共振增强的光学参变下转换

多光子纠缠态是量子通讯网络中的重要资源,光与二阶非线性介质相互作用的自发参变下转换过程是目前制备多光子态较成熟的方案之一.尽管脉冲光可以提高非线性转换效率并简化通信协议,但是进一步增强光与介质间的相互作用对提高多光子的产生效率依然必要.设计了飞秒脉冲激光谐振腔系统,在不改变脉冲重复频率和频率梳结构的情况下,提高了下转换...     

利用自发参量下转换产生795nm关联光子对的实验研究

本文进行了自发参量下转换(SPDC)产生795nm关联光子对的实验研究。选择Ⅱ类PPKTP晶体作为非线性介质,用倍频获得的397.5nm紫光作为泵浦光。在实验上首先通过符合计数测量了紫光单次穿过PPKTP晶体时SPDC过程产生的光子对亮度,当泵浦光功率为5mW时,测得符合计数为53 150/s。然后将下转换过程放入光学谐振腔中,对下转换光子的线宽进行压窄。实验上测得下转换光子对的关联时间为14.6ns,对应线宽约为15MHz。本文为纠缠光子对在Rb原子系综中的存储提供了实验基础。     

Efficient Three-Party Quantum Secret Sharing with Single Photons

A scheme for three-party quantum secret sharing of a private key is presented with single photons. The agent Bob first prepares a sequence of single photons with two biased bases and then sends them to the boss Alice who checks the security of the transmission with measurements and produces some decoy photons by rearranging the orders of some sample photons. Alice encodes her bits with two unitary operations on the photons and then sends them to the other agent. The security of this scheme is equivalent to that in the modified Bennett Brassard 1984 quantum key distribution protocol. Moreover, each photon can carry one bit of the private key and the intrinsic efficiency for qubits and the total efficiency both approach the maximal value 100% when the number of the bits in the key is very large.     

飞秒激光泵浦I类BBO晶体中自发参量下转换的研究

实验研究了飞秒脉冲激光泵浦I类BBO晶体中自发参量下转换效应,以及产生的彩色锥形辐射现象.系统分析了各参量对二次谐波转换效率及彩色锥形辐射现象的影响.研究结果表明:蓝绿色锥形辐射具有最大的发散角,这与相位匹配理论模拟结果吻合;正入射时,增大泵浦光强及晶体厚度均会引起彩色锥形辐射亮度增加,且最大出射角中心波长往长波移动;不同光束偏振态下可依次观察到彩色锥形辐射、超连续现象.     

飞秒激光泵浦I类BBO晶体中自发参量下转换的研究

实验研究了飞秒脉冲激光泵浦I类BBO晶体中自发参量下转换效应,以及产生的彩色锥形辐射现象.系统分析了各参量对二次谐波转换效率及彩色锥形辐射现象的影响.研究结果表明:蓝绿色锥形辐射具有最大的发散角,这与相位匹配理论模拟结果吻合|正入射时,增大泵浦光强及晶体厚度均会引起彩色锥形辐射亮度增加,且最大出射角中心波长往长波移动|不同光束偏振态下可依次观察到彩色锥形辐射、超连续现象.     

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Authentication Expansion Using Single Photons

In this paper we propose two quantum secure direct communication （QSDC） protocols with authentication. The authentication key expansion method is introduced to improve the life of the keys with security. In the first scheme, the third party, called Trent is introduced to authenticate the users that participate in the communication. He sends the polarized photons in blocks to authenticate communication parties Alice and Bob using the authentication keys. In the communication process, polarized single photons are used to serve as the carriers, which transmit the secret messages directly. The second QSDC process with authentication between two parties is also discussed.     

Phase Sensitivity of a Multi-mode Nonlinear Interferometer with Single Photons

We propose a multi-mode nonlinear interferometer and study its phase sensitivity for two, three and four modes with single photons as inputs. We find that the phase sensitivity of the nonlinear interferometers can be improved by increasing the nonlinear index k. And when the total number of the input photons is fixed, increasing the number of modes is detrimental to the phase sensitivity.     

Authenticated Quantum Key Distribution with Collective Detection using Single Photons

We present two authenticated quantum key distribution (AQKD) protocols by utilizing the idea of collective (eavesdropping) detection. One is a two-party AQKD protocol, the other is a multiparty AQKD protocol with star network topology. In these protocols, the classical channels need not be assumed to be authenticated and the single photons are used as the quantum information carriers. To achieve mutual identity authentication and establish a random key in each of the proposed protocols, only one participant should be capable of preparing and measuring single photons, and the main quantum ability that the rest of the participants should have is just performing certain unitary operations. Security analysis shows that these protocols are free from various kinds of attacks, especially the impersonation attack and the man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.     

Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication with Collective Detection Using Single Photons

Two novel single-photon deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) schemes with collective detection are proposed. One is a two-party DSQC, the other is a DSQC network. In these two schemes, only single-photon source and single-photon measurements are required, which makes the schemes more feasible with present techniques. Apart from this, a detection strategy called collective detection is utilized in our schemes, in which the detection is taken only once after the whole process of particle transmission. Such detection strategy improves the efficiencies of our protocols and also reduces the cost of realization as the message sender only need to perform unitary operations in the whole communication. What’s more, the efficiencies of qubits and source capacity are both high since almost all the states can be used to transmit message except the ones used for eavesdropping check and each single photon can carry one bit of information. Finally, we prove the security of the our protocols by using the theorems on quantum operation discrimination.     

