CONCENTRATING ARBITRARY FOUR-PHOTON LESS-ENTANGLED CLUSTER STATE BY SINGLE PHOTONS
Ting-Ting Xu, Wei Xiong, Liu Ye · Modern Physics Letters B · 2012
We present a protocol for concentrating an arbitrary four-photon entangled state into a maximally entangled state assisted with singled photons. The concentration protocol uses the linear optics and the cross-Kerr nonlinearity based on the post selection principle. Four parties called Alice, Bob, Charlie and Dan in different distant locations can obtain the cluster state from an arbitrary entangled four-photon state with a certain probability. Quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements are available in this protocol. Moreover, this scheme can be steady with a higher success possibility.