Hybrid Entanglement between Optical Discrete Polarizations and Continuous Quadrature Variables
Department
Physics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Abstract
By coherently combining advantages while largely avoiding limitations of two mainstream platforms, optical hybrid entanglement involving both discrete and continuous variables has recently garnered widespread attention and emerged as a promising idea for building heterogenous quantum networks. In contrast to previous results, here we propose a new scheme to remotely generate hybrid entanglement between discrete polarization and continuous quadrature optical qubits heralded by two-photon Bell-state measurement. As a novel nonclassical light resource, we further use it to discuss two examples of ways—entanglement swapping and quantum teleportation—in which quantum information processing and communications could make use of this hybrid technique.
Journal Title
Photonics
Volume
8
Issue
12
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3390/photonics8120552