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# KAIST Quantum device lab bootcamp
Purpose of this page is to make a complete list of **well-written** reading materials that all of our group members are encouraged to learn. 

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## Experimental quantum photonics

### [Photonic quantum information processing: A concise review](https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5115814)
* This article covers how linear optics quantum computing (LOQC) is approaching quantum computing hardwares.
* Best paper to understand what we are going to make in a **conceptual** levlel.
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### [Photonic quantum information processing: a review](https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1361-6633%2Faad5b2)
* This article covers broad range of quantum photonics work, including both quantum computer and communication. 
* It is not limited to integrated photonics. 
* Light-matter interaction platform such as atoms or quantum dots are less emphasized.

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### [Hybrid integrated quantum photonic circuits](http://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-020-0609-x)

* This article discusses the goal and strategy to build a complete (which means deterministical operation) quantum circuit by combining heterogeneous (different materials) platforms. 
* It is a good read to learn currently existing quantum photonic platforms. 

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### [Integrated photonic quantum technologies](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-019-0532-1)

* This article covers important integrated quantum photonics technology. 
* Especially Box 1 has essential operational principle of quantum photonic circuits.

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## Theoretical quantum photonics

### [Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits](https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.79.135)

* This is a serious review article written by theoretical physicists. 
* It has all the essential explanations on how linear optical quantum computing can be performed.
* It is recommended for those who want to understand **WHY** we work on photonic quantum computation.
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## Integrated photonics engineering

### General integrated photonics

#### [Programmable photonic circuits](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2764-0)

* This articles covers the basic principle of **programmable (tunable)** integrated photonic circuit with emphasis on various applications.
* This article has a collection of **complex** integrated photonic circuits and methods to build them.

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#### [Silicon Quantum Photonics](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7479523)

* It shows detailed information of hardware engineering for integrated quantum photonics.
    * Note: when people say 'silicon photonics', it does not necessarily mean theh material is made of silicon. Typically, integrated 'nano' photonics, where waveguide dimensions are about a micrometer or below, are all referred to as silicon photonics.
    * For example, silicon nitrde photonics platform such as [this work](http://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0394-3) can be called silicon photonics.
* This paper most closely covers what **WE** are going to work on. 

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#### [Silicon microring resonator](http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/lpor.201100017)

* This article covers hardware aspects of silicon photonics. 
* It does not cover anything **quantum**, however, our hardware will look like this.
* It is helpful for understanding how integrated photonic hardwares are made and analyzed. 
* Author of this paper, Dr. Wim Bogaert's papers are in general recommended if you would like to see how **engineering** aspect of integrated photonics is developing.

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#### [Multimode silicon photonics](https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/nanoph/8/2/article-p227.xml)

* It is a good overview article of multimode integrated photonics.
* Section 2.1 is relevant to intermodal photon pair generation. 

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### Thin-film lithium niobate

#### [Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium inobate](https://www.osapublishing.org/aop/viewmedia.cfm?uri=aop-13-2-242&html=true)


* Summary of essential information on the development of integrated lithium niobate photonics
* Essential article for all lab members to read

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#### [Lithium Niobate on Insulator: An Emerging Platform for Integrated Quantum Photonics](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adom.202100789)

* Review article on thin-film lithium niobate as quantum photonics platform
* Most useful article for our research

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### Textbooks


[Fundamentals of photonics (Saleh and Teich)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aGpC-xoohLXROUahvx5dcyN7t8yeiJWW&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This book includes everything about photonics.
* It is recommended to use as a 'dictionary' of anything related to photonics.
* Since it is a dictionary type textbook, material is not super thorough. But still it is good enough to learn essential physical principles.

##### Essential topics for our research
* waveguide theory: chapter 8 - 8.3

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[Fundamentals of photonics (Chrostowski and Hochberg)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a0DakTXw-2_o5B3ESK_1g7cmCuXeCDsV&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This book is written by photonics engineers who has deep experiences in every aspect of integrated photonics.
* Good materials to learn practical knowledge.

