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We demonstrate hybrid entanglement of photon pairs via the experimental violation of a Bell inequality with two different degrees of freedom (DOF), namely the path (linear momentum) of one photon and the polarization of the other photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 Xiao-song Ma , Angie Qarry , Johannes Kofler , Thomas Jennewein , Anton Zeilinger

Light-matter interactions with quantum dots have been extensively studied to harness key quantum properties of photons, such as indistinguishability and entanglement. In this theoretical work, we exploit the atomic-like four-level structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Mohamed Meguebel , Maxime Federico , Simone Felicetti , Nadia Belabas , Nicolas Fabre

Entangled photons play a pivotal role in the distribution of quantum information in quantum networks. However, the frequency bands for optimal transmission and storage of photons are not necessarily the same. Here we experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 Sven Ramelow , Alessandro Fedrizzi , Andreas Poppe , Nathan K. Langford , Anton Zeilinger

Hyperentanglement offers enhanced capacity for quantum information processing and communication protocols, especially in combination with robust high-dimensional degrees of freedom such as frequency-bin encoding. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Tommaso Faleo , Fabian Steinhauser , Gregor Weihs , Stefan Frick , Robert Keil

The faithful distribution of entanglement over noisy channels is a vital prerequisite for many quantum technological applications. Quantum information can be encoded in different degrees of freedom (DOF) of photons, where each encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Sebastian Ecker , Philipp Sohr , Lukas Bulla , Rupert Ursin , Martin Bohmann

By harnessing multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) within a single photon, controlled quantum unitaries, such as the two-qubit controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate, play a pivotal role in advancing quantum communication protocols like dense coding and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Hsuan-Hao Lu , Joseph M. Lukens , Muneer Alshowkan , Brian T. Kirby , Nicholas A. Peters

Entangled photons can be used to make measurements with an accuracy beyond that possible with classical light. While most implementations of quantum metrology have used states made up of a single colour of photons, we show that entangled…

By coherently combining advantages while largely avoiding limitations of two mainstream platforms, optical hybrid entanglement involving both discrete and continuous variables has recently garnered widespread attention and emerged as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Jianming Wen , Irina Novikova , Chen Qian , Chuanwei Zhang , Shengwang Du

We propose a method to generate the frequency entanglement, allowing a continuous generation of entangled two-photon states in a hybrid degree of freedom by post-manipulation. Our method is based on type-II spontaneous parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Bolong Yi , Ling Chen , Baocheng Zhang

Photons' frequency degree of freedom is promising to realize large-scale quantum information processing. Quantum frequency combs (QFCs) generated in integrated nonlinear microresonators can produce multiple frequency modes with narrow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Chi Lu , Xiaoyu Wu , Wenjun Wen , Xiao-song Ma

Building on an earlier proposal for the production of polarization-entangled microwaves by means of intraband transitions in a pair of quantum dots, we show how this device can be used to transfer an unknown single-qubit state from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. J. P. Ament , C. W. J. Beenakker

The prospect of using the quantum nature of light for secure communication keeps spurring the search and investigation of suitable sources of entangled-photons. Semiconductor quantum dots are arguably the most attractive. They can generate…

Entanglement is the essential quantum resource for a potential speed-up of information processing, as well as for sophisticated quantum communication. Quantum information networks will be required to convey information from one place to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 A. S. Coelho , F. A. S. Barbosa , K. N. Cassemiro , A. S. Villar , M. Martinelli , P. Nussenzveig

Entanglement distillation has many applications in quantum information processing and is an important tool for improving the quality and efficiency of quantum communication, cryptography, computing, and simulation. We propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Dan Xu , Changjia Chen , Brian T. Kirby , Li Qian

Entanglement in high-dimensional quantum systems, where one or more degrees of freedom of light are involved, offers increased information capacities and enables new quantum protocols. Here, we demonstrate a functional source of…

Sources of entangled photon pairs using two parametric down-converters are capable of generating interchangeable entanglement in two different degrees of freedom. The connection between these two degrees of freedom allows the control of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. P. Caetano , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Holography is a cornerstone characterisation and imaging technique that can be applied to the full electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio waves or even particles such as neutrons. The key property in all these holographic approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hugo Defienne , Bienvenu Ndagano , Ashley Lyons , Daniele Faccio

Multi-color entangled states of light including low-loss optical fiber transmission and atomic resonance frequencies are essential resources for future quantum information network. We present the experimental achievement on the three-color…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaojun Jia , Zhihui Yan , Zhiyuan Duan , Xiaolong Su , Hai Wang , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Entanglement is a vital resource for realizing many tasks such as teleportation, secure key distribution, metrology and quantum computations. To effectively build entanglement between different quantum systems and share information between…

We present a versatile, high-brightness, guided-wave source of polarization entangled photons, emitted at a telecom wavelength. Photon-pairs are generated using an integrated type-0 nonlinear waveguide, and subsequently prepared in a…