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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Entanglement purification of gaussian continuous variable quantum states
1Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria and Laboratory of Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Abstract:
We describe an entanglement purification protocol to generate maximally entangled states with high efficiencies from two-mode squeezed states or from mixed Gaussian continuous entangled states. The protocol relies on a local quantum nondemolition measurement of the total excitation number of several continuous variable entangled pairs. We propose an optical scheme to do this kind of measurement using cavity enhanced cross-Kerr interactions.
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