Romero, J. and Leach, J. and Jack, B. and Dennis, M. R. and Franke-Arnold, S. and Barnett, S. M. and Padgett, M. J. (2011) Entangled optical vortex links. Physical Review Letters, 106 (10). -. ISSN 0031-9007
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Optical vortices are lines of phase singularity which percolate through all optical fields. We report the entanglement of linked optical vortex loops in the light produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. As measured by using a Bell inequality, this entanglement between topological features extends over macroscopic and finite volumes. The entanglement of photons in complex three-dimensional topological states suggests the possibility of entanglement of similar features in other quantum systems describable by complex scalar functions, such as superconductors, superfluids, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 30183 |
| Keywords: | orbital angular-momentum, bell inequality, interference, photons, states, entangled, optical vortex links, Physics |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2011 05:12 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 13:37 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/30183 |
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