Quantum Readers Club

Current and Upcoming Readers Club Sessions

2014

Monday 7th April, 2014

1. Ilya Fedorov
Optomechanical self-structuring in a cold atomic gas
G. Labeyrie, E. Tesio, P. M. Gomes, G.-L. Oppo, W. J. Firth, G. R. M. Robb, A. S. Arnold, R. Kaiser, T. Ackemann
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.52

Monday 31st March, 2014

1. Yury Kurochkin
Measurement-based noiseless linear amplification for quantum communication
Helen M. Chrzanowski, NathanWalk, Syed M. Assad, Jiri Janousek, Sara Hosseini, Timothy C. Ralph, Thomas Symul and Ping Koy Lam
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.49

Monday 3rd March, 2014

1. Andrey Horoshilov
Reconstruction of non-classical cavity field states with snapshots of their decoherence
Samuel Deléglise, Igor Dotsenko, Clément Sayrin, Julien Bernu, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond & Serge Haroche
doi:10.1038/nature07288
Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity
Sébastien Gleyzes, Stefan Kuhr, Christine Guerlin, Julien Bernu, Samuel Deléglise, Ulrich Busk Hoff, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond & Serge Haroche
doi:10.1038/nature05589

Monday 3rd February, 2014

1. Mikhail Kozhaev
Arbitrary bending plasmonic light waves
Itai Epstein, Ady Arie
10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.023903

2013

Monday 23rd December, 2013

1. Stepan Snegirev
Direct observation of effective ferromagnetic domains of cold atoms in a shaken optical lattice
Colin V. Parker, Li-Chung Ha & Cheng Chin
Nature Physics 9, 769–774 (2013) doi:10.1038/nphys2789

Monday 16th December, 2013

1. Ilya Fedorov
Coupling a single electron to a Bose-Einstein condensate
Jonathan B. Balewski et al.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7473/full/nature12592.html

Monday 9th December, 2013

1. Yury Kurochkin
Coherent Ultrafast Measurement of Time-Bin Encoded Photons
John M Donohue, Megan Agnew, Jonathan Lavoie, and Kevin J. Resch
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v111/i15/e153602

Monday 2nd December, 2013

1. Stepan Snegirev
Optical Generation of Ultra-Large-Scale Continuous-Variable Cluster States
Shota Yokoyama, Ryuji Ukai, Seiji C. Armstrong, Chanond Sornphiphatphong, Toshiyuki Kaji, Shigenari Suzuki, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Nicolas C. Menicucci, Akira Furusawa
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2013.287.html

Monday 25th November, 2013

1. Mikhail Kozhaev
Metasurface holograms for visible light
X. Ni, A.V. Kildishev & V.M. Shalaev
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131115/ncomms3807/full/ncomms3807.html

Monday 18th November, 2013

1. Yulia Shchadilova
Time-Dependent Impurity in Ultracold Fermions: Orthogonality Catastrophe and Beyond
M. Knap, A. Shashi, Y. Nishida, A. Imambekov, D.A. Abanin, E. Demler
Physical Review X 2, 041020 (2012).

2. Aleksey Fedorov
Precision-Guaranteed Quantum Tomography
T. Sugiyama, P.S. Turner, and M. Murao
Physical Review Letters 111, 160406 (2013).

Monday 11th November, 2013

1. Denis Sukachev
Itinerant Ferromagnetism in a Fermi Gas of Ultracold Atoms
Gyu-Boong Jo, Ye-Ryoung Lee, Jae-Hoon Choi, Caleb A. Christensen, Tony H. Kim, Joseph H. Thywissen, David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5947/1521

Thursday 31st October, 2013

1. Dmitry Mylnikov
Experimental generation of single photons via active multiplexing
Ma et al
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.043814
Integrated spatial multiplexing of heralded single-photon sources
Collins et al.
10.1038/ncomms3582

Monday 28th October, 2013

1. Arseniy Bozhenko
Experimental demonstration of topological error correction
Xing-Can Yao et al.
doi:10.1038/nature10770

Monday 21st October, 2013

1. Ilya Fedorov
Attractive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium
Ofer Firstenberg, Thibault Peyronel, Qi-Yu Liang, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mikhail D. Lukin1 & Vladan Vuletic, Nature, 2013
doi:10.1038/nature12512

