Perfect splitting of a two-photon pulse
Mads Middelhede Lund, Fan Yang, Klaus Mølmer · Physical Review A · 2023
We employ a cascaded system approach to numerically simulate the interaction of photon pulses with a two-level scatterer in a chiral waveguide QED setup and show that the scattering of a two-photon pulse may lead to the predominant population of only two output wave packet modes in an entangled state, $|2,0\ensuremath{\rangle}--|0,2\ensuremath{\rangle}$. In a complementary wave-packet basis, this is a product state of two orthogonal single-photon wave packets. Operating this process in reverse allows a perfect merging of distinguishable single-photon wave packets into a single-mode pulse carrying two identical photons.