We present a universal way to concentrate an arbitrary N-particle less-entangled W state into a maximally entangled W state with different parity check gates.It comprises two protocols.The first protocol is based on t...We present a universal way to concentrate an arbitrary N-particle less-entangled W state into a maximally entangled W state with different parity check gates.It comprises two protocols.The first protocol is based on the linear optical elements,say the partial parity check gate and the second protocol uses the quantum nondemolition measurement to construct the complete parity check gate.Both protocols can achieve the concentration task.These protocols have several advantages.First,they can obtain a maximally entangled W state only with the help of some single photons,which greatly reduces the number of entanglement resources.Second,in the first protocol,only linear optical elements are required,which is feasible with current techniques.Third,the second protocol can be repeated to perform the concentration step and obtain a higher success probability.All these advantages make it quite useful in current quantum communication and computation applications.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10704001 and 60678022, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant No 20060357008, Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant No 070412060, the Key Program of the Education Department of Anhui Province under Grant Nos KJ2008B265, 2008jq1183 and KJ2008A28ZC, and the Talent Foundation of Anhui University. We would like to thank Dr. Zheng-Yuan Xue for careful reading of the initial version of the manuscript.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11474168and 61401222)the Qing Lan Project in Jiangsu Province+2 种基金Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(Grant No20113223120002)University Natural Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.11KJB510016)the Priority Academic Development Program of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions,China
文摘We present a universal way to concentrate an arbitrary N-particle less-entangled W state into a maximally entangled W state with different parity check gates.It comprises two protocols.The first protocol is based on the linear optical elements,say the partial parity check gate and the second protocol uses the quantum nondemolition measurement to construct the complete parity check gate.Both protocols can achieve the concentration task.These protocols have several advantages.First,they can obtain a maximally entangled W state only with the help of some single photons,which greatly reduces the number of entanglement resources.Second,in the first protocol,only linear optical elements are required,which is feasible with current techniques.Third,the second protocol can be repeated to perform the concentration step and obtain a higher success probability.All these advantages make it quite useful in current quantum communication and computation applications.
