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We propose schemes for preparing W and GHZ photonic states entangled in polarization via quantum walks, where the trajectory exchanging of identical photons plus postselection induces the coupling between their polarization degrees of freedom. Being different from the polarization beam splitter-based approach, the indistinguishability of identical photons provides an alternative for coupling photons, which is more phase stable and may induce richer actions than the traditional polarization beam splitter on input photons. Our schemes demonstrate that this new coupling mechanism for photons is originated from the fact that trajectory-exchanging operation plus postselection can extract entangled states from the initially product states, and this new coupling mechanism may find considerable potential applications in both quantum communication and quantum computation.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)(11274010) and the personnel department of Anhui Province. NP acknowledges the support of SQIG–Security and Quantum Information Group, under the Project UID/EEA/50008/2019, IT Project QbigD funded by FCT PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 and the Project QuantumMining POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031826 funded by FCT through national funds, by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Programme (COMPETE 2020), and by Regional Operational Program of Lisbon.
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Ju, L., Yang, M., Paunković, N. et al. Creating photonic GHZ and W states via quantum walk. Quantum Inf Process 18, 176 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-019-2293-7
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