Controlling the degree of entanglement in downconversion by targeted birth zone activation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03904v1
• Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:34:01 GMT
• Title: Controlling the degree of entanglement in downconversion by targeted birth zone activation
• Authors: Vikas S Bhat, Rounak Chatterjee, Kiran Bajar, Sushil Mujumdar,
• Abstract summary: We study the consequences of varying the pump beam waist that illuminates a nonlinear crystal. We identify three regimes of entanglement of the down-converted photons based on $N$.
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• Abstract: We explore the consequences of varying the pump beam waist that illuminates a nonlinear crystal, realizing spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). The coherence is transferred from the marginal one-photon wavefunction to the two-photon wavefunction where it manifests into entanglement in the form of spatial correlation. We interpret this as a consequence of the number of independent emitters, called the biphoton birth zones, targeted by the pump beam on the crystal. The birth zone number $N$ characterises the number of such birth zones that fit along a diameter of the region illuminated by the pump waist. To experimentally observe the duality between the one- and two-photon interference, we employ a double slit and analyse their visibilities $V_m$ and $V_\text{12}$ respectively. We demonstrate the conservation of the quantity $V_m^2+V_\text{12}^2$. Finally, we identify three regimes of entanglement of the down-converted photons based on $N$. We show that changing the pump waist lets us actively control the degree of entanglement letting us access these regimes. We provide implications of each regime, and mention experimental use cases thereof.

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