Publications

Preprints:

1. "Multiphoton Quantum Imaging using Natural Light", F. Mostafavi, M. Hong, R. B. Dawkins, J. Ferdous, R. B. Jin, R. J. Leon-Montiel, C. You, and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, arXiv:2405.12794 (2024).

Recent Publications:

2. "Isolating the classical and quantum coherence of a multiphoton systems", C. You, M. Hong,  F. Mostafavi, J. Ferdous, R. J. Leon-Montiel, R. B. Dawkins, and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, PhotoniX 5, 39 (2024).

3. "Isolating Bosonic, Fermionic, and Vacuum Dynamics of Plasmonic Waves", M. Hong, R. B. Dawkins, B. Bertoni, C. You,  and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, Optics & Photonics News, the Best in Optics in 2024, (2024).

4. "Emergence of Multiphoton Quantum Coherence by Light Propagation", J. Ferdous, M. Hong, R. B. Dawkins, F. Mostafavi,  A. Oktyabrskaya, C. You, R. J. Leon-Montiel, and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, ACS Photonics, 11 (8),  3197- 3204 (2024). 

5. "The Quantum Gaussian-Schell Model: A Link Between Classical and Quantum Optics" R. B. Dawkins, M. Hong, C. You and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, Optics Letters, 49 (15), 4242-4245 (2024). Editor's Pick.

6. "Nonclassical Near-Field Dynamics of Surface Plasmons", M. Hong, R. B. Dawkins, B. Bertoni, C. You,  and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, Nature Physics, 20, 830-835 (2024). Highlighted in Nature Physics News and Views.

7. "Entanglement-based quantum information technology: a tutorial",  Z. Zhang, C. You, O. S. Magana-Loaiza, R. Fickler, R. J. Leon-Montiel, J. P. Torres, T. S. Humble, S. Liu, Y. Xia, and Q. Zhao, Advances in Optics and Photonics 16 (1), 60-162 (2024).

8. "Smart quantum light detector", O. S. Magana-Loaiza, C. You, US Patent App. 18/026, 308 (2023).

9. "Engineering Super-Poissonian Photon Statistics of Spatial Light Modes", M. Hong*, A. Miller, R. de J. Leon-Montiel, C. You, and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2300117 (2023).

10. "Multiphoton Quantum van Cittert-Zernike Theorem," C. You, A. Miller, R. de J. León-Montiel*, and O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, Nature - NPJ Quantum Information, 9, 50 (2023). 

11. "Coherent states of the Laguerre-Gauss modes", M. P. Morales-Rodriguez, O.S. Magana-Loaiza, B. Perez-Garcia, L. M. Nieto-Calzada and B. M. Rodriguez-Lara, Optics Letters, 49 (6), (2023).

12. "Witnessing entangled two-photon absorption via quantum interferometry" A. Martinez-Tapia, S. Corona-Aquino, F. Triana-Arando, C. You, R. Jin, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, S. Dong, A. B. U'Ren,  R. de J. León-Montiel, APL Photonics, 8 036104 (2023).

13. "Smart Quantum Statistical Imaging beyond the Abbe-Rayleigh Criterion," N. Bhusal, M. Hong, A. Miller, M. A. Quiroz-Juarez, R. de J. León-Montiel, C. You*, and O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, Nature - NPJ Quantum Information, 8 (83), 1-8 (2022).

14. "Experimental implementation of the fractional-vortex Hilbert hotel" X. Chen, S. Want, C. You, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, and R. Jin, Physical Review A, 106, 035032 (2022).

15. "High-dimensional encryption in optical fibers using machine learning,"  M.L.J. Lollie, F. Mostafavi, N. Bhusal, M. Hong, C. You, R. de J. León-Montiel, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, and M.A. Quiroz-Juarez, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3 035006 (2022).

16. "Conditional Quantum Plasmonic Sensing," F. Mostafavi, Z. Jafari, M. L. J. Lollie, C. You*, I. De Leon, and O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, Nanophotonics 11(14), 3299-3306 (2022). Highlights.

