Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom
| Autor: | Wein, S. C., Loredo, J. C., Maffei, M., Hilaire, P., Harouri, A., Somaschi, N., Lemaître, A., Sagnes, I., Lanco, L., Krebs, O., Auffèves, A., Simon, C., Senellart, P., Antón-Solanas, C. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41566-022-00979-z |
| Popis: | Entanglement and spontaneous emission are fundamental quantum phenomena that drive many applications of quantum physics. During the spontaneous emission of light from an excited two-level atom, the atom briefly becomes entangled with the photonic field. Here, we show that this natural process can be used to produce photon-number entangled states of light distributed in time. By exciting a quantum dot -- an artificial two-level atom -- with two sequential $\pi$ pulses, we generate a photon-number Bell state. We characterise this state using time-resolved intensity and phase correlation measurements. Furthermore, we theoretically show that applying longer sequences of pulses to a two-level atom can produce a series of multi-temporal mode entangled states with properties intrinsically related to the Fibonacci sequence. Our results on photon-number entanglement can be further exploited to generate new states of quantum light with applications in quantum technologies. Comment: Main: 7 pages, 3 figures; Supplementary: 15 pages, 7 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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