• Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Vol. 1, Issue 1, 016002 (2022)
Xutong Wang1, Sheng Yu1, Shengshuai Liu1, Kai Zhang1, Yanbo Lou1, Wei Wang1, and Jietai Jing1、2、3、4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1East China Normal University, Joint Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, School of Physics and Electronic Science, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai, China
  • 2CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai, China
  • 3Zhejiang University, Department of Physics, Hangzhou, China
  • 4Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.1.1.016002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xutong Wang, Sheng Yu, Shengshuai Liu, Kai Zhang, Yanbo Lou, Wei Wang, Jietai Jing. Deterministic generation of large-scale hyperentanglement in three degrees of freedom[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2022, 1(1): 016002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Entanglement serves as a fundamental resource for quantum information protocols, and hyperentanglement has received an increasing amount of attention for its high-capacity characteristic. Increasing the scale of hyperentanglement, i.e., the number of modes in a hyperentangled system, is crucial for enhancing its capability in quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the generation of large-scale continuous-variable (CV) hyperentanglement in three degrees of freedom (DOFs), including azimuthal and radial indices of Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes and frequency. In our experiment, 216 pairs of hyperentangled modes are deterministically generated from the four-wave mixing process in an atomic vapor. In addition, we show that the entanglement between coherent LG superposition modes denoted by both azimuthal and radial quantum numbers can also be generated from this system. Such large-scale CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs presents an efficient scheme to significantly increase the information capacity of the CV system. Our results provide a new platform for studying CV quantum information and open the avenue for constructing high-capacity parallel and multiple-DOF CV quantum information protocols.
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    Xutong Wang, Sheng Yu, Shengshuai Liu, Kai Zhang, Yanbo Lou, Wei Wang, Jietai Jing. Deterministic generation of large-scale hyperentanglement in three degrees of freedom[J]. Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2022, 1(1): 016002
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