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Readers' Club meetings will take place every Monday between 3:00pm and 4:15pm in SB 318. Description.

Current and Upcoming IQIS Readers Club Sessions

Past IQIS Readers Club Sessions

2008
Monday 12th May, 2008
1. Andrew MacRae
Generation of Spatially Broadband Twin Beams for Quantum Imaging
V. Boyer, A. M. Marino, and P. D. Lett
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.143601

2. Peter MacRae
Quantum Interface for Nanomechanics and Atomic Ensembles
K. Hammerer, M. Aspelmeyer, E.S. Polzik, P. Zoller
arXiv:0804.3005v2

Monday 28th April, 2008
1. Eden Figueroa
Nonlinear spectroscopy of photons bound to one atom
I. Schuster, A. Kubanek, A. Fuhrmanek, T. Puppe, P. Pinkse, K. Murr, and G. Rempe
doi:10.1038/nphys940

2. Alex Lvovsky
Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane
J. Thompson, B. Zwickl, A. Jayich, F. Marquardt, S. Girvin, and J. Harris
doi:10.1038/nature06715

Monday 14th April, 2008
1. Mirko Lobino
Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond
M. V. Gurudev Dutt, L. Childress, L. Jiang, E. Togan, J. Maze,F. Jelezko, A. Zibrov, P. Hemmer, M. Lukin
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139831

Monday 14th April, 2008
1. Mirko Lobino
Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond
M. V. Gurudev Dutt, L. Childress, L. Jiang, E. Togan, J. Maze,F. Jelezko, A. Zibrov, P. Hemmer, M. Lukin
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139831

2. Sun-Hyun Youn
Preservation of Energy-Time Entanglement in a Slow Light Medium
Curtis J. Broadbent, Ryan M. Camacho, Ran Xin, and John C. Howell
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.133602

Monday 7th April, 2008
1. Dmitry Korystov
Delay of Squeezing and Entanglement using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Vapour Cell
G. Hétet, B. C. Buchler, O. Glöckl, M. T. L. Hsu, A. M. Akulshin, H. -A. Bachor, P. K. Lam
arXiv:0803.2097

2. Sergey Moiseev
Julio T. Barreiro, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Paul G. Kwiat
J. Barreiro, T. Wei, P. Kwiat
doi:10.1038/nphys919

Monday 31st March, 2008
1. Katanya Kuntz
Manipulating Biphotonic Qutrits
B. P. Lanyon, T. J. Weinhold, N. K. Langford, J. L. O'Brien, K. J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, and A. G. White
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.060504

2. Andrew MacRae
Macroscopic Test of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
A. Caprez, B. Barwick, and H. Batelaan
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.210401

Monday 24th March, 2008
1. Geoff Campbell
Large Cross-phase Modulation Based on Double EIT in a Four-level Tripod Atomic System
S. Li, X. Yang, X. Cao, C. Zhang, C. Xie, H. Wang
arXiv:0802.2136v1

2. Connor Kupchak
Measurement of the ac Stark shift with a guided matter-wave interferometer
B. Deissler, K. Hughes, J. Burke, and C. Sackett
doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.77.031604

Monday 17th March, 2008
1. Katanya Kuntz
Determination of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant Using Atom Interferometry
G. Lamporesi,A. Bertoldi,L. Cacciapuoti, M. Prevedelli, and G. Tino
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.050801

2. Peter Marzlin
Interference of Multimode Photon Echoes Generated in Spatially Separated Solid-State Atomic Ensembles
M. U. Staudt, M. Afzelius, H. de Riedmatten, S. Hastings-Simon, C. Simon, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler, N. Gisin
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.173602

2. Peter Marzlin
Interference of Multimode Photon Echoes Generated in Spatially Separated Solid-State Atomic Ensembles
M. U. Staudt, M. Afzelius, H. de Riedmatten, S. Hastings-Simon, C. Simon, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler, N. Gisin
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.173602

Monday 3rd March, 2008
1. Mirko Lobino
Observation of the Spin Hall Effect of Light via Weak Measurements
O. Hosten and P. Kwiat
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154149

Monday 25th February, 2008
1. Connor Kupchak
Delayed-choice test of complementarity with single photons
V. Jacques,E. Wu, F. Grosshans, F. Treussart, P. Grangier, A. Aspect, J. Roch
arXiv:0801.0979v1

2. Alex Lvovsky
Electro-Optic Quantum Memory for Light Using Two-Level Atoms
G. Hétet, J. Longdell, A. Alexander, P. Lam, and M. Sellars
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.023601
Photon Echoes Produced by Switching Electric Fields
A. Alexander, J. Longdell, M. Sellars, and N. Manson
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.043602

