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Entanglement of spin and orbital degrees of freedom drives the formation of novel quantum and topological physical states. Discovering new spin-orbit entangled ground states and emergent phases of matter requires both experimentally probing…
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Realizing an on-chip reconfigurable source of path-entangled photons is of critical importance for the advancement of quantum information processing and networking. Achieving this goal has proven challenging to date. We present an on-chip…
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