Dynamical control of quantum photon-photon interaction with phase change material
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| author | Wang, Chaojie Li, Xutong Ma, Xiuyi Zhang, Yuning Wu, Meng Lu, Weifang Chen, Yuanyuan Sui, Xiubao Chen, Lixiang |
| author_facet | Wang, Chaojie Li, Xutong Ma, Xiuyi Zhang, Yuning Wu, Meng Lu, Weifang Chen, Yuanyuan Sui, Xiubao Chen, Lixiang |
| contents | 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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| spellingShingle | Dynamical control of quantum photon-photon interaction with phase change material Wang, Chaojie Li, Xutong Ma, Xiuyi Zhang, Yuning Wu, Meng Lu, Weifang Chen, Yuanyuan Sui, Xiubao Chen, Lixiang Quantum Physics 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. |
| title | Dynamical control of quantum photon-photon interaction with phase change material |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16305 |