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Experimental Determination of Entanglement by a Projective Measurement

Stephen Patrick Walborn, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, L. Davidovich, Florian Mintert, Andreas Buchleitner

Published Jan 1, 2007• 2 citations
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Abstract

We show that entanglement can be measured by projective measurements on two copies of a bipartite state. We present the experimental realization of this scheme, using two copies encoded into a pair of photons.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2007.ithf2

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