Publications
Research Articles
Absolute emission of spontaneous parametric down conversion into single transverse Gaussian modes. Alex Ling, Antia Lamas-Linares and Christian Kurtsiefer.
A simple approach to test Leggett's model of nonlocal quantum correlations. Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Antia Lamas-Linares,Alexander Ling, Christian Kurtsiefer and Valerio Scarani.
Experimental demonstration of a quantum protocol for Byzantine agreement and liar detection. Sasha Gaertner, Mohammed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adan Cabello and Harald Weinfurter. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2008).
2007
Experimental Falsification of Leggett's non-Local Variable Model. Cyril Branciard, Alexander Ling, Nicolas Gisin, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares and Valerio Scarani, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210407 (2007).
An atom and a photon. J. Volz, M. Weber, D. Schlenk, W. Rosenfeld, C. Kurtsiefer and H. Weinfurter, Laser Physics 17, 1007 (2007).
Breaking a quantum key distribution system through a timing side channel. Antia Lamas-Linares and Christian Kurtsiefer, arxiv:quant-ph/0704.3297, Opt. Express 15, 9388 (2007).
Experimental demonstration of four-party quantum secret sharing. Sasha Gaertner, Christian Kurtsiefer, Mohammed Bourennane, Harald Weinfurter, Phys. Rev. Lett 98, 020503 (2007).
Joint Spectrum Mapping of Polarization Entanglement in Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion. Hou Shun Poh, Chune Yang Lum, Ivan Marcikic, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer, Phys. Rev. A 75, 043816 (2007).
2006
Free-space quantum key distribution with entangled photons. Ivan Marcikic, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer. Applied Physics Letters 89, 101122 (2006).
Experimental quantum secret sharing. Christian Schmid, Pavel Trojek, Sascha Gaertner, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Marek Zukowski, and Harald Weinfurter, Fortschr. Phys. 54, 831-839 (2006).
Experimental Polarization State Tomography using Optimal Polarimeters. Alex Ling, Soh Kee Pang, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer. Phys. Rev. A 74, 022309 (2006).
Preparation of Bell States with Controlled White Noise. Alex Ling, Peng Yuan Han, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer. Laser Physics 16, 1140 (2006).
Observation of Entanglement of a Single Photon with a Trapped Atom. Volz, M. Weber, D. Schlenk, W. Rosenfeld, J. Vrana, K. Saucke, C. Kurtsiefer, and H. Weinfurter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030404 (2006).
An Optimal Photon Counting Polarimeter. Alex Ling, Soh Kee Pang, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer, Journal of Modern Optics 53, 1523 (2006).
Complete Deterministic Linear Optics Bell State Analysis. Carsten Schuck, Gerhard Huber, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190501 (2006).
Entanglement Persistency of Multiphoton Entangled States. M. Bourennane, M. Eibl, S. Gaertner, N. Kiesel, Ch. Kurtsiefer, and H. Weinfurter:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 100502 (2006).
Experimental noise resistant Bell inequality violations for polarization-entangled photons. Fabio A. Bovino, Giuseppe Castagnoli, Adan Cabello, Antia Lamas-Linares. Phys. Rev. A 73, 062110 (2006).
Analysis of a single-atom dipole trap. Markus Weber, Juergen Volz, Karen Saucke, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter, Phys. Rev. A 73, 043406 (2006).
Single photon emission from SiV centres in diamond produced by ion implantation. C. Wang, Ch. Kurtsiefer, H. Weinfurter and B. Burchard, J. Phys. B 39, 37-41 (2006).
2005
Fast and compact multichannel photon coincidence unit for quantum information processing. S. Gaertner, H. Weinfurter, and Ch. Kurtsiefer: Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 123108 (2005).
Bell's inequalities with realistic noise for polarization-entangled photons. Adan Cabello, Alvaro Feito, Antia Lamas-Linares, Phys. Rev. A 72, 052112 (2005).
