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Research in Optical Sciences

Entanglement of single-photon W-eigenstates

Armando Pérez-Leija, Alexander Szameit, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce special photonic lattices where we can, in principle, selectively excite the constitutive quantum eigenstates. Hence, through the excitation of such systems with single-photon W-states we can readily generate entanglement of the so-called W-eigenstates.
DOI
10.1364/hilas.2014.jw2a.63

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