Dynamical control of quantum photon-photon interaction with phase change material

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16305v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:22:24 GMT
• Title: Dynamical control of quantum photon-photon interaction with phase change material
• Authors: Chaojie Wang, Xutong Li, Xiuyi Ma, Yuning Zhang, Meng Wu, Weifang Lu, Yuanyuan Chen, Xiubao Sui, Lixiang Chen,
• Abstract summary: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a tool to unravel fundamental features of quantum interference based on the phase change material vanadium dioxide.<n>Results provide an alternative approach to investigate the quantum light-matter interaction, and facilitate the use of quantum interference for various quantum information processing tasks.
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• Abstract: Quantum interference can produce a pivotal effective photon-photon interaction, enabling the exploration of various quantum information technologies that beyond the possibilities of classical physics. While such an effective interaction is fundamentally limited to the bosonic nature of photons and the restricted phase responses from commonly used unitary optical elements, loss-induced nonunitary operation provides an alternative degree of freedom to control the quantum interference. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a concise yet powerful tool to unravel fundamental features of quantum interference based on the phase change material vanadium dioxide. Since the insulator-metal transition in an elaborate vanadium dioxide thin film can create any desired particle exchange phase response, we show its tunability over the effective photon-photon interaction between paired photons that are entangled in the symmetric and anti-symmetric forms, which may introduce sophisticated nonunitary operations and functionalities into programmable optical platforms. These results provide an alternative approach to investigate the quantum light-matter interaction, and facilitate the use of quantum interference for various quantum information processing tasks such as quantum simulation and quantum computation.

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