Decoherence-induced Multiphoton Interference
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| author | Du, Yifan Zhang, Jiuyi Martínez, Daniel López Izadi, Misagh Huang, Yuping |
| author_facet | Du, Yifan Zhang, Jiuyi Martínez, Daniel López Izadi, Misagh Huang, Yuping |
| contents | Decoherence is usually deemed detrimental to quantum information processing. Its control and minimization require significant costs and operating overheads, constituting a major hurdle to commercialize quantum technology. Yet, quantum mechanics provides for counterintuitive, sometimes surprisingly useful, phenomena and effects associated with decoherence, leading to unusual practical utilities. Here we demonstrate such an example of fundamental interest and practical potential, where genuine quantum interference is created among multiple photons through their dissipative coupling to a shared reservoir. On a thin-film lithium niobate chip, we incoherently link two spontaneous parametric down-converters through a common, highly-lossy channel to create coherent multiphoton states. Our results show that faithful correlations can be established among two, three, and four photons, and tuned by shifting the relative phase between the driving pumps for the converters. This experiment highlights an under-explored territory in quantum science and technology, where loss and decoherence serve as resources, rather than adversaries, for quantum information processing. |
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| spellingShingle | Decoherence-induced Multiphoton Interference Du, Yifan Zhang, Jiuyi Martínez, Daniel López Izadi, Misagh Huang, Yuping Quantum Physics Optics Decoherence is usually deemed detrimental to quantum information processing. Its control and minimization require significant costs and operating overheads, constituting a major hurdle to commercialize quantum technology. Yet, quantum mechanics provides for counterintuitive, sometimes surprisingly useful, phenomena and effects associated with decoherence, leading to unusual practical utilities. Here we demonstrate such an example of fundamental interest and practical potential, where genuine quantum interference is created among multiple photons through their dissipative coupling to a shared reservoir. On a thin-film lithium niobate chip, we incoherently link two spontaneous parametric down-converters through a common, highly-lossy channel to create coherent multiphoton states. Our results show that faithful correlations can be established among two, three, and four photons, and tuned by shifting the relative phase between the driving pumps for the converters. This experiment highlights an under-explored territory in quantum science and technology, where loss and decoherence serve as resources, rather than adversaries, for quantum information processing. |
| title | Decoherence-induced Multiphoton Interference |
| topic | Quantum Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05422 |