scholarly journals Quantum optics and nano-optics teaching laboratory for the undergraduate curriculum: teaching quantum mechanics and nano-physics with photon counting instrumentation

Author(s):  
Svetlana G. Lukishova
Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco De De Martini ◽  
Fabio Sciarrino

Quantum teleportation is one of the most striking consequence of quantum mechanics and is defined as the transmission and reconstruction of an unknown quantum state over arbitrary distances. This concept was introduced for the first time in 1993 by Charles Bennett and coworkers, it has then been experimentally demonstrated by several groups under different conditions of distance, amount of particles and even with feed forward. After 20 years from its first realization, this contribution reviews the experimental implementations realized at the Quantum Optics Group of the University of Rome La Sapienza.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3655
Author(s):  
Marco Genovese ◽  
Marco Gramegna

With the last turn of the century, physics has experienced the transition from the first to the second quantum revolution [...]


Author(s):  
Svetlana G. Lukishova ◽  
Anand K. Jha ◽  
Nickolaos Savidis ◽  
Sean White ◽  
Luke Bissell ◽  
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1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
DT Pegg

Wave function collapse has been a contentious concept in quantum mechanics for a considerable time. Here we show examples of how the concept can be used to advantage in predicting the statistical results of three experiments in atomic physics and quantum optics: photon antibunching, single-photon phase difference states and interrupted single-atom fluorescence. We examine the question of whether or not collapse is 'really' a physical process, and discuss the consequences of simply omitting it but including the observer as a part of the overall system governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. The resulting entangled world does not appear to be inconsistent with experience.


Quantum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Brian R. La Cour ◽  
Morgan C. Williamson

The Born rule provides a fundamental connection between theory and observation in quantum mechanics, yet its origin remains a mystery. We consider this problem within the context of quantum optics using only classical physics and the assumption of a quantum electrodynamic vacuum that is real rather than virtual. The connection to observation is made via classical intensity threshold detectors that are used as a simple, deterministic model of photon detection. By following standard experimental conventions of data analysis on discrete detection events, we show that this model is capable of reproducing several observed phenomena thought to be uniquely quantum in nature, thus providing greater elucidation of the quantum-classical boundary.


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (22) ◽  
pp. 1350159
Author(s):  
SHI-MIN XU ◽  
XING-LEI XU ◽  
FENG JIANG ◽  
HONG-QI LI

In this paper, the n-th root of a matrix is defined, and the explicit form of n-th root of an Hermitian matrix is given. A new method for diagonalizing quadratic Hamiltonians is proposed. Also, a class of quantum operators is induced by the linear transformation in configuration space, and its unitary properties and transformation behavior are studied. Our new method based on n-th root of matrices can develop the mathematical methods of quantum mechanics and quantum optics, and can also be applied to engineering, quantum optics and quantum fields states with squeezing properties, as well as the binomial field states.


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