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Optical entanglement is a key requirement for many quantum communication protocols. Conventionally entanglement is formed between two distinct beams, with the quantum correlations being measured at separate locations. We show entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 J. Janousek , K. Wagner , J-F. Morizur , N. Treps , P. K. Lam , C. C. Harb , H-A. Bachor

Measuring an entangled state of two particles is crucial to many quantum communication protocols. Yet Bell state distinguishability using a finite apparatus obeying linear evolution and local measurement is theoretically limited. We extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-09 N. Pisenti , C. P. E. Gaebler , T. W. Lynn

Entanglement is a key resource for fundamental tests of physics and emerging quantum technologies. In quantum optics, two perspectives on entanglement coexist. In the continuous-variable framework, entanglement is understood as holding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Dorian Schiffer , Marcus Huber , Elizabeth Agudelo

We study the operation of linear optics schemes for entanglement distribution based on nonlocal photon subtraction when input states, produced by imperfect single-photon sources, exhibit both vacuum and multiphoton contributions. Two models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Mikołaj Lasota , Czesław Radzewicz , Konrad Banaszek , Rob Thew

Entanglement is a crucial resource for quantum information processing, and so protocols to generate high fidelity entangled states on various hardware platforms are in demand. While spin chains have been extensively studied to generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Jan Riegelmeyer , Dan Wignall , Marta P. Estarellas , Irene D'Amico , Timothy P. Spiller

We present a scheme to produce an entangled four-photon state from two pairs of entangled two-photon states. Such entangled four-photon states are equivalent to the quantum state of two maximally entangled spin-1 particles. The scheme can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 XuBo Zou , K. Pahlke , W. Mathis

Quantum entanglement plays a vital role in many quantum information and communication tasks. Entangled states of higher dimensional systems are of great interest due to the extended possibilities they provide. For example, they allow the…

Current photon entangling schemes require resources that grow with the photon number. We present a new approach that generates quantum entanglement between many photons, using only a single source of entangled photon pairs. The different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 E. Megidish , T. Shacham , A. Halevy , L. Dovrat , H. S. Eisenberg

Entanglement is a unique property of quantum systems and an essential resource for many quantum technologies. The ability to transfer or swap entanglement between systems is an important protocol in quantum information science. Entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Sofiane Merkouche , Valérian Thiel , Alex O. C. Davis , Brian J. Smith

We demonstrate both the generation and detection of an ultra-high flux of polarization Bell states using broadband hyper-entangled bi-photons that are quantum-correlated in both polarization and time-energy. Bell states of polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Netanel P. Yaish , Samata Gokhale , Avi Peer

Bell states are the most prominent maximally entangled photon states. In a typical four-level emitter, like a semiconductor quantum dot, the photon states exhibit only one type of Bell state entanglement. By adding an external driving to…

Entangled photons are a crucial resource for quantum communication and linear optical quantum computation. Unfortunately, the applicability of many photon-based schemes is limited due to the stochastic character of the photon sources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 Stefanie Barz , Gunther Cronenberg , Anton Zeilinger , Philip Walther

An experimentally feasible scheme for generating a 12-qubit hyperentangled state via four photons, entangled in polarization, frequency and spatial mode, is proposed. We study the nature of quantum non-locality of this hyperentangled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Kun Du , Cong-Feng Qiao

We present a novel semi-analytical methodology to construct optimal linear optical circuits for heralded production of 3-photon GHZ and 2-photon Bell states. We provide a detailed description and analysis of the resulting optical schemes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 F. V. Gubarev , I. V. Dyakonov , M. Yu. Saygin , G. I. Struchalin , S. S. Straupe , S. P. Kulik

Using a method of characterizing entanglement in the framework of quantum field theory, we investigate the optical generation and quantitative characterizations of quantum entanglement in an electron-hole system, in presence of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Shi

We describe several different methods for generating the entangled ancilla states that are required for linear optics quantum computing. We show that post-selection can be used in combination with linear optical elements to generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Franson , M. M. Donegan , B. C. Jacobs

We show a mechanism that projects a pair of neutral two-level atoms from an initially uncorrelated state to a maximally entangled state while they remain spacelike separated. The atoms begin both excited in a common electromagnetic vacuum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan León , Carlos Sabín

Entanglement and spontaneous emission are fundamental quantum phenomena that drive many applications of quantum physics. During the spontaneous emission of light from an excited two-level atom, the atom briefly becomes entangled with the…

Entanglement, the non-local correlations present in multipartite quantum systems, is a curious feature of quantum mechanics and the fuel of quantum technology. It is therefore a major priority to develop energy-conserving and simple methods…

Quantum entanglement is one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and forms the basis of quantum information technologies. Here we present a novel method for the creation of quantum entanglement in multipartite and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Mario Krenn , Armin Hochrainer , Mayukh Lahiri , Anton Zeilinger