Quantum Optics: Trends and Challenges
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 July 2024 | Viewed by 1169
Special Issue Editors
2. ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, Department of Quantum Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: quantum cryptography; quantum communication; quantum entanglement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What was considered in 1900 to be a perfect, complete theory of light, changed with the introduction of the quantum theory of light by Max Planck and Albert Einstein in the early 1900s. Quite counterintuitively, light and other electromagnetic radiation comprise countless elementary quanta, referred to as photons, and can be described as both waves and particles. The theoretical framework of the quantum mechanical nature of light was established by Roy J. Glauber, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963 for his seminal work in quantum optics.
The discovery of photons empowered a revolution in technologies using electromagnetic fields. A prime example is the advancement of the laser. The celebrated Hong-Ou-Mandel effect at the single-photon level has advanced people’s understanding of the interference between bosons. The entanglement between photons has spurred new perspectives for defining, encoding, manipulating, and transmitting information, which laid the foundation of the burgeoning field of quantum communication and computation. Entwined with the development of quantum information, quantum optics has unveiled a host of unprecedented science and technologies that are impossible in the classical world. Nonclassical light sources have enabled sensing and imaging with a precision surpassing the standard quantum limit. The discovery of new materials, such as metasurfaces and two-dimensional materials, has expanded the horizon of quantum optics, enabling new phenomena and techniques to generate quantum light sources and electro-optical devices.
This Special Issue aims to reinforce this trend, collect new ideas, and describe the opportunities and the overarching challenges faced by the community.
- What are the boundaries and limitations of these new quantum-enhanced technologies to truly facilitate our everyday activities where loss, disturbance, and noise are ubiquitous?
- In what regime would sensing benefit from a nonclassical light source? How do we best leverage entanglement or the non-classicality of an electromagnetic field in a particular sensing task?
- What is limiting our quantum communication capability and how do we resolve that?
- What is the universal performance metric for quantum computing (QC) that can unite photonic QC and other physical platforms?
- Combining continuous variable and discrete variable encodings in the context of photonic quantum information for advanced capabilities and improved scalabilities?
Dr. Syed Assad
Guest Editor
Dr. Jie Zhao
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- quantum entanglement
- quantum optics
- quantum sensing
- quantum communication
- quantum computing
