Efficient generation and activation of bound entanglement in optical qubits

Fumihiro Kaneda, Ryōsuke Shimizu, Satoshi Ishizaka, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu

Published Aug 1, 2011• 0 citations

Abstract

We report the efficient generation of a four-qubit bound entangled Smolin state. We also demonstrate the activation of the bound entanglement; we make the bound entanglement in the Smolin state distillable with the help of an additional Bell pair.

DOI: 10.1109/iqec-cleo.2011.6194079

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