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arXiv:quant-ph/0309041 · Physical Review Letters

Decoherence-Free Quantum Information Processing with Four-Photon Entangled States

Mohamed Bourennane, Manfred Eibl, Sascha Gaertner, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adán Cabello, Harald Weinfurter

Published Mar 9, 2004• 208 citations
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Abstract

Decoherence-free states protect quantum information from collective noise, the predominant cause of decoherence in current implementations of quantum communication and computation. Here we demonstrate that spontaneous parametric down conversion can be used to generate four-photon states which enable the encoding of one qubit in a decoherence-free subspace. The immunity against noise is verified by quantum state tomography of the encoded qubit. We show that particular states of the encoded qubit can be distinguished by local measurements on the four photons only.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.92.107901

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