High-fidelity entanglement swapping and generation of three-qubit GHZ state using asynchronous telecom photon pair sources.
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| Abstract | :  We experimentally demonstrate a high-fidelity entanglement swapping and a generation of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state using polarization-entangled photon pairs at telecommunication wavelength produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion with continuous-wave pump light. While spatially separated sources asynchronously emit photon pairs, the time-resolved photon detection guarantees the temporal indistinguishability of photons without active timing synchronizations of pump lasers and/or adjustment of optical paths. In the experiment, photons are sufficiently narrowed by fiber-based Bragg gratings with the central wavelengths of 1541 nm & 1580 nm, and detected by superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with low timing jitters. The observed fidelities of the final states for entanglement swapping and the generated three-qubit state were 0.84 ± 0.04 and 0.70 ± 0.05, respectively. | 
| Year of Publication | :  2018 | 
| Journal | :  Scientific reports | 
| Volume | :  8 | 
| Issue | :  1 | 
| Number of Pages | :  1446 | 
| Date Published | :  2018 | 
| URL | :  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19738-8 | 
| DOI | :  10.1038/s41598-018-19738-8 | 
| Short Title | :  Sci Rep | 
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