Harald Weinfurter

Towards a loophole-free test of Bell's inequality with entangled pairs of neutral atoms (2009)

Rosenfeld, Wenjamin, Weber, Markus, Volz, Juergen, Henkel, Florian, Krug, Michael, Cabello, Adan, ...

Experimental tests of Bell's inequality allow to distinguish quantum mechanics from local hidden variable theories. Such tests are performed by measuring correlations of two entangled particles (e.g....

Practical methods for witnessing genuine multi-qubit entanglement in the vicinity of symmetric states (2009)

Toth, Geza, Wieczorek, Witlef, Krischek, Roland, Kiesel, Nikolai, Michelberger, Patrick, Weinfurter, Harald

We present general numerical methods to construct witness operators for entanglement detection and estimation of the fidelity. Our methods are applied to detecting entanglement in the vicinity of a...

Experimental entanglement of a six-photon symmetric Dicke state (2009)

Wieczorek, Witlef, Krischek, Roland, Kiesel, Nikolai, Michelberger, Patrick, Toth, Geza, Weinfurter, Harald

We report on the experimental observation and characterization of a six-photon entangled Dicke state. This state has remarkable properties, e.g., it allows to obtain inequivalent entangled states of...

Interference contrast in multi-source few photon optics (2009)

Laskowski, Wieslaw, Wiesniak, Marcin, Zukowski, Marek, Bourennane, Mohamed, Weinfurter, Harald

Many recent experiments employ several parametric down conversion (PDC) sources to get multiphoton interference. Such interference has applications in quantum information. We study here how effects...

Multi-qubit entanglement engineering via projective measurements (2009)

Wieczorek, Witlef, Kiesel, Nikolai, Schmid, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

So far, various multi-photon entangled states have been observed experimentally by using different experimental set-ups. Here, we present a scheme to realize many SLOCC-inequivalent states of three...

Experimental implementation of a four-player quantum game (2008)

Schmid, Christian, Flitney, Adrian P., Wieczorek, Witlef, Kiesel, Nikolai, Weinfurter, Harald, Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.

Game theory is central to the understanding of competitive interactions arising in many fields, from the social and physical sciences to economics. Recently, as the definition of information is...

Addendum to "Experimental demonstration of a quantum protocol for Byzantine agreement and liar detection" arXiv:0710.0290 (2008)

Gaertner, Sascha, Bourennane, Mohamed, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Cabello, Adan, Weinfurter, Harald

Gao et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 208901 (2008)] have described a possible intercept-resend attack for the quantum protocol for detectable Byzantine agreement in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070504 (2008)....

Quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping with linear optics logic gates (2008)

Schmid, Christian, Kiesel, Nikolai, Weber, Ulrich K., Ursin, Rupert, Zeilinger, Anton, Weinfurter, Harald

We report on the usage of a linear optics phase gate for distinguishing all four Bell states simultaneously in a quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping protocol. This is demonstrated by full...

Experimental observation of an entire family of four-photon entangled states (2008)

Wieczorek, Witlef, Schmid, Christian, Kiesel, Nikolai, Pohlner, Reinhold, Gühne, Otfried, Weinfurter, Harald

A single linear optical set-up is used to observe an entire family of four-photon entangled states. This approach breaks with the inflexibility of present linear-optical set-ups usually designed for...

Space-QUEST: Experiments with quantum entanglement in space (2008)

Ursin, Rupert, Jennewein, Thomas, Kofler, Johannes, Perdigues, Josep M., Cacciapuoti, Luigi, De Matos, Clovis J., ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has supported a range of studies in the field of quantum physics and quantum information science in space for several years, and consequently we have submitted the...

Multi-photon entanglement and interferometry (2008)

Pan, Jian-Wei, Chen, Zeng-Bing, Zukowski, Marek, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

Multi-photon interference reveals strictly non-classical phenomena. Thus in quantum information, a significant fraction of key experimental progresses achieved so far comes from multi-photon state...

Collinear source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at non-degenerate wavelengths (2008)

Trojek, Pavel, Weinfurter, Harald

We report on a simple but highly efficient source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at non-degenerate wavelengths. The fully collinear configuration of the source enables very high coupling...

Discriminating multi-partite entangled states (2008)

Schmid, Christian, Kiesel, Nikolai, Laskowski, Wiesław, Wieczorek, Witlef, Zukowski, Marek \., Weinfurter, Harald

The variety of multi-partite entangled states enables numerous applications in novel quantum information tasks. In order to compare the suitability of different states from a theoretical point of...

ABSTRACT (2008)

Deliverable D (report, Christian Kurtsiefer, Harald Weinfurter, Hugues De Riedmatten, Wolfgang Tittel, Hugo Zbinden, ...

This report summarises the ongoing work in QuComm on fiber based entanglement quantum cryptography. Report Version: 1 Report Preparation Date: 2002-01-05 Classification: Internal Project funded by...

Experimental demonstration of a quantum protocol for Byzantine agreement and liar detection (2007)

Gaertner, Sascha, Bourennane, Mohamed, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Cabello, Adan, Weinfurter, Harald

We introduce a new quantum protocol for solving detectable Byzantine agreement (also called detectable broadcast) between three parties, and also for solving the detectable liar detection problem....

