• Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Vol. 40, Issue 6, 943 (2023)
ZHU Mengzheng*, SU Mengyuan, GONG Pifeng, and ZHANG Jinfeng
Author Affiliations
  • School of Physics & Electronic Information, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China
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    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461.2023.06.014 Cite this Article
    Mengzheng ZHU, Mengyuan SU, Pifeng GONG, Jinfeng ZHANG. Deterministic entanglement purification for decohered GHZ state assisted by spatial entanglement[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2023, 40(6): 943 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A deterministic entanglement purification protocol (EPP) for polarization decohered Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state is presented based on linear optical elements such as polarization beam splitter and half-wave plate. The proposed EPP makes use of spatial entanglement as an additional resource to purify polarization entanglement, and its essence is to transfer the bit-flip and phase-flip errors from polarization degree of freedom (DOF) to spatial one using the methods of linear optics and hyper-entanglement. The entanglement purification scheme can be implemented without knowing any parameters of the low-entanglement GHZ state to be purified, without converting phase flip errors to bit flips for purification, introducing the nonlinear effects. According to the proposed EPP, just in a purification step, both the bit-flip and phase-flip errors in the polarization mixed states can be deterministically corrected by using additional entanglement DOF in spatial mode, which greatly enhances the experimental feasibility of this scheme.
    Mengzheng ZHU, Mengyuan SU, Pifeng GONG, Jinfeng ZHANG. Deterministic entanglement purification for decohered GHZ state assisted by spatial entanglement[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2023, 40(6): 943
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