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arXiv:quant-ph/0302068 · Physical Review A

Experiment towards continuous-variable entanglement swapping: Highly correlated four-partite quantum state

O. Glöckl, Stefan Lorenz, Christoph Marquardt, J. Heersink, Michael Brownnutt, Christine Silberhorn, Qing Pan, Peter van Loock, Natalia Korolkova, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jul 22, 2003• 67 citations

Abstract

We present a protocol for performing entanglement swapping with intense pulsed beams. In a first step, the generation of amplitude correlations between two systems that have never interacted directly is demonstrated. This is verified in direct detection with electronic modulation of the detected photocurrents. The measured correlations are better than expected from a classical reconstruction scheme. In an entanglement swapping process, a four-partite entangled state is generated. We prove experimentally that the amplitudes of the four optical modes are quantum correlated 3 dB below shot noise, which is consistent with the presence of genuine four-party entanglement.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.68.012319

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