Publications

All scientific publications that result from the research efforts of QCUMbER are publically available via the arXiv paper repository. If you do not have journal access, you can follow the arXiv links, which will take you to the same versions of the papers as the published journal versions.

2016

• Metrology with Unknown Detectors
  M. Altorio, M. G. Genoni, F. Somma, and M. Barbieri
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100802 (2016), arXiv:1511.07132]
   
• Local Sampling of the Wigner Function at Telecom Wavelength with Loss-Tolerant Detection of Photon Statistics
  G. Harder, Ch. Silberhorn, J. Rehacek, Z. Hradil, L. Motka, B. Stoklasa, and L. L. Sanchez-Soto
  [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133601 (2016), arXiv:1603.06938]
   
• Unbalanced homodyne correlation measurements
  B. Kühn, and W. Vogel
  [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163603 (2016), arXiv:1511.01723]
   
• A versatile design for resonant guided-wave parametric down-conversion sources for quantum repeaters
  B. Brecht, K.-H. Luo, H. Herrmann, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [Appl. Phys. B 122, 116 (2016), arXiv:1507.08840]
   
• Entanglement of quantum circular states of light
  D. B. Horoshko, S. De Bievre, M. I. Kolobov, and G. Patera
  [Phys. Rev. A 93, 062323 (2016), arXiv:1602.07852]
   
• Multitime correlation functions in nonclassical stochastic processes
  F. Krumm, J. Sperling, and W. Vogel
  [Phys. Rev. A 93, 063843 (2016), arXiv:1603.09555]
   
• Characterizing maximally singular phase-space distributions
  J. Sperling
  [Phys. Rev. A 94, 013814 (2016), arXiv:1605.04425]
   
• Operational definition of quantum correlations of light
  J. Sperling, W. Vogel, and G. S. Agarwal
  [Phys. Rev. A 94, 013833 (2016), arXiv:1605.06975]
   
• Quantum correlations from the conditional statistics of incomplete data
  J. Sperling, T. J. Bartley, G. Donati, M. Barbieri, X.-M. Jin, A. Datta, W. Vogel, and I. A. Walmsley
  [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 083601 (2016), arXiv:1603.01389]
   
• Multipartite entanglement of a two-separable state
  S. Gerke, J. Sperling, W. Vogel, Y. Cai, J. Roslund, N. Treps, and C. Fabre
  [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 110502 (2016), arXiv:1603.05802]
   
• Bandwidth manipulation of quantum light by an electro-optic time lens
  M. Karpinski, M. Jachura, L. J. Wright, and B. J. Smith
  [Nat. Photon. 11, 53 (2016), arXiv:1604.02459]
   
• A direct approach to Gaussian measurement based quantum computation
  G. Ferrini, J. Roslund, F. Arzani, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [Phys. Rev. A 94, 062332 (2016), arXiv:1605.03350]

2017

• Spectral Shearing of Quantum Light Pulses by Electro-Optic Phase Modulation
  L. J. Wright, M. Karpinski, C. Söller, and B. J. Smith
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 023601 (2017), arXiv:1605.00640]
   
• Limits of the time-multiplexed photon-counting method
  R. Kruse, J. Tiedau, T. J. Bartley, S. Barkhofen, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 023815 (2017), arXiv:1611.04360]
   
• Direct calibration of click-counting detectors
  M. Bohmann, R. Kruse, J. Sperling, Ch. Silberhorn, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 033806 (2017), arXiv:1611.04779]
   
• Controlling induced coherence for quantum imaging
  M. I. Kolobov, E. Giese, S. Lemieux, R. Fickler, and R. W. Boyd
  [ J. Opt. 19, 054003 (2017), arXiv:1702.07742]
   
• Generation of monocycle squeezed light in chirped quasi-phase-matched nonlinear crystals
  D. B. Horoshko and M. I. Kolobov
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 033837 (2017), arXiv:1703.08157]
   
• Anomalous Quantum Correlations of Squeezed Light
  B. Kühn, W. Vogel, M. Mraz, S. Köhnke, and B. Hage
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153601 (2017), arXiv:1701.08965]
   
