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通过复杂介质解读纠缠

Unscrambling Entanglement through a Complex Medium

Natalia Herrera Valencia, Suraj Goel, Will McCutcheon, Hugo Defienne, Mehul Malik

摘要:

量子信息在噪声环境中的传输是量子通信、成像和纳米光子学领域的核心挑战。特别地,与量子比特相比,光的高维量子态使量子网络具有显著更高的信息容量和噪声鲁棒性。然而,虽然量子比特纠缠已经通过自由空间和光纤分布在很长的距离上,但高维纠缠的传输受到通道复杂性的阻碍,其中包括自由空间湍流或多模波导中的模式混合等效应。在这里,我们展示了六维空间模式纠缠通过一个2米长,商业多模光纤84.4%的保真度的运输。我们展示了纠缠本身如何被用来测量复杂介质的传输矩阵,从而恢复最初丢失的量子关联。利用纠缠态的一个独特性质,通过仔细地“扰乱”没有进入介质的光子,而不是解读进入介质的光子,介质对纠缠是透明的。我们的工作克服了量子通信和成像领域的主要挑战,并开辟了一条新的途径,控制复杂的散射过程中的量子制度。

英文摘要:

The transfer of quantum information through a noisy environment is a central challenge in the fields of quantum communication, imaging and nanophotonics. In particular, high-dimensional quantum states of light enable quantum networks with significantly higher information capacities and noise robustness as compared with qubits. However, although qubit entanglement has been distributed over large distances through free space and fibre, the transport of high-dimensional entanglement is hindered by the complexity of the channel, which encompasses effects such as free-space turbulence or mode mixing in multimode waveguides. Here, we demonstrate the transport of six-dimensional spatial-mode entanglement through a 2-m-long, commercial multimode fibre with 84.4% fidelity. We show how the entanglement can itself be used to measure the transmission matrix of the complex medium, allowing the recovery of quantum correlations that were initially lost. Using a unique property of entangled states, the medium is rendered transparent to entanglement by carefully 'scrambling' the photon that did not enter it, rather than unscrambling the photon that did. Our work overcomes a primary challenge in the fields of quantum communication and imaging, and opens a new pathway towards the control of complex scattering processes in the quantum regime.

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