Principal Investigators: Professor Juan Perez-Torres / Dr Antonio Acin
List of Publications
QAP
A. Acin, S. Massar and S. Pironio, Efficient quantum key distribution secure against no-signalling eavesdroppers, submitted to New Journal of Physics quant-ph/0605246
J. Barret, A. Kent and S. Pironio, Maximally non-local and monogamous quantum correlations, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. quant-ph/0605182
S. Carrasco, A. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, J. P. Torres and L. Torner, Spectral engineering of entangled two-photon states, Phys. Rev. A 73 063802 (2006)
A. Acín, N. Brunner, N. Gisin et al, Device-Independent Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 2305001 (2007) quant-ph/0702152
A. Acín, J. I. Cirac and M. Lewenstein, Entanglement percolation in quantum networks, Nature Physcis 3 256 (2007) quant-ph/0612167
K. M. R. Audenaert, J. Calsamiglia, R. Muñoz-Tapia et al, Discriminating States: The Quantum Chernoff Bound, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 160501 (2007)
M. L. Almeida, S. Pironio, J. Barrett et al, Noise robustness of the nonlocality of entangled quantum states, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.
J. Bae and A. Acín, Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication, Phys. Rev. A 75 012334 (2007)
D. Cavalcanti, M. O. Terra Cunha, A. Acin, Multipartite entanglement of superpositions, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. quant-ph/07052521
K. W. Chan, J. P. Torres and J. Eberly, Transverse entanglement migration in Hilbert space, Phys. Rev. A 75 050101 (2007)
A. Ferraro, A. Garcia-Saez and A. Acín, Monogamy and ground-state entanglement in highly connected systems, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. quant-ph/0701009
G. Molina-Terriza, J. P. Torres and L. Torner, Twisted photons, Nature Physics 3 305 (2007)
Miguel Navascués, Stefano Pironio, and Antonio Acín, Bounding the Set of Quantum Correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 010401 (2007)
D. Cavalcanti, A. Ferraro, A. García-Saez and A. Acín, Thermal bound entanglement and area laws, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. quant-ph/0705.3762
J. Calsamiglia, R. Muñoz-Tapia, Ll. Masanes et al, The quantum Chernoff bound as a measure of distinguishability between density matrices: application to qubit and Gaussian states, submitted to Phys. Rev. A quant-ph/0708.2343
M. Hendrych, M. Micuda and J. P. Torres, Tunable control of the frequency correlations of entangled photons, Optics Letters 32 2339 (2007)
C. I. Osorio, G. Molina-Terriza, B. G. Font and J. P. Torres, Azimuthal distinguishability of entangled photons generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion, Optics Express 15 14636 (2007)
S. Perseguers, J. Wehr, A. Acin et al, Entanglement Distribution in Pure-State Quantum Networks, submitted to Phys. Rev. A quant-ph/0708.1025
A. Valencia, A. Cere, X. Shi et al, Shaping the waveform of entangled photons, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. arXiv:0709.1810
L. Aolita, R. Chaves, D. Cavalcanti et al, Scaling Laws for the Decay of Multiqubit Entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 080501 (2008) arXiv:0801.1305
J. Bae, T. Cubitt and A. Acín, Non-secret correlations can be used to distribute secrecy, submitted to Phys. Rev. A arXiv:0806.1606
N. Brunner, S. Pironio, A. Acín et al, Testing the dimension of Hilbert spaces, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 210503 (2008) arXiv:0802.0760
A. Ferraro, D. Cavalcanti, A. García-Saez et al, Thermal bound entanglement in macroscopic systems and area laws, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 080502 (2008) arXiv:0804.4867
M. B. Nasr, S. Carrasco, B. E. A. Saleh et al, Ultrabroadband Biphotons Generated via Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Down-Conversion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 183601 (2008)
C. I. Osorio, S. Barreiro, M. W. Mitchell et al, Spatial entanglement of paired photons generated in cold atomic ensembles, submitted to Phys. Rev. A arXiv:0804.3257
C. I. Osorio, G. Molina-Terriza and J. P. Torres, Correlations in orbital angular momentum of spatially entangled paired photons generated in parametric down-conversion, Phys. Rev. A 77 015810 (2008) arXiv:0711.4500
C. I. Osorio, A. Valencia and J. P. Torres, Spatiotemporal correlations in entangled photons generated by spontaneous parametric down conversion, submitted to New J. Phys. arXiv:0804.2425
A. Salles, D. Cavalcanti and A. Acín, Quantum Non-locality and Partial Transposition for Continuous-Variable Systems, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. arXiv:0804.4703
X. Shi, A. Valencia, M. Hendrych et al, Generation of indistinguishable and pure heralded single photons with tunable bandwidth, Optics letters 33 875 (2008) arXiv:0712.2784
Related work
J. Bae and A. Acin, Asymptotic quantum cloning is state estimation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 030402 (2006) quant-ph/0603078
J. Bae and A. Acin, Key distillation from quantum channels using two-way communication protocols, submitted to Phys. Rev. A quant-ph/0610048
J. Barrett, C. M. Caves, B. Eastin et al, Modeling Pauli measurements on graph states with nearest-neighbor classical communications, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A quant-ph/0603032
J. Niset, A. Acin, U. L. Andersen et al, Experimental Proof of Quantum Nonlocality without Squeezing, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. quant-ph/0608215
M. Navascues, F. Grosshans and A. Acin, Optimality of Gaussian Attacks in Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 190502 (2006) quant-ph/0608034
A. Acin, N. Gisin and B. Toner, Grothendieck's constant and local models for noisy entangled quantum states, Phys. Rev. A 73 062195 (2006) quant-ph/0606138
G. Toth and A. Acin, Genuine three-partite entangled states with a local hidden variable model, Phys. Rev. A 74 030306(R) (2006) quant-ph/0512088