Theory of Symmetry-Protected Two-Photon Coherence
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| author | Lai, Xuanying Du, Shengwang Jiang, Yue |
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| contents | In a recent article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033601 (2024)], the coherence time of degenerate entangled photon pairs (biphotons) generated via backward spontaneous four-wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble was shown to be immune to optical loss and dephasing. This finding is crucial for practical applications in quantum information processing, quantum communication, and networking, where loss is inevitable. However, the underlying mechanism for this loss- and dephasing-insensitive biphoton coherence time was insufficiently studied in the previous article, as quantum noise was not taken into account. In this work, we employ the Heisenberg-Langevin approach to study this effect and provide a rigorous theoretical proof of the symmetry-protected biphoton coherence by taking quantum noise into consideration, as compared to the perturbation theory in the interaction picture. |
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| spellingShingle | Theory of Symmetry-Protected Two-Photon Coherence Lai, Xuanying Du, Shengwang Jiang, Yue Quantum Physics In a recent article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033601 (2024)], the coherence time of degenerate entangled photon pairs (biphotons) generated via backward spontaneous four-wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble was shown to be immune to optical loss and dephasing. This finding is crucial for practical applications in quantum information processing, quantum communication, and networking, where loss is inevitable. However, the underlying mechanism for this loss- and dephasing-insensitive biphoton coherence time was insufficiently studied in the previous article, as quantum noise was not taken into account. In this work, we employ the Heisenberg-Langevin approach to study this effect and provide a rigorous theoretical proof of the symmetry-protected biphoton coherence by taking quantum noise into consideration, as compared to the perturbation theory in the interaction picture. |
| title | Theory of Symmetry-Protected Two-Photon Coherence |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04680 |