17. "Observation of the Modification of Quantum Statistics of Plasmonic Systems," C. You, M. Hong, N. Bhusal, J. Chen, M. A. Quiroz-Juárez, F. Mostafavi, J. Guo, I. De Leon, R. de J. León-Montiel, and O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, Nature Communications 12, 5161 (2021). Selected for the Editors' Highlights, See also Nature Physics News & Views.

18. "Scalable multiphoton quantum metrology with neither pre- nor post-selected measurements", C. You, M. Hong, P. Bierhorst, A. E. Lita, S. Glancy, E. Knill, S. W. Nam, R. P. Mirin, O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, T. Gerrits,  Applied Physics Reviews 8,  041406 (2021). Chosen as  a Featured Article, Editor's picks.

19. "Spatial Mode Correction of Single Photons Using Machine Learning",  N. Bhusal*, S. Lohani, C. You*, M. Hong, J. Fabre, P. Zhao, E.M. Knutson, R.T. Glasser,  and O.S. Magaña‐Loaiza, Advanced Quantum Technologies 4(3), 2000103 (2021). Selected Hot Topic in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Selected the front cover of the journal for the March issue.

20. "Reconfigurable Network for Quantum Transport Simulation", M. A. Quiroz-Juarez*, C. You, J. Carrillo-Martinez, D. Montiel-Alvarez, J. L Aragon, O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, and R. de J. Leon-Montiel*,  Physical Review Research 3(1), 013010 (2021).

21. "Reflections on an Academic Job Search", O. S. Magana-Loaiza*,  Physics Today 73, 10, 30 (2020).

22. “Identification of Light Sources using Machine Learning",  C. You*, M. A. Quiroz-Juarez, A. Lambert, N Bhusal,  C. Dong, A. Perez-Leija,  A. Javaid, R. de J. Leon-Montiel, and O.S. Magana-Loaiza, Applied Physics Reviews 7 021404 (2020). Chosen as  a Featured Article, Editor's picks,  Highlighted in Phys.org, La Cronica, etc. 

23. “Multiparticle Quantum Plasmonics",  C. You*, A. Chaitanya Nellikka, I. De Leon, and O.S. Magana-Loaiza, Nanophotonics 9(6), 1243-1269 (2020).

24. “Quantum Imaging and Information",  O.S. Magana-Loaiza*, and R. W. Boyd, Reports on Progress in Physics, 82, 124401 (2019).

25. “Multiphoton Quantum-State Engineering using Conditional Measurements",  O.S. Magana-Loaiza*, R. de J.  Leon-Montiel, A. Perez-Leija, A. B. U'Ren, C. You, K. Busch, A. E. Lita, S. W. Nam, R. P. Mirin, and T. Gerrits, Nature-NPJ Quantum Information, 5, 80 (2019). Featured in PhysOrg, Science Daily, Tehran Times, Business Report, etc.

26. “Theoretical analisys of quantum random walks with stress-engineered optics",  K. Liang*, A. Ariyawansa, T. G. Brown, and O. S. Magana-Loaiza, Journal of the Optical Soceity of America A, 37(1)  135-141 (2019). 

27. “Exceptional points of any order in a single, lossy, waveguide beamsplitter by photon-number-resolved detection",  M. A. Quiroz-Juarez, A. Perez-Leija, K. Tschernig, B. M. Rodriguez-Lara, O.S. Magana-Loaiza, K. Busch, Y. N. Joglekar, and R. de J.  Leon-Montiel*, Photonics Research 7, 862-867 (2019). Editor's Pick.

28. “Measurement of the Photon-Plasmon Coupling Phase Shift", A. Safari*, R. Fickler, E. Giese, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, and  R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Letters, 122, 133601 (2019).

29. “Enhanced Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometry  using Parametric Amplification", X. Ma, C. You*, S. Adhikari, Y. Gu, O.S. Magana-Loaiza, J.P. Dowling, and H. Lee, EPJ Quantum Technology 7, 10 (2019).

