An optical gate for simultaneous fusion of four photonic W or Bell states

  • Authors:
  • Can Yesilyurt;Sinan Bugu;Fatih Ozaydin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey;Department of Computer Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In order to create large-scale polarization entangled W states, there have been several proposals and some experimental demonstrations. An outstanding proposal is a simple setup which probabilistically fuses two W states of arbitrary sizes $$n\ge 3$$ and $$m\ge 3$$, creating a W state of size $$n+m-2$$ (Ozdemir et al., in: New J Phys 13:103003, 2011). Using this setup as building blocks, we propose a new setup which can fuse four W states simultaneously. The proposed setup can fuse W states of size 2, i.e. Bell states, as well. We study the resource cost of our fusion process for two main scenarios, i.e. starting from sizes 2 and 3. We present some cost efficient cases, as compared to the previous work.