• Experimental method for measuring classical negativity of generic beam shapes
  E. Roccia, I. Gianani, L. Mancino, M. Sbroscia, I. Miatka, F. Somma, and M. Barbieri
  [ J. Opt. 19, 055614 (2017), arXiv:1612.03697]
   
• Detector-Independent Verification of Quantum Light
  J. Sperling, W. R. Clements, A. Eckstein, M. Moore, J. J. Renema, W. S. Kolthammer, S. W. Nam, A.Lita, T. Gerrits, W. Vogel, G. S. Agarwal, and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163602 (2017), arXiv:1701.07640]
   
• Quantifying nonclassicality by characteristic functions
  S. Ryl, J. Sperling, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 053825 (2017), arXiv:1702.00213]
   
• Pulsed single-photon spectrometer by frequency-to-time mapping using chirped fiber Bragg gratings
  A. O. C. Davis, P. M. Saulnier, M. Karpinski, and B. J. Smith
  [ Opt. Express 25, 12804 (2017), arXiv:1610.03040]
   
• Polynomial approximation of non-Gaussian unitaries by counting one photon at a time
  F. Arzani, N. Treps, and G. Ferrini
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 052352 (2017), arXiv:1703.06693]
   
• Probing free-space quantum channels with laboratory-based experiments
  M. Bohmann, R. Kruse, J. Sperling, Ch. Silberhorn, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 063801 (2017), arXiv:1702.04127]
   
• Time-dependent quantum correlations in phase space
  F. Krumm, W. Vogel, and J. Sperling
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 063805 (2017), arXiv:1702.02550]
   
• Quantum correlations in composite systems
  J. Sperling, E. Agudelo, I. A. Walmsley, and W. Vogel
  [ J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 134003 (2017), arXiv:1703.05063]
   
• Entanglement in macroscopic systems
  J. Sperling and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. A 95, 062116 (2017), arXiv:1611.06028]
   
• High Efficiency Raman Memory by Suppressing Radiation Trapping
  S. E. Thomas, J. H. D. Munns, K. T. Kaczmarek, C. Qiu, B. Brecht, A. Feizpour, P. M. Ledingham, I.A. Walmsley, J. Nunn, and D. J. Saunders
  [ New J. Phys. 19, 063034 (2017), arXiv:1610.03743]
   
• Identification of nonclassical properties of light with multiplexing layouts
  J. Sperling, A. Eckstein, W. R. Clements, M. Moore, J. J. Renema, W. S. Kolthammer, S. W. Nam, A.Lita, T. Gerrits, I. A. Walmsley, G. S. Agarwal, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 96, 013804 (2017), arXiv:1701.07642]
   
• Tomography of a Mode-Tunable Coherent Single-Photon Subtractor
  Y.-S. Ra, C. Jacquard, A. Dufour, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [ Phys. Rev. X 7, 031012 (2017), arXiv:1702.02082]
   
• Quantum temporal imaging: application of a time lens to quantum optics
  G. Patera, J. Shi, D. B. Horoshko, and M. I. Kolobov
  [ J. Opt. 19, 054001 (2017), arXiv:1704.00279]
   
• Multimode entanglement in reconfigurable graph states using optical frequency combs
  Y. Cai, J. Roslund, G. Ferrini, F. Arzani, X. Xu, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [ Nat. Commun. 8, 15645 (2017), arXiv:1605.02303]
   
• Quantum-limited measurements of distance fluctuations with a multimode detector
  V. Thiel, J. Roslund, P. Jian, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [ Quantum Sci. Technol. 2, 034008 (2017), arXiv:1703.08479]
   
• Quantum temporal imaging by four-wave mixing
  J. Shi, G. Patera, M. I. Kolobov, and S. Han
  [ Opt. Lett. 42, 3121 (2017)]
   
• Displaced photon-number entanglement tests
  B Kühn, W. Vogel, and J. Sperling
  [ Phys. Rev. A 96, 032306 (2017), arXiv:1707.01707]
   