Monday 11th February, 2008
1. Andrew MacRae
Non-Destructive Probing of Rabi Oscillations on the Cesium Clock Transition near the Standard Quantum Limit
P. J. Windpassinger, D. Oblak, P. G. Petrov, M. Kubasik, M. Saffman, C. L. Garrido Alzar, J. Appel, J. H. Mueller, N. Kjaergaard, E. S. Polzik
arXiv:0801.4126
Inhomogeneous Light Shift Effects on Atomic Quantum State Evolution in Non-Destructive Measurements
P. Windpassinger, D. Oblak, U. Hoff, J. Appel, N. Kjaergaard, E. Polzik
arXiv:0801.3242

2. Sergey Moiseev
Slow Light by Coherent Spectral Burning
Q. Xi, Y. Gao
Not yet Published

Monday 4th February, 2008
1. Nitin Jain
Paper X

2. Chris Healey
Memory-built-in quantum teleportation with photonic and atomic qubits
Y. Chen, S. Chen, Z. Yuan, B. Zhao, C. Chuu, J. Schmiedmayer, J. Pan
DOI:10.1038/nphys832

Monday 28th January, 2008
1. Dmitry Korystov
Mapping photonic entanglement into and out of a quantum memory
K. S. Choi, H. Deng, J. Laurat, H. J. Kimble
arXiv:0712.3571v2

2. Sun-Hyun Youn
Generation of optical 'Schrödinger cats' from photon number states
A. Ourjoumtsev, H. Jeong, R. Tualle-Brouri, and P. Grangier
doi:10.1038/nature06054

Monday 21st January, 2008
1. Geoff Campbell
Efficient Generation of Large Number-Path Entanglement Using Only Linear Optics and Feed-Forward
H. Cable and J. Dowling
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.163604

2. Peter Marzlin
A double-slit 'which-way' experiment on the complementarity–uncertainty debate
R. Mir, J. Lundeen, M. Mitchell, A. Steinberg, J. Garretson, and H. Wiseman
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/9/8/287

2007
Monday 17th December, 2007
1. Andrew MacRae
Ultraslow Propagation of Matched Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing in an Atomic Vapor
V. Boyer, C. McCormick, E. Arimondo, and P. D. Lett
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.143601

Monday 17th December, 2007
1. Alex Lvovsky
paper

Monday 10th December, 2007
1. Geoff Campbell
Electromagnetically induced transparency with a partially standing drive field
D. Strekalov, A. Matsko, and N. Yu
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053828

2. Eden Figueroa
Demonstration of a Stable Atom-Photon Entanglement Source for Quantum Repeaters
S. Chen, Y. Chen, B. Zhao, Z. Yuan, J Schmiedmayer, and J. Pan
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180505
Heralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and ScalingHeralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and Scaling
J. Laurat, K. S. Choi, H. Deng, C. W. Chou, and H. J. Kimble
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180504

2. Eden Figueroa
Demonstration of a Stable Atom-Photon Entanglement Source for Quantum Repeaters
S. Chen, Y. Chen, B. Zhao, Z. Yuan, J Schmiedmayer, and J. Pan
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180505
Heralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and ScalingHeralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and Scaling
J. Laurat, K. S. Choi, H. Deng, C. W. Chou, and H. J. Kimble
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180504

Monday 3rd December, 2007
1. Chris Healey
Two-dimensional transport and transfer of a single atomic qubit in optical tweezers
J. Beugnon, C. Tuchendler, H. Marion, A. Gaëtan, Y. Miroshnychenko, Y. Sortais, A. Lance, M. Jones, G. Messin, A. Browaeys, and P. Grangier
DOI:10.1038/nphys698

2. Artur Scherer
Classical World Arising out of Quantum Physics under the Restriction of Coarse-Grained Measurements
J. Kofler, and Č. Brukner
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.180403

Monday 26th November, 2007
1. Dmitri Korystov
Storage and retrieval of nonclassical photon pairs and conditional single photons generated by parametric down-conversion process
K. Akiba, K. Kashiwagi, M. Arikawa, M. Kozuma
arXiv:0711.3377v1

2. Javaid Anwar
Generating Optical Schrödinger Kittens for Quantum Information Processing
A. Ourjoumtsev, R. Tualle-Brouri, J. Laurat, P. Grangier
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122858

Monday 19th November, 2007
1. Mirko Lobino
Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity
M. Sillanpää, J. Park, and R. Simmonds
DOI:10.1038/nature06124

2. Nitin Jain
Experimental Quantum Cloning of Single Photons
A. Lamas-Linares, C. Simon, J. Howell, D Bouwmeester
DOI: 10.1126/science.1068972

Monday 5th November, 2007
1. An-Ning Zhang
Nonclassical Interference and Entanglement Generation Using a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pair Photon Source
J. Fulconis, O. Alibart, J. O'Brien, W. Wadsworth, and J. Rarity
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.120501

2. Peter Marzlin
A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons
D. Chang, A. Sørensen, E. Demler, and M. Lukin
DOI:10.1038/nphys708

