Generation of entangled photons in graphene in a strong magnetic field. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Entangled photon states attract tremendous interest as the most vivid manifestation of nonlocality of quantum mechanics and also for emerging applications in quantum information. Here we propose a mechanism of generation of polarization-entangled photons, which is based on the nonlinear optical interaction (four-wave mixing) in graphene placed in a magnetic field. Unique properties of quantized electron states in a magnetized graphene and optical selection rules near the Dirac point give rise to a giant optical nonlinearity and a high rate of photon production in the mid- or far-infrared range. A similar mechanism of photon entanglement may exist in topological insulators where the surface states have a Dirac-cone dispersion and demonstrate similar properties of magneto-optical absorption.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 11.114

author list (cited authors)

  • Tokman, M., Yao, X., & Belyanin, A.

citation count

  • 91

complete list of authors

  • Tokman, Mikhail||Yao, Xianghan||Belyanin, Alexey

publication date

  • February 2013