Entangled photon-pair sources based on three-wave mixing in bulk crystals

A Anwar, C Perumangatt, F Steinlechner… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Entangled photon pairs are a critical resource in quantum communication protocols ranging
from quantum key distribution to teleportation. The current workhorse technique for …

Optical phase singularities: Physical nature, manifestations and applications

OV Angelsky, AY Bekshaev, MV Vasnetsov… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Over the past 30 years, physical optics has been enriched by the appearance of singular
optics as a new branch approved in scientific classifiers. This review briefly outlines the main …

Revealing hidden einstein-podolsky-rosen nonlocality

SP Walborn, A Salles, RM Gomes, F Toscano… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Steering is a form of quantum nonlocality that is intimately related to the famous Einstein-
Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox that ignited the ongoing discussion of quantum correlations …

General class of continuous variable entanglement criteria

M Gärttner, T Haas, J Noll - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a general class of entanglement criteria for continuous variable systems. Our
criteria are based on the Husimi Q distribution and allow for optimization over the set of all …

Continuous-variable quantum computation with spatial degrees of freedom of photons

DS Tasca, RM Gomes, F Toscano… - Physical Review A …, 2011 - APS
We discuss the use of the transverse spatial degrees of freedom of photons propagating in
the paraxial approximation for continuous-variable information processing. Given the wide …

Detecting continuous-variable entanglement in phase space with the distribution

M Gärttner, T Haas, J Noll - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We prove a general class of continuous variable entanglement criteria based on the Husimi
Q distribution, which represents a quantum state in canonical phase space, by employing a …

Influence of pump coherence on the generation of position-momentum entanglement in optical parametric down-conversion

W Zhang, R Fickler, E Giese, L Chen, RW Boyd - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We examine experimentally how the degree of position-momentum entanglement of photon
pairs depends on the transverse coherence of the pump beam that excites them in a process …

Boosting entanglement generation in down-conversion with incoherent illumination

L Hutter, G Lima, SP Walborn - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Entangled photons produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion have been of
paramount importance for our current understanding of quantum mechanics and advances …

Heralded phase-contrast imaging using an orbital angular momentum phase-filter

RS Aspden, PA Morris, R He, Q Chen… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We utilise the position and orbital angular momentum (OAM) correlations between the signal
and idler photons generated in the down-conversion process to obtain ghost images of a …

Family of continuous-variable entanglement criteria using general entropy functions

A Saboia, F Toscano, SP Walborn - … Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2011 - APS
We derive a family of entanglement criteria for continuous-variable systems based on the
Rényi entropy of complementary distributions. We show that these entanglement witnesses …