##### Essential topics for our research
* Chapter 5 and 12 are useful for experiment.
* Most of chapters.

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#### [Optical waveguide thoery (Love and Snyder)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a2oWISnlC_1AK0QqQUYQLg6_eIHSnO_q&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* Classical bookd of photonics. It covers most of important subjects on guided optics.
* For rigorous derivation and interpretation of photonics based on coupled-mode anaysis, read this book.

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#### [Introduction to Modern optics (Fowles)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c30hbYXJNuiLvvZhfhyN0YSkreUbsbDA&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* Old textbook of classical optics.
* Easy materials for understanding basic concepts such as Fresnel equations, Fabry-Perot interferometer, lasers and etc.


##### Essential topics for our research
* Fresnel equations: chapter 2
* Fabry-Perot interferometer: chapter 4

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## Single-photon sources

### [Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors](https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.3610677)

* Quantum photonic platform needs both single-photon sources and detectors. 
* This article systematically categorizes these different approaches.
* Since it is published in 2011, it may miss many of new results over 2010s.

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### [Single-photon sources: Approaching the ideal through multiplexing (Meyer-Scott et al.)](http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0003320)

* This is a review article that focuses on **single-photon sources based on nonlinear parametric process**. 
* *Our group's 5-year goal* is to use integrated photonics and achieve a better performance reported here. 
* Note: although this is a report on single-photon sources, exact same components will be used in photonic quantum computers.

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### [Parametric Down-Conversion (Christ et al.)](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780123876959000111)

* This book chapter is a useful resource to understand parametric photon pair generation in terms of quantum optics.
* Although it specificially discusses spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), core concepts such as joint spectral amplitude (JSA) and phase matching are applicable to spontaneous four-wave mixsing (SFWM) as well. 
* This paper is moderately through in terms of theoretical treatment. 

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## Quantum Optics

### [Photon Statistics, Measurements, and Measurements Tools](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780123876959000020)

* This book chapter offers a systematic but simple introduction of photons in the quantum regime. 
* Although not as through as quantum optics textbooks, thanks to its brevity, it can be useful to beginners in the field.
* From the beginning to 2.2.4 is recommended to read. Reading the rest of the article is optional.
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### [Tailoring nonlinear processes for quantum optics with pulsed temporal-mode encodings (Ansari et al.)](https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-5-5-534)

* This review article goes over the technical details of SPDC. 
* It provides a practical knowledges for our research. 
* Discussion on temporal mode is an optional read.

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### [Quantum Optics - An Introduction (Mark Fox)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_VlFqvLef1Nb67pkSjqfJy2Yo1_ehU1D&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This is an introductory quantum optics textbook.
* It is very useful to learn basic concepts in quantum optics. 
* If you did not learn these words - number state, Fock state, coherent state, HBT(Hanbury,Brown,Twiss) measruement  - read relevant chpaters of this textbook.


#### Essential topics for our research
* To understand overarching theme of the book and basic electrodynamics: read chapter 1 - 2
* To understand or review basic quantum mechanics: read chapter 3
* To study the basic of quantum optics used in quantum technologgy: reach chapter 5 - 8

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### [Atomic Physics (Christopher J. Foot)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aGNJ9Wl_rsgDZBzSCeSm0RcNmAqdD0Po/view?usp=sharing)

* This is an introductory AMO (Atomic, molecular and optical physics) textbook.
* Useful reference when we do AMO-related work, such as quantum emitters inside solids.

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### [Introductory Quantum Optics (Gerry and Knight)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_hGiWdPWbBCi7Ns0mqmknXbWcLjlRc1w&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This is an intermediate level quantum optics textbook that covers most of important concepts in our research. 
* This is slightly more advanced textbook than Mark Fox's Quantum Optics textbook. 

