Higher dimensional quantum systems have a very important role to play in quantum information, computation as well as communication. While the polarization degree of freedom of the photon is a common choice for many studies, it is restricted to only two orthogonal states, hence qubits for manipulation. In this paper, we theoretically model as well as experimentally verify a novel scheme of approximating photonic qutrits by modulating the pump beam in a spontaneous parametric down conversion process using a three-slit aperture. The emerging bi-photon fields behave like qutrits and are found to be highly correlated in the spatial degree of freedom and effectively represent spatially correlated qutrits with a Pearson coefficient as high as 0.9. In principle, this system provides us a scalable architecture for generating and experimenting with higher dimensional correlated qudits.
@article{arxiv.1702.02581,
title = {Spatially correlated photonic qutrit pairs using pump beam modulation technique},
author = {Debadrita Ghosh and Thomas Jennewein and Piotr Kolenderski and Urbasi Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02581},
year = {2018}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table: New analysis and figure added