Title
Photon Entanglement Through Brain Tissue
Date Issued
20 December 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
Nature Publishing Group
Abstract
Photon entanglement, the cornerstone of quantum correlations, provides a level of coherence that is not present in classical correlations. Harnessing it by study of its passage through organic matter may offer new possibilities for medical diagnosis technique. In this work, we study the preservation of photon entanglement in polarization, created by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, after one entangled photon propagates through multiphoton-scattering brain tissue slices with different thickness. The Tangle-Entropy (TS) plots show the strong preservation of entanglement of photons propagating in brain tissue. By spatially filtering the ballistic scattering of an entangled photon, we find that its polarization entanglement is preserved and non-locally correlated with its twin in the TS plots. The degree of entanglement correlates better with structure and water content than with sample thickness.
Volume
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85006724996
PubMed ID
Source
Scientific Reports
ISSN of the container
20452322
Sponsor(s)
E.J.G. acknowledges Colgate University and National Science Foundation grant PHY-1506321 for support.
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