›› 2014, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (8): 80305-080305.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/8/080305

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Entanglement concentration for W-type entangled coherent states

盛宇波a c, 刘炯a c, 赵圣阳a c, 王磊a c, 周澜a b   

  1. a Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210003, China;
    b College of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China;
    c Institute of Signal Processing Transmission, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-12-22 修回日期:2014-01-26 出版日期:2014-08-15 发布日期:2014-08-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11347110, 11104159, and 61201164), the Qing Lan Project, Jiangsu Province, 1311 Talent Plan, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

Entanglement concentration for W-type entangled coherent states

Sheng Yu-Bo (盛宇波)a c, Liu Jiong (刘炯)a c, Zhao Sheng-Yang (赵圣阳)a c, Wang Lei (王磊)a c, Zhou Lan (周澜)a b   

  1. a Key Laboratory of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210003, China;
    b College of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China;
    c Institute of Signal Processing Transmission, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
  • Received:2013-12-22 Revised:2014-01-26 Online:2014-08-15 Published:2014-08-15
  • Contact: Zhou Lan E-mail:zhoul@njupt.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11347110, 11104159, and 61201164), the Qing Lan Project, Jiangsu Province, 1311 Talent Plan, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

摘要: An entangled coherent state (ECS) is one type of entanglement, which is widely discussed in the application of quantum information processing (QIP). In this paper, we propose an entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) to distill the maximally entangled W-type ECS from the partially entangled W-type ECS. In the ECP, we adopt the balanced beam splitter (BS) to make the parity check measurement. Our ECP is quite different from the conventional ECPs. After performing the ECP, not only can we obtain the maximally entangled ECS with some success probability, but also we can increase the amplitude of the coherent state. Therefore, it is especially useful in long-distance quantum communication, if the photon loss is considered.

关键词: quantum communication and computation, entanglement concentration, coherent state

Abstract: An entangled coherent state (ECS) is one type of entanglement, which is widely discussed in the application of quantum information processing (QIP). In this paper, we propose an entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) to distill the maximally entangled W-type ECS from the partially entangled W-type ECS. In the ECP, we adopt the balanced beam splitter (BS) to make the parity check measurement. Our ECP is quite different from the conventional ECPs. After performing the ECP, not only can we obtain the maximally entangled ECS with some success probability, but also we can increase the amplitude of the coherent state. Therefore, it is especially useful in long-distance quantum communication, if the photon loss is considered.

Key words: quantum communication and computation, entanglement concentration, coherent state

中图分类号:  (Quantum communication)

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