Polymeric materials in single photon emission: a futuristic review

A Shaikh, G Mohith Yadav… - Polymer-Plastics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Single photon emitters (SPEs) are extensively utilized in quantum technologies, single
photon emission computed tomography, and quantum key distribution. The present, efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Sputtered NbN films for ultrahigh performance superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

IA Stepanov, AS Baburin, DV Kushnev, EV Sergeev… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
At the present time, ultrahigh performance superconducting nanowire single-photon
detectors are the key elements in a variety of devices from biological research to quantum …

Birefringent Spin‐Photon Interface Generates Polarization Entanglement

N Leppenen, DS Smirnov - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A spin‐photon interface based on the luminescence of a singly charged quantum dot in a
micropillar cavity allows for the creation of photonic entangled states. Current devices suffer …

Error-mitigated variational algorithm on a photonic processor

OV Borzenkova, GI Struchalin, IV Kondratyev… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Our study demonstrates successful error mitigation of indistinguishably-related noise in a
quantum photonic processor through the application of the zero-noise extrapolation (ZNE) …

Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs by a Five-Level Quantum Dot in a Microcavity

AV Tsukanov - Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, 2023 - Springer
The processes of entangled state generation in the course of cascade emission of photons
in a semiconductor single-electron quantum dot are described. It is shown that, depending …

Open whispering gallery mode resonators

DR Kazanov, AM Monakhov - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
There are some issues with traditional whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators such as
poor light extraction and a dense mode spectrum. In this paper, we introduce a solution to …

Resource-efficient low-loss four-channel active demultiplexer for single photons

M Dryazgov, Y Biriukov, I Dyakonov, K Taratorin… - Optica …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report a design and implementation of a resource-efficient spatial demultiplexer which
produces four indistinguishable photons with efficiency of 39.7% per channel. Our scheme is …

[HTML][HTML] General phase-covariant quantum cloning

LL Li, WH Zhang, K Zhang, CY Fan - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Phase-covariant quantum cloning has important applications in quantum cryptography. This
paper proposes the unitary transformation of the optimal 1→ 2 general phase covariant …

Comparison of non-decoy single-photon source and decoy weak coherent pulse in quantum key distribution

RG Pousa, DKL Oi, J Jeffers - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19963, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advancements in practical single-photon sources (SPS) exhibiting high brightness and low
$ g^{(2)}(0) $ have garnered significant interest for their application in quantum key …

Stimulated down-conversion of single-photon emission in a quantum dot placed in a target-frequency microcavity

IV Krainov, MV Rakhlin, AI Veretennikov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Currently, two optical processes are mainly used to realize single photon sources:
deterministic transitions in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) placed in a microcavity and …