| Literature DB >> 31491194 |
Yu-Hao Deng1,2, Hui Wang1,2, Xing Ding1,2, Z-C Duan1,2, Jian Qin1,2, M-C Chen1,2, Yu He1,2, Yu-Ming He1,2, Jin-Peng Li1,2, Yu-Huai Li1,2, Li-Chao Peng1,2, E S Matekole3, Tim Byrnes4, C Schneider5, M Kamp5, Da-Wei Wang6, Jonathan P Dowling1,3,4, Sven Höfling1,5,7, Chao-Yang Lu1,2, Marlan O Scully8,9,10, Jian-Wei Pan1,2.
Abstract
We report an experiment to test quantum interference, entanglement, and nonlocality using two dissimilar photon sources, the Sun and a semiconductor quantum dot on the Earth, which are separated by ∼150 million kilometers. By making the otherwise vastly distinct photons indistinguishable in all degrees of freedom, we observe time-resolved two-photon quantum interference with a raw visibility of 0.796(17), well above the 0.5 classical limit, providing unambiguous evidence of the quantum nature of thermal light. Further, using the photons with no common history, we demonstrate postselected two-photon entanglement with a state fidelity of 0.826(24) and a violation of Bell inequality by 2.20(6). The experiment can be further extended to a larger scale using photons from distant stars and open a new route to quantum optics experiments at an astronomical scale.Year: 2019 PMID： 31491194 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.080401
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN： 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161