Introduction

We are an experimental quantum optics group run by Kevin Resch, based in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

Publications

Refereed Publications

2012

  1. K.A.G. Fisher, R. Prevedel, R. Kaltenbaek, K.J. Resch, Optimal linear optical implementation of a
    single-qubit damping channel    , New Journal of Physics 14, 033016 (2012).

2011

  1. R. Prevedel, K.M Schreiter, J. Lavoie, and K.J. Resch, Classical analogue for dispersion cancellation of entangled photons with local detection, Physical Review A 84, 051803 (2011).
  2. R. Prevedel, D.R. Hamel, R. Colbeck, K. Fisher, and K.J. Resch, Experimental investigation of the uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory and its application to witnessing entanglement, Nature Physics 7, 757 (2011).
  3. R. Prevedel, Y. Lu, W. Matthews, R. Kaltenbaek, and K. J. Resch, Entanglement-assisted classical communication over a noisy classical channel, Physical Review Letters 106, 110505 (2011).

2010

  1. J. Lavoie, R. Kaltenbaek, M. Piani, and K.J. Resch, Experimental Bound Entanglement?, Nature Physics 6, 827 (2010).  The original article and the authors’ reply.
  2. Y. Lu, N. Coish, R. Kaltenbaek, D.R. Hamel, S. Croke, and K.J. Resch, Minimum-error discrimination of entangled quantum states, Physical Review A 82, 042340 (2010).
  3. R. Kaltenbaek, J. Lavoie, B. Zeng, S. Bartlett, and K.J. Resch, Optical one-way quantum computing with a simulated valence-bond solid, Nature Physics 6, 850 (2010).
  4. J. Lavoie, R. Kaltenbaek, M. Piani, and K.J. Resch, Experimental Bound Entanglement in a Four-Photon State, Physical Review Letters 105, 130501 (2010).
  5. H. Hübel, D.R. Hamel, A. Fedrizzi, S. Ramelow, K.J. Resch, and T. Jennewein, Direct generation of photon triplets using cascaded photon-pair sources, Nature 466, 601 (2010).
  6. G. G. Gillett, R. B. Dalton, B. P. Lanyon, M. P. Almeida, M. Barbieri, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, K. J. Resch, S. D. Bartlett, and A. G. White, Experimental Feedback Control of Quantum Systems Using Weak Measurements, Physical Review Letters 104, 080503 (2010).
  7. N. Killoran, D. N. Biggerstaff, R. Kaltenbaek, K. J. Resch, and N. Lütkenhaus, Derivation and experimental test of fidelity benchmarks for remote preparation of arbitrary qubit states, Physical Review A 81, 012334 (2010).

2009

  1. D.N. Biggerstaff, R. Kaltenbaek, D.R. Hamel, G. Weihs, T. Rudolph, and K.J. Resch, Cluster-state quantum computing enhanced by high-fidelity generalized measurements, Physical Review Letters 103, 240504 (2009).
  2. K. Schreiter, A. Pasieka, R. Kaltenbaek, K.J. Resch, and D.W. Kribs, Optical implementation of a unitarily correctable code, Physical Review A 80, 022311 (2009).
  3. J. Lavoie, R. Kaltenbaek, and K.J. Resch, Experimental violation of Svetlichny’s inequality, New Journal of Physics 11, 073051 (2009).
  4. R. Kaltenbaek, J. Lavoie, and K.J. Resch, Classical analogues of two-photon quantum interference,  Physical Review Letters 102, 243601 (2009).
  5. J. Lavoie, R. Kaltenbaek, and K.J. Resch, “Quantum-optical coherence tomography” with classical light, Optics Express 17, 3818 (2009).
  6. M. Barbieri, T.J. Weinhold, B.P Lanyon, A. Gilchrist, K.J. Resch, M.P. Almeida, and A.G. White, Parametric down-conversion in linear optical quantum gates: two’s company, four’s a crowd, Journal of Modern Optics 56, 209 (2009).
  7. B. P. Lanyon, M. Barbieri, M. P. Almeida, T. Jennewein, T. C. Ralph, K. J. Resch, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. Gilchrist, A. G. White, Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions, Nature Physics 5, 134 (2009).

