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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Transport of orbital-angular-momentum entanglement through a turbulent atmosphere
Bart-Jan Pors1, C H Monken, Eric R Eliel
1Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. pors@molphys.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract:
We demonstrate experimentally how orbital-angular-momentum entanglement of two photons evolves under the influence of atmospheric turbulence. Experimental results are in excellent agreement with our theoretical model, which combines the formalism of two-photon coincidence detection with a Kolmogorov description of atmospheric turbulence. We express the robustness to turbulence in terms of the dimensionality of the measured correlations. This dimensionality is surprisingly robust: scaling up our system to real-life dimensions, a horizontal propagation distance of 2 km seems viable.
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