title: Remote preparation of single-photon "hybrid" entangled and vector-polarization States.
abstract: Quantum teleportation faces increasingly demanding requirements for transmitting large or even entangled systems. However, knowledge of the state to be transmitted eases its reconstruction, resulting in a protocol known as remote state preparation. A number of experimental demonstrations to date have been restricted to single-qubit systems. We report the remote preparation of two-qubit "hybrid" entangled states, including a family of vector-polarization beams. Our single-photon states are encoded in the photon spin and orbital angular momentum. We reconstruct the states by spin-orbit state tomography and transverse polarization tomography. The high fidelities achieved for the vector-polarization states opens the door to optimal coupling of down-converted photons to other physical systems, such as an atom, as required for scalable quantum networks, or plasmons in photonic nanostructures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA.
authors.forename: Julio T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Barreiro
authors.forename: Tzu-Chieh
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Kwiat