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Full Bell-basis measurement of an atom-photon 2-qubit state and its application for quantum networks

Quantum Physics 2024-04-30 v4

Abstract

The efficiency of a Bell-state measurement on photon pairs is bound to 50\,\% due to the number of Bell states that can be distinguished using linear optics. Here we present the implementation of a protocol that allows us to distinguish all four Bell states by the use of a single-ion quantum memory and heralded absorption as state-selective measurement. The protocol is implemented in two steps. First we demonstrate the state-preserving mapping of a photonic qubit onto the quantum memory, verified by the preservation of entanglement in the process. Then we demonstrate the full Bell state projection between a memory qubit and an incoming photonic qubit, by applying it for atom-to-photon quantum state teleportation.

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@article{arxiv.2301.06091,
  title  = {Full Bell-basis measurement of an atom-photon 2-qubit state and its application for quantum networks},
  author = {Elena Arenskötter and Stephan Kucera and Omar Elshehy and Max Bergerhoff and Matthias Kreis and Léandre Brunel and Jürgen Eschner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06091},
  year   = {2024}
}

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