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Chinese Physics B

Measurement-based entanglement purification for hybrid entangled state

Cheng‐Chen Luo, Shi‐Pu Gu, Xing-Fu Wang, Lan Zhou, Yu‐Bo Sheng

Published Feb 5, 2025• 3 citations
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Abstract Hybrid entangled states (HESs), which involve different particles with various degrees of freedom, have garnered significant attention and been applied in a wide range of quantum technologies. However, similar to other categories of entanglement, maximally HESs inevitably degrade to mixed states due to the environmental noise and operational imperfections. To address the degradation problem, measurement-based entanglement purification offers a feasible and robust solution alternative to conventional gate-based purification methods. In this paper, we propose a measurement-based hybrid entanglement purification protocol (MB-HEPP) for a certain kind of HES which consists of polarization photons and coherent states. We extend our methodology to several conditions, such as the multi-copy and multi-party scenarios, and the photon-loss condition. Compared with previous HEPPs, this protocol has several advantages. First, it does not depend on post-selection and the purified HESs can be retained for further application. Second, it does not require the Bell state measurement, but only uses the parity check with conventional linear optical elements, which makes it have the higher success probability and more feasible. Our MB-HEPP has potential applications in future heterogeneous quantum networks.

DOI
10.1088/1674-1056/adb267

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Abstract Hybrid entangled states (HES) have attracted significant attention and been utilized in various quantum information processing applications. However, like many other entangled states, maximally entangled HES may degrade to mixed states due to environmental noise and operational imperfections. In this paper, a hybrid entanglement purification protocol (HEPP) for the HES, which consists of photon‐number state and coherent state is proposed. This HEPP is designed to effectively purify a bit‐flip error occurring in any qubit of the HES. Furthermore, HEPP is extended to a general condition, say, the multi‐party scenario, and integrates the generation of HES into the HEPP. Moreover, if different initial mixed states are chosen, then the residual entanglement can be utilized to distill high‐quality entanglement. The HEPP has important applications in the future quantum information processing field.
We present an entanglement purification protocol (EPP) to reconstruct some maximally hybrid entangled states (HESs) from nonmaximally mixed HESs. We use simple linear optical elements such as a polarization beam splitter (PBS) and beam splitter (BS) to achieve this task. Meanwhile, it is shown that the parity-check gates acted by PBS and BS are enough to complete the task, and the controlled-not (cnot) gates or similar logic operations are not needed. Unlike the current EPPs, this protocol can purify not only the conventional bit-flip error and phase-flip error but also the dissipation error coming from the photon loss of the coherent state. It can also be extended to achieve the purification for multiphoton and multicoherent state HES. This protocol may be useful in current hybrid quantum repeaters.
The entangled coherent states (ECSs) have been widely used to realize quantum information processing tasks. However, the ECSs may suffer from photon loss and decoherence due to the inherent noise in quantum channel, which may degrade the fidelity of ECSs. To overcome these obstacles, we present a measurement-based entanglement purification protocol (MBEPP) for ECSs to distill some high-quality ECSs from a large number of low-quality copies. We first show the principle of this MBEPP without considering the photon loss. After that, we prove that this MBEPP is feasible to correct the error resulted from the photon loss. Additionally, this MBEPP only requires to operate the Bell state measurement without performing local two-qubit gates on the noisy pairs and the purified high-quality ECSs can be preserved for other applications. This MBEPP may have application potential in the implementation of long-distance quantum communication.
Measurement-based entanglement purification protocol (MBEPP) depending on the Bell state measurement (BSM) is first proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett.110260503 (2013)10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.260503], which is shown to tolerate much more local noise than the conventional gate-based EPPs. However, the existing MBEPPs for discrete variable (MBEPP-DV) and MBEPP for continuous variable (MBEPP-CV) fail to take full advantage of their strengths. In this paper, we study the MBEPP for logical hybrid entanglement (MBEPP-LHE) in linear optics. We first demonstrate the principle of the MBEPP-LHE in the case that all logical BSMs (LBSMs) are perfect. Additionally, we consider that one of the components of the LBSM, i.e., the BSM for DVs or the BSM for CVs, fails on specific modes. The results indicate that the MBEPP-LHE can still work provided that at least one of the components of the LBSM is successful, which is the advantage of this purification compared to the previous MBEPPs. Moreover, the MBEPP-LHE can correct bit-flip and phase-flip errors not only on logical qubits but also on physical qubits. Furthermore, we show that the success probability of MBEPP-DV is the lower bound of that of MBEPP-LHE, while the success probability of the MBEPP-LHE has the same upper bound as MBEPP-CV. Finally, we also carry out the analysis of purifying the logical hybrid entanglement polluted by the dissipation error on coherent-state mode, and this error can be converted to bit-flip error on single-photon mode.
We describe an entanglement purification protocol for a polarization Bell state. Different from the previous protocols, it does not require the controlled-not gate, and only uses linear optical elements to complete the task. This protocol requires multi-copy degraded mixed states, which can make this protocol obtain a high fidelity in one purification step. It can also be extended to purify the multi-photon Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state. This protocol may be useful in future long-distance communication.
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