SECOQC White Paper on Quantum Key Distribution and Cryptography (2007)

Alleaume, Romain, Bouda, Jan, Branciard, Cyril, Debuisschert, Thierry, Dianati, Mehrdad, Gisin, Nicolas, ...

The SECOQC White Paper on Quantum Key Distribution and Cryptography is the outcome on a thorough consultation and discussion among the participants of the European project SECOQC (www.secoqc.net)....

Remote preparation of an atomic quantum memory (2006)

Rosenfeld, Wenjamin, Berner, Stefan, Volz, Juergen, Weber, Markus, Weinfurter, Harald

Storage and distribution of quantum information are key elements of quantum information processing and quantum communication. Here, using atom-photon entanglement as the main physical resource, we...

Experimental Observation of Four-Photon Entangled Dicke State with High Fidelity (2006)

Kiesel, Nikolai, Schmid, Christian, Toth, Geza, Solano, Enrique, Weinfurter, Harald

We present the experimental observation of the symmetric four-photon entangled Dicke state with two excitations $|D_{4}^{(2)}>$. A simple experimental set-up allowed quantum state tomography yielding...

Analysis of a single-atom dipole trap (2005)

Weber, Markus, Volz, Juergen, Saucke, Karen, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

We describe a simple experimental technique which allows to store a single Rubidium 87 atom in an optical dipole trap. Due to light-induced two-body collisions during the loading stage of the trap...

Atom-Photon Entanglement (2005)

Volz, Juergen, Weber, Markus, Schlenk, Daniel, Rosenfeld, Wenjamin, Vrana, Johannes, Saucke, Karen, ...

We report the observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon at a wavelength suitable for low-loss communication over large distances, thereby achieving a crucial step...

Experimental Analysis of a 4-Qubit Cluster State (2005)

Kiesel, Nikolai, Schmid, Christian, Weber, Ulrich, Guehne, Otfried, Toth, Geza, Ursin, Rupert, ...

Linear optics quantum logic operations enabled the observation of a four-photon cluster state. We prove genuine four-partite entanglement and study its persistency, demonstrating remarkable...

Linear Optics C-Phase gate made simple (2005)

Kiesel, Nikolai, Schmid, Christian, Weber, Ulrich, Ursin, Rupert, Weinfurter, Harald

Linear optics quantum logic gates are the best tool to generate multi-photon entanglement. Simplifying a recent approach [Phys. Rev. A 65, 062324; Phys. Rev. A 66, 024308] we were able to implement...

Single Qubit Quantum Secret Sharing (2005)

Schmid, Christian, Trojek, Pavel, Weinfurter, Harald, Bourennane, Mohamed, Zukowski, Marek, Kurtsiefer, Christian

We present a simple and practical protocol for the solution of a secure multiparty communication task, the secret sharing, and its experimental realization. In this protocol, a secret message is...

Experimental quantum communication complexity (2005)

Trojek, Pavel, Schmid, Christian, Bourennane, Mohamed, Brukner, Caslav, Zukowski, Marek, Weinfurter, Harald

We prove that the fidelity of two exemplary communication complexity protocols, allowing for an N-1 bit communication, can be exponentially improved by N-1 (unentangled) qubit communication. Taking...

Decoherence-Free Quantum Information Processing with Four-Photon Entangled States (2003)

Bourennane, Mohamed, Eibl, Manfred, Gaertner, Sascha, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Cabello, Adan, Weinfurter, Harald

Decoherence-free states protect quantum information from collective noise, the predominant cause of decoherence in current implementations of quantum communication and computation. Here we...

Witnessing multipartite entanglement (2003)

Bourennane, Mohamed, Eibl, Manfred, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Gaertner, Sascha, Weinfurter, Harald, Guehne, Otfried, ...

We present the experimental detection of genuine multipartite entanglement using entanglement witness operators. To this aim we introduce a canonical way of constructing and decomposing witness...

Ascertaining the Values of $\sigma_x$, $\sigma_y$, and $\sigma_z$ of a Polarization Qubit (2002)

Schulz, Oliver, Steinhübl, Ruprecht, Weber, Markus, Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

In the 1987 spin retrodiction puzzle of Vaidman, Aharonov, and Albert one is challenged to ascertain the values of $\sigma_x$, $\sigma_y$, and $\sigma_z$ of a spin-1/2 particle by utilizing...

Secure communication with single-photon two-qubit states (2002)

Beige,Almut, Englert,Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer,Christian, Weinfurter,Harald

We propose a cryptographic scheme that is deterministic: Alice sends single photons to Bob, and each and every photon detected supplies one key bit-no photon is wasted. This is in marked contrast to...

Secure communication with a publicly known key (2002)

Beige,Almut, Englert,Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer,Christian, Weinfurter,Harald

We present a scheme for direct and confidential communication between Alice and Bob, where there is no need for establishing a shared secret key first, and where the key used by Alice even will...

Secure communication with a publicly known key (2002)

Beige, Almut, Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

We present a scheme for direct and confidential communication between Alice and Bob, where there is no need for establishing a shared secret key first, and where the key used by Alice even will...

