Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics
Quantum Physics
2009-11-13 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.2953,
title = {Purification of single-photon entanglement with linear optics},
author = {Nicolas Sangouard and Christoph Simon and Thomas Coudreau and Nicolas Gisin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2953},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures