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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 4(77), 2008

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.77.042308

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Efficient polarization entanglement purification based on parametric down-conversion sources with cross-Kerr nonlinearity

Journal article published in 2008 by Yu-Bo Sheng, Fu-Guo Deng ORCID, Hong-Yu Zhou
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Abstract

We present a way for entanglement purification based on two parametric down-conversion (PDC) sources with cross-Kerr nonlinearities. It is comprised of two processes. The first one is a primary entanglement purification protocol for PDC sources with nondestructive quantum nondemolition (QND) detectors by transferring the spatial entanglement of photon pairs to their polarization. In this time, the QND detectors act as the role of controlled-not (CNot) gates. Also they can distinguish the photon number of the spatial modes, which provides a good way for the next process to purify the entanglement of the photon pairs kept more. In the second process for entanglement purification, new QND detectors are designed to act as the role of CNot gates. This protocol has the advantage of high yield and it requires neither CNot gates based on linear optical elements nor sophisticated single-photon detectors, which makes it more convenient in practical applications. ; Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures