Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics

Sangouard, Nicolas; Simon, Christoph; Coudreau, Thomas; Gisin, Nicolas

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.050301

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Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics

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Sangouard, Nicolas; Simon, Christoph; Coudreau, Thomas; Gisin, Nicolas

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Physical review, A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, vol. 78

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2008

Abstract

We show that single-photon entangled states of the form |0>|1>+|1>|0> can be purified with a simple linear-optics based protocol, which is eminently feasible with current technology. Besides its conceptual interest, this result is relevant for attractive quantum repeater protocols.

Keywords

Quantum entanglement
Quantum optics

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Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Groupe de physique appliquée

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SANGOUARD, Nicolas et al. Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics. In: Physical review, A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2008, vol. 78. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.050301

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PID : unige:1109
DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.050301

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1050-2947

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