Secure communication with single-photon two-qubit states (2002)

Beige, Almut, Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

We propose a cryptographic scheme that is deterministic: Alice sends single photons to Bob, and each and every photon detected supplies one key bit-no photon is wasted. This is in marked contrast to...

Secure communication with a publicly known key (2001)

Beige, Almut, Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

We present a scheme for direct and confidential communication between Alice and Bob, where there is no need for establishing a shared secret key first, and where the key used by Alice even will...

The breakdown flash of Silicon Avalance Photodiodes - backdoor for eavesdropper attacks? (2001)

Kurtsiefer, Christian, Zarda, Patrick, Mayer, Sonja, Weinfurter, Harald

Silicon avalanche photodiodes are the most sensitive photodetectors in the visible to near infrared region. However, when they are used for single photon detection in a Geiger mode, they are known to...

Four Photon Entanglement from Down Conversion (2001)

Weinfurter, Harald, Zukowski, Marek

Double-pair emission from type-II parametric down conversion results in a highly entangled 4-photon state. Due to interference, which is similar to bunching from thermal emission, this state is not...

Universal unitary gate for single-photon 2-qubit states (2001)

Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

Upon entangling a spatial binary alternative of a photon with its polarization, one can use single photons to study arbitrary 2-qubit states. Sending the photon through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer,...

Secure communication with single-photon two-qubit states (2001)

Beige, Almut, Englert, Berthold-Georg, Kurtsiefer, Christian, Weinfurter, Harald

We propose a cryptographic scheme that is deterministic: Alice sends single photons to Bob, and each and every photon detected supplies one key bit -- no photon is wasted. This is in marked contrast...

High efficiency entangled photon pair collection in type II parametric fluorescence (2001)

Kurtsiefer, Christian, Oberparleiter, Markus, Weinfurter, Harald

We report on a method for optimizing the collection of entangled photon pairs in type-II parametric fluorescence. With this technique, we detected 360000 polarization-entangled photon pairs per...

A feasible "Kochen-Specker" experiment with single particles (2000)

Simon, Christoph, Zukowski, Marek, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

We present a simple experimental scheme which can be used to demonstrate an all-or-nothing type contradiction between non-contextual hidden variables and quantum mechanics. The scheme, which is...

Experiments towards Falsification of Noncontextual Hidden Variable Theories (2000)

Michler, Markus, Weinfurter, Harald, Zukowski, Marek

We present two experiments testing the hypothesis of noncontextual hidden variables (NCHV's). The first one is based on observation of two-photon pseudo-Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations, with...

A Fast and Compact Quantum Random Number Generator (1999)

Jennewein, Thomas, Achleitner, Ulrich, Weihs, Gregor, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

We present the realization of a physical quantum random number generator based on the process of splitting a beam of photons on a beam splitter, a quantum mechanical source of true randomness. By...

High-Fidelity Teleportation of Independent Qubits (1999)

Bouwmeester, Dik, Pan, Jian-Wei, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

Quantum teleportation is one of the essential primitives of quantum communication. We suggest that any quantum teleportation scheme can be characterized by its efficiency, i.e. how often it succeeds...

Violation of Bell's inequality under strict Einstein locality conditions (1998)

Weihs, Gregor, Jennewein, Thomas, Simon, Christoph, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

We observe strong violation of Bell's inequality in an Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen type experiment with independent observers. Our experiment definitely implements the ideas behind the well known...

Observation of three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement (1998)

Bouwmeester, Dik, Pan, Jian-Wei, Daniell, Matthew, Weinfurter, Harald, Zeilinger, Anton

We present the experimental observation of polarization entanglement for three spatially separated photons. Such states of more than two entangled particles, known as GHZ states, play a crucial role...

A posteriori teleportation ? (1998)

Bouwmeester, Dik, Pan, Jian-Wei, Daniell, Matthew, Weinfurter, Harald, Zukowski, Marek, Zeilinger, Anton

Braunstein and Kimble observe correctly that, in the Innsbruck experiment, Nature 390, 575 (1997), one does not always observe a teleported photon conditioned on a coincidence recording at the...

MIT § (1995)

Adriano Barenco, David P. Divincenzo, Tycho Sleator, Charles H. Bennett, Norman Margolus, John Smolin, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x, y)to(x, x⊕y)) is universal in the sense that all...

Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation (1995)

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x; y) to (x; x \Phi y)) is universal in the sense that all...

Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation (1995)

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x; y) to (x; x \Phi y)) is universal in the sense that all...

Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation (1995)

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. Divincenzo, Norman Margolus, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x; y) to (x; x \Phi y)) is universal in the sense that all...

Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation (1995)

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. Divincenzo, Norman Margolus, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x; y) to (x; x \Phi y)) is universal in the sense that all...

Elementary Gates for Quantum Computation (1995)

Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. Divincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, ...

We show that a set of gates that consists of all one-bit quantum gates (U(2)) and the two-bit exclusive-or gate (that maps Boolean values (x; y) to (x; x \Phi y)) is universal in the sense that all...