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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Symmetrical Bell state preparation and measurement without a third party

Yong‐Su Kim, Tanumoy Pramanik, Young‐Wook Cho, Ming Yang, Sang Wook Han, Sang-Yun Leel, Min-Sung Kang, Sung Moon

Published May 5, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a linear optical Bell state preparation and measurement schemes without photon-photon interaction at an optical element. Unlike the standard schemes, it can be symmetrically divided into two parties without a third party. © 2019 The Author(s)
DOI
10.23919/cleo.2019.8749170

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