Four-Photon GHZ Entanglement via Collective Two-Photon Coherence in Doppler-Broadened Atoms

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a robust method to generate four-photon GHZ entangled states using Doppler-broadened atomic ensembles, advancing photonic quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach leveraging collective two-photon coherence in Doppler-broadened atoms to produce high-fidelity four-photon GHZ states.

Findings

Achieved a fidelity of 0.82 for the GHZ state.

Measured a four-photon coincidence rate of 0.58 Hz.

Demonstrated stability and brightness of multiphoton entanglement from atomic media.

Abstract

Bright, entangled multiphoton sources based on atom photon interactions are an essential requirement in the realization of several quantum information and quantum computation schemes based on photonic quantum systems. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a four photon polarization entangled GHZ state obtained from Doppler broadened atomic ensembles of 87Rb atoms. Owing to collective two photon coherence in the Doppler broadened cascade-type atomic system, our setup enables the generation of robust four photon GHZ states with a fidelity of 0.82 and a measured four photon average coincidence rate of 0.58 Hz. We believe that the generation of such bright and stable multiphoton GHZ states from atomic media is an important step toward realizing photonic quantum computation and practical quantum networks based on atom photon interactions.