Monday 29th October, 2007
1. Eden Figueroa
Single-photon bus connecting spin-wave quantum memories
J. Simon, Tanji, S. Ghosh, and V. Vuletic
doi:10.1038/nphys726

2. Alex Lvovsky
Suggested Controlled Coupling of Counterpropagating Whispering-Gallery Modes by a Single Rayleigh Scatterer: A Classical Problem in a Quantum Optical Light
A. Mazzei, S. Götzinger, L. Menezes,G. Zumofen, O. Benson, and V. Sandoghdar
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.173603

Monday 22nd October, 2007
1. Sun-Hyun Youn
Probing Quantum Commutation Rules by Addition and Subtraction of Single Photons to/from a Light Field
V. Parigi, A. Zavatta, M. Kim, M. Bellini
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146204

2. Geoff Campbell
Transients of the electromagnetically-induced-transparency-enhanced refractive Kerr nonlinearity
M. Pack, R. Camacho, J. C. Howell
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033835

Monday 15th October, 2007
1. Artur Scherer
Optical coherent state discrimination using a closed-loop quantum measurement
R. Cook, P. Martin, J. Geremia
doi:10.1038/nature05655

2. Andrew MacRae
Cavity Nonlinear Optics at Low Photon Numbers from Collective Atomic Motion
S. Gupta, K. Moore, K. Murch, D. Stamper-Kurn
arXiv:0706.1052v2

Monday 1st October, 2007
1. Mirko Lobino
Dipole Induced Transparency in Drop-Filter Cavity-Waveguide Systems
E. Waks and J. Vuckovic
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.153601

2. Peter Marzlin
Coherent Optical Detection of Highly Excited Rydberg States Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
A. K. Mohapatra, T. Jackson, and C. Adams
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.113003

Monday 24th September, 2007
1. Dmitry Korystov
Single photon source using laser pulses and two-photon absorption
B. C. Jacobs, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson
doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.010303

2. Chris Healey
Beating the Standard Quantum Limit with Four-Entangled Photons
T. Nagata, R. Okamoto, J. O'Brien,K. Sasaki, S. Takeuchi
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138007

Monday 10th September, 2007
1. An-Ning Zhang
Tailoring two-photon interference with phase dispersion
R. Okamoto, S. Takeuchi, and K. Sasaki
doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.011801

2. Alex Lvovsky
Controlled exchange interaction between pairs of neutral atoms in an optical lattice
M Anderlini, P. Lee, B. Brown, J. Sebby-Strabley, W. Phillips & J. Porto
doi:10.1038/nature06011

Monday 27th August, 2007
1. Andrew MacRae
Slow Light in Coupled-Resonator-Induced Transparency
K. Totsuka, N. Kobayashi, and M. Tomita
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.213904

2. Yuishi Takeno
Tunable control of the frequency correlations of entangled photons
M. Hendrych, M. Micuda, and J. P. Torres
Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 16, pp. 2339-2341

Monday 20th August, 2007
1. Mirko Lobino
Deterministic Loading of Individual Atoms to a High-Finesse Optical Cavity
K. Fortier, S. Kim, M. Gibbons, P. Ahmadi, and M. Chapman
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.233601

2. Geoff Campbell
Experimental remote preparation of arbitrary photon polarization states
W. Liu, W. Wu, B. Ou, P. Chen, C. Li, and J. Yuan
doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.022308

Monday 13th August, 2007
1. Sun Hyun Youn
High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror
D. Kleckner, W. Marshall, M. Dood, K. Dinyari, B.J. Pors, W. Irvine, D. Bouwmeester
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.173901
Sub-Kelvin Optical Cooling of a Micromechanical Resonator
D. Kleckner, D. Bouwmeester
doi:10.1038/nature05231

2. Dallas Hoffman
Detection Loophole in Asymmetric Bell Experiments
N. Brunner, N. Gisin, V. Scarani, and C. Simon
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.220403

Monday 30th July, 2007
1. Dmitry Korystov
Tunable nanowire nonlinear optical probe
Y. Nakayama, P. Pauzauskie, A. Radenovic R. Onorato, R. Saykally, J. Liphardt and P. Yang
doi:10.1038/nature05921

2. Eden Figueroa
Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface
T. Wilk, S. Webster, A. Kuhn, G. Rempe
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143835

Monday 23rd July, 2007
1. Mike Lozinski
Quantum Push-ups for Atomic Ensembles
F. Yu, L. Selkirk, and D. Geveaux
DOI:10.1038/nphoton.2006.42

2. Andrew MacRae
Ultracompact optical buffers on a silicon chip
F. Xia, L. Sekaric, and Y. Vlasov
DOI:10.1038/nphoton.2006.42

Monday 16th July, 2007
1. Anning Zhang
Demonstration of controlled-NOT quantum gates on a pair of superconducting quantum bits
J. H. Plantenberg, P. de Groot, C. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij
doi:10.1038/nature05896

2. Alex Lvovsky
Optical negative-index metamaterials
V. Shalaev
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2006.49

