Spin-orbit hybrid entanglement of photons and quantum contextuality
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Leach, Jonathan
Slussarenko, Sergei
Piccirillo, Bruno
Marrucci, Lorenzo
Chen, Lixiang
She, Weilong
Franke-Arnold, Sonja
Padgett, Miles J
Santamato, Enrico
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We demonstrate electromagnetic quantum states of single photons and of correlated photon pairs exhibiting "hybrid" entanglement between spin and orbital angular momentum. These states are obtained from entangled photon pairs emitted by spontaneous parametric down conversion by employing a q plate for coupling the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of a photon. Entanglement and contextual quantum behavior (that is also nonlocal, in the case of photon pairs) is demonstrated by the reported violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality. In addition, a classical analog of the hybrid spin-orbit photonic entanglement is reported and discussed.
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Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
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82
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© 2010 American Physical Society. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Mathematical sciences
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Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics
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