Toward universal transformations of orbital angular momentum of a single photon

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05467v1
• Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 14:08:42 GMT
• Title: Toward universal transformations of orbital angular momentum of a single photon
• Authors: Dong-Xu Chen, Yunlong Wang, Feiran Wang, Jun-Long Zhao, Chui-Ping Yang
• Abstract summary: We propose an efficient scheme to realize arbitrary unitary transformations on the path-OAM coupled quantum states. It is shown that by using OAM-to-path interfaces, this scheme can be utilized to realize arbitrary unitary transformations on the OAM states of photons.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High-dimensional quantum systems offer many advantages over low-dimensional quantum systems. Meanwhile, unitary transformations on quantum states are important parts in various quantum information tasks, whereas they become technically infeasible as the dimensionality increases. The photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM), which is inherit in the transverse spatial mode of photons, offers a natural carrier to encode information in high-dimensional spaces. However, it's even more challenging to realize arbitrary unitary transformations on the photonic OAM states. Here, by combining the path and OAM degrees of freedom of a single photon, an efficient scheme to realize arbitrary unitary transformations on the path-OAM coupled quantum states is proposed. The proposal reduces the number of required interferometers by approximately one quarter compared with previous works, while maintaining the symmetric structure. It is shown that by using OAM-to-path interfaces, this scheme can be utilized to realize arbitrary unitary transformations on the OAM states of photons. This work facilitates the development of high-dimension quantum state transformations, and opens a new door to the manipulation of the photonic OAM states.

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