Complexity and multifunctional variants of the quantum-to-quantum Bernoulli factories published on Physical Review Research!

A Bernoulli factory is a model for randomness manipulation that transforms an initial Bernoulli random variable into another Bernoulli variable by applying a predetermined function relating the output bias to the input one. In literature, quantum-to-quantum Bernoulli factory schemes have been proposed, which encode both the input and output variables using qubit amplitudes. This fundamental … Continua a leggere

Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching just published on Light:Science and Applications

Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching just published on Light:Science and Applications

Bosonic bunching is a term used to describe the well-known tendency of bosons to bunch together, and which differentiates their behavior from that of fermions or classical particles. However, in some situations, perfectly indistinguishable bosons may counter-intuitively bunch less than classical, distinguishable particles. Here, we report two such counter-intuitive multiphoton bunching effects observed with three … Continua a leggere

Generalized photon-bunching bounds in linear and non-linear quantum optical dynamics

To assess the capabilities of photonic quantum systems, it is essential to develop analytical and experimental methods for probing the underlying optical dynamics. Here, we investigate fundamental constraints arising when multi-photon states evolve through a quantum linear optical network, showing how such limitations can be overcome when introducing measurement-induced nonlinearities. Specifically, we analyze bounds related … Continua a leggere