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Erasing the orbital angular momentum information of a photon

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arxiv 1702.06888 v1 pith:GO4BBBYS submitted 2017-02-21 quant-ph physics.optics

Erasing the orbital angular momentum information of a photon

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Quantum erasers with paths in the form of physical slits have been studied extensively and proven instrumental in probing wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Here we replace physical paths (slits) with abstract paths of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Using spin-orbit hybrid entanglement of photons we show that the OAM content of a photon can be erased with a complimentary polarization projection of one of the entangled pair. The result is the (dis)appearance of azimuthal fringes based on whether the \which-OAM" information was erased. We extend this concept to a delayed measurement scheme and show that the OAM information and fringe visibility are complimentary.

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