Publications

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2025

• Geometric phase amplification in a clock interferometer for enhanced metrology
  Zhifan Zhou, Sebastian C. Carrasco, Christian Sanner, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Ron Folman
  Science Advances, 11, eadr6893 (2025).
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• Generation of hypercubic cluster states in 1-4 dimensions in a simple optical system
  Zhifan Zhou, Luis E. E. Araujo, Matthew DiMario, Jie Zhao, Jing Su, Meng-Chang Wu, B. E. Anderson, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06317.
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2024

• Color-switching in an optical parametric oscillator using a phase-conjugate mirror
  B. E. Anderson, Jie Zhao, Zhifan Zhou, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett
  Optics Express, 32, 23812-23821 (2024).
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• Characterizing two-mode-squeezed light from four-wave mixing in rubidium vapor for quantum sensing and information processing
  Luis E. E. Araujo, Zhifan Zhou, Matthew DiMario, B. E. Anderson, Jie Zhao, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett
  Optics Express, 32, 1305-1313 (2024).
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2023

• Nonlocal phase modulation of multimode, continuous-variable twin beams
  Luis E. E. Araujo, Zhifan Zhou, Matthew DiMario, B. E. Anderson, Jie Zhao, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett
  Optica Quantum, 1, 71-77 (2023).
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2022

• Nonlocal phase modulation of continuous-variable twin beam
  Zhifan Zhou, Luis E. E. Araujo, Matthew DiMario, B. E. Anderson, Jie Zhao, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett
  FiO+LS, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2022), FW1B.2.
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• Dissipative Kerr solitons in a warm atomic vapor system
  Zhifan Zhou, Jie Zhao, Matthew DiMario, B. E. Anderson, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett.
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2022), FS4B.8.
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• Anomalous periodicity in superpositions of localized periodic patterns
  Omer Amit, Or Dobkowski, Zhifan Zhou, Yair Margalit, Yonathan Japha, Samuel Moukouri, Yigal Meir, Baruch Horovitz, Ron Folman.
  New J. Phys., 24, 073032 (2022).
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• Generation of Squeezed Light from Non-Degenerate Backwards Four-Wave Mixing in Warm Rubidium
  Matthew DiMario, Jie Zhao, Zhifan Zhou, B. E. Anderson, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett.
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2022), FM3B.5.
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• Kerr soliton formation in nondegenerate phase-conjugate resonators
  Jie Zhao, Matthew DiMario, Zhifan Zhou, B. E. Anderson, Kevin M. Jones, Paul D. Lett.
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2022), JTu3A.42.
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2021

• A self-oscillating phase-conjugate resonator as an optical frequency comb
  Zhifan Zhou, Jie Zhao, Rory W. Spiers, Nicholas Brewer, Meng-Chang Wu, Paul D. Lett.
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2021), JTu3A.48.
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• Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of quantum gravity
  Yair Margalit, Or Dobkowski, Zhifan Zhou, Omer Amit, Yonathan Japha, Samuel Moukouri, Daniel Rohrlich, Anupam Mazumdar, Sougato Bose, Carsten Henkel, Ron Folman.
  Science Advances, 7, eabg2879 (2021).
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• Investigations on phase conjugation based on nondegenerate four wave mixing in a Rb vapor cell
  Jie Zhao, Zhifan Zhou, Paul D. Lett.
  SPIE OPTO, Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology, 1170021 (2021).
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• Stern-Gerlach Interferometry with the Atom Chip
  Mark Keil, Shimon Machluf, Yair Margalit, Zhifan Zhou, Omer Amit, Or Dobkowski, Yonathan Japha, Samuel Moukouri, Daniel Rohrlich, Zina Binstock, Yaniv Bar-Haim, Menachem Givon, David Groswasser, Yigal Meir, and Ron Folman.
  Molecular Beams in Physics and Chemistry. Springer., Review for the centennial of the Stern-Gerlach experiment, In: Friedrich B., Schmidt-Böcking H. (eds) (2021).
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2020

