An optical scheme for conditional generation of W state and photon-added coherent state

  • Yan Li*
  • , Hui Jing
  • , Ming Sheng Zhan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose a simple scheme to generate an arbitrary photon-added coherent state of a travelling optical field by combining an array of degenerate parametric amplifiers and corresponding single-photon detectors. Particularly, when the single-photon-added coherent state is observed by developing the novel technique of Zavatta et al (2004 Science 306 660), we can simultaneously obtain the generalized N-qubit W state.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013
Pages (from-to)1883-1888
Number of pages6
JournalChinese Physics (Overseas Edition)
Volume16
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Parametric down-conversion
  • Photon-added coherent state
  • W state

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