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In this work we provide a detailed theoretical and experimental analysis of the two-photon Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) entangled state, generated by a type-I Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) process, when decomposed in terms…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as both classical and quantum states of light has proven essential in numerous applications, from high-capacity information transfer to enhanced precision and accuracy in metrology. Here, we extend OAM…

We explore the evolution of vortex light in the presence of gravitational waves (GWs) and demonstrate that the quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM) states can make transitions to other states due to the GWs. The interaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan , Lixiang Chen

We consider multimode two-photon interference at a beam splitter by photons created by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The resulting interference pattern is shown to depend upon the transverse spatial symmetry of the pump beam. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. P. Walborn , A. N. de Oliveira , S. Pádua , C. H. Monken

Photon pair entangled in high dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) degree of freedom (DOF) has been widely regarded as a possible source in improving the capacity of quantum information processing. The need for the generation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Shilong Liu , Yingwen Zhang , Chen Yang , Shikai Liu , Zheng Ge , Yinhai Li , Yan Li , Zhiyuan Zhou , Guangcan Guo , Baosen Shi

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

A Hamiltonian is presented, which can be used to convert any asymmetric state $|\varphi \rangle_{a}|\phi \rangle_{b}$ of two oscillators $a$ and $b$ into an entangled state. Furthermore, with this Hamiltonian and local operations only, two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Chui-Ping Yang , Qi-Ping Su , Shi-Biao Zheng , Franco Nori , Siyuan Han

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) modes are an important resource used in various branches of quantum science and technology due to their unique helical structure and countably infinite basis. Generating light that simultaneously carries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 D. Scharwald , L. Gehse , P. R. Sharapova

Two-mode squeezed states, which are entangled states with bipartite quantum correlations in continuous-variable systems, are crucial in quantum information processing and metrology. Recently, continuous-variable quantum computing with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Wui Seng Leong , Mingjie Xin , Zilong Chen , Yu Wang , Shau-Yu Lan

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

As one fundamental property of light, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon has elicited widespread interest. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that the OAM conversion of light without any spin state can occur in homogeneous and…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a fundamental optical degree of freedom that has recently motivated much exciting research in diverse fields ranging from optical communication to quantum information. We show for the first time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Xi-Wang Luo , Xingxiang Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Engineering single-photon states endowed with Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is a powerful tool for quantum information photonic implementations. Indeed, thanks to its unbounded nature, OAM is suitable to encode qudits allowing a single…

In this paper, we describe how to realize conditional frequency entanglement swapping and to produce probabilisticly a three-photon frequency entangled state from two pairs of frequency entangled states by using an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Bao-Sen Shi , Yun-Kun Jiang , Guang-Can Guo

Multi-dimensional entangled states have been proven to be more powerful in some quantum information process. In this paper, down-converted photons from spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC) are used to engineer multi-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xi-Feng Ren , Guo-Ping Guo , Jian Li , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Many quantum information protocols require a Bell-state measurement of entangled systems. Most optical Bell-state measurements utilize two-photon interference at a beam splitter. By creating polarization-entangled photons with spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. P. Walborn , W. A. T. Nogueira , S. Pádua , C. H. Monken

We report on controlling the bi-photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) eigenmodes in the spontaneous parametric down conversion process by simply adjusting the asymmetry of the pump vortex beam. Adjusting the optic axis of the spiral phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 M. V. Jabir , Ali Anwar , G. K. Samanta

Quantum states of light, such as squeezed states or entangled states, can be used to make measurements (metrology), produce images, and sense objects with a precision that far exceeds what is possible classically, and also exceeds what was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-02 Jonathan P. Dowling

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an infinite-dimensional degree of freedom of light with several applications in both classical and quantum optics. However, to fully take advantage of the potential of OAM states, reliable…

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