Intense laser pulses write graphitic electrodes in diamond in order to produce 3D pixel sensors optimised for timing applications at future hadron colliders. Just published in Instruments.
Continue readingSep 15 2021
Multimode photon addition
We review our recent experimental results concerning the conditional implementation of coherent superpositions of single-photon additions onto distinct field modes. On the cover of Entropy.
Continue readingJul 08 2021
Neural networks detect nonclassicality
A properly-trained artificial neural network is able to correctly identify classical and nonclassical features from real experimental data for different states of light. See more in Physical Review Research.
Continue readingMay 28 2021
Quantum dealing of poker cards
How to play poker on the phone if you do not trust your opponent or the card dealer? Find out how by using discorrelated quantum states. On the cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies, May 2021.
Continue readingFeb 17 2021
New tests of nonclassical behavior
We experimentally test new ways to detect the nonclassicality of a state from correlations among different phase-space distributions. See our latest PRL paper.
Continue readingMar 15 2020
Towards quantum spectroscopy: a roadmap
We join a group of experts from all over the world to draw a roadmap of future applications of quantum light to spectroscopy. In Journal of Physics B.
Continue readingFeb 11 2020
“Share one to entangle them all”
The delocalized addition of a single photon entangles two separate laser pulses containing an average of up to 60 photons each. Our recent results have just appeared in a paper on PRL.
Dec 06 2019
Quantum cryptography in Florence
We successfully exchanged secure cryptographic keys in a fiber-based field test of quantum key distribution in the metropolitan Florence area.
Continue readingOct 02 2017
Generating nonclassical states from hybrid systems
How to generate a nonclassical continuous-variable (CV) state by making measurements on the discrete-variable (DV) part of a compound CV-DV system? Find out in our latest PRL paper.
Jul 12 2017
Optical Kerr effect with less than one photon
We emulated the self-phase modulation typical of strong optical Kerr nonlinearity on coherent light pulses containing less than a single photon (on average). These results just appeared in PRL.
