Multimode entanglement is an essential resource for quantum information in continuous-variable systems. Light-based quantum technologies will arguably not be built upon table-top bulk setups, but will presumably rather resort to integrated optics. Sequential bulk optics-like proposals based on cascaded integrated interferometers are not scalable with the current state-of-the-art low-loss materials used for continuous variables. We analyze the multimode continuous-variable entanglement capabilities of a compact currently-available integrated device without bulk-optics analog: the array of nonlinear waveguides. We theoretically demonstrate that this simple and compact structure, together with a reconfigurable input pump distribution and multimode coherent detection of the output modes, is a versatile entanglement synthesizer in the spatial domain. We exhibit this versatility through analytical and numerically optimized multimode squeezing, entanglement, and cluster state generation in different encodings. Our results re-establish spatial encoding as a contender in the game of continuous-variable quantum information processing.
@article{arxiv.1912.11154,
title = {Versatile photonic entanglement synthesizer in the spatial domain},
author = {David Barral and Mattia Walschaers and Kamel Bencheikh and Valentina Parigi and Juan Ariel Levenson and Nicolas Treps and Nadia Belabas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11154},
year = {2020}
}
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17 pages, 5 figures, v4 closer to the published version