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International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Multiphoton Entanglement by Delocalized Single Photon Addition

Nicola Biagi, Luca S. Costanzo, Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta

Published Jul 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report about the generation of entangled states obtained by applying delocalized single-photon addition between two uncorrelated light modes populated by coherent states. Such entangled states can contain an arbitrary large number of photons while preserving their non-classical correlations. Besides their importance to study quantum effects in large-scale systems, these states are found to be surprisingly robust against losses and thus well suited to travel over long distances and to be stored in atomic ensembles.

DOI
10.1109/icton.2019.8840485

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