Monday 9th July, 2007
1. Yuval Sanders
Polarization Squeezing by Optical Faraday Rotation
J. Sherson and K. Mølmer
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.143602

2. Geoff Campbell
Fast and robust approach to long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles
L. Jiang, J. Taylor, and M. Lukin
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.012301

Monday 25th June, 2007
1. Katanya Kuntz
Experimental Realization of Wheeler's Delayed-Choice Gedanken Experiment
V. Jacques, Wu, F. Grosshans, F. Treussart, P. Grangier, A. Aspect, J-F. Roch
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136303

2. Dmitry Korystov
Synchronized Independent Narrow-Band Single Photons and Efficient Generation of Photonic Entanglement
Z-S Yuan, Y-A Chen, S. Chen, B. Zhao, M. Koch,T. Strassel, Y. Zhao, G-J Zhu,J. Schmiedmayer, J-W Pan
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180503

Monday 18th June, 2007
1. Eden Figueroa
Measurement-induced entanglement for excitation stored in remote atomic ensembles
C. W. Chou, H. de Riedmatten, D. Felinto, S. Polyakov, S. van Enk, and H. J. Kimble
doi:10.1038/nature04353

2. Christian Freier
Functional Quantum Nodes for Entanglement Distribution over Scalable Quantum Networks
C. W. Chou, H. de Riedmatten, D. Felinto, S. Polyakov, S. van Enk, and H. J. Kimble
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140300

Monday 28th May, 2007
1. Sun-Hyun Youn
Experimental Realization of Deutsche's Algorithm in a One-Way Quantum Computer
M Tame, R Prevedel, M Paternostro, P Böhi, M Kim, A Zeilinger
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.140501

2. Eden Figueroa
cancelled

Tuesday 22nd May, 2007
1. Jürgen Appel
Quantum Interference of Electromagnetic Fields from Remote Quantum Memories
T. Chanelière, D.Matsukevich, S. Jenkins, S. Lan, R. Zhao, T. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.113602

2. Alex Lvovsky
Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Cloning with Phase-Conjugate Inputs
M. Sabuncu, U. Andersen, and G. Leuchs
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.170503

Monday 14th May, 2007
1. An-Ning Zhang
Optical Nondestructive Controlled-NOT Gate without Using Entangled Photons
X-H Bao, T-Y Chen, Q. Zhang, J. Yang, H. Zhang, T. Yang, and J-W Pan
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.170502

2. Andrew MacRae
Impossibility of the Counterfactual Computation for All Possible Outcomes
L. Vaidman
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160403
Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation
O. Hosten, M. Rakher, J. Barreiro, N. Peters, and P. Kwiat
DOI:10.1038/nature04523

Monday 7th May, 2007
1. Karl-Peter Marzlin
Fidelity of an Optical Memory Based on Stimulated Photon Echoes
M. U. Staudt, S. R. Hastings-Simon, M. Nilsson, M. Afzelius, V. Scarani, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler, W. Tittel, and N. Gisin
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.113601

2. Sun-Hyun Youn
Increasing Entanglement between Gaussian States by Coherent Photon Subtraction
A. Ourjoumtsev, A. Dantan, R. Tualle-Brouri, and P. Grangier
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.030502

Monday 30th April, 2007
1. Dmitry Korystov
Measuring Photon Antibunching from Continuous Variable Sideband Squeezing
N. Grosse,T. Symul,M. Stobińska,T. Ralph, and P.K. Lam
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.153603

2. Karl-Peter Marzlin
Focusing Beyond the Diffraction Limit with Far-Field Time Reversal
G. Lerosey, J. de Rosny, A. Tourin, and M. Fink
DOI:10.1126/science.1134824

Monday 9th April, 2007
1. Jérémie Choquette
Atom trap with surface plasmon and evanescent field
C. García-Segundo, H. Yan, M. S. Zhan
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.75.030902

2. Alex Lvovsky
Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity
S. Gleyzes, S. Kuhr, C. Guerlin, J. Bernu, S. Deléglise, U. Hoff, M. Brune, J. Raimond, and S. Haroche
DOI:10.1038/nature05589

Monday 2nd April, 2007
1. Andrew MacRae
Source of triggered entangled photon pairs?
A Gilchrist, K. Resch, A. White
Nature 445 E4-E5. DOI:10.1038/nature05546
A semiconductor source of triggered entangled photon pairs
R.M. Stevenson, R.J. Young, P. Atkinson, K. Cooper, D. Ritchi, A Shields
Nature 439 179-182.