30. “Robust localized zero-energy modes from locally embedded PT-symmetric defects", F. Mostafavi, C. Yuce, O.S. Magana-Loaiza, H. Schomerus, and H. Ramezani, Physical Review Research 2(3), 032057 (2019). 

31. “Compressive characterization of telecom photon pairs in the spatial and spectral degrees of freedom", N. Montaut, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*,  T. J. Bartley, V. B. Verma, S. W. Nam, R. P. Mirin, C. Silberhorn, and T. Gerrits, Optica, 5,11, 1418-1423(2018).

32. “Measurement of the radial mode spectrum of photons through a phase-retrieval method", S. Choudhary*, R. Sampson, Y. Miyamoto, O.S. Magana-Loaiza, S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani, M. Mirhosseini and R. W. Boyd, Optics Letters, 43,24, 6101-6104, (2018).  

More publications:

1. “Multiphoton Discrete Fractional Fourier Dynamics in Waveguide Beam Splitters", K. Tschernig, R. de J. León-Montiel, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza,  A. Szameit, K. Busch, and A. Pêrez-Leija*, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 35, 1985-1989 (2018).

2. “Challenging local realism with human choices", L. K. Shalm*, M. Stevens, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, T. Gerrits, S. Glancy, P. Bierhost, E. Knill, R. Mirin, S. W. Nam, with The Big Bell Test Collaboration, Nature, 557, 212-216 (2018).

3. “Single-shot measurement of the orbital-angular-momentum spectrum of light", G. Kulkarni, R. Sahu, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, R. W. Boyd, and A. K. Jha*, Nature Communications, 8, 1054 (2017).

4. “Digital spiral object identification using random light", Z. Yang, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, M. Mirhosseini, Y. Zhou, B. Gao, L. Gao, S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani, G. Long, and R. W. Boyd, Nature Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17013 (2017). Cover page.

5. “Quantum-enhanced interferometry with weak thermal light", S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani*, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, B. Gard, B. E. Koltenbah, C. G. Parazzoli, B. C. Capron, C. G. Gerry, J. P. Dowling and R. W. Boyd, Optica, 4, 4, 487-491(2017).

6. “Distributed angular double-slit interference with pseudo-thermal light", L. Gao*, S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani, Y. Zhou, Z. Yang, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, M. Mirhosseini,J Zhao, B. Gao, and R. W. Boyd, Applied Physics Letters, 110, 071107 (2017).

7. “Exotic Looped Trajectories of Photons in Three-Slit Interference", O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, I. De Leon, M. Mirhosseini, R. Fickler, A. Safari, U. Mick, B. McIntyre, P. Banzer, B. Rodenburg, G. Leuchs, and R. W. Boyd, Nature Communications, 7, 13987 (2017).

8. “Weak-value measurements can outperform conventional measurements", O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, J. Harris, J. Lundeen and R. W. Boyd, Invited Comment Physica Scripta, 92, 023001 (2016). Paper of the Week.

9. "Recent progress in weak value amplification and direct measurement." O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, M. Mirhosseini, and R. W. Boyd, Proceedings of the International School of Physics ''Enrico Fermi'', Vol 190, Frontiers in Modern Optics, edited by D. Faccio, J. Dudley and M. Clerici (IOS Press, Amsterdam; DIF Bologna) 2016, pp. 77-122.

10. "Weak-value amplification of the fast-light effect in rubidium vapor." M. Mirhosseini*, G. I. Viza, O. S. Magana-Loaiza, M. Malik, J. C. Howell and R. W. Boyd, Physical Review A, 93, 053836 (2016).

11. "Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometry with Twisted Light". O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, M. Mirhosseini, R. M. Cross, S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani and R. W. Boyd, Science Advances, 2, e1501143 (2016). Cover page (Exploring twisted light - The physics behind random optical fields).

12. "Multiplexing Free-Space Channels using Twisted Light". B. Rodenburg, O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, M. Mirhosseini, P. Taherirostami, C. Chen and R. W.  Boyd, Journal of Optics, 18, 054015 (2016).

