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Nikolai Kiesel

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Entanglement persistency of multiphoton entangled states.

We experimentally demonstrate the entanglement persistency when losing photons in three- and four-photon polarization-entangled states. The entanglement properties of the mixed states obtained from multiphoton spontaneous parametric down-conversion are studied via witness and positive partial transpose approaches. Together with a quantification of the bipartite entanglement such analysis enables intuitive understanding of novel multiparty quantum communication protocols.

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Linear optics controlled-phase gate made simple.

Linear optics quantum logic gates are the best tool to generate multiphoton entanglement. Simplifying a recent approach, we were able to implement the conditional phase gate with only one second-order interference at a polarization dependent beam splitter, thereby significantly increasing its stability. The improved quality of the gate is evaluated by analyzing its entangling capability and by performing full process tomography. The achieved results ensure that this device is well suited for implementation in various multiphoton quantum information protocols.

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Experimental analysis of a four-qubit photon cluster state.

Linear-optics quantum logic operations enabled the observation of a four-photon cluster state. We prove genuine four-partite entanglement and study its persistency, demonstrating remarkable differences from the usual Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state. Efficient analysis tools are introduced in the experiment, which will be of great importance in further studies on multiparticle entangled states.

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Experimental realization of a three-qubit entangled W state.

We report on the experimental observation of the three-photon polarization-entangled W state using spontaneous parametric down-conversion. This state is inequivalent to the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state under stochastic local operations and classical communications and thus is the representative of the second class of genuine tripartite entanglement. We study the characteristic features of entanglement and demonstrate the high degree of two-photon entanglement in the W state.

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