… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors are an enabling technology for modern
quantum information science and are gaining attractiveness for the most demanding photon …

Theory of coherent interaction-free detection of pulses

JJ McCord, S Dogra, GS Paraoanu - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Quantum physics allows an object to be detected even in the absence of photon absorption,
by the use of so-called interaction-free measurements. We provide a formulation of this …

Coherent interaction-free detection of microwave pulses with a superconducting circuit

S Dogra, JJ McCord, GS Paraoanu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The interaction-free measurement is a fundamental quantum effect whereby the presence of
a photosensitive object is determined without irreversible photon absorption. Here we …

Method to deterministically generate large-amplitude optical cat states

ZH Li, F Yu, ZY Li, M Al-Amri, MS Zubairy - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Cat states, as an important resource in the study of macroscopic quantum superposition and
quantum information applications, have garnered widespread attention. To date, preparing …

All-optical control of linear and nonlinear energy transfer via the Zeno effect

X Guo, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Microresonator-based nonlinear processes are fundamental to applications including
microcomb generation, parametric frequency conversion, and harmonics generation. While …

The experimental demonstration of high efficiency interaction-free measurement for quantum counterfactual-like communication

C Liu, J Liu, J Zhang, S Zhu - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present an interaction-free measurement with quantum Zeno effect and a high efficiency
η= 74.6%±0.15%. As a proof-of-principle demonstration, this measurement can be used to …

Counterfactual trojan horse attack

ZH Li, L Wang, J Xu, Y Yang, M Al-Amri, MS Zubairy - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Trojan horse attack is a common eavesdropping strategy which can attack various quantum
secure communication systems. Its basic idea is to send auxiliary photons into a legitimate …

Counterfactual exchange of unknown quantum states

ZH Li, M Al-Amri, XH Yang, MS Zubairy - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We show that two unknown quantum states, either pure or mixed, can be bidirectionally
“teleported” counterfactually. In the process of information exchange, there is no physical …

Counterfactual logic gates

ZH Li, XF Ji, S Asiri, L Wang, M Al-Amri - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We present how basic logic gates including nand, nor, and xor gates can be implemented
counterfactually. The two inputs (Bob and Charlie) and the output (Alice) of the proposed …