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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Metasurface-Enabled On-Chip Quantum Entanglement

Nir Shitrit, Pankaj Kumar Jha, Jeongmin Kim, Xuexin Ren, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on on-chip quantum entanglement between two microscopically separated qubits by engineering their long-range interactions via a metasurface. The metasurface route to quantum state engineering opens a new paradigm for on-chip quantum technology.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.ftu3g.2

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