Synchronization and Phase Shaping of Single Photons with High-Efficiency Quantum Memory

Time synchronization and phase shaping of single photons both play fundamental roles in quantum information applications that rely on multi-photon quantum interference.Phase shaping typically requires separate modulators with extra insertion losses.Here,we develop an all-optical built-in phase modulator for single photons using a quantum memory.The fast phase modulation of a single photon in both step and linear manner are verified by observing the efficient quantum-memory-assisted Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between two single photons,where the anti-coalescence effect of bosonic photon pairs is demonstrated.The developed phase modulator may push forward the practical quantum information applications.     

Robust Quantum Secure Communication with Spatial Quantum States of Single Photons

The polarization quantum states of photon systems are fragile to the channel noise. However, recent experiments showed that the spatial quantum states of photon systems are robust. Recently, Ren et al. proposed a robust quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol with spatial entanglement (Ren et al., Eur. Phys. J. D 67:30, 2013). Here we proposed a robust QSDC protocol and a robust three-party quantum secret sharing protocol with the four nonorthogonal spatial quantum states of a sequence of single photons, respectively. Both these two quantum secure communication protocols have the advantage of having a robust character and not increasing the difficulty of their implementations in experiment, compared with almost all the existing quantum secure communication protocols which are based on the polarization quantum states of photon systems. Moreover, they are more feasible than the QSDC protocol by Ren et al. as they do not require Bell-state measurements.     

Entanglement Concentration for Arbitrary Four-Photon Cluster State Assisted with Single Photons

We present an entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) to concentrate arbitrary four-photon less-entangled cluster state into maximally entangled cluster state. Different from other ECPs for cluster state, we only exploit the single photon as auxiliary, which makes this protocol feasible and economic. In our ECP, the concentrated maximally entangled state can be retained for further application and the discarded state can be reused for a higher success probability. This ECP works with the help of cross-Kerr nonlinearity and conventional photon detectors. This ECP may be useful in future one-way quantum computation.     

The Exact Solution of the Eigenvalue Problem for the Parametric Down Conversion Process in the Kerr Medium

The eigenproblem for a class of Hamiltonians of the parametric down conversion process in the Kerr medium is solved. Some physical characteristics of the system are calculated.     

法拉第旋转镜用于补偿单光子偏振漂移的实验研究

研究了法拉第旋转镜用于补偿单模光纤中1 550 nm单光子传输的偏振漂移特性.比较了不同平均光子数下经由不同长度单模光纤传输后单光子偏振漂移的差异,以及使用法拉第旋转镜的偏振漂移抑制比.实验结果表明,在50 km光纤50 kcps光子计数（光强）下偏振漂移改善最优,偏振漂移抑制比达25.3.     

法拉第旋转镜用于补偿单光子偏振漂移的实验研究

研究了法拉第旋转镜用于补偿单模光纤中1 550 nm单光子传输的偏振漂移特性.比较了不同平均光子数下经由不同长度单模光纤传输后单光子偏振漂移的差异,以及使用法拉第旋转镜的偏振漂移抑制比.实验结果表明,在50 km光纤50 kcps光子计数(光强)下偏振漂移改善最优,偏振漂移抑制比达25.3.     

A Novel Deterministic Secure Quantum Communication Scheme with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Pairs and Single Photons

A novel deterministic secure quantum communication (DSQC) scheme is presented based on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs and single photons in this study. In this scheme, the secret message can be encoded directly on the first particles of the prepared Bell states by simple unitary operations and decoded by performing the Bell-basis measurement after the additional classic information is exchanged. In addition, the strategy with two-step transmission of quantum data blocks and the technique of decoy-particle checking both are exploited to guarantee the security of the communication. Compared with some previous DSQC schemes, this scheme not only has a higher resource capacity, intrinsic efficiency and total efficiency, but also is more realizable in practical applications. Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme is unconditionally secure against various attacks over an ideal quantum channel and still conditionally robust over a noisy and lossy quantum channel.     

Quantum Secret Sharing Protocol between Multiparty and Multiparty with Single Photons and Unitary Transformations

We propose a scheme of quantum secret sharing between Alice＇s group and Bob＇s group with single photons and unitary transformations. In the protocol, one member in Alice＇s group prepares a sequence of single photons in one of four different states, while other members directly encode their information on the sequence of single photons via unitary operations; after that, the last member sends the sequence of single photons to Bob＇s group. Then Bob＇s, except for the last one, do work similarly. Finally the last member in Bob＇s group measures the qubits. If the security of the quantum channel is guaranteed by some tests, then the qubit states sent by the last member of Alice＇s group can be used as key bits for secret sharing. It is shown that this scheme is safe.     

High-Capacity Quantum Summation with Single Photons in Both Polarization and Spatial-Mode Degrees of Freedom

In this paper, we employ single photons in both polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom to design a quantum summation protocol. We assume that the third party, i.e. TP, is semi-honest in our protocol. That TP is semi-honest means TP executes the protocol loyally, keeps a record of all its intermediate computations and might try to steal the participants’ private inputs from the record, but he cannot be corrupted by the adversary. Participants can independently encode their private inputs on the polarization states and the spatial-mode states of single photons. Thus our protocol doubles the capacity of quantum communication compared with those based on single photons with only one degree of freedom. In addition, our protocol is feasible as the preparation and the measurement of single-photon quantum states in both the polarization and the spatial-mode degrees of freedom are available with current quantum techniques. We also analyze its security in this paper.     

Controllable Source of Single Photons Based on a Micromaser with an Atomic Beam without Inversion

JETP Letters - A source of single rf photons based on a micromaser with pumping atoms without population inversion is considered. Inversion is absent because atoms in the upper and lower states...