Path identity as a source of high-dimensional entanglement

Autor(en)

Jaroslav Kysela, Manuel Erhard, Armin Hochrainer, Mario Krenn, Anton Zeilinger

Abstrakt

We present an experimental demonstration of a general entanglement-generation framework, where the form of the entangled state is independent of the physical process used to produce the particles. It is the indistinguishability of multiple generation processes and the geometry of the setup that give rise to the entanglement. Such a framework, termed entanglement by path identity, exhibits a high degree of customizability. We employ one class of such geometries to build a modular source of photon pairs that are high-dimensionally entangled in their orbital angular momentum. We demonstrate the creation of three-dimensionally entangled states and show how to incrementally increase the dimensionality of entanglement. The generated states retain their quality even in higher dimensions. In addition, the design of our source allows for its generalization to various degrees of freedom and even for the implementation in integrated compact devices. The concept of entanglement by path identity itself is a general scheme and allows for construction of sources producing also customized states of multiple photons. We therefore expect that future quantum technologies and fundamental tests of nature in higher dimensions will benefit from this approach.

Organisation(en)

Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation

Externe Organisation(en)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), University of Toronto

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

Band

117

Seiten

26118-26122

Anzahl der Seiten

5

ISSN

0027-8424

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011405117

Publikationsdatum

10-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103025 Quantenmechanik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

General

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e729970c-6b14-40de-8bc0-617ae49d95b5