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.

Zhang Man1, Zhou Lan2, Zhong Wei1, 3, Sheng Yu-Bo1, 3, †
       

Schematic diagram showing the principle of the direct concurrence measurement of the hybrid entangled state. It consists of three PCMs, which have been described in Section 2. The structure of both PCM1 and PCM2 are shown in Fig. 1. In each round of the PCM, we pick up the odd parity states. We perform a Hadamard operation on the photon in spatial modes a1 and c1 with the help of HWP22.5°. HWP22.5° is a half-wave plate oriented at 22.5°, whose function is | H ( | H + | V ) / 2 and | V ( | H | V ) / 2 .