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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Experimental realization of an optical entanglement filter

Ryo Okamoto, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Holger Friedrich Hofmann, Tomohisa Nagata, Keiji Sasaki, Shigeki Takeuchi

Published Jun 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The ability to filter quantum states is a key capability in quantum information science and technology, where one-qubit filters, or polarizers, have found wide application. Filtering on the basis of entanglement requires extension to multi-qubit filters with qubit-qubit interactions. Such devices have many important applications to quantum technologies.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2009.5191637

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