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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 3(82), 2010

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.82.032318

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Complete hyperentangled-Bell-state analysis for quantum communication

Journal article published in 2010 by Yu-Bo Sheng, Fu-Guo Deng ORCID, Gui Lu Long ORCID
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Abstract

It is impossible to unambiguously distinguish the four Bell states in polarization, resorting to linear optical elements only. Recently, the hyperentangled Bell state, the simultaneous entanglement in more than one degree of freedom, has been used to assist in the complete Bell-state analysis of the four Bell states. However, if the additional degree of freedom is qubitlike, one can only distinguish 7 from the group of 16 states. Here we present a way to distinguish the hyperentangled Bell states completely with the help of cross-Kerr nonlinearity. Also, we discuss its application in the quantum teleportation of a particle in an unknown state in two different degrees of freedom and in the entanglement swapping of hyperentangled states. These applications will increase the channel capacity of long-distance quantum communication. ; Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures