A four-dimensional measurement scheme for single photon time-polarization

作者:Ren Xi Jun*; Zhou Zheng Wei; Sun Fang Wen; Guo Guang Can
来源:Chinese Physics Letters, 2008, 25(1): 12-15.

摘要

We propose an experimental scheme to realize the four-dimensional projective measurements for a single photon. The photon polarization and time-energy provide the four-dimensional Hilbert space. Based on this scheme, we suggest an experiment to test the violation of Bell inequalities of four-dimensional systems. In addition, by virtue of a maximally entangled biphoton state, we also show that it is possible to construct a quantum key distribution channel that can provide two-bit key with one pair of entangled photons.