2008Physical Review AOpen access

Experimental position-time entanglement with degenerate single photons

A. J. Bennett, David Gevaux, Zhiliang Yuan, A. J. Shields, P. Atkinson, D. A. Ritchie

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We report an experiment in which two-photon interference occurs between degenerate single photons that never meet. The two photons travel in opposite directions through our fiber-optic interferometer and interference occurs when the photons reach two different, spatially separated, two-by-two couplers at the same time. We show that this experiment is analogous to the conventional Franson-type entanglement experiment where the photons are entangled in position and time. We measure wave-function overlaps for the two photons as high as $94\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3%$.

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We report an experiment in which two-photon interference occurs between degenerate single photons that never meet. The two photons travel in opposite directions through our fiber-optic interferometer and interference occurs when the photons reach two different, spatially separated, two-by-two couplers at the same time. We show that this experiment is analogous to the conventional Franson-type entanglement experiment where the photons are entangled in position and time. We measure wave-function overlaps for the two photons as high as $94\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3%$.

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We report an experiment in which two-photon interference occurs between degenerate single photons that never meet. The two photons travel in opposite directions through our fiber-optic interferometer and interference occurs when the photons reach two different, spatially separated, two-by-two couplers at the same time. We show that this experiment is analogous to the conventional Franson-type entanglement experiment where the photons are entangled in position and time. We measure wave-function overlaps for the two photons as high as $94\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3%$.

Key concepts: Photon, Physics, Quantum entanglement, Photon entanglement, Degenerate energy levels, Interference (communication), Position (finance), Interferometry

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