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Realizing a fully connected network of quantum processors requires the ability to distribute quantum entanglement. For distant processing nodes, this can be achieved by generating, routing, and capturing spatially entangled itinerant…

Photon pairs generated from spontaneous parametric down-conversion are a well-established method to realize entangled bipartite photonic systems. Laguerre-Gaussian modes, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), are commonly exploited to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Richard Bernecker , Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Stephan Fritzsche

Vortex $\gamma$ photons in superposition states have important applications in photonuclear, high-energy, and strong-field physics. However, their controlled generation in the $\gamma$-ray regime remains a great challenge. Here, we put…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light represents a fundamental optical freedom that can be exploited to manipulate quantum state of atoms. In particular, it can be used to realize spin-orbital-angular-momentum (SOAM) coupling in cold…

We investigate two-photon entangled states using two important degrees of freedom of the electromagnetic field, namely orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum. For photons propagating in the same direction we apply the idea…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Bhatti , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

Pairs of entangled vortex photons can promise new prospects of application in quantum computing and cryptography. We investigate the possibility of generating such states via two-level atom emission induced by a single photon wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 D. V. Grosman , G. K. Sizykh , E. O. Lazarev , G. V. Voloshin , D. V. Karlovets

The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) provides a promising approach for the implementation of multidimensional states (qudits) for quantum information purposes. In order to characterize the degradation undergone by the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Daniele Giovannini , Eleonora Nagali , Lorenzo Marrucci , Fabio Sciarrino

We demonstrate polarization-entangled biphotons in a cold-atom double-$\Lambda$ system, overcoming atomic selection rules that suppress polarization correlations and favor orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement. Using spatial light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Chang-Wei Lin , Yi-Ting Ma , Jiun-Shiuan Shiu , Yong-Fan Chen

Quantum protocols will be more efficient with high-dimensional entangled states. Photons carrying orbital angular momenta can be used to create a high-dimensional entangled state. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qun-Feng Chen , Bao-Sen Shi , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Can Guo

Conventionally, intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) is associated with phase vortices. However, our investigation into the propagation dynamics of 2D superimposed catastrophe beams, termed cyclone catastrophe beams (CCBs), reveals that…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM)-entangled states produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) are considered ideal for realizing high-dimensional entangled states, which have several advantages for quantum technologies. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Suman Karan , Anand K. Jha

So far experimental confirmation of entanglement has been restricted to qubits, i.e. two-state quantum systems including recent realization of three- and four-qubit entanglements. Yet, an ever increasing body of theoretical work calls for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alois Mair , Alipasha Vaziri , Gregor Weihs , Anton Zeilinger

Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) technique using higher order Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) carrying modes through a channelized bandwidth provides enhanced capacity communication systems. OAM based high-dimensional Quantum Key…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 S. Faezeh Mousavi , Rahman Nouroozi

The coherent control of electron beams and ultrafast electron wave packets dynamics have attracted significant attention in electron microscopy as well as in atomic physics. In order to unify the conceptual pictures developed in both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 K. Eickhoff , C. Rathje , D. Köhnke , S. Kerbstadt , L. Englert , T. Bayer , S. Schäfer , M. Wollenhaupt

On-chip photon sources carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are in demand for high-capacity optical information processing in both classical and quantum regimes. However, currently-exploited integrated OAM sources have been primarily…

We theoretically investigate the far-field scattering properties of multiphoton super- and subradiant states which can be prepared by multiphoton excitations with orbital angular momentum (OAM).\ Due to multiphoton interference, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 H. H. Jen

We experimentally demonstrate a quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol using photon pairs entangled in orbit angular momentum (OAM). In our protocol, Alice and Bob modulate their OAM states on each entangled pair with spatial light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shengmei Zhao , Longyan Gong , Yongqiang Li , Hua Yang , Yubo Sheng , Xiaoliang Dong , Fei Cao , Baoyu Zheng

Photons with a twisted phase front can carry a discrete, in principle unbounded amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM). The large state space allows for complex types of entanglement, interesting both for quantum communication and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Mario Krenn , Johannes Handsteiner , Matthias Fink , Robert Fickler , Anton Zeilinger

The evolution of an entangled photon state propagating through a turbulent atmosphere is formulated in terms of a set of coupled first order differential equations, by using an infinitesimal propagation approach. The orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-29 Filippus S. Roux

Entangled photon sources are crucial for quantum optics, quantum sensing and quantum communication. Semiconductor quantum dots generate on-demand entangled photon pairs via the biexciton-exciton cascade. However, the pair of photons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Mohd Zeeshan , Nachiket Sherlekar , Arash Ahmadi , Robin L Williams , Michael E Reimer