• Extracting the physical sector of quantum states
  D. Mogilevtsev, Y. S. Teo, J. Rehacek, Z. Hradil, J. Tiedau, R. Kruse, G. Harder, Ch. Silberhorn, and L.L. Sanchez-Soto
  [ New J. Phys. 19, 093008 (2017), arXiv:1609.02797]
   
• Conditional Hybrid Nonclassicality
  E. Agudelo, J. Sperling, L. S. Costanzo, M. Bellini, A. Zavatta, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 120403 (2017), arXiv:1702.04257]
   
• Separable and Inseparable Quantum Trajectories
  J. Sperling and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170401 (2017), arXiv:1708.04421]
   
• Quantum coherences of indistinguishable particles
  J. Sperling, A. Perez-Leija, K. Busch, and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. A 96, 032334 (2017), arXiv:1707.05545]
   
• Entangling measurements for multiparameter estimation with two qubits
  E. Roccia, I. Gianani, L. Mancino, M. Sbroscia, F. Somma, M. G. Genoni, and M. Barbieri
  [ Quantum Sci. Technol. 3, 01LT01 (2017), arXiv:1704.03327]
   
• Entanglement and Wigner Function Negativity of Multimode Non-Gaussian States
  M. Walschaers, C. Fabre, V. Parigi, and N. Treps
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 183601 (2017), arXiv:1707.02285]
   
• Statistical signatures of multimode single-photon-added and -subtracted states of light
  M. Walschaers, C. Fabre, V. Parigi, and N. Treps
  [ Phys. Rev. A 96, 053835 (2017), arXiv:1708.08412]
   
• Temporal-mode detector tomography of a quantum pulse gate
  V. Ansari, G. Harder, M. Allgaier, B. Brecht, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ Phys. Rev. A 96, 063817 (2017), arXiv:1702.03336]
   
• Heralded orthogonalisation of coherent states and their conversion to discrete-variable superpositions
  R. Kruse, Ch. Silberhorn, and T. J. Bartley
  [ Quantum Meas. Quantum Metrol. 4, 35 (2017), arXiv:1702.00200]
   
• Monitoring dispersive samples with single photons: the role of frequency correlations
  E. Roccia, M.G. Genoni, L. Mancino, I. Gianani, M. Barbieri, and M. Sbroscia
  [ Quantum Meas. Quantum Metrol. 4, 64 (2017), arXiv:1712.06860]
   

2018

• Heralded generation of high-purity ultrashort single photons in programmable temporal shapes
  V. Ansari, E. Roccia, M. Santandrea, M. Doostdar, C. Eigner, L. Padberg, I. Gianani, M. Sbroscia, J. M.Donohue, L. Mancino, M. Barbieri, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ Opt. Express 26, 2764 (2018), arxiv:1711.09678]
   
• Incomplete Detection of Nonclassical Phase-Space Distributions
  M. Bohmann, J. Tiedau, T. Bartley, J. Sperling, C. Silberhorn, and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063607 (2018), arxiv:1711.10962]
   
• Experimental statistical signature of many-body quantum interference
  T. Giordani, F. Flamini, M. Pompili, N. Viggianiello, N. Spagnolo, A. Crespi, R. Osellame, N. Wiebe, M. Walschaers, A. Buchleitner, and F. Sciarrino
  [ Nat. Photon. 12, 173 (2018)]
   
• Geometrical picture of photocounting measurements
  O. P. Kovalenko, J. Sperling, W. Vogel, and A. A. Semenov
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 023845 (2018), arxiv:1801.02677]
   
• Quantum state and mode profile: tomography by the overlap
  J. Tiedau, V. S. Shchesnovich, D. Mogilevtsev, V. Ansari, G. Harder, T. Bartley, N. Korolkova, and Ch.Silberhorn
  [ New J. Phys. 20, 033003 (2018), arXiv:1708.08463]
   
• Versatile engineering of multimode squeezed states by optimizing the pump spectral profile in spontaneousparametric down-conversion
  F. Arzani, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 033808 (2018), arxiv:1709.10055]
   
