The fragile quantum state of a pair of entangled photons can be protected when the photons pass through a nanoscale hole, which may be useful in future light-based computing.
The teleportation may become an important means for remote distance communications in the future,and the mechanism is based on entanglement of quantum states.But the entanglement is fragile.As the state is disturbed by the environment the entanglement may be broken down.In this work,we choose the electron-positron pair in an entangled state of spin 0 as an example to investigate the rate of breaking down of the entanglement by the Compton scattering with the background radiation photons or Bremstrahlung with strong magnetic fields of some astronomical objects which the electron or positron passes by.Since the spin projection of single electron (positron) is not physically measurable and the electron beams cannot keep its shape for long because of the Coulomb repulsion among the charged particles in the beam,the only way is to shoot one electron-positron pair each time and continuously repeat the processes.With all the restraints this study has only pedagogic meaning, but may shed light on further studies where other information messagers are chosen.
We report on experimental evidence of the preservation of the energy-time entanglement of a pair of photons after a photon-plasmon-photon conversion. This preservation is observed in two different plasmon conversion experiments, namely, extraordinary optical transmission through subwavelength metallic hole arrays and long range surface plasmon propagation in metallic waveguides. Plasmons are shown to coherently exist at two different times separated by much more than their lifetimes. This kind of entanglement involving light and matter is expected to be useful for future processing and storing of quantum information.