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Amit Kam, Shai Tsesses, Lior Fridman, et al. Quantum skyrmions and high dimensional entanglement mediated by nanophotonics[J]. eLight, 2026, 6.
Amit Kam, Shai Tsesses, Lior Fridman, et al. Quantum skyrmions and high dimensional entanglement mediated by nanophotonics[J]. eLight, 2026, 6. DOI: 10.1186/s43593-026-00124-1.
Quantum nanophotonics offers essential tools and technologies for controlling quantum states
while maintaining a miniature form factor and high scalability. Nanophotonic platforms can transfer information from the traditional degrees of freedom (DoFs) of photons
such as spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM)
to the DoFs of the nanophotonic platform—and back
opening new directions for quantum information processing. Recent experiments have utilized
for entanglement the total angular momentum (TAM) of a photon—as a unique DoF of nanophotonic platforms—for demonstrating entanglement in TAM. Here
we unravel the morphing of quantum states of heralded single photons as they couple into and out of the near-field of a nanophotonic system. Through quantum state tomography
we discover that the TAM state of the near-field transforms to a free-space entangled state within a larger Hilbert space of SAM and OAM. Furthermore
we show that this entangled single photon state is in fact a quantum optical Stokes skyrmion with a topological invariant of
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. The concepts described here bring new ideas and methodologies in developing high-dimensional quantum circuitry on a chip.
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