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Physical Review A

Experimental realization of an approximate transpose operation for qutrit systems using a structural physical approximation

Hyang‐Tag Lim, Yong‐Su Kim, Young-Sik Ra, Joonwoo Bae, Yoon-Ho Kim

Published Oct 24, 2012• 22 citations
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Abstract

Although important for detecting entanglement, the transpose operation cannot be directly realized in laboratory because it is a nonphysical operation. It is, however, possible to find an approximate transpose operation using the method known as the structural physical approximation (SPA); recently, SPA-based implementations of the transpose and partial transpose have been demonstrated for a single-qubit [Phys. Rev. A 83, 020301(R) (2011)] and an entangled two-qubit system [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 160401 (2011)]. In this work, we expand SPA-transpose to a three-dimensional quantum system: a qutrit. The photonic qutrit state is encoded in the polarization, and path degrees of freedom of a single-photon and the SPA-transpose operation, which is based on measurement and preparation of quantum states, is implemented with linear optics. Our work paves the way toward entanglement detection for higher-dimensional quantum systems.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.86.042334

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Structural physical approximation (SPA) has been exploited to approximate nonphysical operation such as partial transpose. It has already been studied in the context of detection of entanglement and found that if the minimum eigenvalue of SPA to partial transpose is less than 29\frac{2}{9}92​ then the two-qubit state is entangled. We find application of SPA to partial transpose in the estimation of the optimal singlet fraction. We show that the optimal singlet fraction can be expressed in terms of the minimum eigenvalue of SPA to partial transpose. We also show that the optimal singlet fraction can be realized using Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry with only two detectors. Further we have shown that the generated hybrid entangled state between a qubit and a binary coherent state can be used as a resource state in quantum teleportation.
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The partial transpose by which a subsystem's quantum state is solely transposed is of unique importance in quantum information processing from both fundamental and practical point of view. In this work, we present a practical scheme to realize a physical approximation to the partial transpose using local measurements on individual quantum systems and classical communication. We then report its linear optical realization and show that the scheme works with no dependence on local basis of given quantum states. A proof-of-principle demonstration of entanglement detection using the physical approximation of the partial transpose is also reported.