Hi all,

next Monday, we have a seminar talk by Filippo Miatto at 4 pm in Alice room (301). See title and abstract below.

Best wishes,
Markus



Title: Hidden structures in high dimensional entanglement
Speaker: Filippo Miatto ( University of Strathclyde)

Abstract:
The minimal dimension of the Hilbert space that hosts states of an entangled pair of photons can be extremely high. The process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a possible way of producing highly entangled photon pairs, in both the spatial and temporal parts of the wave function. However, the most common
approximations that are used in the analytical treatment of SPDC hinder the possibility of noticing further structures of the single joint modes. We used a more general formalism, showing that the entangled modes are still eigenfunctions of the orbital angular momentum, but the radial modes are far from the usual ones and they show novel interesting features that might be explained by introducing an additional quantum number. The problem of dealing with SPDC states has two faces: we need to know with enough confidence what state are created, and we need to know with enough confidence what states we are projecting on, upon measurement. We tried to approach both these problems together, and we showed that high dimensional entanglement shields the
amount of information that can be stored in a photon from imperfect measurements. In my talk I will present both these aspects of high-dimensionally entangled states of photon pairs.

Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Series: Quantum Information Seminar
Location: Alice Room (301)