N. Peter Armitage
Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Quantum mechanical entanglement means that the quantum state of one particle cannot be described independently of another, even if they are far apart. Many materials like superconductors and magnets are believed to have properties intimately related to quantum mechanical entanglement, but there have been essentially no tools to measure it. This research is aimed at developing tools for preparing and measuring entangled terahertz photons and then using them to probe the entanglement inherent to electrons in solids.