2. Eden Figueroa
Relative-intensity squeezing at audio frequencies using four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor
C. McCormick, A. Marino, V. Boyer, P. Lett
arXiv:quant-ph/0703111v1
Strong relative intensity squeezing by four-wave mixing in rubidium vapor
C. McCormick, V. Boyer, E. Arimondo,P. D. Lett
Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 178-180

Monday 26th March, 2007
1. Dmitry Korystov
Optimal control of light pulse storage and retrieval
I. Novikova, A. Gorshkov, D. Phillips, A. Sorensen, M. Lukin, R. Walsworth
arXiv quant-ph/0702266

2. An-Ning Zhang
Quantum Communication without Alignment using Multiple-Qubit Single-Photon States
L. Aolita, S. Walborn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100501. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.100501

Monday 19th March, 2007
1. Jürgen Appel
Remote Preparation of an Atomic Quantum Memory
Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Stefan Berner, Jürgen Volz, Markus Weber, and Harald Weinfurter
PRL 98, 050504. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.050504

2. Eden Figueroa
Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics
N Ginsberg, S Garner, L Vestergaard Hau
Nature 445 Feb 2007 pg.623-6. DOI: 10.1038/nature05493

Monday 12th March, 2007
1. Peter Marzlin
Assessment of a quantum phase-gate operation based on nonlinear optics
S. Rebic, C. Ottaviani, G. Di Giuseppe, D. Vitali, and P. Tombesi
PRA 74, 032301. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.032301

2. Geoff Campbell
Electromagnetically induced transparency with broadband laser pulses
D. D. Yavuz
PRA 75, 031801(R). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.75.031801

Monday 5th March, 2007
1. Andrew MacRae
Minimum Uncertainty Measurements of Angle and Angular Momentum
Z. Hradil, J. Rehácek, Z. Bouchal, R. Celechovský, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
PRL 97, 243601. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.243601

2. Chris Healey
Experimental Demonstration of Free-Space Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution over 144 km
Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach, Henning Weier, Martin Fürst, Rupert Ursin, Felix Tiefenbacher, Thomas Scheidl, Josep Perdigues, Zoran Sodnik, Christian Kurtsiefer, John G. Rarity, Anton Zeilinger, and Harald Weinfurter
PRL 98, 010504. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.010504

Monday 26th February, 2007
1. Alex Lvovsky
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in optically trapped rubidium atoms
B. Kaltenhäuser, H. Kübler, A. Chromik, J. Stuhler, T. Pfau, A. Imamoglu
arXiv quant-ph/0701049

2. Eden Figueroa
A Stern-Gerlach experiment for slow light
L. Karpa, M. Weitz
Nature Physics 2, 743 - 748. DOI:10.1038/nphys432

Monday 19th February, 2007
1. Jérémie Choquette
Surface Plasmons Modulate the Spatial Coherence of Light in Young's Interference Experiment
Choon How Gan, Greg Gbur, and Taco D. Visser
PRL 98, 043908

2. Sun-Hyun Youn
Multiparticle State Tomography: Hidden Differences
R. B. A. Adamson, L. K. Shalm, M. W. Mitchell, and A. M. Steinberg
PRL 98, 043601

Monday 22nd January, 2007
1. Sun Hyun Youn
Time-Bin-Modulated Biphotons from Cavity-Enhanced Down-Conversion
C. Kuklewicz, F. Wong, and J. Shapiro
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.223601

2006
Sunday 5th November, 2006
1. An-Ning Zhang
Nonclassical Interference and Entanglement Generation Using a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pair Photon Source
J. Fulconis, O. Alibart, J. O'Brien, W. Wadsworth, and J. Rarity
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.120501

Monday 24th April, 2006
1. Georg Günter
Experimental determination of entanglement with a single measurement
S. P. Walborn, P.H. Ribeiro, L. Davidovich, F. Mintert and A. Buchleitner
Nature 440, 1022 (2006)

2. Peter Turner
The quantum Schur transform I: efficient qudit circuits
D. Bacon, I. L. Chuang and A. W. Harrow
quant-ph/0601001

Monday 10th April, 2006
1. Ali Resakhani
Direct Characterization of Quantum Dynamics
M. Mohseni, D.A. Lidar
quant-ph/0601033, quant-ph/0601034

2. Jon Walgate
Asymptotic quantum cloning is state estimation
Joonwoo Bae and Antonio Acin
quant-ph/0603078

Monday 3rd April, 2006
1. Mike Garrett
Cluster states in charge qubits based on coupled quantum dots
Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Shinobu Fujita, Xuedong Hu
cond-mat/0602613

2. Barry Sanders
Witnessing effective entanglement in a continuous variable prepare&measure setup and application to a QKD scheme using postselection
S. Lorenz, J. Rigas, M. Heid, U.L. Andersen, N. Lütkenhaus, G. Leuchs
quant-ph/0603271

Monday 20th March, 2006
1. Itzel Martinez
Generation of Bright Two-Color Continuous Variable Entanglement
A. S. Villar, L. S. Cruz, K. N. Cassemiro, M. Martinelli, and P. Nussenzveig
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243603 (2005)

2. David Feder
Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation
Onur Hosten, Matthew T. Rakher, Julio T. Barreiro, Nicholas A. Peters, Paul G. Kwiat
Nature 439, 949

