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Experimental manipulation of five-photon entanglement

Zhi Qiang Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, An‐Ning Zhang, Tao Yang, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Aug 18, 2005• 0 citations

Abstract

We report the experimental manipulation of five-photon entanglement. In the experiment, we first generate a high intensity and ultra-stable source of entangled photons and then used two pairs of entangled photons to produce a four-photon entangled state. After combining it with a single-photon state, we are able to engineer a five-photon entangled state. Meanwhile, by manipulating these entangled states, we have also successfully demonstrated the open-destination quantum teleportation, and a distant nondestructive Controlled-NOT gate for quantum teleportation.

DOI: 10.1117/12.616846

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