• Experimental ancilla-assisted phase-estimation in a noisy channel
  M. Sbroscia, I. Gianani, L. Mancino, E. Roccia, Z. Huang, L. Maccone, C. Macchiavello, and M. Barbieri
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 032305 (2018), arXiv:1707.08792]
   
• The entropic cost of quantum generalised measurements
  L. Mancino, M. Sbroscia, E. Roccia, I. Gianani, F. Somma, P. Mataloni, M. Paternostro, and M. Barbieri
  [ npj Quantum Inf. 5, 20 (2018)]
   
• Time-dependent nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings dynamics of a trapped ion
  F. Krumm and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 043806 (2018), arxiv:1802.08063]
   
• A high-speed noise-free optical quantum memory
  K. T. Kaczmarek, P. M. Ledingham, B. Brecht, S. E. Thomas, G. S. Thekkadath, O. Lazo-Arjona, J. H.D. Munns, E. Poem, A. Feizpour, D. J. Saunders, J. Nunn, and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 042316 (2018), arXiv:1704.00013]
   
• Tailoring nonlinear processes for quantum optics with pulsed temporal-mode encodings
  V. Ansari, J. M. Donohue, B. Brecht, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ Optica 5, 534 (2018), arxiv:1803.04316]
   
• Reconfigurable optical implementation of quantum complex networks
  J. Nokkala, F. Arzani, F. Galve, R. Zambrini, S. Maniscalco, J. Piilo, N. Treps, and V. Parigi
  [ New J. Phys. 20, 053024 (2018), arXiv:1708.08726]
   
• Quantum non-Gaussianity and quantification of nonclassicality
  B. Kühn and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 053823 (2018), arxiv:1803.03133]
   
• Tomography and purification of the temporal-mode structure of quantum light
  V. Ansari, J. M. Donohue, M. Allgaier, L. Sansoni, B. Brecht, J. Roslund, N. Treps, G. Harder, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213601 (2018), arXiv:1607.03001]
   
• Totally destructive interference for permutation-symmetric many-particle states
  C. Dittel, G. Dufour, M. Walschaers, G. Weihs, A. Buchleitner, and R. Keil
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 062116 (2018), arxiv:1801.07019]
   
• Totally Destructive Many-Particle Interference
  C. Dittel, G. Dufour, M. Walschaers, G. Weihs, A. Buchleitner, and R. Keil
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 240404 (2018), arxiv:1801.07014]
   
• Quasiprobability representation of quantum coherence
  J. Sperling and I. A. Walmsley
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 062327 (2018), arxiv:1803.04747]
   
• Theory of atmospheric quantum channels based on the law of total probability
  D. Vasylyev, W. Vogel, and A. A. Semenov
  [ Phys. Rev. A 97, 063852 (2018), arxiv:1804.00172]
   
• Bloch-Messiah decomposition and Magnus expansion for parametric down-conversion with monochromatic pump
  T. Lipfert, D. B. Horoshko, G. Patera, and M. I. Kolobov
  [ Phys. Rev. A 98, 013815 (2018), arxiv:1806.09384]
   
• Hong-Ou-Mandel control through spectral shaping
  I. Gianani, E. Polino, M. Sbroscia, A. Rab, E. Roccia, L. Mancino, N. Spagnolo, M. Barbieri, and F. Sciarrino
  [ J. Opt. 20, 085201 (2018)]
   
• Full statistics of homodyne correlation measurements
  B. Kűhn and W. Vogel
  [ Phys. Rev. A 98, 013832 (2018), arxiv:1805.02550]
   
• Measuring the single-photon temporal-spectral wave function
  A. O. C. Davis, V. Thiel, M. Karpiński, and B. J. Smith
  [ Phys. Rev. Lett 121, 083602 (2018), arxiv:1709.05248]
   
• Experimental single-photon pulse characterization by electro-optic shearing interferometry
  A. O. C Davis, V. Thiel, M. Karpiński, and B. J. Smith
  [ Phys. Rev. A 98, 023840 (2018), arxiv:1802.07208]
   
