The surprising persistence of time-dependent quantum entanglement
arXiv:2110.06835 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac97b9
Abstract
The mismatch between elegant theoretical models and the detailed experimental reality is particularly pronounced in quantum nonlinear interferometry (QNI). In stark contrast to theory, experiments contain pump beams that start in impure states and that are depleted, quantum noise that affects -- and drives -- any otherwise gradual build up of the signal and idler fields, and nonlinear materials that are far from ideal and have a complicated time-dependent dispersive response. Notably, we would normally expect group velocity mismatches to destroy any possibility of measurable or visible entanglement, even though it remains intact -- the mismatches change the relative timings of induced signal-idler entanglements, thus generating "which path" information. Using a "positive-P" approach ideally suited to such problems, we show how the time-domain entanglement crucial for QNI can be -- and is -- recoverable despite the obscuring effects of real-world complications.
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