Efficient single-photon-assisted entanglement concentration for partially entangled photon pairs

Details Efficient single-photon-assisted entanglement concentration for partially entangled photon pairs Efficient single-photon-assisted entanglement concentration for partially entangled photon pairs

2012-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/1202.2190v1

Physical Review A 85, 012307 (2012)

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Quantum Physics

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We present two realistic entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) for pure partially entangled photons. A partially entangled photon pair can be concentrated to a maximally entangled pair with only an ancillary single photon in a certain probability, while the conventional ones require two copies of partially entangled pairs at least. Our first protocol is implemented with linear optics and the second one is implemented with cross-Kerr nonlinearities. Compared with other ECPs, they do not need to know the accurate coefficients of the initial state. With linear optics, it is feasible with current experiment. With cross-Kerr nonlinearities, it does not require the sophisticated single-photon detectors and can be repeated to get a higher success probability. Moreover, the second protocol can get the higher entanglement transformation efficiency and it maybe the most economical one by far. Meanwhile, both of protocols are more suitable for multi-photon system concentration, because they need less operations and classical communications. All these advantages make two protocols be useful in current long-distance quantum communications.

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