Entanglement serves as a fundamental resource for quantum information protocols, and hyperentanglement has received an increasing amount of attention for its high-capacity characteristic. Increasing the scale of hyperentanglement, i.e., the number of modes in a hyperentangled system, is crucial for enhancing its capability in quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the generation of large-scale continuous-variable (CV) hyperentanglement in three degrees of freedom (DOFs), including azimuthal and radial indices of Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes and frequency. In our experiment, 216 pairs of hyperentangled modes are deterministically generated from the four-wave mixing process in an atomic vapor. In addition, we show that the entanglement between coherent LG superposition modes denoted by both azimuthal and radial quantum numbers can also be generated from this system. Such large-scale CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs presents an efficient scheme to significantly increase the information capacity of the CV system. Our results provide a new platform for studying CV quantum information and open the avenue for constructing high-capacity parallel and multiple-DOF CV quantum information protocols. |
1.IntroductionQuantum entanglement, a form of strong correlation in quantum systems, is at the heart of quantum information science and technology.1 Hyperentanglement, the simultaneous entanglement in more than one degree of freedom (DOF),2,3 has attracted widespread attention and is a promising resource for implementing high-capacity quantum information protocols. There are two main branches of quantum information systems, namely, discrete variable (DV)4 and continuous variable (CV)5 systems. The current trend is to combine them together to give full play to their respective advantages, establishing the so-called hybrid systems.6–8 This study focuses on the CV system, which has the advantage of deterministic generation of entanglement, as all the generated quantum states are fully taken into account without post-selection.5 Compared with the well-developed DV hyperentanglement,2,3,9–14 CV hyperentanglement15,16 remains relatively unexplored. The scale of the hyperentanglement, i.e., the number of modes in a hyperentangled system, determines its capability of quantum information processing. However, it remains a challenge for CV hyperentanglement to scale to a large number of modes. Multiplexing, the indispensable concept of modern optical communication, can largely improve the information-carrying capacity by integrating multiple channels into one.17–20 Multiplexing has also been transplanted to CV systems by using different types of DOFs, including frequency,21–23 time,24–26 polarization,27,28 and spatial mode.29,30 By simultaneously multiplexing multiple DOFs, it is promising to develop large-scale CV hyperentanglement, which can enable the implementation of high-capacity parallel and multiple-DOF CV quantum information protocols. Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes, the solution of the paraxial wave equation in cylindrical coordinates, are characterized by azimuthal index (an integer) and radial index (a non-negative integer). These two quantum numbers provide two independent spatial DOFs. The azimuthal index , corresponding to the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of the optical field,31,32 has been widely employed in an ocean of physical processes.33–44 Meanwhile, OAM finds applications in both DV45–51 and CV52–55 quantum systems due to the fact that it can form a high-dimensional Hilbert state space. In sharp contrast to the in-depth study of OAM, the radial index of the radial mode is often overlooked56 and has only attracted attention in the past few years.57–60 Due to the self-healing properties of high-radial-index mode61 and its propagation stability in the graded-index fiber,62 radial modes can find applications in practical long-distance communications for both free-space and fiber channels. More importantly, the radial index provides another high-dimensional Hilbert state space for greatly boosting the information capacity of quantum systems in addition to OAM. For example, high-dimensional DV entanglement63,64 and high-dimensional DV quantum gates65 have been demonstrated by considering both OAM and radial DOFs. However, such full consideration of the two quantum numbers or DOFs has not yet been demonstrated in the CV system. Combining such full consideration of OAM and radial DOFs with frequency DOF will enable the generation of large-scale CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs. Here, we demonstrate the experimental generation of large-scale CV hyperentanglement in OAM, radial, and frequency DOFs. 216 pairs of hyperentangled modes defined by the discrete dimensions of these three DOFs are deterministically generated from the four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a hot atomic vapor. To the best of our knowledge, hyperentanglement has never been scaled to such a large number of modes in the CV quantum system. Moreover, we show that entangled coherent LG superposition modes with consideration of both azimuthal and radial quantum numbers can also be generated from this system. Such large-scale CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs largely enhances the data-carrying capacity of the CV system. 