Title
Phase shifting of an interferometer using nonlocal quantum-state correlations
Date Issued
15 February 2007
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Colgate University
Abstract
We describe an experiment where the phase and amplitude of the interference pattern of light going through an interferometer was varied by doing operations on quantum-correlated light that did not go through the interferometer. This was accomplished by sending a pair of polarization-entangled photons in separate directions, one to an interferometer and the other one to a phase shifter, in principle in a remote location. The interferometer was set up to put the state of the pair in a superposition of maximally entangled states. The phase shifter inserted a phase between the product-state components that made up each entangled state. Polarizers located before the detectors projected the quantum state of the light. As a result, the phase and amplitude of the interference pattern were varied by changing the settings of the phase shifter and polarizer in the path of the photon in the remote location. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Volume
75
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-33847052913
Source
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
ISSN of the container
10502947
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