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| Title | Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers | ||||
| Abstract | Macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as observed in superfluids and superconductors, have led to promising technological advancements and some of the most important tests of fundamental physics. At present, quantum detection of light is mostly relegated to the microscale, where avalanche photodiodes are very sensitive to distinguishing single-photon events from vacuum but cannot differentiate between larger photon-number events. Beyond this, the ability to perform measurements to resolve photon numbers is highly desirable for a variety of quantum information applications including computation, sensing, and cryptography. True photon-number resolving detectors do exist, but they are currently limited to the ability to resolve on the order of 10 photons, which is too small for certain proposals. In this work, we extend photon measurement into the mesoscopic regime by implementing a detection scheme based on multiplexing highly quantum-efficient transition-edge sensors to accurately resolve | ||||
| Author(s) | Miller Eaton, Amr Hossameldin, Richard Birrittella, Paul Alsing, Christopher Gerry, Chris Cuevas, Hai Dong, Olivier Pfister | ||||
| Publication Date | December 2022 | ||||
| Document Type | Journal Article | ||||
| Primary Institution | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | ||||
| Affiliation | Exp Nuclear Physics / Technical Support Groups / Fast Electronics | ||||
| Funding Source | Nuclear Physics (NP) | ||||
| Proprietary? | No | ||||
| This publication conveys | Technical Science Results | ||||
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| Associated with an experiment | No | ||||
| Associated with EIC | No | ||||
| Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding | No |
Journal Article
| Journal Name | Nature Photonics |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | |
| Page(s) | 106–111 |
Attachments/Datasets/DOI Link
| Document(s) |
2205.01221.pdf
(STI Document)
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers.pdf
(Accepted Manuscript)
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| Dataset(s) | (none) |
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