Quantum Contextuality Measurements on Mode-Entangled Neutron Beams

ORAL

Abstract

We present and discuss recent measurements [1,2,3] of quantum contextuality witness values for neutron beams mode-entangled in spin, position, and energy degrees of freedom. These measurements explicitly confirm the ability of entangled slow neutron beams to evade quantum decoherence in condensed matter and may help enable precision measurements with neutron beams to avoid certain classes of systematic errors. 

[1] J. Shen et al, Nature Comm. 11, 930 (2020).

[2] S. Lu et al, Phys. Rev. A 101, 042318 (2020). 

[3] S. J. Kuhn et al, Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023227 (2021).

*This work is supported by DOE BES grant DE-AC05-00OR22725, DOE STTR grant DE-SC0009584, the Indiana U Emerging Areas of Research program, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grants P30677 and P34239, NSF grant PHY-1913789, US Department of Commerce Cooperative Agreement 70NANB15H259, the ORNL LDRD program, beamtime allocation award RB1920268 at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, and beamtime allocation at the HFIR reactor, a US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated by ORNL.

Presenters

  • William M Snow

    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University Bloomington

Authors

  • William M Snow

    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University Bloomington
  • David Baxter

    • Indiana University
    • Indiana Univ - Bloomington
  • Eric Dees

    • Indiana University
  • Abu Ashik Md Irfan

    • Indiana University
  • Steve Kuhn

    • Indiana University
  • Quan Minh Le Thien

    • Indiana University
  • Shufan Lu

    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Sam McKay

    • Indiana University
  • Gerardo Ortiz

    • Indiana University
  • Roger Pynn

    • Indiana University
  • Jiazhou Shen

    • Indiana University
  • Vince Vangelista

    • Indiana University
  • Niels Geerits

    • TU Wien
  • Fankang Li

    • Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Steve Parnell

    • TU Delft
  • Jeroem Plomp

    • TU Delft
  • Rob Dalgliesh

    • Rutherford Appleton Lab