Non-unitary transformation on quantum interference in a chip

Jiani Lei; Yilin Yang; Hao Li; Zixuan Liao; Bo Tang; Yuanhua Li; Yuanlin Zheng; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202523.052701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 5, 052701(2025)

Non-unitary transformation on quantum interference in a chip

Jiani Lei¹, Yilin Yang¹, Hao Li¹, Zixuan Liao¹, Bo Tang¹, Yuanhua Li^1,2、*, Yuanlin Zheng^1,3,4, and Xianfeng Chen^1,3,4,5、**

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Department of Physics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Protection and Advanced Materials in Electric Power, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China

³Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁴Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

⁵Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

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