13. "Wigner distribution of twisted photons". M. Mirhosseini*, O. S. Magana-Loaiza, C. Chen, S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani and R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Letters, 116, 130402 (2016).

14. "Enhanced spectral sensitivity of a chip-scale photonic-crystal slow-light interferometer". O. S. Magana-Loaiza*, B. Gao, S. A. Schulz, K. Awan, J. Upham, K. Dolgaleva, and R. W.  Boyd, Optics Letters, 41, 1431 (2016).

15. “Light-drag enhancement by a highly dispersive rubidium vapor”. A. Safari, I. De Leon, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magana-Loaiza and R. W. Boyd. Physical Review Letters, 116, 013601 (2016). 

16. “The Quantum Hilbert Hotel”. V. Potocek*, F. M. Miatto, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magana-Loaiza, A. C. Liapis, D. K. L. Oi, R. W. Boyd and J. Jeffers. Physical Review Letters,115, 160505 (2015). Synopsis.

17. “State transfer based on classical nonseparability”. S. M. Hashemi Rafsanjani*, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magana-Loaiza and R. W. Boyd. Physical Review A, 92, 023827 (2015).

18. “High-dimensional quantum cryptography with twisted light”, M. Mirhosseini*, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, M. N. O‘Sullivan, B. Rodenburg, M. Malik, M.P.J. Lavery, M. J. Padgett, D. J. Gauthier and R. W. Boyd, New Journal of Physics , 17, 033033 (2015), Highlights of 2015.

19. “Compressive Direct Measurement of the Quantum Wavefunction", M. Mirhosseini*, O. S. Magaña- Loaiza, S.M. Hashemi Rafsanjani and R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Letters , 113, 090402 (2014).

20. “Experimental generation of an optical field with arbitrary spatial coherence properties", B. Rodenburg*, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, and R. W. Boyd, JOSA B , Vol. 31, Issue 6, pp. A51-A55 (2014).

21. “Amplification of Angular Rotations Using Weak Measurements", O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, M. Mirhosseini, B. Rodenburg, and R. W. Boyd, Physical Review Letters , 112, 200401 (2014).

22. “Simulating thick atmospheric turbulence in the lab with application to orbital angular momentum communication", B. Rodenburg*, M. Mirhosseini, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, M. Yanakas, L. Maher, N. K. Steinhoff, G. A. Tyler, R. W. Boyd, New Journal of Physics , 16, 033020 (2014).

23. “Rapid Generation of Light Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum”, M. Mirhosseini*, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, C. Chen, B. Rodenburg, M. Malik, and R. W. Boyd, Optics Express , Vol. 21, Issue 25, 30196-30203 (2013).

24. “Compressive Object Tracking using Entangled Photons", O. S. Magaña-Loaiza*, G. A. Howland, M. Malik, J. C. Howell, and R.W. Boyd, Applied Physics Letters , 102, 231104 (2013). Editors’ Choice article in Science  Volume 341, Number 6141, Issue 5 July 2013.

25. “Enhancing entangled-state phase estimation by combining classical and quantum protocols ", H. Shin*, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza, M. Malik, Malcolm N. O‘Sullivan and R. W Boyd, Optics Express , Vol. 21, Issue 3, 2816-2822 (2013).

26. “Quantum-secured Imaging", M. Malik*, O. S. Magaña-Loaiza and R. W. Boyd, Applied Physics Letters , 101, 241103 (2012).

Theses and Dissertations:

1. Ashe Miller "New Aspects of Optical Coherence and their Potential for Quantum Technologies", (2022). LSU Doctoral Dissertations, 5787.  arxiv preprint arXiv:2204.09102.

2. Michelle Lollie,"Advanced Communication and Sensing using Twisted Light and Engineered Quantum Statistics" (2022). LSU Doctoral Dissertations, 5799. First Black female PhD in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy.

3. Narayan Bhusal, "Smart Quantum Technologies using Photons" (2021). LSU Doctoral Dissertations, 5468. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.07081.