2.Principles and MethodsThe FWM process is based on the double- energy level configuration in the line of . Pumped by a strong beam with a frequency of , this FWM process generates probe (conjugate) beams with a frequency of (), where denotes the frequency shifting from the pump beam. Due to the OAM conservation and the phase-matching conditions of the FWM process, multitudinous pairs of and modes are generated simultaneously, where Pr and Conj indicate probe and conjugate beams, respectively. Labeling the creation operators of the probe mode and conjugate mode as and , respectively, and denoting the interaction strength as the real parameter , the interaction Hamiltonian of the FWM process can be written as where denotes the Hermitian conjugate. Then, the corresponding time-evolution operator is applied to vacuum state. The output field state can be expressed as the product of a series of two-mode squeezed vacuum states, i.e., where is a squeezed vacuum state, or CV entangled state, of two modes with the opposite azimuthal quantum number, the same radial quantum number, and the opposite frequency shifting from the pump beam. These orthogonal two-mode squeezed vacuum states are a series of CV entanglements in three independent DOFs, and each optical mode is defined by the discrete dimensions of all three DOFs. In other words, the generated optical modes are simultaneously entangled in OAM, radial, and frequency DOFs, guaranteeing the generation of large-scale CV hyperentanglement (see Sec. S2 in the Supplemental Material for the detailed theoretical model). These three DOFs are equally important in generating CV hyperentanglement.In our system, the physical quantities of entanglement are amplitude and phase quadratures, which have a continuous spectrum, of the optical modes. Such CV entanglement manifests itself in strong correlation between the quantum fluctuations of quadratures of a pair of optical modes. For the purpose of verifying the existence of CV entanglement, the positivity under partial transposition criterion66 is used. One can determine if a state is entangled by constructing the covariance matrix from quadratures and calculating the smallest symplectic eigenvalue of the partially transposed covariance matrix. An entangled state is verified if is smaller than 1. Otherwise, the state is separable. The detailed experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1(a), where seeded and unseeded FWM processes happen in the same vapor cell. The unseeded one is for generating large-scale CV hyperentanglement, and the seeded one is for generating local oscillators (LOs) of the balanced homodyne detections (BHDs). A cavity stabilized Ti:sapphire laser produces a beam whose frequency is around 377.1102 THz (). The beam is divided into two, one of which is further split, serving as respective pump beams of the two FWM processes. The other beam is redshifted by through an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) and then transformed into the desired spatial modes by a spatial light modulator (SLM), serving as probe beam of the seeded FWM process. Strong pump beams with a radius of are focused at the center of the aforementioned vapor cell whose temperature is stabilized at 118°C, and the probe and conjugate beams are symmetrically crossed with the pump beam at about 7 mrad. To measure the covariance matrix elements and verify the hyperentanglement from the unseeded FWM process, two BHDs are employed: one for detecting the probe beam and the other one for detecting conjugate beam. It is noteworthy that the generated fields will be projected onto the mode if the LO carries the mode, which ensures the perfect extraction of the desired mode (see Sec. S3 in the Supplemental Material). In the experiment, extraction efficiency depends on the visibility of the BHD. The photocurrent from each BHD gives the variance of the single-beam quadrature, while the two BHDs together with their photocurrent subtraction and addition give the covariance of the two-beam quadratures. Then, these photocurrents are recorded by two spectrum analyzers (SAs), which are set to 300-kHz resolution bandwidth, 300-Hz video bandwidth, zero span, and 1.5-MHz center frequency. In this way, all the elements of the covariance matrix can be obtained. 3.ResultsFor demonstrating CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs, we perform measurements with varying , , and by changing the hologram displayed on the SLM and the input radio-frequency signal of the AOM. The images of the FWM output field for different modes are captured by a charge-coupled device (CCD) and shown in the upper panel of each subfigure of Fig. 2, where each subfigure stands for different frequency modes with [Fig. 2(a)], [Fig. 2(b)], and [Fig. 2(c)], as indicated by the lower panel. The intensity profiles from top to bottom in each image are the amplified probe beam, pump beam, and newly generated conjugate beam, respectively. It can be seen that the higher the LG mode order is, the bigger the beam size will be. Such increment in beam size results in the reduced overlap with the pump beam and thus weaker nonlinear interaction strength, leading to smaller intensity gain. The smallest symplectic eigenvalues of the partially transposed covariance matrices for the different modes are shown in the middle panel of each subfigure of Fig. 2. As can be seen, with the LG mode order getting higher, the value of increases due to the decreasing of nonlinear interaction strength, indicating the weakening of the entanglement degree. For high-order LG modes, being not smaller than 1 indicates the vanishment of the CV entanglement. It can also be found that the larger the value of radial index is, the narrower the azimuthal index range of the OAM modes possessing entanglement will be. For example, as shown in Fig. 2(a), when , for radial index , only the OAM modes with azimuthal index from to 3 possess entanglement, while for radial index , the range of azimuthal index of OAM modes possessing entanglement is from to 11. The mutual restriction of these two quantum numbers in terms of entanglement generation is due to the fact that the increase of either one of these two quantum numbers can lead to an increase in beam size. In addition, the symplectic eigenvalue for OAM entanglement in the case of radial index is smaller than the corresponding value with a nonzero radial index, which shows that the quality of hyperentanglement in OAM and radial DOFs is less than the quality of entanglement in OAM DOF. Nevertheless, under our experimental condition, for maintaining entanglement, the maximal range of is from to 11, while the maximal range of is from 0 to 5. Figure 2(a) gives the results of hyperentanglement in OAM and radial DOFs with the generation of 78 pairs of LG modes when . To realize CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs, we utilize the frequency mode by changing the amount of frequency shifting and repeating the above measurements. Similar results for and are shown in Figs. 2(b) and 2(c), respectively. Altogether, 216 pairs of hyperentangled modes in OAM, radial, and