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Published on: May 30, 2014
Experimental realization of Dicke states of up to six qubits for multiparty quantum networking
R Prevedel1, G Cronenberg, M S Tame
1Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
We report the first experimental generation and characterization of a six-photon Dicke state. The produced state shows a fidelity of F=0.56+/-0.02 with respect to an ideal Dicke state and violates a witness detecting genuine six-qubit entanglement by 4 standard deviations. We confirm characteristic Dicke properties of our resource and demonstrate its versatility by projecting out four- and five-photon Dicke states, as well as four-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W states. We also show that Dicke states have interesting applications in multiparty quantum networking protocols such as open-destination teleportation, telecloning, and quantum secret sharing.
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