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Entanglement-assisted noiseless linear amplification for arbitrary two-photon polarization–time-bin hyperentanglement

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Hyperentanglement is a quantum system which simultaneously entangles in several degrees of freedom. It is an important resource in quantum communication field. In practical application of hyperentanglement, the photon transmission loss is a big obstacle. In the paper, we propose an entanglement-assisted noiseless linear amplification (NLA) protocol to protect the two-photon polarization–time-bin hyperentanglement. Our protocol can effectively increase the fidelity of this hyperentanglement, while preserve its polarization and time-bin features. Our NLA protocol can be realized under current experimental condition and further extended to protect the general N-photon polarization–time-bin hyperentanglement in the multi-directional transmission process. This NLA protocol may have important applications in future hyperentanglement-based quantum communication network field.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11974189 and the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China under Grant No. 2018M642293.

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    Yu-Peng Li, Jie Zhang, Bao-Wen Xu & Lan Zhou

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    Yu-Peng Li & Bao-Wen Xu

  3. Institute of Quantum Information and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210003, China

    Wei Zhong & Yu-Bo Sheng

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Li, YP., Zhang, J., Xu, BW. et al. Entanglement-assisted noiseless linear amplification for arbitrary two-photon polarization–time-bin hyperentanglement. Quantum Inf Process 19, 261 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-020-02762-x

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