Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-07
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 130501 (2010)
Physics
Quantum Physics
10 pages, 6 figures. For a simultaneously submitted related work see arXiv:1005.1965
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.130501
Entanglement [1, 2] enables powerful new quantum technologies [3-8], but in real-world implementations, entangled states are often subject to decoherence and preparation errors. Entanglement distillation [9, 10] can often counteract these effects by converting imperfectly entangled states into a smaller number of maximally entangled states. States that are entangled but cannot be distilled are called bound entangled [11]. Bound entanglement is central to many exciting theoretical results in quantum information processing [12-14], but has thus far not been experimentally realized. A recent claim for experimental bound entanglement is not supported by their data [15]. Here, we consider a family of four-qubit Smolin states [16], focusing on a regime where the bound entanglement is experimentally robust. We encode the state into the polarization of four photons and show that our state exhibits both entanglement and undistillability, the two defining properties of bound entanglement. We then use our state to implement entanglement unlocking, a key feature of Smolin states [16].
Kaltenbaek Rainer
Lavoie Jonathan
Piani Marco
Resch Kevin J.
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