2008

  1. R. Kaltenbaek, J. Lavoie, D.N. Biggerstaff, and K.J. Resch, Quantum-inspired interferometry with chirped laser pulses, Nature Physics 4, 864 (2008).
  2. B.P. Lanyon, T.J. Weinhold, N.K. Langford, J.L. O’Brien, K.J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, and A. G. White, Manipulating biphotonic qutrits, Physical Review Letters 100, 060504 (2008).

2007

  1. K.J. Resch, P. Puvanathasan, J.S. Lundeen, M.W. Mitchell, and K. Bizheva, Classical dispersion-cancellation interferometry, Optics Express 15, 8797 (2007).
  2. K.J. Resch, K.L. Pregnell, R. Prevedel, A. Gilchrist, G.J. Pryde, J.L. O’Brien, and A.G. White, Time-reversal and super-resolving phase measurements, Physical Review Letters 98, 223601 (2007)
  3. K.J. Resch, J.L. O’Brien, T.J. Weinhold, K. Sanaka, B.P. Lanyon, N.K. Langford and A.G. White, Entanglement generation by Fock state filtration, Physical Review Letters 98, 203602 (2007).  Additional online material (EPAPS)
  4. T.C. Ralph, K.J. Resch, and A. Gilchrist, Efficient Toffoli gates using qudits, Physical Review A 75, 022313 (2007).
  5. A. Gilchrist, K.J. Resch, and A.G. White, Source of triggered entangled photon pairs?, Nature 445, E4-E5 (2007). The original article and the authors’ reply

Older papers

  1. P. Walther, K.J. Resch, C. Brukner, and A. Zeilinger, Experimental entangled entanglement, Physical Review Letters 97, 020501 (2006).
  2. K. Sanaka, K.J. Resch, and A. Zeilinger, Filtering out photonic Fock states, Physical Review Letters 96, 083601 (2006).
  3. N.K. Langford, T.J. Weinhold, R. Prevedel, K.J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, J.L O’Brien, G.J. Pryde, and A.G. White, Demonstration of a simple entangling optical gate and its use in Bell-state analysis, Physical Review Letters 95, 210504 (2005).
  4. J.S. Lundeen, K.J. Resch, and A.M. Steinberg, Comment on “A linear optics implementation of weak values in Hardy’s paradox”, Physical Review A 72, 016101 (2005). The original article and the authors’ reply.
  5. P. Walther, M. Aspelmeyer, K.J. Resch, and A. Zeilinger, Experimental violation of a cluster state Bell inequality, Physical Review Letters 95, 020403 (2005).
  6. P.Walther, K.J. Resch, and A. Zeilinger, Local conversion of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states to approximate W states, Physical Review Letters, 94, 240501 (2005).
  7. P. Walther, K.J. Resch, T. Rudolph, E. Schenck, H. Weinfurter, V. Vedral, M. Aspelmeyer, and A. Zeilinger, Experimental one-way quantum computing, Nature 434, 169 (2005). Associated Nature Editor’s summary
  8. K.J. Resch, P. Walther, and A. Zeilinger, Full characterization of a three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state using quantum state tomography, Physical Review Letters 94, 070402 (2005).
  9. P. Walther, K.J. Resch, C. Brukner, A.M. Steinberg, J.-W. Pan, and A. Zeilinger, Quantum nonlocality obtained from local states by entanglement purification, Physical Review Letters 94, 040504 (2005).
  10. K.J. Resch*, M. Lindenthal*, B. Blauensteiner, H.R. Böhm, A. Fedrizzi, C. Kurtsiefer, A. Poppe, Schmitt-Manderbach, M. Taraba, R. Ursin, P. Walther,  H. Weier, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger, Distributing entanglement and single photons through an intra-city, free-space quantum channel, Optics Express 13, 202 (2005). *These authors contributed equally.
  11. J.S. Lundeen and K.J. Resch, Practical measurement of joint weak values and their connection to the annihilation operator, Physics Letters A 334, 337 (2005).
  12. K.J. Resch, Spatio-temporal few-photon optical nonlinearities through linear optics and measurement, Physical Review A 70, 051803(R) (2004).
  13. K.J. Resch, Practical weak measurement of multiparticle observables, Journal of Optics B: Quantum and semiclassical optics 6, 482 (2004).
  14. K.J. Resch and A.M. Steinberg, Extracting joint weak values with local, single-particle measurements, Physical Review Letters, 92 130402 (2004).
  15. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Experimental realization of the quantum box problem, Physics Letters A, 324 vol.2-3, 125 (2004).
  16. K. Sanaka, T. Jennewein, J.-W. Pan, K. Resch, and A. Zeilinger, Experimental nonlinear sign shift for scalable quantum computation, Physical Review Letters 92, 017902, (2004).
  17. K.J. Resch, G.G. Lapaire, J.S. Lundeen, J.E. Sipe, and A.M. Steinberg, Photon-exchange effects on photon-pair transmission, Physical Review A 69, 063814 (2004).
  18. M. Mohseni, J.S. Lundeen, K.J. Resch, and A.M. Steinberg, Experimental application of decoherence-free subspaces in a quantum computing algorithm, Physical Review Letters 91, 187903, (2003).
  19. M. Aspelmeyer, H. Böhm, T. Jennewein, T. Gyatso, R. Kaltenbaek, M. Lindenthal, G. Molina-Terriza, A. Poppe, K. Resch. M. Taraba, R. Ursin, P. Walther, and A. Zeilinger, Long-distance free space distribution of quantum entanglement, Science 301, 621 (2003).
  20. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Practical creation and detection of polarization Bell states using parametric down-conversion, In The Physics of Communication – Proceedings of the XXII Solvay Conference on Physics (I. Antoniou, V.A. Sadovnichy, & H Walther Eds. World Scientific, 2003). Preprint: quant-ph/0204034 (2002).
  21. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Conditional-phase switch at the single-photon level, Physical Review Letters 89, 037904 (2002).
  22. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Quantum state preparation and conditional coherence, Physical Review Letters 88, 113601 (2002).
  23. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Electromagnetically induced opacity for photon pairs, Journal of Modern Optics 49, 487 (2002).
  24. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Nonlinear optics with less than one photon, Physical Review Letters 87, 123603 (2001).
  25. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Total reflection cannot occur with a negative time delay, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 37, 794 (2001).
  26. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Comment on “Manipulating the frequency-entangled states by an acoustic-optical modulator”, Physical Review A 64, 056101 (2001). The original article and the authors’ reply.
  27. K. Resch, V. Blanchet, A. Stolow, and T. Seideman, Polyatomic wavepacket decomposition.  Final state effects, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 105, 2756 (2001).
  28. K.J. Resch, J.S. Lundeen, and A.M. Steinberg, Experimental observation of nonclassical effects on single-photon detection rates, Physical Review A 63 , 020102(R) (2001). Associated AIP Physics News Update article Nonclassical Light by Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein

