Quantum Memories Laboratory

Research focus:

Experiments with spatially multimode quantum memories:

  1. Michał Parniak, Mateusz Mazelanik, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Michał Dąbrowski, Wojciech Wasilewski, Wavevector multiplexed quantum memory as a universal platform for quantum state preparation, Nature Communications 8, 2140 (2017)
  2. Michał Parniak, Mateusz Mazelanik, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Michał Dąbrowski, Wojciech Wasilewski, Multidimensional quantum optics of spin waves through ac-Stark modulation, arXiv:1804.05854
  3. M. DąbrowskiM. Parniak and W. Wasilewski, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in a hybrid bipartite system, Optica 4, 272-275 (2017)arXiv:1607.05865
  4. R. ChrapkiewiczM. DąbrowskiW. Wasilewski, High-Capacity Angularly Multiplexed Holographic Memory Operating at the Single-Photon Level, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063603 (2017)arXiv:1604.06049

Experimental impelentations of quatum-enhanced protocols:

  1. Michał Jachura, Michał Lipka, Marcin Jarzyna, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Visibility-based hypothesis testing using higher-order optical interference, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110502 (2018)
  2. Michał Parniak, Sebastian Borówka, Kajetan Boroszko, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Superresolution imaging via two-photon interference, arXiv:1803.07096
Prof. Wojciech Wasilewski
email: w.wasilewski@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 32630
room: 00.52

dr hab. Wojciech Wasilewski, prof. ucz.
2005 M.Sc. in Physics, University of Warsaw
2007 PhD in Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
2015 Dr. hab., University of Warsaw
Currently: Leader of Quantum Memories Laboratory group

Research topics
Massively multimode quantum memory
We constructed a DLCZ quantum memory in cold rubidium vapor which is equivalent to few thousand down-conversion sources. This may enable generation or arbitrary quantum states for quantum technologies, in particular communication and measurements.
Fast, Single photon sensitive camera
30kfps camera that we are working on may enable a number of multiphoton correlation experiments.
Experimental implementations of quantum-enhanced protocols
Execution and verification of theoretical designs by our colleagues.

Join the group
We hire hard-working students with background in physics or computer science or electronics or precision mechanics.
For more info in Polish see http://psi.fuw.edu.pl/bin/view/Main/Bait or contact us.

Selected recent publications
1. Mateusz Mazelanik, Michał Parniak, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski, Coherent spin-wave processor of stored optical pulses, arXiv:1808.00927
2. Michał Parniak, Mateusz Mazelanik, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Michał Dąbrowski, Wojciech Wasilewski, Multidimensional quantum optics of spin waves through ac-Stark modulation, arXiv:1804.05854
3. Michał Parniak, Sebastian Borówka, Kajetan Boroszko, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Superresolution imaging via two-photon interference, arXiv:1803.07096
4. Michał Jachura, Michał Lipka, Marcin Jarzyna, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Visibility-based hypothesis testing using higher-order optical interference, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110502 (2018)
5. M. Parniak, M. Dąbrowski, M. Mazelanik, A. Leszczyński, M. Lipka and W. Wasilewski, Wavevector multiplexed quantum memory as a universal platform for quantum state preparation, Nature Communications 8, 2140 (2017)
6. R. Chrapkiewicz, M. Dąbrowski, W. Wasilewski, High-Capacity Angularly Multiplexed Holographic Memory Operating at the Single-Photon Level, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063603 (2017)
7. R. Chrapkiewicz, M. Jachura, K. Banaszek, W. Wasilewski, Hologram of a Single Photon, Nat. Photonics 10, 576-579 (2016)
8. M. Jachura, R. Chrapkiewicz, R. Demkowicz-Dobrzański, W. Wasilewski, K. Banaszek, Mode engineering for realisitc quantum-enhanced interferometry, Nat. Commun. 7, 11411 (2016)


Group Leader:
Prof. Wojciech Wasilewski


Students:

Pavel Halavach

Jan Ciepielewski

Bartosz Kasza

Matuesz Wrzosek

Tomasz Prokop

Title Project Leader Project period Project funding
Selective and multiple reading from multimode quantum memory 2018 - 2021 PRELUDIUM 13, NCN
Tomografia fal spinowych Mateusz Mazelanik 2017 - 2021 Diamentowy Grant, MNiSW
Multimode quantum memory in cold atoms: spinwave enigneering Wojciech Wasilewski 2017 - 2020 OPUS 11, NCN
Real-time ghost imaging of Bell-nonlocal entanglement between a photon and a quantum memory
Mateusz Mazelanik, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski, Michał Parniak
Quantum Vol. 5, page 493
Coherent spin-wave processor of stored optical pulses
Mazelanik, M., Parniak, M., Leszczyński, A., Lipka, M., & Wasilewski, W. (2019).
Npj Quantum Information, 5(1)
Quantum Optics of Spin Waves through ac Stark Modulation
Parniak, M., Mazelanik, M., Leszczyński, A., Lipka, M., Dąbrowski, M., & Wasilewski, W. (2019).
Physical Review Letters, 122(6)
Spatial Spin-Wave Modulator for Quantum-Memory-Assisted Adaptive Measurements
Lipka, M., Leszczyński, A., Mazelanik, M., Parniak, M., & Wasilewski, W. (2019).
Physical Review Applied, 11(3)
Superradiant parametric conversion of spin waves
Mazelanik, M., Leszczyński, A., Lipka, M., Wasilewski, W., & Parniak, M.
Physical Review A, 100(5), 053850
Utilizing time-bandwidth space for efficient deep-space communication
Banaszek, K., Jachura, M., & Wasilewski, W.
International Conference on Space Optics—ICSO 2018 (Vol. 11180, p. 111805X). International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2019
Certification of high-dimensional entanglement and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering with cold atomic quantum memory
Mazelanik, M., Dąbrowski, M., Parniak, M., Leszczyński, A., Lipka, M., & Wasilewski, W.
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Title Deadline for applications
Technology Officer – QOT 22/11/2018
  1. Michał Parniak, Mateusz Mazelanik, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Michał Dąbrowski, Wojciech Wasilewski, Multidimensional quantum optics of spin waves through ac-Stark modulation, arXiv:1804.05854
  2. Michał Parniak, Sebastian Borówka, Kajetan Boroszko, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Superresolution imaging via two-photon interference, arXiv:1803.07096
  3. Michał Dąbrowski, Mateusz Mazelanik, Michał Parniak, Adam Leszczyński, Michał Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski, Certification of high-dimensional entanglement and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering with cold atomic quantum memory, arXiv:1711.08948
Opportunities for students
 
We hire hard-working students with background in physics or computer science or electronics or precision mechanics.
For more info in polish see http://psi.fuw.edu.pl/bin/view/Main/Bait or contact us.