Detection of Entanglement with Polarized Photons: Experimental Realization of an Entanglement Witness
Marco Barbieri, F. De Martini, G. Di Nepi, Paolo Mataloni, Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Chiara Macchiavello · Physical Review Letters · 2003
We report on the first experimental realization of an entanglement witness, a method to detect entanglement with few local measurements. The present demonstration has been performed with polarized photons in Werner states, a well-known family of mixed states that can be either separable or nonseparable. The Werner states are generated by a novel high brilliance source of bipartite entangled states by which the state mixedness can be easily adjusted.