Experimental Single-Copy Entanglement Distillation

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement marks one of the furthest departures from classical physics and is indispensable for quantum information processing. Despite its fundamental importance, the distribution of entanglement over long distances trough photons is unfortunately hindered by unavoidable...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-07
Main Authors: Ecker, Sebastian, Sohr, Philipp, Bulla, Lukas, Huber, Marcus, Bohmann, Martin, Ursin, Rupert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data processing
Distillation
Photons
Quantum entanglement
Quantum mechanics
Quantum phenomena
Qubits (quantum computing)
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Summary:The phenomenon of quantum entanglement marks one of the furthest departures from classical physics and is indispensable for quantum information processing. Despite its fundamental importance, the distribution of entanglement over long distances trough photons is unfortunately hindered by unavoidable decoherence effects. Entanglement distillation is a means of restoring the quality of such diluted entanglement by concentrating it into a pair of qubits. Conventionally, this would be done by distributing multiple photon pairs and distilling the entanglement into a single pair. Here, we turn around this paradigm by utilising pairs of single photons entangled in multiple degrees of freedom. Specifically, we make use of the polarisation and the energy-time domain of photons, both of which are extensively field-tested. We experimentally chart the domain of distillable states and achieve relative fidelity gains up to 13.8 %. Compared to the two-copy scheme, the distillation rate of our single-copy scheme is several orders of magnitude higher, paving the way towards high-capacity and noise-resilient quantum networks.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2101.11503