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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Experimental implementation of entanglement concentration using Schmidt projection

Taehyun Kim, Franco N. C. Wong

Published May 4, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We implement entanglement concentration by the Schmidt projection protocol, known for its optimal efficiency for large number of qubits, using photon pairs entangled in polarization and momentum and employing single-photon two-qubit quantum logic.
DOI
10.1109/qels.2008.4553265

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