SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Nat Commun. 2012;3:984. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1988.
The light produced by parametric down-conversion shows strong spatial entanglement that leads to violations of EPR criteria for separability. Historically, such studies have been performed by scanning a single-element, single-photon detector across a detection plane. Here we show that modern electron-multiplying charge-coupled device cameras can measure correlations in both position and momentum across a multi-pixel field of view. This capability allows us to observe entanglement of around 2,500 spatial states and demonstrate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type correlations by more than two orders of magnitude. More generally, our work shows that cameras can lead to important new capabilities in quantum optics and quantum information science.
参量下转换产生的光表现出很强的空间纠缠,导致违反了 EPR 可分离性判据。从历史上看,此类研究是通过在探测平面上扫描单个单光子探测器来进行的。在这里,我们表明,现代电子倍增电荷耦合器件 (EMCCD) 相机可以在多像素视场中测量位置和动量的相关性。这种能力使我们能够观察到大约 2500 个空间态的纠缠,并通过两个数量级以上来展示爱因斯坦-波多尔斯基-罗森类型的相关性。更一般地说,我们的工作表明,相机可以在量子光学和量子信息科学中带来重要的新功能。