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This is a theoretical quantum-optics paper showing that coherent photon interference across a network of parametric down-conversion sources can produce multipartite Bell-GHZ nonclassicality. It is foundational work with no AI component and no demonstrated device, so its near-term relevance is to the theory of distributed multiphoton entanglement that future quantum networks would rely on. Readers should treat the results as a conceptual advance pending experimental validation.
Multipartite Bell-Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger nonclassicality from interwoven frustrated down-conversion
arXiv:2602.18381v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a theory of an interference process that starts with $N$ coherently pumped two-mode parametric down-conversion (PDC) sources, whose output modes are directed to $N$ observers such that each observer receives modes from two different source crystals. Each observation station is equipped with a locally controlled PDC crystal, coherently pumped with the source crystals, whose output modes are perfectly aligned with the input modes from the source PDCs. By varying the local phases of the input modes, perfect $2N$-photon interference can be observed in $2N$ single-photon registrations, one in each output mode of these $N$ local PDCs. The interference results from the indistinguishability of the origins of the detected $2N$ photons: either they all originate from the source PDCs or from the local PDCs. Bell-GHZ nonclassicality of the process emerges when one also considers situations in which at least one of the local PDC processes is blocked. In such cases, the $2N$-photon interference disappears. A ''lifted`` Clauser-Horne inequality is violated when its sole negative term, involving all observers with all local pumps active, is tuned to maximal destructive interference, while all other terms involve settings in which one of the local pumps is off.
Abstract:We present a theory of an interference process that starts with $N$ coherently pumped two-mode parametric down-conversion (PDC) sources, whose output modes are directed to $N$ observers such that each observer receives modes from two different source crystals. Each observation station is equipped with a locally controlled PDC crystal, coherently pumped with the source crystals, whose output modes are perfectly aligned with the input modes from the source PDCs. By varying the local phases of the input modes, perfect $2N$-photon interference can be observed in $2N$ single-photon registrations, one in each output mode of these $N$ local PDCs. The interference results from the indistinguishability of the origins of the detected $2N$ photons: either they all originate from the source PDCs or from the local PDCs. Bell-GHZ nonclassicality of the process emerges when one also considers situations in which at least one of the local PDC processes is blocked. In such cases, the $2N$-photon interference disappears. A ''lifted`` Clauser-Horne inequality is violated when its sole negative term, involving all observers with all local pumps active, is tuned to maximal destructive interference, while all other terms involve settings in which one of the local pumps is off.
arXiv:2602.18381 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2602.18381v4 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.18381 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
Phys. Rev. A 114, 042222 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1103/qbjp-qjhl Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources
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