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.

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Our new paper, Quantum Computing on encrypted data, by Kent Fisher, Anne Broadbent, Krister Shalm, Zhizhong Yan, Jonathan Lavoie, Robert Prevedel, Thomas Jennewein, and Kevin Resch was published in Nature Communications.

Abstract: The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting privacy. Recently, protocols to achieve this on classical computing […]

Ultrafast time-bin qubits in PRL

We have a new paper Coherent Ultrafast Measurement of Time-Bin Encoded Photons by John Donohue, Megan Agnew, Jonathan Lavoie, and Kevin Resch which has just been published in Physical Review Letters. The paper was chosen as an Editors Suggestion and reviewed in the article It’s a Good Time for Time-Bin Qubits by Todd Pittman (University […]

Squashing single photons in Nature Photonics

Our paper entitled, Spectral compression of single photons by Jonathan Lavoie, John Donohue, Logan Wright, Alessandro Fedrizzi (U. Queensland), and Kevin Resch, was published in Nature Photonics.

Abstract: Photons are critical to quantum technologies because they can be used for virtually all quantum information tasks, for example, in quantum metrology, as the information carrier in […]

Violation of new Bell’s Inequalities in PRA

A new paper, Experimental violation of three families of Bell’s Inequalities by Lydia Vermeyden, Madeleine Bonsma, Crystal Noel, John Donohue, Elie Wolfe, and Kevin Resch was just published in Physical Review A.

Abstract: Bell’s inequalities are important to our understanding of quantum foundations and critical to several quantum technologies. A recent work [ E. […]

Triple-photon entanglement in Nature Physics

A new paper Three-photon energy time entanglement by Krister Shalm, Deny Hamel, Zhizhong Yan, Christophe Simon (U Calgary), Kevin Resch, and Thomas Jennewein appeared in Nature Physics advance online publication today.

Story on IQC website. Update Jan 31, 2013: Research Highlights in Nature Photonics, Tripartite entanglement by Noriaki Horiuchi.

Paper on linear optics quantum channels in NJP

A new paper, Optimal linear optical implementation of a single-qubit damping channel by Kent Fisher, Robert Prevedel, Rainer Kaltenbaek, and Kevin Resch, was just published in the New Journal of Physics.

Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate a single-qubit decohering quantum channel using linear optics. We implement the channel, whose special cases include the familiar amplitude-damping channel […]

New paper on dispersion cancellation in PRA

Our paper, Classical analog for dispersion cancellation of entangled photons with local detection, was published online today in Physical Review A.

Abstract: Energy-time entangled photon pairs remain tightly correlated in time when the photons are passed through equal magnitude, but opposite in sign, dispersion.Arecent experimental demonstration has observed this effect on ultrafast time scales using […]

New uncertainty principle paper in Nature Physics

Our paper, Experimental investigation of the uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory and its application to witnessing entanglement, by Robert Prevedel, Deny Hamel, Roger Colbeck (Perimeter Institute), Kent Fisher, and Kevin Resch was published online today in Nature Physics.

Update Oct14, 2011: The paper has appeared in the print version this month, Nature […]

Entanglement-assisted classical communication in PRL

Our paper, Entanglement-assisted classical communication over a noisy classical channel, by Robert Prevedel, Yang Lu, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Will Matthews, and Kevin Resch was published today in Physical Review Letters. This article was chosen as a Editor’s Suggestion and selected for a Viewpoint in Physics entitled ‘Entangled in a dating game‘ by Mark Wilde (McGill University). […]

Quantum computing with AKLT states in Nature Physics

Our paper, Optical one-way quantum computing with a simulated valence-bond solid, by Rainer Kaltenbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Bei Zeng (U Guelph), Stephen D. Bartlett (U Sydney), and Kevin J. Resch was published online today at Nature Physics. Robert Raussendorf (U British Columbia), who invented measurement-based quantum computing with Hans Briegel (U Innsbruck), wrote a […]