frequency DOFs are deterministically generated. For a fixed frequency, the possible number of pairs of entangled spatial modes possibly created by this system in the ideal case is estimated to be around 297 according to the Schmidt number,67–69 which is roughly the number of mode pairs coupled in the gain region (see Sec. S8 in the Supplemental Material). However, various experimental imperfections are unavoidable, such as atomic absorption, propagation losses, imperfect homodyne visibilities, non-unity quantum efficiency of photodiodes, and scattered pump light, which introduce excess noise and deteriorate the entanglement. Therefore, the number of experimentally accessible entangled spatial mode pairs is lower than the theoretically predicted Schmidt number. Taking into account experimental parameters and these aforementioned experimental imperfections, the theoretical predictions of the smallest symplectic eigenvalue agree well with the corresponding experimental results, and the fidelities between the theoretically predicted and experimentally generated hyperentangled states are all above 0.9 (see Sec. S8 in the Supplemental Material). Going a step further, it is interesting to investigate the entanglement properties of coherent LG superposition modes by considering both quantum numbers and , which shows the potential advantage of our system for demonstrating parallel quantum information processing. Here, we fix at 3.04 GHz. First, the LOs are tailored by seeding the mode into the FWM process [see Fig. 3(a) for the theoretical intensity profile and phase pattern and Fig. 3(b) for the experimentally observed intensity profile], and the covariance matrix of and modes can be measured. The smallest symplectic eigenvalue is calculated to be , indicating the existence of entanglement between these two LG superposition modes. Secondly, we turn to study another type of coherent LG superposition mode . The intensity profile of this sort of mode is constituted of radial circles and angularly symmetric petals in each radial circle, as shown in Figs. 3(c) and 3(d), making it useful for free-space communication under turbulent conditions.70 Specifically, we investigate the entanglement between [] and [] modes with from 1 to 8, and the corresponding FWM output images and smallest symplectic eigenvalues are shown in Fig. 3(e) [Fig. 3(f)] and Fig. 3(g) [Fig. 3(h)], respectively. With the increase of azimuthal index , the beam size gets bigger, resulting in weaker nonlinear interaction strength. As a consequence, the intensity gain decreases, and increases. For in the range from 1 to 7, these coherent LG superposition modes remain entangled. These experimental results are consistent with the ones in Fig. 2 and clearly verify the entanglement between coherent LG superposition modes with both azimuthal and radial quantum numbers involved. 4.Conclusions and DiscussionWe have experimentally implemented large-scale CV hyperentanglement in three DOFs. The 216 pairs of hyperentangled modes in OAM (), radial (), and frequency () DOFs are generated from the FWM process in a single hot vapor cell. In addition, we demonstrate the entanglement of coherent LG superposition modes denoted by both azimuthal and radial quantum numbers. Such large-scale CV hyperentanglement greatly enhances the information-carrying capacity of the CV system. Several beneficial improvements can be adopted to further enlarge the number of entangled mode pairs, such as decreasing the cell length,67 increasing the pump beam size,54 tailoring the pump beam profile,71 and exploiting more DOFs. Although we have only chosen three frequency sidebands to realize multiplexing, the actual frequency bandwidth for maintaining entanglement is at the level of tens of MHz (see Sec. S5 in the Supplemental Material), which is determined by the atomic system itself. To substantially improve the frequency bandwidth for maintaining entanglement, one possibility is to replace the atomic medium with nonlinear crystal such as a PPLN waveguide.72 Utilizing the LG mode sorter73,74 and frequency filter cavity,75 these hyperentangled modes can be efficiently spatially separated (see Sec. S9 in the Supplemental Material), making our scheme particularly useful for constructing high-capacity parallel and multiple-DOF quantum communication protocols. In parallel quantum communication,75,76 multiple quantum communication channels can be constructed without the crosstalk from each other, and various quantum information tasks77–79 can be performed simultaneously, which significantly enhances the information capacity and diversity of quantum communication systems. In addition, a complex quantum system cannot be fully described by a single DOF, and a critical issue that must be addressed is how to teleport more than one DOF simultaneously. In this respect, quantum teleportation of multiple DOFs of a single photon has been demonstrated in the DV system using hyperentanglement in both spin angular momentum and OAM.80 Such multiple-DOF quantum teleportation in CV systems, the realization of which requires the generation of CV hyperentanglement, has never been reported. Our large-scale CV hyperentanglement provides the possibility to realize such multiple-DOF quantum teleportation in CV systems, even more generally, multiple-DOF quantum communication protocols. AcknowledgmentsWe acknowledge useful discussions with Xiaozhou Pan and Lixiang Chen. This work was funded by the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No. 2021-01-07-00-08-E00100); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11874155, 91436211, 11374104, and 12174110); the Basic Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (Grant No. 20JC1416100); the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (17ZR1442900); the Minhang Leading Talents (Grant No. 201971); the Program of Scientific and Technological Innovation of Shanghai (Grant No. 17JC1400401); the Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 21YF1410800); the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0302103); the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2019SHZDZX01); and the 111 Project (Grant No. B12024). The authors declare no conflicts of interest. 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