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Enhancing analytical photon transport in turbid media through physics-guided neural network corrections
Analytical methods provide rapid and computationally efficient predictions of light transport in turbid media, making them attractive for real-time and inverse applications.Development of a fabrication-to-benchtop process for SiN-based quantum devices
Silicon nitride has emerged as a key material for the advancement of future quantum communication and computational devices.Wavelength Diversity Expands the Expressive Power of Optical Computing
Universal function approximation underpins neural networks' capacity to represent nonlinear relationships, but realizing this capability in optical hardware requires engineering the computational…Displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detector using quantum tomography of photon orbital angular momentum states
Gravitational waves (GWs) induce quantum transitions between photon orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) states with amplitudes $α_{\pm}$.Casimir forces on suspended thin dielectric membranes covered with graphene
We investigate the Casimir force on thin suspended dielectric layers covered with graphene, both theoretically and experimentally.Trapping of nanofabricated SiO$_2$ high-aspect-ratio discs in an optical lattice
We describe the nanofabrication and loading of lithographically patterned, high aspect ratio $10$ $μ$m diameter silicon dioxide discs with thickness of $400$ nm into an optical standing wave trap in…A compact six-beam 3D magneto-optical trap based on multifunctional metasurface chips
Magneto-optical traps (MOTs), indispensable to cold-atom-based quantum computing and quantum precision measurement, are increasingly desired in compact and stable form.Quantum-enhanced phase interrogation of a fiber-optic strain sensor
Fiber-optic sensors enable high-sensitivity measurements of various physical parameters.Computational compressive imaging reconstruction with a simulated-annealing-based Ising solver
Computational compressive imaging, such as single-pixel imaging and lensless imaging, is a promising imaging technique, enabling the reconstruction of objects from under-sampled measurements through…Preservation of photon statistics upon selective molecular modulation in hollow-core fibers
Preserving the underlying statistical properties of light during frequency transduction is essential for interfacing spectrally disparate quantum systems.Background2Background: a self-supervised background removal framework for high dimensional microscopy
High-dimensional microscopy captures features across space, time, and spectrum, but complex backgrounds obscure signals.Boson Sampling Using Fock States from On-Demand Single Photon Source Arrays: Quantum Complexity & Impact of Dephasing
Boson sampling with array of on-demand single photons (discreet variable Fock states) as resource states provides distinct advantages in complexity scaling compared to single photon resource states…Optical parametric amplification of spatiotemporal optical vortices
Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are structured light featuring a phase singularity in the spatiotemporal domain, exhibiting unique topology that couples spatial and temporal dimensions.Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer and Beam-Quality Limits in Fork-Grating Electron Diffraction
We analyze fork-grating generation of electron vortex beams beyond the ideal single-mode approximation.Plasmon modes in three-dimensional multifold semimetals. I. Triple-point semimetal, its quadratic cousin, and Hopf semimetal
We study collective charge excitations in pseudospin-1 triple-point semimetals within the random-phase approximation, considering both the linearised model with a flat-band and its…Multipolar Nanophotonics with Quantum Computers
Small particles respond to light through electric and magnetic patterns called multipoles.Metasurface quantum graphs for polarization-independent certified randomness
Quantum random number generators are crucial for information security, yet existing implementations are hindered by bulky optics, device imperfections, and state alignment constraints.Direct polarisation-state reconstruction with a temporal pointer: accessible states, resolution and optimal coupling
Weak measurements are used to amplify small signals, to address foundational questions, and to characterise quantum states without tomography.Observation of Photon Bunching in Broadband Multimode Thermal Light Enabled by Temporal Imaging
Photons emitted by incoherent sources exhibit temporal bunching, a fundamental manifestation of Bose-Einstein statistics first observed by Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT).Ghost unitaries for loss-resilient photonic resource-state generation
Entangled few-photon states, such as Bell and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, are central resources for discrete-variable photonic quantum information processing.
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