Other Articles

  1. C. Erven, D. Hamel, K. Resch, R. Laflamme, and G. Weihs, Entanglement Based Quantum Key Distribution Using a Bright Sagnac Entangled Photon Source, In Quantum Communication and Quantum Networking (A. Sergienko, S. Pascazio and P. Villoresi, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2010) pp. 108-116 (ISBN 978-3-642-11730-5).
  2. K.J. Resch, R. Kaltenbaek, J. Lavoie, and D.N. Biggerstaff, Chirped-pulse interferometry with finite frequency correlations, Proc. SPIE 7465, 74650N (2009). ArXiv: 0909.0796
  3. K.J. Resch, Amplifying a tiny optical effect, Science 319, 733 (2008).
  4. K.J. Resch, P. Puvanathasan, K. Bizheva, M. Mitchell, and J.S. Lundeen, White light interferometer automatically cancels dispersion, Laser Focus World, 43 (Issue 11), 85 (2007).
  5. M. Aspelmeyer, H. R. Böhm, S. Gasparoni, T. Jennewein, G. Molina-Terriza, A. Poppe, K. Resch, P. Walther, A. Zeilinger, Advanced quantum communication experiments with entangled photons, In Quantum Communications and Cryptography (A. V. Sergienko, ed., CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, 2006), Ch. 3, pp. 45-81 (ISBN 0-8493-3684-8).
  6. K. Sanaka and K. Resch, A feasible gate for scalable linear optics quantum computation using polarization optics, Preprint: quant-ph/0312226 (2003).