Monday 6th March, 2006
1. Jürgen Appel
Generation of a superposition of odd photon number states for quantum information networks
J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen B. Melholt Nielsen, C. Hettich K. Moelmer, E. S. Polzik
quant-ph/0602198

2. René Stock
A fault-tolerant one-way quantum computer
R. Raussendorf, J. Harrington, K. Goyal
quant-ph/0510135

Monday 27th February, 2006
1. Sergey Babichev
Experimental reconstruction of photon statistics without photon counting
Guido Zambra, Alessandra Andreoni, Maria Bondani, Marco Gramegna, Marco Genovese, Giorgio Brida, Andrea Rossi, and Matteo G. A. Paris
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 063602 (2005)

2. Andrew Scott
A quantum secret ballot
Shahar Dolev, Itamar Pitowsky, Boaz Tamir
quant-ph/0602087

Monday 13th February, 2006
1. Eden Figueroa
Observation of Entanglement of a Single Photon with a Trapped Atom
Jürgen Volz, Markus Weber, Daniel Schlenk, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Johannes Vrana, Karen Saucke, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030404 (2006)

2. Alex Lvovsky
Experimental Single Qubit Quantum Secret Sharing
Christian Schmid, Pavel Trojek, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Marek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230505 (2005)

Monday 6th February, 2006
1. Alexis Morris
Realization of a Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer: Observation of fractional statistics
F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman
Phys. Rev. B 72, 075342 (2005)

2. Peter Marzlin
Robust implementations of quantum repeaters
Alexander Klein, Uwe Dorner, Carolina Moura Alves, and Dieter Jaksch
Phys. Rev. A 73, 012332 (2006)

Monday 30th January, 2006
1. Zeng-Bin Wang
Quantum control limited by quantum decoherence
Fei Xue, S. X. Yu, and C. P. Sun
Phys. Rev. A 73, 013403 (2006)

Monday 23rd January, 2006
1. Frank Vewinger
Electromagnetically induced transparency with tunable single-photon pulses p837
M. D. Eisaman, A. Andr , F. Massou, M. Fleischhauer, A. S. Zibrov and M. D. Lukin
Nature 438, 837 (2005)

2. Rick (Hongshao) Zhang
A new quantum lower bound method, with an application to strong direct product theorem for quantum search
A. Ambainis
quant-ph/0508200

2005
Monday 12th December, 2005
1. Gina Howard
Practical limitations in optical entanglement purification
Peter P. Rohde, Timothy C. Ralph, William J. Munro
quant-ph/0511268

2. Mike Garrett
Parametric coupling for superconducting qubits
P. Bertet, C. J. P. M. Harmans, J. E. Mooij
cond-mat/0509799

Monday 5th December, 2005
1. Andrew Scott
Equiangular lines, mutually unbiased bases, and spin models
Chris Godsil, Aidan Roy
quant-ph/0511004

2. Mark Tame
A full quantum repeater using Dipole Induced Transparency
E. Waks and J. Vuckovic
quant-ph/0510228

Monday 28th November, 2005
1. David Hobill
Alice Falls into a Black Hole: Entanglement in Noninertial Frames
I. Fuentes-Schuller and R.B. Mann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 12040 (2005)

2. Alex Lvovsky
Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis
N. K. Langford, T. J. Weinhold, R. Prevedel, K. J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, J. L. O'Brien, G. J. Pryde, and A. G. White
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210504 (2005)

Monday 21st November, 2005
1. Georg Günter
Realization of Hardy's Thought Experiment with Photons
William T. M. Irvine, Juan F. Hodelin, Christoph Simon, and Dirk Bouwmeester
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 030401 (2005)

2. Jeremie Choquette
Theory of Plasmon-Assisted Transmission of Entangled Photons
Esteban Moreno, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, Daniel Erni, J. Ignacio Cirac, and L. Martin-Moreno
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 236801 (2004)

Monday 14th November, 2005
1. Eden Figueroa
Stopped light with storage times greater than one second using electromagnetically induced transparency in a solid
J.J. Longdell, E. Fraval, M.J. Sellars and N.B. Manson
PRL 95, 063601 (2005)

2. Mehdi Mhalla
Two-setting Bell Inequalities for Graph States
Geza Toth, Otfried Guehne, Hans J. Briegel
quant-ph/0510007

Monday 7th November, 2005
1. Peter Turner
Optimal estimation of quantum observables
G. M. D'Ariano, V. Giovannetti, P. Perinotti
quant-ph/0510187

2. David Feder
Entanglement-assisted local transformations between inequivalent classes of three-particle entangled states
I. Ghiu, M. Bourennane, A. Karlsson
quant-ph/0510142

Monday 31st October, 2005
1. Sergey Babichev
Faithful qubit distribution assisted by one additional qubit against collective noise
T. Yamamoto, J. Shimamura, S. K. Ozdemir, M. Koashi,and N. Imoto
PRL 95, 040503 (2005)

