Entanglement swapping between discrete and continuous variables
Abstract
We experimentally realize "hybrid" entanglement swapping between discrete-variable (DV) and continuous-variable (CV) optical systems. DV two-mode entanglement as obtainable from a single photon split at a beam splitter is robustly transferred by means of efficient CV entanglement and operations, using sources of squeezed light and homodyne detections. The DV entanglement after the swapping is verified without post-selection by the logarithmic negativity of up to 0.280.01. Furthermore, our analysis shows that the optimally transferred state can be post-selected into a highly entangled state that violates a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality by more than four standard deviations, and thus it may serve as resources for quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography.
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@article{arxiv.1411.1310,
title = {Entanglement swapping between discrete and continuous variables},
author = {Shuntaro Takeda and Maria Fuwa and Peter van Loock and Akira Furusawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.1310},
year = {2015}
}