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Chinese Physics Letters

Experimental Creation of Entanglement Using Separable States

杨晓冬, 王安民, 马小三, 徐枫, 尤浩, 牛万青

Published Jan 1, 2005• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement can be created on two distant particles using separable states. We show that two working particles can share some entanglement, while one ancilla particle always remains separable from the two working particles during the experimental evolution of the system. Our experiment can be viewed as a benchmark to illustrate the idea that no prior entanglement is necessary to create entanglement.

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