Experimental observation of fractional topological phases with photonic qudits

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Experimental observation of fractional topological phases with photonic qudits
المؤلفون: Matoso, A. A., Sánchez-Lozano, X., Pimenta, W. M., Machado, P., Marques, B., Sciarrino, F., Oxman, L. E., Khoury, A. Z., Pádua, S.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. A 94, 052305 (2016)
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics, Physics - Optics
الوصف: Geometrical and topological phases play a fundamental role in quantum theory. Geometric phases have been proposed as a tool for implementing unitary gates for quantum computation. A fractional topological phase has been recently discovered for bipartite systems. The dimension of the Hilbert space determines the topological phase of entangled qudits under local unitary operations. Here we investigate fractional topological phases acquired by photonic entangled qudits. Photon pairs prepared as spatial qudits are operated inside a Sagnac interferometer and the two-photon interference pattern reveals the topological phase as fringes shifts when local operations are performed. Dimensions $d = 2, 3$ and $4$ were tested, showing the expected theoretical values.
Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.052305
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02415
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1706.02415
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.052305