Direct measurement of the concurrence of hybrid entangled state based on parity check measurements Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11474168 and 11747161) and a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, China. |
Schematic diagram of the PCM. The function of the PCM is to distinguish the states |HV⟩ and |VH⟩ from |HH⟩ and |VV⟩. The PBS can transmit the horizontally polarized photon (|H⟩) and reflect the vertically polarized photon (|V⟩). HWP45° is a half-wave plate placed in 45°, whose function is |V⟩ → |H⟩ and |H⟩ → |V⟩. A photon in ac mode introduces +θ on the coherent probe beam |α⟩p, while a photon in bc introduces −θ on |α⟩p. |X⟩⟨X| represents an X quadrature homodyne measurement. |