Experimental Realization of an Approximate Partial Transpose for Photonic Two-Qubit Systems
Hyang‐Tag Lim, Yong‐Su Kim, Young-Sik Ra, Joonwoo Bae, Yoon-Ho Kim · Physical Review Letters · 2011
We report the first experimental realization of an approximate partial transpose for photonic two-qubit systems. The proposed scheme is based on the local operation on single copies of quantum states and classical communication, and therefore can be easily applied for other quantum information tasks within current technologies. Direct detection of entanglement, i.e., without performing quantum state tomography, using the partial transpose operation, is also demonstrated.