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Maximal coin-walker entanglement in a ballistic quantum walk

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: We report that the position-inhomogeneous quantum walk (IQW) can be utilized to produce the maximal high-dimensional entanglement while maintaining the quadratic speedup spread of the wave function. Our calculations show that the maximal coin-walker entanglement can be generated in any odd steps or asymptotically in even steps, and the nearly maximal entanglement can be obtained in even steps after 2. We implement the IQW by a stable resource-saving time-bin optical network, in which a polarization Sagnac loop is employed to realize the precisely tunable phase shift. Our approach opens up an efficient way for high-dimensional entanglement engineering as well as promotes investigations on the role of coin-walker interactions in QW-based applications.

Source: Physical Review A

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.105.042216