Title :
Experimental observation of decoherence-induced symmetry breaking in entangled photons
Author :
Hyang-Tag Lim;Jong-Chan Lee;Kang-Hee Hong;Yoon-Ho Kim
Author_Institution :
Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, 790-784
Abstract :
Quantum states can exhibit exchange symmetry; local quantum operations on the subsystems are exchangeable without affecting the quantum state. Here, we report that the exchange symmetry is broken once decoherence is introduced, even though the photons still share non-zero entanglement.
Keywords :
"Quantum entanglement","Photonics","Damping","Optimized production technology","Object recognition","Sagnac interferometers"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376024