Monday 7th October, 2013

1. Yury Kurochkin
Entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation
L. Li, Y. O. Dudin & A. Kuzmich
doi:10.1038/nature12227

Monday 30th September, 2013

1. Gora Shlyapnikov
Correlation properties of one dimensional Bose-gas

Monday 23rd September, 2013

1. Aleksey Fedorov
Quantum flutter of supersonic particles in one-dimensional quantum liquids
C. Mathy, M. Zvonarev, E. Demler
Nature Physics 8, 881 (2012)

Monday 16th September, 2013

1. Ilya Fedorov
Coupling a Single Trapped Atom to a Nanoscale Optical Cavity
J. D. Thompson, T. G. Tiecke, N. P. de Leon, J. Feist, A. V. Akimov, M. Gullans, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletić, M. D. Lukin
Science 340, 1202 (2013)

Monday 2nd September, 2013

1. Dmitry Mylnikov
Observation and Measurement of Interaction-Induced Dispersive Optical Nonlinearities in an Ensemble of Cold Rydberg Atoms
Valentina Parigi, Erwan Bimbard, Jovica Stanojevic, Andrew J. Hilliard,* Florence Nogrette, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, and Philippe Grangier
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.233602

Monday 12th August, 2013

1. Stepan Snigirev
Cancellation of Internal Quantum Noise of an Amplifier by Quantum Correlation
Jia Kong, F. Hudelist, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.033608

Monday 8th July, 2013

1. Stepan Snigirev
Electromagnetically-induced transparency in a diamond spin ensemble enables all-optical electromagnetic field sensing
V. M. Acosta, K. Jensen, C. Santori, D. Budker, R. G. Beausoleil
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6996

Monday 1st July, 2013

1. Dmitry Mylnikov
Strong Coupling between Single Atoms and Nontransversal Photons
Christian Junge, Danny O’Shea, Jürgen Volz, and Arno Rauschenbeutel
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213604

Monday 24th June, 2013

1. Ilya Fyodorov
Quantum tele-amplification with a continuous-variable superposition state.
Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Yujiro Eto, Chang-Woo Lee, Hyunseok Jeong, Masahide Sasaki.
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.101

Monday 17th June, 2013

1. Arseniy Bozhenko
Quantum random networks
S. Perseguers, M. Lewenstein, A. Acín and J. I. Cirac
doi:10.1038/nphys1665, http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3283

2. Ilya Fyodorov
Master thesis: Maser theory of the cavity-QED laser
Ilya Fyodorov, Andrey Sarychev

3. Dmitry Mylnikov
Master thesis: Spatial coherence of the Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons in microcavities
D. Mylnikov, V. Belyh

Monday 10th June, 2013

1. Stepan Snigirev
Storage and control of optical photons using Rydberg polaritons
D. Maxwell, D.J. Szwer, D. Paredes-Barato, H. Busche, J.D. Pritchard, A. Gauguet, K.J. Weatherill, M.P.A. Jones, and C.S. Adams
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.103001, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6007

Monday 3rd June, 2013

1. Yury Kurochkin
Experimental demonstration of long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution
Paul Jouguet, Se´bastien Kunz-Jacques, Anthony Leverrier, Philippe Grangier and Eleni Diamanti
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.63, http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6216

Monday 27th May, 2013

1. Alexey Akimov
Entanglement generated by dissipation and steady state entanglement of two macroscopic objects
Hanna Krauter, Christine A. Muschik, Kasper Jensen, Wojciech Wasilewski, Jonas M. Petersen, J. Ignacio Cirac, Eugene S. Polzik
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.080503, http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4344

Monday 20th May, 2013

1. Alexander Lvovsky
Full characterization of polarization states of light via direct measurement
Jeff Z. Salvail, Megan Agnew, Allan S. Johnson, Eliot Bolduc, Jonathan Leach, Robert W. Boyd
Nature Photonics 7, 316-321 (2013)

Monday 11th March, 2013

1. Aleksey Fedorov
Quantum state orthogonalization and a toolset for quantum optomechanical phonon control
M.R. Vanner, M. Aspelmeyer, and M.S. Kim
Physical Review Letters 110, 010504 (2013)