This process is generally presumed to
create pairs of photons that are entangled, so that the photons» polarizations are highly correlated with one another.
On La Palma
we created a pair of photons and sent one of the photons over to Tenerife using a free space telescope link, and on Tenerife we decided a long time before the photon arrived which polarization would be measured.
Because physicists have also
created pairs of photons, particles of light, called qudits, with a D, for multiple dimensions.
Not exact matches
In an oft - repeated version
of the
photon experiment, a
pair of entangled
photons, A and B, are
created by a laser beam.
And which kind
of measurement to perform on this
photon is decided by a random - number generator at the same moment when the
photon pairs are
created at a distant location, about a mile away, which means that no signal could travel fast enough to influence this.
To start the ROT protocol, Alice
creates pairs of entangled
photons.
Kalashnikov and his team used a special crystal to
create a
pair of entangled
photons, a visible one and an infrared one (see image).
In developing the method, Kwiat and his team first passed a laser pulse through two adjacent nonlinear crystals to
create pairs of polarization - entangled
photons.
Once
created, each entangled
pair of photons is separated by passing a laser beam made up
of them through a filter made from a non-linear crystal.
Physicists know how to
create pairs of entangled
photons, sub-atomic light particles, and have observed them operating in sync between two
of the Canary Islands at a distance
of 143 kilometers.
As described in a paper posted online and submitted to Physical Review Letters (PRL), * researchers from NIST and several other institutions
created pairs of identical light particles, or
photons, and sent them to two different locations to be measured.