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Xiaojiong Chen1, Yaohao Deng1, Shuheng Liu1, Tanumoy Pramanik1,2, Jun Mao1, Jueming Bao1, Chonghao Zhai1, Tianxiang Dai1, Huihong Yuan1, Jiajie Guo1, Shao-Ming Fei3, Marcus Huber4,5, Bo Tang6, Yan Yang7, Zhihua Li6, Qiongyi He8,9,10,11,12, Qihuang Gong13,14,15,16,17, Jianwei Wang18,19,20,21,22.
Abstract
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 interest to study complementarity in multipath interferometric systems. Here, we demonstrate generalized 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 generalized 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.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID: 33963186 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22887-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN: 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919