{"id":171580,"date":"2023-09-08T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unlocking-quantum-potential-harnessing-high-dimensional-quantum-states-with-qds-and-oam"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T14:23:11","slug":"unlocking-quantum-potential-harnessing-high-dimensional-quantum-states-with-qds-and-oam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unlocking-quantum-potential-harnessing-high-dimensional-quantum-states-with-qds-and-oam","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking quantum potential: Harnessing high-dimensional quantum states with QDs and OAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-quantum-potential-harnessing-high-dimensional-quantum-states-with-qds-and-oam2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technology\u2019s future rests on the exploitation of fascinating quantum mechanics concepts\u2014such as high-dimensional quantum states. Think of these states as basic ingredients of quantum information science and quantum tech. To manipulate these states, scientists have turned to light, specifically a property called orbital angular momentum (OAM), which deals with how light twists and turns in space. Here\u2019s a catch: making super bright single photons with OAM in a deterministic fashion has been a tough nut to crack.<\/p>\n<p>Now, enter <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum dots<\/a> (QDs), tiny particles with big potential. A team of researchers from Sapienza University of Rome, Paris-Saclay University, and University of Naples Federico II combined the features of OAM with those of QDs to create a bridge between two cutting-edge technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Their results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/advanced-photonics\/volume-5\/issue-04\/046008\/Orbital-angular-momentum-based-intra--and-interparticle-entangled-states\/10.1117\/1.AP.5.4.046008.full\">published in <i>Advanced Photonics<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technology\u2019s future rests on the exploitation of fascinating quantum mechanics concepts\u2014such as high-dimensional quantum states. Think of these states as basic ingredients of quantum information science and quantum tech. To manipulate these states, scientists have turned to light, specifically a property called orbital angular momentum (OAM), which deals with how light twists and turns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}