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Quantum Information Transfer from Spin to Orbital Angular Momentum of Photons
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The optical "spin-orbit" coupling occurring in a suitably patterned nonuniform birefringent plate known as a "q plate" allows entangling the polarization of a single photon with its orbital angular momentum (OAM). This process, in turn, can be exploited for building a bidirectional "spin-OAM interface," capable of transposing the quantum information from the spin to the OAM degree of freedom of photons and vice versa. Here, we experimentally demonstrate this process by single-photon quantum tomographic analysis. Moreover, we show that two-photon quantum correlations such as those resulting from coalescence interference can be successfully transferred into the OAM degree of freedom.
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“Recently, several experiments and numerical simulations demonstrated remarkable spin-controlled unidirectional coupling between circularly-polarized incident light and transversely-propagating surface or waveguide modes 4 5 -5 2,125-1 28 , see Figs. 4b,c.”
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“Indeed, in all systems 4 5 -5 2,125-1 28 the incident light propagated along the transverse y -axis carrying usual SAM depending on its helicity: S y inc ∝σ .”
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“The key element for our photon state manipulations is the q-plate, a novel liquid crystal (LC) device that efficiently maps pure polarization states into hybrid SAM–OAM states and vice versa242526”
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“Moreover, the effect is very robust to the details of the system and equally appears with near 100%-efficiency at metal surfaces 46,47,49 , nanofibers 48,50,126 , and various waveguides 51,52,125,127,128 .”
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“Moreover, polarization qubits are increasingly coupled to other degrees of freedom of single photons, such as orbital angular momentum [33,34,38,39], path [18,19,22,25,40,41], time-energy [42,43] and all together [44] in socalled hyper-entangled states [45], efficient resources for quantum computation, communication and work extraction protocols.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nagali, E., Sciarrino, F., De Martini, F., Marrucci, L., Piccirillo, B., Karimi, E., & Santamato, E.
- Affiliations
- National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Sciences of Matter (IT)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2009-06-29
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 013601-013601
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2115344842
- Cited by
- 411
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Keywords
- spin-orbit coupling, orbital angular momentum, photon polarization, q-plate, quantum information transfer, polarization entanglement, two-photon correlations
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