For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated how quantum dots can be engineered to consistently generate pairs of entangled photons. By carefully tailoring the photonic environment ...

Scientists have developed a new way to manufacture semiconductor quantum dots that emit faster ...

A method to make quantum dots lets them release single photons. The approach could support quantum communication systems.

The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum computer: The realization of a novel type of quantum logic gate makes it ...

Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of individual photons and, ideally, pairs of entangled photons. Semiconductor ...

Over the past decade, researchers have become good at creating devices that emit single ...

Researchers have discovered new ways to shape quantum light, creating high-dimensional states that can carry much more ...

Chinese scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in quantum optics, creating a tiny device that spits out pairs of ...

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Photon blockade is a quintessential phenomenon in quantum optics, wherein a strongly nonlinear system prevents the absorption of additional photons once a single photon is present, effectively ...