Microscopic origin of polarization-entangled Stokes-anti-Stokes photons in diamond

Abstract: Violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality for the polarization of Stokes-anti-Stokes (SaS) photon pairs near a Raman resonance is demonstrated. The pairs are generated by shining a pulsed laser on a diamond sample, where two photons of the laser are converted into a pair of photons of different frequencies. The generated pairs are collected by standard Bell analyzers and shown to be entangled in polarization, with the degree of entanglement depending on the spectral region and on the orientation of the polarization of the incident light with respect to the crystallographic orientation of the sample. This result opens up the possibility to combine quantum optics and SaS Raman spectroscopy in order to improve materials science and quantum information.