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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum many-body simulations through quantum walks of high-dimensionally entangled photons

Poolad Imany, Navin B. Lingaraju, Mohammed S. Alshaykh, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate continuous photonic quantum walks with tunable depth in the frequency domain with high-dimensional entangled photon pairs. We generate a biphoton energy bound state by coherently controlling the phase of the input frequency modes.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jm3g.5

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