Experimental Single
Qubit Quantum Secret Sharing. C. Schmid, P. Trojek, M. Bourennane,
Ch. Kurtsiefer, M. Zukowski, and H. Weinfurter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230505 (2005).
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Theses
A fast polarization
independent phase
shifter for light. Ng Tien Tjuen (Honours
thesis 06/07).
Towards a high quality 4-photon source. Lim Jiaqin (Honours thesis 06/07).
A narrow-band source for polarization-entangled photon pairs. Arpan Roy (Honours thesis 06/07).
Towards quantum key distribution in daylight. Caleb Ho (Honours thesis 06/07).
Optical Autocorrelation using
Non-Linearity in a Simple Photodiode. Syed Abdullah Aljunid
(Honours thesis
2006).
Efficient
polarization measurement for quantum cryptography. Soo Kee Pang
(Honours
thesis 05/06).
Experiments with Multi-Photon states. Poh Hou Shun (Honours thesis 04/05).
Wong Ming Liang (Honours thesis 04/05).
Characterization of Entangled Photons via a Bell's Inequality. Peng Yun Han (Honours Thesis 04/05).
Foo Pei Yih (Honours thesis 2004).
Posters and talks
Practical quantum cryptography and possible attacks. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany. [24C3]. Talk by Alex Ling, Ilja Gerhardt, Antia Lamas-Linares and Christian Kurtsiefer, December 2007.
Experimental falsification of Leggett's model and device independent QKD. Quantum Information Processing and Computation, Barcelona, Spain. [QIPC 2007]. Talk by Antia Lamas-Linares, October 2007.
Extinction of light by a single trapped atom. Photons, Atoms and Qubits 2007, London, UK. [PAQ 2007]. Poster, September 2007.
Experimental setup for direct measurement of a single atom optical absorption cross-section. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Seoul, Korea. [CLEO-PR 2007]. Poster, August 2007.
A polarization-independent fast light switch. Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, Seoul, Korea. [CLEO-PR 2007]. Poster, August 2007.
Free-space distribution of entangled photons in daylight conditions. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Seoul, Korea. [CLEO-PR 2007]. Talk by Antia Lamas-Linares, August 2007.
Spying on a quantum key distribution system through a timing side channel. Theory and Realisation of Practical Quantum Key Distribution, Waterloo, Canada. [Tropical QKD]. Poster, June 2007.
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution using Polarization Entangled Photons. Theory and Realisation of Practical Quantum Key Distribution, Waterloo, Canada. [Tropical QKD]. Talk by Christian Kurtsiefer, June 2007.
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution using Polarization Entangled Photons. Annual meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of APS, Calgary, Canada [DAMOP 2007]. Talk by Christian Kurtsiefer, June 2007.
Joint spectrum mapping of polarization entanglement in parametric down-conversion. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, US [CLEO/QELS 2007]. Talk by Hou Shun Poh, May 2007.
Free-space quantum key distribution using polarization-entangled photons. International Conference on Quantum Communication Measurement and Computing, Tsukuba, Japan [QCMC2006]. Talk by Christian Kurtsiefer, December 2006.
Joint Spectrum Mapping of Polarization Entanglement in Parametric Down Conversion. International Conference on Quantum Communication Measurement and Computing, Tsukuba, Japan [QCMC2006]. Poster, December 2006.
Optimal State Estimation Experiments for Photon Polarization. SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, US. [SPIE O&P 2006]. Talk by Alex Ling, August 2006.
Experimental polarization state tomography using photon counting polarimeters. Alexander Ling, Kee Pang Soh, Antia Lamas-Linares and Christian Kurtsiefer, Proceedings of SPIE v. 6305, August 2006.
Quantum key distribution over large distances using entangled photon pairs. International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, Tokio, Japan. [IQEC/CLEO-PR 2005]. Talk by Ivan Marcikic, July 2005.
Preparation of Bell states with controlled white noise. International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, Tokio, Japan. [IQEC/CLEO-PR 2005]. Talk by Alex Ling, July 2005.
