Phys.org August 13, 2020
Researchers in the UK exploited a property of quantum physics that allows for mapping the medium (fiber cable) onto the quantum state of a particle moving through it to transport entangled particles through a commercial fiber cable with 84.4% fidelity. They sent one of a pair of photons through a complex medium, but not the other. Both were then directed toward spatial light modulators and then on to detectors, and then finally to a device used to correlate coincidence counting. In their setup, light from the photon that did not pass through the complex medium propagated backward from the detector, allowing the photon to appear as if it had emerged from the crystal as the other photon. The work opens a new pathway towards the control of complex scattering processes in the quantum regime…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Basic principle. Credit: Nature Physics (2020).