• An experimental test of the geodesic rule proposition for the non-cyclic geometric phase
  Zhifan Zhou, Yair Margalit, Samuel Moukouri, Yigal Meir, and Ron Folman.
  Science Advances, 6, eaay8345 (2020).
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2019

• Analysis of a high-stability Stern-Gerlach spatial fringe interferometer
  Y. Margalit, Z. Zhou, S. Machluf, Y. Japha, S. Moukouri, and R. Folman New Journal of Physics, 21, 073040 (2019). [pdf] [publisher]

• T${^3}$-Stern-Gerlach Matter-Wave Interferometer
  Omer Amit, Yair Margalit, Or Dobkowski, Zhifan Zhou, Yonathan Japha, Matthias Zimmermann, Maxim A. Efremov, Frank A. Narducci, Ernst M. Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ron Folman
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 123, 083601 (2019). [pdf] [publisher]

2018

• Quantum complementarity of clocks in the context of general relativity
  Zhifan Zhou, Yair Margalit, Daniel Rohrlich, Yonathan Japha, and Ron Folman
  Class. Quantum Grav., 35, 185003 (2018).
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• Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer
  Yair Margalit, Zhifan Zhou, Or Dobkowski, Yonathan Japha, Daniel Rohrlich, Samuel Moukouri, Ron Folman
  arXiv, 1801.02708 (2018).
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2015

• A self-interfering clock as a “which path” witness.
  Yair Margalit, Zhifan Zhou, Shimon Machluf, Daniel Rohrlich, Yonathan Japha, and Ron Folman Science, 349, 1205 (2015).
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2014

• Ultralow-light-level all-optical transistor in rubidium vapor.
  Jietai Jing, Zhifan Zhou, Cunjin Liu, Zhongzhong Qin, Yami Fang, Jun Zhou, and Weiping Zhang
  Appl. Phys. Lett., 104, 151103 (2014).
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2012

• Optical logic gates using coherent feedback.
  Zhifan Zhou, Cunjin Liu, Yami Fang, Jun Zhou, Ryan T Glasser, Liqing Chen, Jietai Jing, Weiping Zhang Appl. Phys. Lett., 101, 191113 (2012).
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• Compact diode-laser-pumped quantum light source based on four-wave mixing in hot rubidium vapor.
  Zhongzhong Qin, Jietai Jing, Jun Zhou, Cunjin Liu, Raphael C. Pooser, Zhifan Zhou, and Weiping Zhang
  Optics Letters, 37, 3141-3143 (2012).
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• Imaging using quantum noise properties of light.
  Jeremy B Clark, Zhifan Zhou, Quentin Glorieux, Alberto M Marino, Paul D Lett
  Optics Express, 20, 17050-17058 (2012).
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• Squeezing bandwidth controllable twin beam light and phase sensitive nonlinear interferometer based on atomic ensembles.
  JieTai Jing, CunJin Liu, ZhiFan Zhou, Florian Hudelist, ChunHua Yuan, LiQing Chen, XiaoYun Li, Jing Qian, KeYe Zhang, Lu Zhou, HongMei Ma, GuangJiong Dong, ZeYu Ou, WeiPing Zhang
  Chinese Science Bulletin, 57, 1925-1930 (2012).
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• Temporally multiplexed storage of images in a gradient echo memory.
  Quentin Glorieux, Jeremy B Clark, Alberto M Marino, Zhifan Zhou, Paul D Lett
  Optics express, 20, 12350-12358 (2012).
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2011

• Realization of low frequency and controllable bandwidth squeezing based on a four-wave-mixing amplifier in rubidium vapor.
  Cunjin Liu, Jietai Jing, Zhifan Zhou, Raphael C Pooser, Florian Hudelist, Lu Zhou, and Weiping Zhang
  Optics letters, 36, 2979 (2011).
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• Realization of a nonlinear interferometer with parametric amplifiers.
  Jietai Jing, Cunjin Liu, Zhifan Zhou, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang
  Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 011110 (2011).
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