#### Essential topics for our research
* To understand how Maxwell's equation is used to derive field quantization: read chapter 2-2.4
* To understand quantum interference between two single photons: read chapter 5-6

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### [Very Nonlinear Quantum Optics (Quesada PhD Thesis)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bPIT1uskZMWW2E1MAT3EF9_ZDgk_PdkK&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This thesis details the derivation of photon pair generation in the language of quantum optics.
* It has more thorough description than Silberhorn's book chapter or review papers.
* Advisor of this thesis, Prof. John Sipe, is an expert in the field of quantum optics. We all should pay attention to his publications.

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### [Generation of Heralded Single Photons in Pure Quantum States (Mosely Phd Thesis)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bYLl89kA7JAJ_xIjBJPXsVe2ZVg5WXK_&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)
* This thesis has an easy-to-read explanation of Hamiltonian derivation of SPDC.
* Especially chapter 2 and 3 are relevant to our research.

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## Quantum Computing

### [Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing (Kok and Lovett)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_avxEaYy53fr5gSwdqkmYrU_xH5JIRfp&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This textbook covers technical details on how quantum infomation can be processed using photons. 
* It is a longer version of the [Kok's Review of Modern physics](https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.79.135) in this page. 

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### [Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Nielsen and Chuang)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_blX9-xqYIUskopmHeJxpEtotKWEYE4l&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* Bible textbook of quantum computing.
* Quantum mechanics written in quantum information point of view. 
* Useful to learn important concepts such as entanglement, mixed states, density matrix.

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## Nonlinear optics

### [Nonlinear fiber optics (Agrawal)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_pXaNeP_jgejbTDIfYbPQeFC-XsFa7mc&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This is a standard nonlinear optics textbook that is written with an emphasis on fiber optics. 
* Chapter 2-2.3.1 has a simple description of nonlinear optical process and its coefficients.


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### [Nonlinear optics (Boyd)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_z3wmEqjXyPVHxi_AWQZO5oWgytJCeTd&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* It is one of standard textbooks in nonlinear optics field. 
* Chapter 4-4.2 is useful to understand four-wave mixing.

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## Material science

### [Properties of materials: anisotropy, symmetry, structure (Newnham)](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_ezvhJ317sCSWmUCttQkPPNQ5uXFRy16&authuser=youngik%40qdlab.xyz&usp=drive_fs)

* This is a great textbook that covers the fundamentals of material properties. 
* For our research, it is recommended to read chapters on photoelasticity, piezoelectricity, dielectric constant, crystal optics and nonlinear optics.
* First few chapters, especially 2 and 5, are important for basic understanding of how the formulation works for materials.

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## Single photon detectors (superconducting nanowire single photon detector, SNSPD)

### [Superconducting Devices in Quantum Optics](http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-24091-6)

* This book has essential information about single photon detectors. 
* Chapter 1 and 4 are especially important for our work.

### [Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency(Marsili)](https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2013.13)

* This is a research paper that covers all the essential ingridents of SNSPD.

### [Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with 98% system detection efficiency at 1550 nm](https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-7-12-1649)

* This is state-of-the-art SNSPD performance.

### [Progress on large-scale superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors(Steinhauer)](https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0044057)

* Recent (2021) review paper of SNSPD production.

### [Integrated-Photonic Characterization of Single-Photon Detectors for Use in Neuromorphic Synapses(Buckley)](https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.054008)

* This work demonstrates the small scale waveguide and SNSPD integration. 
* SNSPD material used in this work is not what we want to use for quantum photonics, but the overall configuration is **precisely** what we pursue. 

### [Waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2018-0059/html)

## Quantum repeaters


### [Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10820)
* THE very best review paper summarizes all the important aspects of quantum repeaters as of 2023.
* Parts in the beginning are in general useful to understand simple quantum information processing.

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### [Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-018-0008-9)
* This article covers the recent devlopement of quantum emitteres in the context of quantum repeater.
* Our lab's primary topic is silicon vacancy color center in diamond.

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