Deterministic Entanglement Swapping in a Superconducting Circuit

Entanglement swapping, the process to entangle two particles without coupling them in any way, is one of the most striking manifestations of the quantum-mechanical nonlocal characteristic. Besides fundamental interest, this process has applications in complex entanglement manipulation and quantum co...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2019-08, Vol.123 (6), p.060502-060502, Article 060502
Main Authors: Ning, Wen, Huang, Xin-Jie, Han, Pei-Rong, Li, Hekang, Deng, Hui, Yang, Zhen-Biao, Zhong, Zhi-Rong, Xia, Yan, Xu, Kai, Zheng, Dongning, Zheng, Shi-Biao
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Language:English
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Circuits
Entangled states
Quantum entanglement
Qubits (quantum computing)
Superconductivity
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Summary:Entanglement swapping, the process to entangle two particles without coupling them in any way, is one of the most striking manifestations of the quantum-mechanical nonlocal characteristic. Besides fundamental interest, this process has applications in complex entanglement manipulation and quantum communication. Here we report a high-fidelity, unconditional entanglement swapping experiment in a superconducting circuit. The measured concurrence characterizing the qubit-qubit entanglement produced by swapping is above 0.75, confirming most of the entanglement of one qubit with its partner is deterministically transferred to another qubit that has never interacted with it. We further realize delayed-choice entanglement swapping, showing whether two qubits previously behaved as in an entangled state or as in a separable state is determined by a later choice of the type of measurement on their partners. This is the first demonstration of entanglement-separability duality in a deterministic way.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.060502