Purification of Single-Photon Entanglement

Article Article scientifique Article Purification of Single-Photon Entanglement eng 2010 author Salart Subils Daniel 638961 author Landry Olivier 630533 author Sangouard Nicolas Bruno 649865 author Gisin Nicolas 23716 author Herrmann H. author Sanguinetti Bruno 701423 author Simon Camille 670148 author Sohler W. author Thew Rob 0000-0003-0188-6053 541344 author Thomas A. author Zbinden Hugo 0000-0002-9237-1700 29543 180504-1/4 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.180504 0031-9007 Single-photon entanglement is a simple form of entanglement that exists between two spatial modes sharing a single photon. Despite its elementary form, it provides a resource as useful as polarization-entangled photons and it can be used for quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping operations. Here, we report the first experiment where single-photon entanglement is purified with a simple linear-optics based protocol. In addition to its conceptual interest, this result might find applications in long distance quantum communication based on quantum repeaters. Dewey 500.2 35 Groupe de physique appliquée 135 false Physical review letters 104 18 2c30178c-9aed-4af0-960a-e6c504916a73 Article (Published version) Public fulltext.pdf 462968 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Groupe de physique appliquée

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