21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Entanglement, loss, and quantumness: When balanced beam splitters are best

24 Jun 2026, 17:15
30m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e) Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC) (DAMOPC) W3-8 Precision single particle and many-body physics in AMO systems | Physique de précision des particules individuelles et des systèmes à plusieurs corps dans les systèmes AMO

Speaker

Aaron Goldberg (National Research Council of Canada)

Description

Entanglement generation by beam splitters lies at the heart of quantum optics. Yet, the conjecture that maximal entanglement is generated by beam splitters with equal probabilities of reflection and transmission has remained unproved for two decades. I will show how we proved this conjecture by studying photon loss and found corollaries throughout quantum optics.

Keyword-1 Quantum optics
Keyword-2 Entanglement
Keyword-3 Optics

Author

Aaron Goldberg (National Research Council of Canada)

Co-authors

Noah Lupu-Gladstein Anaelle Hertz Khabat Heshami

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