1–26 Apr 2019
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

General mapping of multi-qudit entanglement conditions to non-separability indicators for quantum optical fields

5 Apr 2019, 15:00
1h
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Prof. Marek Zukowski

Description

We show that any multi-qudit entanglement witness leads to a non-separability indicator for quantum optical fields, which involves intensity correlation measurements and is useful for field states of undefined photon numbers. With the approach we get, e.g., necessary and sufficient conditions for intensity or intensity-rates correlations to reveal polarization entanglement. We also derive separability conditions for experiments with mutually unbiased multiport interferometers. Within the standard detector inefficiency model these entanglement indicators work for any detection efficiencies. For specific cases, we show advantages of using local intensity rates rather than intensities. The approach with rates allows a mapping of Bell inequalities for qudits to ones for optical fields. Our results may find applications also in studies of non-classicality of correlations in "macroscopic" many-body quantum systems of undefined or uncontrollable number of constituents. [arXiv:1903.03526 ]

Primary author

Prof. Marek Zukowski

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