Quantum Optics: Past, Present, Future
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2751
Special Issue Editor
Interests: quantum nonlinear optics; photon information; quantum correlations; quantum sensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last millennium, quantum optics has made huge progress in both science and engineering fields. In science, quantum nonlinear optics in atomic and optical physics has been driven towards new phenomena such as electromagnetically induced transparency, ultraslow light, stop light, photon echoes, and quantum memories via atom–field interactions. In engineering fields, various quantum technologies have also been developed, where quantum information has drawn particular attraction in quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum metrology. Based on the complementarity theory, quantum information has mostly dealt with the particle nature of quantum mechanics. The fundamental aspect of the particle nature is in the two-photon correlation such as anticorrelation, the so-called Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, and Bell inequality violation. In experiments, nonclassical light from nonlinear optical processes such as spontaneous parametric down conversion and squeezed light have been mostly used as quantum light sources. Nondeterminacy has been a central concept in quantum information. In this Special Issue, we focus on both the fundamental physics of quantum optics which has progressed over the last hundred years. For this, both review and research papers are invited from the quantum optics community. The following subjects are open to the Special Issue: General quantum mechanics, EPR/Bell inequality violation, two-photon correlation, quantum interface, quantum memory, quantum logic gate, quantum key distribution, quantum computing, quantum systems, quantum sensing and metrology, and emerging quantum optics.
Prof. Dr. Byoung S. Ham
Guest Editor
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Keywords
EPR/Bell inequality violation;
two-photon correlation;
quantum interface;
quantum memory;
quantum logic gate;
quantum key distribution;
quantum computing;
quantum systems;
quantum sensing and metrology;
emerging quantum optics;
