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Hotspot Relaxation Dynamics in a Current Carrying Superconductor

March 17, 2016
Author(s)
Francesco Marsili, Martin Stevens, Alex Kozorezov, Varun Verma, Colin Lambert, Jeffrey A. Stern, Rob Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Shannon Duff, David P. Pappas, Matthew Shaw, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
When a photon is absorbed in a superconductor it creates a region of nonequilibrium superconductivity referred to as a hotspot [1]. The operation of most superconducting single photon detectors (microwave kinetic inductance detectors, MKIDs [2,3]

High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films

December 22, 2015
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, Robert D. Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Adriana E. Lita, Igor Vayshenker, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Hugo Zbinden, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We report on MoSi SNSPDs which achieved high system detection efficiency (87.1 ± 0.5% at 1542 nm) at 0.7 K and we demonstrate that these detectors can also be operated with saturated internal efficiency at a temperature of 2.3 K in a Gifford-McMahon

A significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons

December 16, 2015
Author(s)
Marissa Giustina, Marijn Versteegh, Soren Wengerowsky, Johannes Handsteiner, Armin Hochrainer, Kevin Phelan, Fabian Steinlechner, Johannes Koffler, Larsson Jan-Ake, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Morgan Mitchell, Joern Beyer, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Krister Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Bernhard Wittmann, Anton Zeilinger
Local realism is the worldview in which physical properties of objects exist independently of measurement and where physical influences cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Bell's theorem states that this worldview is incompatible with the

A strong loophole-free test of local realism

December 16, 2015
Author(s)
Lynden K. Shalm, Evan Meyer-Scott, B. G. Christensen, Peter L. Bierhorst, Michael A. Wayne, Deny Hamel, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Scott C. Glancy, Michael S. Allman, Kevin J. Coakley, Shellee D. Dyer, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Joshua C. Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall, Yanbao Zhang, William Farr, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Jeffrey Stern, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Thomas Jennewein, Morgan Mitchell, P. G. Kwiat, Richard P. Mirin, Emanuel H. Knill, Sae Woo Nam
We present a loophole-free violation of local realism using entangled photon pairs. We ensure that all relevant events in our Bell test are spacelike separated by placing the parties far enough apart and by using fast random number generators and high

A Source for Mesoscopic Quantum Optics

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Georg Harder, Timothy J. Bartley, Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Christine Silberhorn
The nature of quantum decoherence renders the observation of nonclassical features/properties in large systems increasingly difficult. Optical states are a good candidate to observe nonclassical features since 5 they are less susceptible to environmental

Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

October 21, 2015
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin Metcalf, Thomas Hiemstra, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Animesh Datta, Steven Kolthammer, Ian Walmsley, Joshua Nunn
We develop a comprehensive approach to analyzing the continuous output of photon detectors. It uses principle component analysis to extract information available from such detectors, followed by a novel parameterized photon-number resolving detector

Quasiparticle recombination in hotspots in superconducting current-carrying nanowires

August 6, 2015
Author(s)
Alex Kozorezov, Colin Lambert, Francesco Marsili, Martin Stevens, Varun Verma, Jeffrey A. Stern, Rob Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Shannon Duff, David P. Pappas, Adriana Lita, Matthew D. Shaw, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We describe a kinetic model of recombination of nonequilibrium quasiparticles generated by single photon absorption in superconducting current-carrying nanowires. The model is developed to interpret two-photon detection experiments in which a single photon

Quantum-correlated photon pairs generated in commercial 45 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor microelectronics

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Cale M. Gentry, Jeff Shainline, Mark W. Wade, Martin Stevens, Shellee D. Dyer, Xiaoge Zeng, Fabio Pavanello, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Milos A. Popovic
Correlated photon pairs are a fundamental component of quantum photonic systems. While pair sources have previously been integrated on silicon chips in custom facilities, these often take advantage of only a small fraction of microelectronics fabrication

A near-infrared 64-pixel superconducting nanowire single photon detector array with integrated multiplexed readout

May 14, 2015
Author(s)
Michael S. Allman, Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Robert D. Horansky, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, A. Beyer, Matthew Shaw, D. Kumor, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate a 64-pixel free-space-coupled array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors optimized for high detection efficiency in the near-infrared range. An integrated, readily scalable, multiplexed readout scheme is employed to reduce the

High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films

April 10, 2015
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, Robert D. Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Adriana E. Lita, Igor Vayshenker, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Hugo Zbinden, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from MoSi thin-films. We measure a maximum system detection efficiency (SDE) of 87 ± 0.5 % at 1542 nm at a temperature of 0.7 K, with a jitter of 76 ps