Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

We find that consecutive photons are largely indistinguishable, with a mean wave-packet overlap as large as 0.81, ... define the photon wave packets, and |0〉 is the vacuum state.

The main wave packet of the single photon travels no faster than the speed of light in vacuum in any dispersive medium, and can be delayed up to 500 nanoseconds in a slow light medium.

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"The problem was that if one has a photon travelling in a channel, the photon has a 'wave-packet' with a certain shape," Jacobs said. "For a quantum gate, you need the photon wave-packets to ...

In this case, the light was acting more like a particle, an individual packet of energy. Still convinced of the wave model of light, Robert Millikan set out to disprove Einstein’s hypothesis. Millikan ...

A single high-dimensional photon, a fundamental particle involved in electromagnetic interactions, has a wave packet that contains “32 time-bins or dimensions” of information that can be ...

This architecture succeeds because it reduces the wave packet distortions that otherwise accompany the action of optical nonlinearities. We show that high-fidelity gates can be achieved with ...

When two atoms exchange their different photon energies, the resulting wave packet (an atom’s wave distribution) in superposition forms a momentum graph known as a density grating, ...

(d) The imagined output probability distribution of single-photon wave packet splitting to two parts and moving in opposite direction. (e) The output probability distributions with different ...