Effect of atmospheric turbulence on entangled orbital angular momentum three-qubit state*

Project supported by the National Defense Innovation Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. CXJJ-16S080).

Yan Xiang1, 2, Zhang Peng-Fei1, Zhang Jing-Hui1, Feng Xiao-Xing1, Qiao Chun-Hong1, Fan Cheng-Yu1, †
       

Sketch of the setup. The entangled OAM three-qubit state whose wave front is deteriorated as it propagates through independent weak turbulences along the plane z toward a detector. Each atmosphere, labeled by A, B, and C, is assumed to have the same statistical properties (Fried parameter ). The propagation distance for each photon is L.