Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit

• Published in: Nature photonics Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 45 - 49
• Main Authors: Shadbolt, P. J., Verde, M. R., Peruzzo, A., Politi, A., Laing, A., Lobino, M., Matthews, J. C. F., Thompson, M. G., O'Brien, J. L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2012; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/624/400/482; Applied and Technical Physics; Circuits; Continuums; Devices; Entangled states; Entanglement; Inequalities; Phase shifters; Photonics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Physics

Entanglement is the quintessential quantum-mechanical phenomenon understood to lie at the heart of future quantum technologies and the subject of fundamental scientific investigations. Mixture, resulting from noise, is often an unwanted result of interaction with an environment, but is also of funda...