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Probing Earth’s rotation effect on two-photon entanglement

Raffaele Silvestri, Haocun Yu, Robert W. Peterson, Christopher Hilweg, Philip John Walther

Published Jan 1, 2023• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present the first experimental measurement of the Earth’s rotation induced phase shift on a two-photon maximally entangled state by means of a large-scale fiber Sagnac interferometer of milliradian phase resolution.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2023.qm2b.1

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