Tuesday, September 25, 2012

1209.5132 (Mikhail Tokman et al.)

Generation of entangled photons in graphene in a strong magnetic field    [PDF]

Mikhail Tokman, Xianghan Yao, Alexey Belyanin
Entangled photon states attract tremendous interest as the most vivid manifestation of nonlocality of quantum mechanics and also for emerging applications in quantum information. Here we propose a mechanism of generation of polarization-entangled photons, which is based on the nonlinear optical interaction (four-wave mixing) in graphene placed in a magnetic field. Unique properties of quantized electron states in a magnetized graphene and optical selection rules near the Dirac point give rise to a giant optical nonlinearity and a high rate of photon production in the mid/far-infrared range.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5132

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