Violating a nonlocality inequality enables the most powerful remote quantum information tasks and fundamental tests of quantum physics. Loophole-free photonic verification of nonlocality has been achieved with polarization-entangled photon pairs, but not with states entangled in other degrees of freedom. Here we demonstrate completion of the quantum steering nonlocality task, with the detection loophole closed, when entanglement is distributed by transmitting a photon in an optical vector vortex state, formed by optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) and polarization. As well as opening up a high-efficiency encoding beyond polarization, the critically-important demonstration of vector vortex steering opens the door to new free-space and satellite-based secure quantum communication devices and device-independent protocols.
@article{arxiv.2009.03918,
title = {Quantum steering with vector vortex photon states with the detection loophole closed},
author = {Sergei Slussarenko and Dominick J. Joch and Nora Tischler and Farzad Ghafari and Lynden K. Shalm and Varun B. Verma and Sae Woo Nam and Geoff J. Pryde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03918},
year = {2022}
}