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View SchemaEntanglement of Orbital Angular Momentum States of Photons
| Authors | Alois Mair, Alipasha Vaziri, Gregor Weihs, Anton Zeilinger |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0104070 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0104070 |
| DOI | 10.1038/35085529 |
| Journal | Nature, Vol.412, 3123-316 (2001) |
Abstract
So far experimental confirmation of entanglement has been restricted to qubits, i.e. two-state quantum systems including recent realization of three- and four-qubit entanglements. Yet, an ever increasing body of theoretical work calls for entanglement in quantum system of higher dimensions. Here we report the first realization of multi-dimensional entanglement exploiting the orbital angular momentum of photons, which are states of the electromagnetic field with phase singularities (doughnut modes). The properties of such states could be of importance for the efforts in the field of quantum computation and quantum communication. For example, quantum cryptography with higher alphabets could enable one to increase the information flux through the communication channels.
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