A generalised multipath delayed-choice experiment on a large-scale quantum nanophotonic chip

Xiaojiong Chen; Yaohao Deng; Shuheng Liu; Tanumoy Pramanik; Jun Mao; Jueming Bao; Chonghao Zhai; Tianxiang Dai; Huihong Yuan; Jiajie Guo; Shao-Ming Fei; Marcus Huber; Bo Tang; Yan Yang; Zhihua Li; Qiongyi He; Qihuang Gong; Jianwei Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2602562

9 October 2021 A generalised multipath delayed-choice experiment on a large-scale quantum nanophotonic chip

Xiaojiong Chen, Yaohao Deng, Shuheng Liu, Tanumoy Pramanik, Jun Mao, Jueming Bao, Chonghao Zhai, Tianxiang Dai, Huihong Yuan, Jiajie Guo, Shao-Ming Fei, Marcus Huber, Bo Tang, Yan Yang, Zhihua Li, Qiongyi He, Qihuang Gong, Jianwei Wang

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Proceedings Volume 11905, Quantum and Nonlinear Optics VIII; 119051E (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2602562
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2021, Nantong, JS, China

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Bohr’s complementarity is one central tenet of quantum physics. The paradoxical wave-particle duality of quantum matters and photons has been tested in Young’s double-slit (double-path) interferometers. The object exclusively exhibits wave and particle nature, depending measurement apparatus that can be delayed chosen to rule out too-naive interpretations of quantum complementarity. All experiments to date have been implemented in the double-path framework, while it is of fundamental interests to study complementarity in multipath interferometric systems. Here we demonstrate generalised multipath wave-particle duality in a quantum delayed-choice experiment, implemented by large-scale silicon-integrated multipath interferometers. Single-photon displays sophisticated transitions between wave and particle characters, determined by the choice of quantum-controlled generalised Hadamard operations. We characterise particle-nature by multimode which-path information and wave-nature by multipath coherence of interference, and demonstrate the generalisation of Bohr’s multipath duality relation. Our work provides deep insights into multidimensional quantum physics and benchmarks controllability of integrated photonic quantum technology.

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Xiaojiong Chen, Yaohao Deng, Shuheng Liu, Tanumoy Pramanik, Jun Mao, Jueming Bao, Chonghao Zhai, Tianxiang Dai, Huihong Yuan, Jiajie Guo, Shao-Ming Fei, Marcus Huber, Bo Tang, Yan Yang, Zhihua Li, Qiongyi He, Qihuang Gong, and Jianwei Wang "A generalised multipath delayed-choice experiment on a large-scale quantum nanophotonic chip", Proc. SPIE 11905, Quantum and Nonlinear Optics VIII, 119051E (9 October 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2602562

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