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Efficient nonlocal entangled state distribution over the collective-noise channel

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We propose an efficient nonlocal entanglement distribution protocol (EDP) to purify the two-photon polarization-entangled state, resorting to the projection measurement on the additional photons. With the help of the cross-Kerr nonlinearity, two remote parties can share two-photon maximally entangled polarization state from the arbitrary two-photon states with a certain success probability by iterating the entanglement purification process 6 times. Compared with conventional EDPs, the present one can obtain maximally entangled polarization state over an collective-noise channel with deterministic success probability. That is, the EDP is an optimal one.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fuzhou University of China under Grant No. XRC-0976 and No. 2010-XQ-28, the funds from Education Department of Fujian Province of China under Grant No. JA11005, No. JA10009 and No. JA10039, the National Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China under Grant No. 2010J01006 and No. 2012J01269, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11047122 and No. 11105030, the Foundation of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No. 212085, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 20100471450.

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    Yan Xia, Lin-Lin Fan & Si-Yang Hao

  2. College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China

    Juan He

  3. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, Heilongjiang, China

    Jie Song

  4. College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China

    Rong-Shan Wei & Li-Qin Huang

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Xia, Y., Fan, LL., Hao, SY. et al. Efficient nonlocal entangled state distribution over the collective-noise channel. Quantum Inf Process 12, 3553–3568 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-013-0610-0

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