• Numerical construction of multipartite entanglement witnesses
  S. Gerke, W. Vogel, and J. Sperling
  [Phys. Rev. X (accepted), arxiv:1801.08371]
   
• Assessing frequency correlation through a distinguishability measurement
  M. Sbroscia, I. Gianani, E. Roccia, V. Cimini, L. Mancino, Luca, P. Aloe, M. Barbieri
  [Opt. Lett. (accepted) arxiv:1806.10979]
   

preprints only

• Implementing random unitaries in an imperfect photonic network
  R. Burgwal, W. R. Clements, D. H. Smith, J. C. Gates, W. S. Kolthammer, J. J. Renema, and I. A.Walmsley
  [ arXiv:1704.01945]
   
• Monitoring dispersive samples with single photons: the role of frequency correlations
  E. Roccia, M. G. Genoni, L. Mancino, I. Gianani, M. Barbieri, and M. Sbroscia
  [ arxiv:1712.06860]
   
• Classical evolution of quantum systems
  J. Sperling and I. A. Walmsley
  [ arxiv:1802.02807]
   
• A two-way quantum interface for linking Sr+ transition at 422nm to the telecommunications C-band
  T. A. Wright, R. J. A. Francis-Jones, C. B. E. Gawith, J. N. Becker, P. M. Ledingham, P. G. R. Smith,J. Nunn, P. J. Mosley, B. Brecht, and I. A. Walmsley
  [ arxiv:1802.07947]
   
• Preparation of quantum states with regular P functions
  B. Kühn and W. Vogel
  [ arxiv:1803.08855]
   
• Law of total probability for atmospheric quantum channels
  D. Vasylyev, W. Vogel, and A. A. Semenov
  [ arxiv:1804.00172]
   
• Tailoring Non-Gaussian Continuous-Variable Graph States
  M. Walschaers, S. Sarkar, V. Parigi, and N. Treps
  [ arxiv:1804.09444]
   
• Quantum-limited time-frequency estimation through mode-selective photon measurement
  J. M. Donohue, V. Ansari, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, B. Stoklasa, M. Paúr, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, and Ch.Silberhorn
  [ arxiv:1805.02491]
   
• Multiparameter quantum estimation of noisy phase shifts
  E. Roccia, V. Cimini, M. Sbroscia, I. Gianani, L. Ruggiero, L. Mancino, M. G. Genoni, M. A. Ricci and M. Barbieri
  [ arxiv:1805.02561]
   
• A high dynamic range optical detector for measuring single photons and bright light
  J. Tiedau, E. Meyer-Scott, T. Nitsche, S. Barkhofen, T. J. Bartley, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ arxiv:1805.05881]
   
• Violating Bell inequalities with entangled optical frequency combs and multi-pixel homodyne detection
  W. N. Plick, F. Arzani, N. Treps, E. Diamanti, and D. Markham
  [ arxiv:1805.06059]
   
• Continuity of measurement outcomes
  J. Sperling
  [ arxiv:1805.12404]
   
• Recovering the dynamics of optical frequency combs from phase-amplitude noise correlations measurements
  V. Thiel, J. Roslund, S. De, C. Fabre, and N. Treps
  [ arxiv:1806.02198]
   
• Space-time duality and quantum temporal imaging
  G. Patera, D. Horoshko, and M. Kolobov
  [ arxiv:1806.11181]
   
• High-performance source of indistinguishable entangled photon pairs based on hybrid integrated-bulk optics
  E. Meyer-Scott, N. Prasannan, C. Eigner, V. Quiring, J. M. Donohue, S. Barkhofen, and Ch. Silberhorn
  [ arxiv:1807.10092]
   
• Certification of Gaussian boson sampling using two-point correlators
  D. S. Phillips, M. Walschaers, J. J. Renema, I. A. Walmsley, N. Treps, and J. Sperling
  [ arxiv:1807.11294]
   
• Fabrication limits of waveguides in nonlinear crystals and their impact on quantum optics applications
  Matteo Santandrea, Michael Stefszky, Vahid Ansari and Christine Silberhorn
  [ arxiv:1809.08802]