O'Sullivan-Hale Malcolm N, Khan Irfan Ali, Boyd Robert W, Howell John C
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Jun 10;94(22):220501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.220501. Epub 2005 Jun 7.
We demonstrate a simple experimental method for creating entangled qudits. Using transverse-momentum and position entanglement of photons emitted in spontaneous parametric down-conversion, we show entanglement between discrete regions of space, i.e., pixels. We map each photon onto as many as six pixels, where each pixel represents one level of our qudit state. The method is easily generalizable to create even higher dimensional, entangled states. Thus, the realization of quantum information processing in arbitrarily high dimensions is possible, allowing for greatly increased information capacity.
我们展示了一种用于创建纠缠量子位的简单实验方法。利用自发参量下转换中发射的光子的横向动量和位置纠缠,我们展示了空间离散区域(即像素)之间的纠缠。我们将每个光子映射到多达六个像素上,其中每个像素代表我们量子位状态的一个能级。该方法易于推广以创建更高维度的纠缠态。因此,实现任意高维度的量子信息处理是可能的,这将大大提高信息容量。