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- Ahrens, Johan, et al.
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Two Fundamental Experimental Tests of Nonclassicality with Qutrits
- 2013
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report two fundamental experiments on three-level quantum systems (qutrits). The first one tests the simplest task for which quantum mechanics provides an advantage with respect to classical physics. The quantum advantage is certified by the violation of Wright's inequality, the simplest classical inequality violated by quantum mechanics. In the second experiment, we obtain contextual correlations by sequentially measuring pairs of compatible observables on a qutrit, and show the violation of Klyachko et al.'s inequality, the most fundamental noncontextuality inequality violated by qutrits. Our experiment tests exactly Klyachko et al.'s inequality, uses the same measurement procedure for each observable in every context, and implements the sequential measurements in any possible order.
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- Amselem, Elias, 1981-
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Dynamics of Quantum Correlations with Photons : Experiments on bound entanglement and contextuality for application in quantum information
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of quantum information, which merges quantum and information science, studies non-classical aspects of quantum systems. These studies are motivated by the promise that the non-classicality can be used to solve tasks more efficiently than classical methods would allow. In many quantum informational studies, non-classical behaviour is attributed to the notion of entanglement.In this thesis we use photons to experimentally investigate fundamental questions such as: What happens to the entanglement in a system when it is affected by noise? In our study of noisy entanglement we pursue the challenging task of creating bound entanglement. Bound entangled states are created through an irreversible process that requires entanglement. Once in the bound regime, entanglement cannot be distilled out through local operations assisted by classical communication. We show that it is possible to experimentally produce four-photon bound entangled states and that a violation of a Bell inequality can be achieved. Moreover, we demonstrate an entanglement-unlocking protocol by relaxing the condition of local operations.We also explore the non-classical nature of quantum mechanics in several single-photon experiments. In these experiments, we show the violation of various inequalities that were derived under the assumption of non-contextuality. Using qutrits we construct and demonstrate the simplest possible test that offers a discrepancy between classical and quantum theory. Furthermore, we perform an experiment in the spirit of the Kochen-Specker theorem to illustrate the state-independence of this theorem. Here, we investigate whether or not measurement outcomes exhibit fully contextual correlations. That is, no part of the correlations can be attributed to the non-contextual theory. Our results show that only a small part of the experimental generated correlations are amenable to a non-contextual interpretation.
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
(författare)
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Experimental bound entanglement through a Pauli channel
- 2013
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Understanding the characteristics of a quantum systems when affected by noise is one of the biggest challenges for quantum technologies. The general Pauli error channel is an important lossless channel for quantum communication. In this work we consider the effects of a Pauli channel on a pure four-qubit state and simulate the Pauli channel experimentally by studying the action on polarization encoded entangled photons. When the noise channel acting on the photons is correlated, a set spanned by four orthogonal bound entangled states can be generated. We study this interesting case experimentally and demonstrate that products of Bell states can be brought into a bound entangled regime. We find states in the set of bound entangled states which experimentally violate the CHSH inequality while still possessing a positive partial transpose.
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
(författare)
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Experimental four-qubit bound entanglement
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nature Physics. - 1745-2473 .- 1745-2481. ; 5:10, s. 748-752
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entanglement is one of the most puzzling features of quantum theory and of great importance for the new field of quantum information. Being a peculiar form of entanglement, bound entanglement emerges in certain mixed quantum states. This form of entanglement is not distillable by local operators and classical communication. Bound-entangled states are different from both the free entangled (distillable) and separable states. Here we report on the first experimental demonstration of a four-qubit polarization bound-entangled state, the so-called Smolin state. We have fully characterized its entanglement properties. Moreover, we have realized unlocking of the entanglement protocol for this state. The special properties of the Smolin state constitute a useful quantum resource for new multiparty communication schemes.
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
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Experimental fully contextual correlations
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quantum correlations are contextual yet, in general, nothing prevents the existence of even morecontextual correlations. We identify and test a simple noncontextual inequality in which the quantumviolation cannot be improved by any hypothetical post-quantum resource, and use it to experimentally obtain correlations in which the maximum noncontextual content, defined as the maximumfraction of noncontextual correlations, is less than 0.06. Our correlations are experimentally generated from the outcomes of sequential compatible measurements on a four-state quantum system encoded in the polarization and path of a single photon.
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
(författare)
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Experimental fully contextual correlations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 108:20, s. 200405-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Quantum correlations are contextual yet, in general, nothing prevents the existence of even more contextual correlations. We identify and test a noncontextuality inequality in which the quantum violation cannot be improved by any hypothetical postquantum theory, and use it to experimentally obtain correlations in which the fraction of noncontextual correlations is less than 0.06. Our correlations are experimentally generated from the results of sequential compatible tests on a four-state quantum system encoded in the polarization and path of a single photon.
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
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Real-time single-molecule 3D tracking in E. coli based on cross-entropy minimization
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nature Communications. - : NATURE PORTFOLIO. - 2041-1723. ; 14:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reaching sub-millisecond 3D tracking of individual molecules in living cells would enable direct measurements of diffusion-limited macromolecular interactions under physiological conditions. Here, we present a 3D tracking principle that approaches the relevant regime. The method is based on the true excitation point spread function and cross-entropy minimization for position localization of moving fluorescent reporters. Tests on beads moving on a stage reaches 67 nm lateral and 109 nm axial precision with a time resolution of 0.84 ms at a photon count rate of 60 kHz; the measurements agree with the theoretical and simulated predictions. Our implementation also features a method for microsecond 3D PSF positioning and an estimator for diffusion analysis of tracking data. Finally, we successfully apply these methods to track the Trigger Factor protein in living bacterial cells. Overall, our results show that while it is possible to reach sub-millisecond live-cell single-molecule tracking, it is still hard to resolve state transitions based on diffusivity at this time scale.
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- Amselem, Elias, 1981-, et al.
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Reply to 'Experimental bound entanglement?'
- 2010
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Ingår i: Nature Physics. - : Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. - 1745-2473 .- 1745-2481. ; 6, s. 827-827
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Amselem, Elias, et al.
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State-Independent Quantum Contextuality with Single Photons
- 2009
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Ingår i: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 103:160405
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wepresent an experimental state-independent violation of an inequality for noncontextualtheories on single particles. We show that 20 different single-photonstates violate an inequality which involves correlations between results ofsequential compatible measurements by at least 419 standard deviations. Ourresults show that, for any physical system, even for asingle system, and independent of its state, there is auniversal set of tests whose results do not admit anoncontextual interpretation. This sheds new light on the role ofquantum mechanics in quantum information processing.
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