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12-photon entanglement and scalable scattershot boson sampling with optimal entangled-photon pairs from parametric down-conversion

  • Han-Sen Zhong
  • , Yuan Li
  • , Wei Li
  • , Li-Chao Peng
  • , Zu-En Su
  • , Yi Hu
  • , Yu-Ming He
  • , Xing Ding
  • , Weijun Zhang
  • , Hao Li

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Abstract

Entangled-photon sources with simultaneously near-unity heralding efficiency and indistinguishability are the fundamental elements for scalable photonic quantum technologies. We design and realize a degenerate telecommunication wavelength entangled-photon source from an ultrafast pulsed laser pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), which shows simultaneously 97% heralding efficiency and 96% indistinguishability between independent single photons without narrow-band filtering. Such a beamlike and frequency-uncorrelated SPDC source allows generation of the first 12-photon genuine entanglement with a state fidelity of
0.572
±
0.024
. We further demonstrate a blueprint of scalable scattershot boson sampling using 12 SPDC sources and a
12
×
12
mode interferometer for three-, four-, and five-boson sampling, which yields count rates more than 4 orders of magnitude higher than all previous SPDC experiments.
Original languageOthers/Unknown
Pages (from-to)250505
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume121
Issue number25
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

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