Non-local geometric phase in two-photon interferometry

Details Non-local geometric phase in two-photon interferometry Non-local geometric phase in two-photon interferometry

2011-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/1110.0416v2

EPL 97 (2012) 10003

Physics

Quantum Physics

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/97/10003

We report the experimental observation of the nonlocal geometric phase in Hanbury Brown-Twiss polarized intensity interferometry. The experiment involves two independent, polar- ized, incoherent sources, illuminating two polarized detectors. Varying the relative polarization angle between the detectors introduces a geometric phase equal to half the solid angle on the Poincar\'e sphere traced out by a pair of single photons. Local measurements at either detector do not reveal the effect of the geometric phase, which appears only in the coincidence counts between the two detectors, showing a genuinely nonlocal effect. We show experimentally that coincidence rates of photon arrival times at separated detectors can be controlled by the two photon geometric phase. This effect can be used for manipulating and controlling photonic entanglement.

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