2. Barry Sanders
A Bell Theorem Without Inequalities for Two Particles, Using Efficient Detectors
Daniel Greenberger, Michael Horne, Anton Zeilinger
quant-ph/0510201
A Bell Theorem Without Inequalities for Two Particles, Using Inefficient Detectors
Daniel Greenberger, Michael Horne, Anton Zeilinger
quant-ph/0510207

Monday 24th October, 2005
1. Jürgen Appel
Measurement-Induced Entanglement for Excitation Stored in Remote Atomic Ensembles
C. W. Chou, H. de Riedmatten, D. Felinto, S. V. Polyakov, S. J. van Enk, H. J. Kimble
quant-ph/0510055

2. Alexis Morris
Relations between Cloning and the Universal NOT Derived from Conservation Laws
S. J. van Enk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 010502 (2005)

Monday 3rd October, 2005
1. René Stock
Loss tolerant one-way quantum computation -- a horticultural approach
Michael Varnava, Daniel E. Browne, Terry Rudolph
quant-ph/0507036

2. Som Bandyopadhyay
General Monogamy Inequality for Bipartite Qubit Entanglement
Tobias J. Osborne, Frank Verstraete
quant-ph/0502176

Monday 26th September, 2005
1. Zeng-Bin Wang
Quantum Theory For Generation Of Nonclassical Photon Pairs By A Medium With Coherent Atomic Memory
Narek Sisakyan and Yuri Malakyan
quant-ph/0503186

2. Peter Marzlin
Enhancing the Capacity and Performance of Collective Atomic Quantum Memory
Tomas Opatrny and Jaromir Fiurasek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053602 (2005)

Monday 19th September, 2005
1. Jon Walgate
All entangled states are useful for quantum information processing
Lluis Masanes
quant-ph/0508071

2. Iyad Mahmood
Coherent Inelastic Backscattering of Intense Laser Light by Cold Atoms
V. Shatokhin, C. A. MЭller, and A. Buchleitner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043603 (2005)

Friday 9th September, 2005
1. Peter Brooke
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Dynamical Decoupling
K. Khodjasteh, D.A. Lidar
quant-ph/0408128

2. Frank Vewinger
A photonic quantum information interface
S. Tanzilli, W. Tittel, M. Halder, O. Alibart, P. Baldi, N. Gisin and H. Zbinden
Nature 437, 116 (2005)

Friday 29th April, 2005
1. David Feder
The Vortex Phase Qubit: Generating Arbitrary, Counter-Rotating, Coherent Superpositions in Bose-Einstein Condensates via Optical Angular Momentum Beams
K. Kapale and J. Dowling.
quant-ph/0504130

2. Alex Lvovsky
Normal-Mode Spectroscopy of a Single-Bound-Atom-Cavity System
P. Maunz, T. Puppe, I. Schuster, N. Syassen, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 033002 (2005)

Friday 22nd April, 2005
1. Sergey Babichev
Generation of Entangled States of Qudits using Twin Photons
L. Neves, G. Lima, J. G. Aguirre Gomez, C. H. Monken, C. Saavedra, and S. Padua
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 100501 (2005)

2. David Hobill
Towards efficient algorithm deciding separability of distributed quantum states
P. Badziag, P. Horodecki, P. Horodecki
quant-ph/0504041

Friday 15th April, 2005
1. Eden Figueroa
Multiphoton Path Entanglement by Nonlocal Bunching
H. S. Eisenberg, J. F. Hodelin, G. Khoury, and D. Bouwmeester
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090502 (2005)

2. Barry Sanders
Quantum computing with realistically noisy devices
E. Knill
Nature 434, 39 (2005)

Friday 8th April, 2005
1. Peter Høyer
A different kind of quantum search
Lov K. Grover
quant-ph/0503205

2. Jürgen Appel
Two-Photon Coincident-Frequency Entanglement via Extended Phase Matching
O. Kuzucu, M. Fiorentino, M. A. Albota, F. N. C. Wong, and F. X. KДrtner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083601 (2005)

Friday 1st April, 2005
1. Andrew Scott
A simple formula for pooling knowledge about a quantum system
K. Jacobs
quant-ph/0503193

2. Mehdi Mhalla
A large family of quantum weak coin-flipping protocols
C. Mochon
quant-ph/0502068

Friday 18th March, 2005
1. Rob Thompson
Nonclassical imaging for a quantum search of trapped ions
G. S. Agarwal et al.
Phys. Rev. A 70, 063816

2. Peter Marzlin
Long-range interactions and entanglement of slow single-photon pulses
Inbal Friedler, David Petrosyan, Michael Fleischhauer, Gershon Kurizki
quant-ph/0503071

Friday 11th March, 2005
1. David Hobill
A geometric approach to quantum circuit lower bounds
Michael A. Nielsen
quant-ph/0502070

