• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 5, Issue 4, 046008 (2023)
Alessia Suprano1, Danilo Zia1, Mathias Pont2, Taira Giordani1, Giovanni Rodari1, Mauro Valeri1, Bruno Piccirillo3、4, Gonzalo Carvacho1, Nicolò Spagnolo1, Pascale Senellart2, Lorenzo Marrucci3, and Fabio Sciarrino1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy
  • 2Université Paris-Saclay, UMR 9001, Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
  • 3Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Napoli, Italy
  • 4INFN - Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.5.4.046008 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Alessia Suprano, Danilo Zia, Mathias Pont, Taira Giordani, Giovanni Rodari, Mauro Valeri, Bruno Piccirillo, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Pascale Senellart, Lorenzo Marrucci, Fabio Sciarrino. Orbital angular momentum based intra- and interparticle entangled states generated via a quantum dot source[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(4): 046008 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Engineering single-photon states endowed with orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a powerful tool for quantum information photonic implementations. Indeed, due to its unbounded nature, OAM is suitable for encoding qudits, allowing a single carrier to transport a large amount of information. Most of the experimental platforms employ spontaneous parametric down-conversion processes to generate single photons, even if this approach is intrinsically probabilistic, leading to scalability issues for an increasing number of qudits. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been used to get over these limitations by producing on-demand pure and indistinguishable single-photon states, although only recently they have been exploited to create OAM modes. Our work employs a bright QD single-photon source to generate a complete set of quantum states for information processing with OAM-endowed photons. We first study hybrid intraparticle entanglement between OAM and polarization degrees of freedom of a single photon whose preparation was certified by means of Hong–Ou–Mandel visibility. Then, we investigate hybrid interparticle OAM-based entanglement by exploiting a probabilistic entangling gate. The performance of our approach is assessed by performing quantum state tomography and violating Bell inequalities. Our results pave the way for the use of deterministic sources for the on-demand generation of photonic high-dimensional quantum states.
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    Alessia Suprano, Danilo Zia, Mathias Pont, Taira Giordani, Giovanni Rodari, Mauro Valeri, Bruno Piccirillo, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Pascale Senellart, Lorenzo Marrucci, Fabio Sciarrino. Orbital angular momentum based intra- and interparticle entangled states generated via a quantum dot source[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(4): 046008
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