10,329 research outputs found
Experimental Demonstration of Unconditional Entanglement Swapping for Continuous Variables
The unconditional entanglement swapping for continuous variables is
experimentally demonstrated. Two initial entangled states are produced from two
nondegenerate optical parametric amplifiers operating at deamplification.
Through implementing the direct measurement of Bell-state between two optical
beams from each amplifier the remaining two optical beams, which have never
directly interacted with each other, are entangled. The quantum correlation
degrees of 1.23dB and 1.12dB below the shot noise limit for the amplitude and
phase quadratures resulting from the entanglement swapping are straightly
measured.Comment: new versio
A local variable model for entanglement swapping exploiting the detection loophole
In an entanglement swapping process two initially uncorrelated qubits become
entangled, without any direct interaction. We present a model using local
variables aiming at reproducing this remarkable process, under the realistic
assumption of finite detection efficiencies. The model assumes that the local
variables describing the two qubits are initially completely uncorrelated.
Nevertheless, we show that once conditioned on the Bell measurement result, the
local variables bear enough correlation to simulate quantum measurement results
with correlation very close to the quantum prediction. When only a partial Bell
measurement is simulated, as carried out is all experiments so far, then the
model recovers analytically the quantum prediction.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Partial Teleportation of Entanglement in the Noisy Environment
Partial teleportation of entanglement is to teleport one particle of an
entangled pair through a quantum channel. This is conceptually equivalent to
quantum swapping. We consider the partial teleportation of entanglement in the
noisy environment, employing the Werner-state representation of the noisy
channel for the simplicity of calculation. To have the insight of the many-body
teleportation, we introduce the measure of correlation information and study
the transfer of the correlation information and entanglement. We find that the
fidelity gets smaller as the initial-state is entangled more for a given
entanglement of the quantum channel. The entangled channel transfers at least
some of the entanglement to the final state.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Diverging Entanglement Length in Gapped Quantum Spin Systems
We prove the existence of gapped quantum Hamiltonians whose ground states
exhibit an infinite entanglement length, as opposed to their finite correlation
length. Using the concept of entanglement swapping, the localizable
entanglement is calculated exactly for valence bond and finitely correlated
states, and the existence of the so--called string-order parameter is
discussed. We also report on evidence that the ground state of an
antiferromagnetic chain can be used as a perfect quantum channel if local
measurements on the individual spins can be implemented.Comment: 4 page
Quantum correlations from local amplitudes and the resolution of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen nonlocality puzzle
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen nonlocality puzzle has been recognized as one of
the most important unresolved issues in the foundational aspects of quantum
mechanics. We show that the problem is resolved if the quantum correlations are
calculated directly from local quantities which preserve the phase information
in the quantum system. We assume strict locality for the probability amplitudes
instead of local realism for the outcomes, and calculate an amplitude
correlation function.Then the experimentally observed correlation of outcomes
is calculated from the square of the amplitude correlation function. Locality
of amplitudes implies that the measurement on one particle does not collapse
the companion particle to a definite state. Apart from resolving the EPR
puzzle, this approach shows that the physical interpretation of apparently
`nonlocal' effects like quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping are
different from what is usually assumed. Bell type measurements do not change
distant states. Yet the correlations are correctly reproduced, when measured,
if complex probability amplitudes are treated as the basic local quantities. As
examples we discuss the quantum correlations of two-particle maximally
entangled states and the three-particle GHZ entangled state.Comment: Std. Latex, 11 pages, 1 table. Prepared for presentation at the
International Conference on Quantum Optics, ICQO'2000, Minsk, Belaru
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