2. Barry Sanders
Experimental one-way quantum computing
P. Walther, K. J. Resch, T. Rudolph, E. Schenck, H. Weinfurter, V. Vedral, M. Aspelmeyer & A. Zeilinger
Nature 434, 169 (2005)

Friday 18th February, 2005
1. Som Bandyopadhyay
Macroscopic Thermodynamical Witnesses of Quantum Entanglement
C. Brukner and V. Vedral
quant-ph/ 0406040

2. Alexis Morris
Topologically-Protected Qubits from a Possible Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall State
S. D. Sarma, M. Freedman, C. Nayak
cond-mat/0412343

Friday 11th February, 2005
1. Shohini Ghose
Graph State Preparation and Cluster Computation with Global Addressing of
A. Kay, J. K. Pachos and C. S. Adams
quant-ph/0501166

2. Jon Walgate
Entanglement and non-locality are different resources
Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Valerio Scarani
quant-ph/0412109

2. Sergey Moiseev
Slow Light by Coherent Spectral Burning
Q. Xi, Y. Gao
Not yet Published

Friday 4th February, 2005
1. Zeng-Bin Wang
Nearly Deterministic Linear Optical Controlled-NOT Gate
Kae Nemoto and W. J. Munro
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250502, 2004

2. Philipp Schneeweiß
Experimental Teleportation of a Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate
Y. F. Huang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 240501 (2004)

Friday 28th January, 2005
1. Eden Figueroa
Shaping Quantum Pulses of Light Via Coherent Atomic Memory
M. D. Eisaman, L. Childress, A. André, F. Massou, A. S. Zibrov, and M. D. Lukin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 233602 (2004)

2. Alex Lvovsky
Optical Quantum Computation Using Cluster States
Michael A. Nielsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 040503 (2004)

Friday 14th January, 2005
1. Sergey Babichev
Experimental purification of single qubits
M. Ricci et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 170501 (2004)

2. David Feder
Efficient generation of graph states for quantum computation
S. R. Clark, C. Moura Alves, and D. Jaksch
quant-ph/0406150, v2 (Dec. 11, 2004)

Friday 7th January, 2005
1. Jürgen Appel
Hyperpolarized Xenon Nuclear Spins Detected by Optical Atomic Magnetometry
V. V. Yashchuk et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 160801 (2004)

2. Peter Marzlin
Measurement of the total energy of an isolated system by an internal observer
S. Massar, S. Popescu
quant-ph/0412079

2004
Friday 10th December, 2004
1. Som Bandyopadhyay
Almost Every Pure State of Three Qubits Is Completely Determined by Its Two-Particle Reduced Density Matrices
N. Linden, S. Popescu, and W. K. Wootters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 207901 (2002)

2. Alexis Morris
Fault tolerant quantum computing with spins using the conditional Faraday rotation
Michael N. Leuenberger
cond-mat/0412114

Friday 3rd December, 2004
1. Shohini Ghose
Single Atom Transistor in a 1D Optical Lattice
A. Micheli, A. J. Daley, D. Jaksch, and P. Zoller
PRL 93, 140408 (2004)

Friday 19th November, 2004
1. Andrew Scott
Secrecy content of two-qubit states
A. Acín, J. Bae, E. Bagan, M. Baig, Ll. Masanes, R. Muñoz-Tapia
quant-ph/0411092

2. Alex Lvovsky
Quantum State Transfer Between Matter and Light
D. N. Matsukevich and A. Kuzmich
Science 306, 663 (2004)

Thursday 11th November, 2004
1. Raisa Karasik
Unified Theory of Dynamically Suppressed Qubit Decoherence in Thermal Baths
A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130406 (2004)

2. Sergey Babichev
Realization of a Classically Distinguishable Multi-photon Quantum Superposition
Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino
quant-ph/0410225

Friday 5th November, 2004
1. Eden Figueroa
Determination of the Number of Atoms Trapped in an Optical Cavity
J. McKeever, J. R. Buck, A. D. Boozer, and H. J. Kimble
PRL 93, 143601 (2004)

2. Barry Sanders
Continuous generation of single photons with controlled waveform in an ion-trap cavity system
Matthias Keller, Birgit Lange, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Wolfgang Lange, Herbert Walther
Nature 431, 1075 - 1078

Tuesday 26th October, 2004
1. Peter Marzlin
Nonlinear optics with stationary pulses of light
A. Andre, M. Bajcsy, A. S. Zibrov, M. D. Lukin
quant-ph/0410157

2. Jürgen Appel
Experimental demonstration of quantum memory for light
Brian Julsgaard, Jacob Sherson, J. Ignacio Cirac, Jaromir Fiurasek, Eugene S. Polzik
quant-ph/0410072

3. Jon Walgate
Quantum entanglement can be simulated without communication
N. J. Cerf, N. Gisin, S. Massar, S. Popescu
quant-ph/0410027